Ed Asner: 'Hannity's next ... just like we went after Limbaugh'

wnd.com/ ^ | October 10, 2003 | Kevin McCullough

[Bluebird Singing]

My liberal high school sociology teacher back in '71, went around our class one day asking us where we worked if we had jobs. This was in a south suburb of Chicago, and I worked at another Marshall Fields and I worked the Chrismas season. He questioned me on the economic class of people making up the typical Fields Shopper, and whether I noticed if lower class individuals where among them. He found it unlikely.

[steveegg]

What is the matter with Ed Asner's brain?

Stupid question; it doesn't exist.

[xp38]

That's odd. If he was living under Stalin he would have been sent off to the Gulag if he espoused those views. I have read that not working was illegal in the Soviet Union of Stalin. I don't know what the charge would have been but maybe it would fall under the almost all encompasing Anti Soviet Agitation law. Then it would be off to learn the joys of building the White Sea canal or some other project under good old misunderstood Joe.

[theDentist]

What is the matter with Ed Asner's brain?

It was evacuated during an ealier trip to the men's room.

[gulfcoast6]

So now we know. Hannity NEXT?

[kattracks]

I think Hannity can handle anything these losers throw at him.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Communisti comrade Ed Assner is a slobbering jerk.

Having said that, Hannity had better get his own act in order.

Why is it that whenever I randomly scan the dial and come across that program, I usually hear patent self-aggrandizement, G.O.P. Über Conservatism, self-promotion of the show, and groupies in orgasmic fits throwing verbal flowers at Sean's feet.

This is not what talk shows should be nor is it anything instructive nor inspiring.

I have a ranking of 'conservative' radio shows that indicate that, after one hour of listening, I have truly learned something NEW or invigorating or am inspired to deeper thought and action.

Near the top are: Glenn Beck, Dennis Prager, Bob Dornan, Michael Savage. In the middle (near the top) is Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy.

And down near the bottom is Sean Hannity for sure. Along with Drudge and maybe Michael Reagan.

Their own worst enemies.

[el_texicano]

"Hey ED! One word....prozac."

I might suggest a cyanide capsule in his case. At least a huge dose of laxitive in his case 'cause he is full of it.

To even give these people a face time and a quoted place in print is beyond too good for them. They hate this country and everything good it stands for.

[Polybius]

Stalin was twice TIME's Man of the Year, for 1939 and 1942............. Among all the people on earth, they actually named him twice? Argh.

TIME's Man of the Year title is given to the person that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year."

Adolph Hitler was Man of the Year for 1938. The issue announcing the selection pictured Hitler playing "a hymn of hate".

Stalin's Man of the Year for 1939 was "awarded" to Stalin for making it possible for Hitler to unleash World War II:

"Whether Europe's new era will end in nationalist chaos, good or bad internationalism, or what not, the era will be new--and the end of the old era will have been finally precipitated by a man whose domain lies mostly outside Europe. This Joseph Stalin did by dramatically switching the power balance of Europe one August night. It made Joseph Stalin man of 1939. History may not like him but history cannot forget him........The signing in Moscow's Kremlin on the night of August 23-24 of the Nazi-Communist "Non-Aggression" Pact was a diplomatic demarche literally world-shattering. The actual signers were German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov, but Comrade Stalin was there in person to give it his smiling benediction, and no one doubted that it was primarily his doing. By it Germany broke through British-French "encirclement," freed herself from the necessity of fighting on two fronts at the same time. Without the Russian pact, German generals would certainly have been loath to go into military action. With it, World War II began."........Time, Jan. 1, 1940

[metesky]

If I remember most of his murderous policies came after WWII.

You couldn't be more wrong. A good place to get a handle on the Stalin-Hitler mutual admiration fest is Paul Johnson's Modern Times.

Here's an excerpt from Chapter 8, The Devils (Hitler and Stalin

Asner's hero killed 10/20 million of his own people long before WWII.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Bttt...

[hoosierham]

The charge is being a PARASITE on society. Seriously. Maybe one of the few things the commies got right.

[sharkhawk]

It just shows how unrealistic the hollyweird left is. They somehow believe they would be given the power if the "people" take over. It is just like Danny Glover saying Cubans have more artistic freedom than Americans.

[GOPJ]

Asner couldn't be elected dog catcher in a medium sized city.

But Asner's got cash to buy full time detectives, pay for banks of lying PR shills to write fake letters to our people and the press, and excess cash for dirty tricks detectives? Would he pay moles to get jobs working for our people?

Of course Joe Stalin would be his hero. Asner's type doesn't need or want democracy. They see people as idiots to be controlled. For Asner cash will do for now to hurt his enemies, guns will be used later.

"I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood," said Asner. "And to this day, I don't think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin."

[HenryLeeII]

"Does anyone at this table hate me? Hate my work as an activist or in any other way?"

"I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood," said Asner. "And to this day, I don't think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer [historical figure (I) respected most over (my) lifetime] would have to be Joe Stalin."

No, Asner, we don't hate you, we really enjoy counting you among America's enemies because you show so well the hate-filled, ignorant, America-bashing, capitalism-bashing, pro-Soviet, and murderous qualities that you leftists possess in such insane quantities. Keep up the good work!

[joesnuffy]

Whose "WE" as in "just like "we" went after Limbaugh?....
Asner's Mulitiple Personality Disorder? or do "they" have a club house?..... or a...a secret handshake?

[BluH2o]

"I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood," said Asner.

Yeah ... tell that the Polish ... in April 1940 he had 22,000 Polish military officers (POW's) murdered ... they're buried near Smolensk in western Russia. Additionally, during the era of Stalin, it's estimated some 20 million Russians, and others who fell under the USSR sphere were eliminated. Joseph Stalin made Hitler look like a rank amateur.

[Stallone]

The risk of allowing unopposed attacks is not unlike that of the terrorists in the age of Clinton.

The Left are emboldened by the lack of retaliation, and will escalate the stakes - 9/11 for the GOP is just around the corner.

It is past time to be civil.

It is past time to be pious.

It is past time for gentlemenly debate.

NEVER NEGOTIATE WITH EVIL - KILL IT.

[aruanan]

Anybody else from Chicago here reading this? I question whether extremely poor children were actually visiting Santa in the downtown Marshall Field's store. What do you think?

Of course they were. You go where Santa is. That was the number one Santa venue. Besides, all sorts of poor people go through moderately expensive stores like Field's. Just because someone's poor doesn't mean he doesn't like to look at nice stuff and imagine having it.

[HenryLeeII]

Thanks for the ammunition. I sent the following into my local paper which carries an anonymous letter forum whereby readers can praise or criticize anything such as local businesses, national politics, etc.:

At a recent promotional event for an upcoming film ("Elf"), actor/left-wing activist Ed Asner was asked which historical figure he "most respected over [his] lifetime" that he would like to portray, and his answer was: 'I think Joe Stalin was a guy that was hugely misunderstood. And to this day, I don't think I have ever seen an adequate job done of telling the story of Joe Stalin, so I guess my answer would have to be Joe Stalin.' So here we have a hypocrite who criticizes President Bush for liberating tens of millions of people from the yoke of tyranny and making the world safer, but turns around and praises a Soviet dictator who murdered tens of millions of people. I guess this shows the true 'soul' of leftists better than anything that could be said by one of their opponents. Make sure not to see "Elf" this holiday season, and anything else starring his pro-murder friends. Maybe then Hollywood will get the message and stop employing slugs and go out and find heroes such as Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable, actors who did something positive for their country instead of poisoning the political arena.