Ed Asner Befuddled by the Tea Party: 'I Don't See What They Have to Complain About' with Obama

Newsbusters.org ^ | 2-12-11 | Tim Graham

[Justaham]

Ed Asner has expressed his dissatisfaction with Obama's "corporatist" turn in more than one place. Paul Bond of The Hollywood Reporter found that Asneer diidn't feel well-informed about the Tea Party movement, but he could not understand why they'd complain about Obama:

BOND: What do you think of the Tea Parties?

ASNER: Not much. I haven't the foggiest idea what they stand for, and the more you watch President Obama, I don't see what they have to complain about.

BOND: At the event Morgan Brittany spoke at, many were complaining of high taxes, government overspending and over-regulation, that sort of thing.

ASNER: We're less taxed than almost any other western country. Is Morgan Brittany aware of that?

BOND: You seem in favor of the Egypt uprising but not sympathetic to an uprising here of Tea Partiers.

ASNER: Oh, is that what you call it, an uprising? That's very clever.

BOND: Thanks. I try.

[cripplecreek]

He’s still alive?

[bannie]

More's the pity.

Did I say that aloud?

[Armedanddangerous]

He still playing Santa Claus to pay the bills?

[biggredd1]

Obama says share the wealth but has an illegal aunt living in public housing and a half brother living in a hut. Oprah has a half sister who she hasnt given a dime to!! Oprah wants peeps to give dunham respect?? Why isnt obama aunt living in the rezko chicago house? Why hasnt Oprah given it up for her long lost sis???...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/10/oprah-sister-patricia-not_n_821422.html

[bmwcyle]

Ed, we don’t see why anything you says matters.

[tuckrdout]

Ed Asner has always been befuddled. Were’s the news?

[FrankR]

Insert: "Ed Asner"

[HIDEK6]

I ran across someone who has met and conversed with Asner.

He is an immature, sophomoric simpleton.

[GeronL]

um... I thought he died a long time ago... but it was just his brain I see.

[Psalm 144]

That was my first thought too. I thought he died a few years ago.

There are so many of these old “united front” leftist entertainers, and they are so much the same, that I really can’t keep track of which one is dead or dying.

Just another drone from the hive.

[RichInOC]

Ed apparently doesn’t realize that “highly taxed” and “less taxed than the rest of the West” aren’t mutually exclusive.

[hinckley buzzard]

I never did understand why anyone cared about the opinions of a half-baked tv personality with no known credentials in anything but yelling at Mary Tyler Moore. Who cares about this fat stupid old zero?

[bill1952]

Actually, he is plain wrong.
Our corporate taxes for example are the highest in the Western World.
Does he know that?

[Chode]

feh...

[fieldmarshaldj]

Asner is a Stalinist. He’d round up Conservatives and put them in Concentration Camps if he could.

[Oztrich Boy]

Still alive, but befuddled

[coloradan]

I haven't the foggiest idea what they stand for, and the more you watch President Obama, I don't see what they have to complain about.

You can thank the dinosaur media for failing to present the tea party's position. But they'll sure let you watch Obama.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

ASNER: We're less taxed than almost any other western country

...and,yet, Hollywood is always moving their filming locations to more tax/business friendly environments. Go figure.

[Huskrrrr]

Old broken down liberal twit. Please join Daniel Schorr, Scott Simon and the rest of the drooling, blithering idiots who haven't a clue as to what makes this country great, at some retirement home for demented Commies.