Point taken...but, IMHO...Ed Asner is still a Anti-American Leftist...pining for the good old days.
He most certainly is an anti-American leftist pining for the good ol' days of the Soviet Union. No quarrel from me there. I would even go so dar as to say that he would welcome a script that tried to portray Stalin in as favorable a light as possible.
But McCullough in his original commentary said he asked Asner, "Who do you respect, etc...?" In fact McCullough never mentioned "respect" in the actual question to Asner, so it is unfair to infer from that interview that Asner "respects" Stalin.
That was my point in posting the correction.