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Via Boycott Hollywood comes this article: WND: "Ed Asner: 'Hannity's next ... just like we went after Limbaugh'". Asner's remarks about Hannity may have been tongue-in-cheek. But if someone is an admirer of Joseph Stalin and thinks Stalin is "misunderstood", I have to wonder if he really wishes he could send those conservative talk show hosts to the gulag.
Update: The guy who originally wrote the WND piece has partially retracted it.
Joel,
I'm not a big person on boycotting. I usually try to separate the art from the artists. If I didn't do that, I'd be unable to listen to or watch anything. However, some artists cross the line and offend you so thoroughly that you can no longer enjoy their work.
"The guy who originally wrote the WND piece has partially retracted it."
What do you mean, partially? The retraction basically said "Asner said no such thing."
Hook, line, and sinker.
Yeah, I realize that the Stalin stuff was clarified. The stuff about Hannity wasn't retracted, though. But, like I said, Asner was probably being tongue-in-cheek. I'll cross out the "Stalinist" in the title for the sake of fairness.
Asner's still a jerk, though.
I used to think it was so smug to boycott something for political reasons alone, but the likes of people like The Dixie Chicks, Chrissie Hynde, Sean Penn (the "blacklisted" actor who is starring in a new movie), Danny Glover, and now Ed Asner, make me wonder. I've avoided Ben & Jerry's for many years now because I don't want to contribute to Mumia's defense fund. I know seeing a movie doesn't imply agreement with the actors, but sometimes I wish there were a good way to tell them, in a non-violent way, that hearing their leftist drivel is just not appreciated anymore.