BREAKING NEWS – Los Angeles, California – The 1970’s tv star Ed Asner, continues to publicly criticize the current form of government in the United States, while praising former leader of Russia, Joseph Stalin. Asner explained that he does not view Stalin as a mass murderer, simply because he killed over 50 million people. He said instead, he looks at him as a frustrated visionary, that occasionally got extremely upset when someone did not embrace a political position that was consistent with his.