Ted Turner: "Murdoch Is a War Monger"

CNN-FN, Reuters ^ | 4/25/2003 | Reuters

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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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What a massive display of denial! ROTFLMAO

[Nagual]

"Turner also said he likes bison."

It would be good if the bison stampede and smash his a$$.

[hellinahandcart]

"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...

[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...

[sarasota]

There, there, Ted. Just take your meds like the doctor has instructed and everything will be ok.

[syriacus]

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).

[GaConfed]

Ted needs to look in the mirror. OTOH, I sure do wish he'd buy the Braves back.

[pgyanke]

Ted Turner: "Murdoch Is a War Monger"

Ted who?

[tcostell]

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.

[ICE-FLYER]

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...

[Beck_isright]

""Murdoch Is a War Monger"

....with the highest ratings on his news network.
There, now the sentence is logical.

[MP5]

"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.

[Moby Grape]

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.

[cars for sale]

Turner has not made sense in a decade, a whole decade

[KeyBored]

"Ted Turner: Murdoch is a war monger"

Rupert Murdoch: Turner is an idiot

Next?

[twigs]

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.

[You Dirty Rats]

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.

[pgyanke]

Turner added, "Murdoch is an infidel. His pitiful FOX News reporters are committing suicide on prime time as we speak. They have no ratings."

[demlosers]

Ted Turner is a flake.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

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.