Story highlights Sanders regularly bemoans income inequality and has proposed raising taxes on the nation's wealthiest

Lowe pushed back, writing on Twitter, "Watching Bernie Sanders. He's hectoring and yelling at me WHILE he's saying he's going to raise our taxes. Interesting way to communicate."

Washington (CNN) Former "West Wing" actor Rob Lowe blended the lines between political reality and drama on Monday, invoking his character Sam Seaborn on Twitter to criticize Bernie Sanders' tone in CNN's Democratic Town Hall.

The Democratic presidential candidate regularly bemoans income inequality and has proposed raising taxes on the nation's wealthiest to fund programs aimed at changing the shape of incomes in the United States. The town hall was no exception, with Sanders hitting Wall Street hard for "greed" and "recklessness."

While Sanders' fiery language against the nation's wealthiest has endeared him to many, Lowe pushed back, writing on Twitter, "Watching Bernie Sanders. He's hectoring and yelling at me WHILE he's saying he's going to raise our taxes. Interesting way to communicate."

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