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Ed Asner on Illegal War and Impeachment
By David Swanson (about the author) Page 2 of 6 page(s)
David Swanson: ... so Craig informs me (laughing).
Ed Asner: Yes, I see.
David Swanson: The evidence in this play and the crimes committed are so depressing and overwhelming as you say, but the play has such humor in it, at least when you read the script, you know, I'm laughing out loud....you know there's a scene where your character is questioning rather hostilely your own witness, this congresswoman, who voted for the war, saying she was deceived...
Ed Asner: Yes.....
David Swanson: .....and talking about Rumsfeld's absurd statements about the absence of evidence and the evidence of absence and then there's too much evidence of absence, and how do you keep from breaking up laughing while you're performing this?
Ed Asner: Well, you know, most of the time when I encounter Rumsfeld on the news, etc, it's like talking to the white rabbit....
David Swanson: Yes.
Ed Asner: ...and I let the, well I want to call it...the zaniness, let it sit out there and stand by itself without showing the shock or the humor; let the audience be amazed and dazzled by the idiocy of it all and the consternation it creates, than have me spell it out for them.
David Swanson: And does the audience laugh quite a bit during this?
Ed Asner: No, so far they seem to have been just quite absorbed....
David Swanson: Huh!!
Ed Asner: ...in what's going on up there.
David Swanson: Do they find it enjoyable to finally see these criminals on trial, or are they depressed by the whole thing?
Ed Asner: Well, it's hard to see in such a strong dose the gaping wound in the gut of your country.
David Swanson Yes, I wonder if people sometimes want very much not to see it, and that the crimes are so blatant and so obvious and the evidence is public knowledge so that playwrights can take it and use it and yet we all talk about whether we need investigations and so forth and even in this play there's a new smoking gun piece of evidence at the end. Why do you think when we have the proud confessions to so many crimes and impeachable offenses and so much hard evidence that is cited in this play, why do we still sort of talk about what we might find out if we had investigations?
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