Ed Asner passed
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If ever there was a television legend it is him.
The list of roles he portrayed approaches 500 and extends from before my childhood into the future.
Of Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant derivation, he was was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family and given the Hebrew name Yitzhak.
Be all of this as it may he was also a Kansas City native and American to the core.
I best remember him as Lou Grant on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Back in the day this was the type of fare available on television.
There was an attempt by the media to produce quality which became lost somewhere around the writer's strike of the late 1980s.
Unfortunately, all they attempt any more is woke bull crap and boring reality mess.
Suffice it to say that Ed Asner, being a product of the McCarthy era was politically subdued because of a fear of becoming black listed. All these actors who think the world requires their various opinions on politics might take heed.
The incredible body of Ed Asner's work, the portrayal of characters which were part and parcel of our youths, and the comparatively mild nature of his poltics has endeared him to many, including me.