Ed Asner offers to demonstrate trickle-down economics on Fox producer

12/8/2012

If you expected the tenor of debate to trend upward after the last mud of the election was slung, think again. The California Federation of Teachers this week posted an animated video narrated by Ed Asner on its website purporting to explain why public services are underfunded, highlighted by history's least subtle metaphor: A rich man urinating on the less wealthy. Naturally, Fox News commentator Sean Hannity couldn't resist sending a producer to ambush Asner about the propriety of such a message. And then things got really good: "Do you have any money?" Asner asked. "Can I piss on you?" Almost makes you long for the birthers to make a comeback.

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