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| Ted Turner Goes Stark Raving Mad |
| 2008-04-02 |
| Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming "will be catastrophic" and those who don't die "will be cannibals." He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as "patriots" who simply "don't like us because we've invaded their country" and so "if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing." On not taking drastic action to correct global warming: Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hottest in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.Turner ridiculed the need for a big U.S. military, insisting "China just wants to sell us shoes. They're not building landing craft to attack the United States," and "even with our $500 billion military budget, we can't win in Iraq. We're being beaten by insurgents who don't even have any tanks." After Rose pointed out the Iraqi insurgents "have a lot of roadside bombs that kill a lot of Americans" and wondered "where do you think they come from?", Turner answered: I think that they're patriots and that they don't like us because we've invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing: we'd be bombing them too. Nobody wants to be invaded. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #11 Ah, where's my babelfishie... ? |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2008-04-02 23:00 |
| #10 Ten years = Year 2018, weirdly and mysteriously but of course only coincidentally and legally PDeniably [YOU KNOW - A FACT]just in time for RUSS-CHIN's ANTI-US "WAR NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED"??? AMONG OTHER THINGYS - PERSONAL, REGIONAL + GLOBAL. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-04-02 21:26 |
| #9 "Madness" is too elegant a term -- think inbred jackass |
| Posted by: regular joe 2008-04-02 19:38 |
| #8 Madness. What sci-fi world is he living in, inside his head? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-04-02 17:07 |
| #7 Considering his main claim to fame is the Time Warner CNN AOL beast created through mergers, the ancient Greek saying of the "God's make great, before they destroy" seems to be playing out rather nicely. Though I'm sure with ego, he views himself as King Lear to the world rather than Willy Loman. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-04-02 16:40 |
| #6 Isn't he dead? Perhaps a confusement between Ted Turner, pancake turner and Rachel Corrie |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-04-02 16:37 |
| #5 Turner.... turner.... Isn't he dead? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-04-02 15:14 |
| #4 Sounds like the syphillis he contracted from that commie skank movie star he used to be married to has just about finished it's work. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-02 14:47 |
| #3 Turns out Mad Amthony Wayne is buried in Eris Pa. LOL. A mew name, I has one. |
| Posted by: Elvis On a Tractor 2008-04-02 14:33 |
| #2 Ted Turner Goes Stark Raving Mad "Goes"? You mean he wasn't already stark raving mad? |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-04-02 14:25 |
| #1 Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. I see his majesty plans to be among the survivors. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-04-02 14:19 |