Ed Asner has criticized Fox News studio host Sean Hannity. Asner: Hannity needs rabies shots

Sean Hannity and Ed Asner haven’t exactly been on best of terms lately. After the actor narrated a controversial video for the California Federation of Teachers, the Fox News host sent a reporter to confront Asner about his participation in the spot. ( It didn’t end politely.)

Asner took to friendlier grounds — Current TV — to discuss the incident with host Cenk Uygur.


“I think he’s behind on his rabies shots,” Asner said of Hannity, when asked to respond to the kind of vitriol Asner has sparked in the Fox News host.

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Asner continued to defend his participation in the ad and the idea of income inequality generally.

“With the Supreme Court’s backing, corporations, media has become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The military industrial complex dominates. So that’s where the money goes,” he said.

Asner said the rich have nothing to complain about considering the current state of tax policy.

“These are the lowest rates as I know it for the rich since God immemorial,” said Asner. “They were higher under Eisenhower, they were higher with Clinton. So these are very low rates that the rich are subjected to.”

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As for the knock from Hannity that Asner is just another Hollywood liberal, Asner said succintly, “Proud of it.”

Asner’s television work inclues “The Mary Tyler Moore Show, “Lou Grant” and “Working Class” and he was the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the animated movie, “Up.”