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Ted Turner: "Murdoch Is a War Monger"
CNN-FN, Reuters ^
| 4/25/2003
| Reuters
Posted on 04/25/2003 6:44:14 AM PDT by off-roader
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:26 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ted Turner said too few people own too many media organizations and called rival media baron Rupert Murdoch a "warmonger" for what he said was Murdoch's promotion of the U.S. war in Iraq.
"He's a warmonger," Turner said in a Thursday evening speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco of Murdoch, whose News Corp. Ltd. (NWS: Research, Estimates) owns the fast-growing Fox News Channel. "He promoted it."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: denial; fonda; foxnews; grapes; jane; leftist; leftwing; pantywaist; sour; traitor; turner; vietnam
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What a massive display of denial! ROTFLMAO
To: off-roader
"Turner also said he likes bison."
It would be good if the bison stampede and smash his a$$.
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posted on
04/25/2003 6:48:40 AM PDT
by
Nagual
To: off-roader
"It's not how big you are, it's how good you are that really counts," Turner said, drawing hoots from the audience. Sez the guy who kept FOX News off of Time Warner Cable for years, back when they were little...
To: hellinahandcart
"It's not how big you are, it's how good you are that really counts," Turner said, drawing hoots from the audience.Okay, that made me hoot too...
To: off-roader
There, there, Ted. Just take your meds like the doctor has instructed and everything will be ok.
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posted on
04/25/2003 6:51:24 AM PDT
by
sarasota
To: off-roader
And Michael Moore is fanning the flames of the Columbine legend.He's put Columbine back in the headlines (with the notable assistance of the Oscars).
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posted on
04/25/2003 6:52:35 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(Schumer is a Smellfungus. Schumer is a Shmellfungus. Schumer is a Schmellfungus.)
To: off-roader
Ted needs to look in the mirror. OTOH, I sure do wish he'd buy the Braves back.
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posted on
04/25/2003 6:53:22 AM PDT
by
GaConfed
To: off-roader
Ted Turner: "Murdoch Is a War Monger" Ted who?
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posted on
04/25/2003 6:53:25 AM PDT
by
pgyanke
(For evil to succeed, good men must do nothing.)
To: off-roader
What exactly is a warmonger? does Ted Turner believe that some people just love war? What is that? What does that mean?
Why would anyone do anything unless there is something in it for them? Is Turner saying that Rupert Murdoch has benefited from the war in some way? If so, it should be easy to prove... show us numbers. Otherwise ... do us all a favor and shut your hole until you have something of substance to say Turner.
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posted on
04/25/2003 6:54:41 AM PDT
by
tcostell
To: off-roader
Ted Turner is a hatemonger!
Ted Turner is an Anti-Christian Bigot!
Ted Turner is a fearmonger!
Ted Turner is a Class Warfare supporter!
Ted Turner hates the US form of government!
Ted Turner LOVES the UN form of Government!
And the list goes on,
and on...
and on...
and on...
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posted on
04/25/2003 6:54:49 AM PDT
by
ICE-FLYER
(God bless and keep the United States of America)
To: off-roader
""Murdoch Is a War Monger"
....with the highest ratings on his news network.
There, now the sentence is logical.
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posted on
04/25/2003 6:56:01 AM PDT
by
Beck_isright
("We created underarm deodorant, and the French turned that down too."-Mitch Daniels, Budget Director)
To: off-roader
"It's not how big you are, it's how good you are that really counts," Turner said, drawing hoots from the audience. Uh...Ted, newsflash, CNN is bigger, but FOX gets higher ratings. So I guess he is correct.
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posted on
04/25/2003 6:57:12 AM PDT
by
MP5
To: off-roader
I AGREE with Ted...too few own too many media outlets...Such as Time/Warner-AOL...such as Viacom...such as most major newspapers. Such as Disney/ABC....and on it goes.
To: Impeach the Boy
Turner has not made sense in a decade, a whole decade
To: off-roader
"Ted Turner: Murdoch is a war monger" Rupert Murdoch: Turner is an idiot
Next?
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posted on
04/25/2003 7:00:34 AM PDT
by
KeyBored
(It's too bad Baghdad Bob committed suicide - he had a promising future at the DNC)
To: off-roader
Murdoch is also a competitor, which is far more to the point. And it seems to me that Turner wasn't all that concerned about competing news organizations as he built his own media empire.
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posted on
04/25/2003 7:01:56 AM PDT
by
twigs
To: Impeach the Boy
Ted not only fails the pot-kettle test here, but the laugh test as well.
Dude keeps tacking to the Left and wonders why he argues in circles.
To: You Dirty Rats
Turner added, "Murdoch is an infidel. His pitiful FOX News reporters are committing suicide on prime time as we speak. They have no ratings."
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posted on
04/25/2003 7:13:52 AM PDT
by
pgyanke
(For evil to succeed, good men must do nothing.)
To: ICE-FLYER
Ted Turner is a flake.
To: off-roader
Newsflash, Ted: CNN has pretty much admitted being in Saddam's pocket for a dozen years. Discretion might be a good idea.
If I were Murdoch, FNC would immediately revive the Eason Jordan story.
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