Posted on 01/25/2005 11:34:21 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Ted Turner called Fox propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared the Fox News Network's popularity to Adolph Hitler's popular election to run Germany before WWII.
Turner made those fiery comments in his first address at NATPE since he was ousted from Time Warner five years ago.
The 66-year-old billionaire who leveraged a television station in Atlanta into a media empire, made the comment before a standing-room-only crowd at NATPE's opening session Tuesday.
His no-nonsense, sometimes humorous, approach during the one-hour Q&A generated frequent loud applause and laughter.
Among the highlights:
Barbara Boxer's soul-mate.
Dan
Kind of explains the rest of the answers.
The poor bipolar manic-depressive; he never got over being dumped by Jane Fonda.
What an idiot. Further, I had the misfortune of eating at Ted's Montana Grill Sunday night. I'll never make that mistake again, since the food was only borderline edible.
Washington Times Letters to the Editor June 7, 2000 - Arlington, VA
During the past several months in the American press, the Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very ironic. I remember the Nazis.
Let me share a little about them and recall some of their exploits.
First of all, "Nazi" was gutter slang for the verb "to nationalize". The Bider-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was "The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany". Hitler and the Brownshirts advocated the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, national resources,manufacturing, distribution and law enforcement.
Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed, and academic elite against the conservative republic. After Der Fuhrer's election ceased being a political conspiracy and was transformed into afashionablesocial phenomenon, party membership was especially popular with educators, bureaucrats, and the press.
Being a Nazi was "politically correct". They called themselves "The Children of the New Age of World Order" and looked down their noses at everyone else. As Hitler acquired more power, he referred to his critics as"The Dark Forces of Anarchy and Hatred". Anyone who questioned Nazi high-handedness in the German press was branded a "Conservative Reactionary". Joseph Goebbels, minister ofcommunications, proclaimed a "New World Order".
The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the Jews, Bohemians and Gypses who were said to be arming themselves to overthrow the "New World Order" and Hitler demanded that all good people register their guns so that they wouldn't fall into the hands of "terrorists and madmen". Right-wing fanatics of the "Old Order" who protested firearms registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for "fomenting hatred against the Government of the German people".
Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler ram-rodded an "Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act" through Parliament that gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then declared that for the well-being of the German people, all private firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military). German citizens who refused to surrender their guns when the “jack-boots" (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in their homes. By the way, the Gestapo were the federal marshals' service of the Third Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was invented and perfected by the Gestapo to break into the homes of the enemies of the German people.
When the Policia Bewakken, or local police, refused to take away guns from townsfolk, they themselves were disarmed and dragged out into the street and shot to death by the S.A. and the S.S. Those were Nazi versions of the B.A.T.F. and the F.B.I. When several local ministers spoke out against these atrocities, they were imprisoned and never seen again.
The Gestapo began to confiscate and seize the homes, businesses, bank accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy conservative citizens who had prospered in the old Republic. Pamphleteers who urged revolt against the Nazis were shot on site by national law enforcement and the military. Gypsies and Jews were detained and sent to labor camps. Mountain roads throughout central Europe were closed to prevent the escape of fugitives into the wilderness, and to prevent the movement and concealment of partisan resistance fighters.
Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as "right wing fanatics".
Millions of books were burned first and then people. Millions of them burned in huge ovens after they were first gassed to death. Unmarried women were paid large sums of money to have babies out of wedlock and then given medals for it. Evil was declared as being good, and good was condemned as being evil. World Order was coming and the German people were going to be the "peacekeepers".
Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren't Republicans, or "right wing", or "patriots" or "militias". They were Socialist monsters.
-- Thomas Colton Ruthford
2banana's 2 cents:
Hitler - the leader of the "The National Socialist Workers Party" (NAZI) was a vegetarian, who as leader of Germany, nationalized health care, the banks and most major industries. He was for taxing the rich and total and enforced public education (so that the next generation could be indoctrinated). He was also a gun-banner.
Mmmmm - now who and what party does that sound like?
Follow the Lithium Ted.
Didn't he marry Jane Fonda??? I guess I'll take his judgements with a grain of salt.
Turner needs to be stuffed in a fox-a__hole.
I wonder if the "gee, I'll give the UN $1 billion to make the world safe for tyranny" man that he is could hire Dan Rather. It seems that the delusional Ted needs a viable stool pigeon for his agenda. After all, if it is on cable, it must be true?
Memo to Ted:
Your former network is a propoganda tool for the left. You know, the same left that support every outlaw regime on the planet. The same network that didn't give the Swift Boat vets face time. The same network that gets their DNC talking points each morning and repeats them on the evening news.
Case in point. CNN constantly has on guests who say there was no connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It turns out the 9/11 Commission and Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Reports actually did far more to bolster the administration's view of that relationship than CNN could bring itself to admit.
Hundreds of links and articles here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1224050/posts?q=1&&page=101
Stix-n-stones bump.
He's just pissed that Fox News is getting better ratings than Communist News Network.
Boooo
Hooooooo
HOooooooooooooooooo
This from the guy who married Jane "Barbarella" Fonda. That says it all about his judgment, politics and mental stability. I don't think I need to read or hear anything else from him.
Oh really, Ted? What about to his own people? It seems that "obscene and stupid" is you in a nutshell.
Seems like Turner has been senile since he was about 30.
I just heard a CNN Newscaster say he welcomes ALL PITHY COMMENTS"
I'm tellin Bill O'Reilly
Envious, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through the golden years, Ted.
Lithium level must be low again. Time for another checkup from the neck up!
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