Posted on 05/06/2026 7:22:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The billionaire died on Wednesday, according to the cable news network he founded.
Turner was nicknamed the 'Mouth of the South' for often being outspoken, and built a media empire that included movies and sports channels, as well as owning the Atlanta Braves.
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Bye Ted. Sorry that you blew away CNN, the Braves and Hawks, all for Jane Fonda.
I interviewed him in 2015 in Truth or Consequences N.M., at the opening of his resort there. He was very nice, but seemed “distant.” Shortly afterwards he was diagnosed as having a form of Dementia.
Memory Eternal!
And being married to Jane Fonda did not reduce his lifespan!
Me also. I was told by my doctor that I am on the edge of that dreaded disease. I don’t really want to go down that road. But, GOD willing, all will work out. We just had the family of an 87-year-old vet have to be put in the Veterans Home Mental Health section because of this disease.
I’m sorry to hear that. I pray that it doesn’t progress.
True, Gen. George Patton’s grandfather iirc., portrayed in the rather poorly depicted “Gods and Generals” follow up movie to the much better “Gettysburg”. “Gods and Generals” had a far superior Robert Duvall portrayal of Gen. Robert E. Lee, and in this clip, Turner, portraying Lt. Gen Patton is behind Lee as a ficticious camp song scene— “The Bonnie Blue Flag”-—
at 00:17 Turner appears and appears to sing. Another scene in the same movie has Sen. Robert Byrd (minus his little dog Billie-sob) playing fiddle ostensibly (wasn’t very good) and Turner is in that scene as well.
Complete with i think Polish subtitles, or Czech-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlZ4UfaShv0&list=RDVlZ4UfaShv0&start_radio=1
To wit, a surprising number of reconciled/paroled Confederates and their descendants served loyally in the rejoined US Army in the Spanish American War (Gen. Joe Wheeler), WWI (Maj.Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham, Spanish-American War,WWI)(his brother RADM Joe Johnston Cheatham-Paymaster USN, Chief of Supply Corps WWI), Patton descendants in WWI, WWII and Korea/Vietnam
Mispelled, Lt. Col. Waller Tazewell Patton (portrait incorrectly and the movie also showing— 3 stars only 2 should have been) . Col Waller T Patton was commander of the the VA 7th Infantry Regiment under Gen. Kemper’s brigade on the left wing at Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg. He was mortally wounded by an artillery shell just as the regiment approached Cemetery Ridge (had his jaw torn away and survived to die several weeks later at Penn. College in Gettysburg.
Waller Patton was a great-uncle of American World War II General, George S. Patton.
Thank you.
This was the portrait included on the Wikipedia article for him, see here.
The source of the portrait is the Virginia Military Institute, which also describes him as Confederate Army Colonel Waller Tazewell Patton, Class of 1855.
This Civil War Forum link indicates he was Colonel for only one month, having been promoted on June 3rd, 1863 (he died on July 21 as a result of injuries suffered during Pickett's Charge).
Turner was one of the greatest ocean racing sailors of his time. He rewrote the rules on ocean racing.
I lived in Newport, RI when he retained the Americas Cup with Courageous. I saw him often that summer. His onshore antics were legendary!
RIP
Ted once said that his favorite pass time was bopping Jane Fonda.
I’m not sure about the laws, as the ranch spans NM and TX.
We made a lost cattle report in Texas at the county level, so no think they’re mine at this point. But NM is weird.
They can easily clear a fence. They just stay because they want to.
That's only one thing. But I liked it.
The Critic had its parody as well.
Blues Brothers too.
A Saturday dream lineup in the fraternity house. Road House then The Blues Brothers.
ah yeah, nm is another country- they’d probably be able to tell somehow where they came from by what they ate or whatever- Although possession is 9/10’ths of the law supposeldy. But not sure courts would agree
He was a conservative for most of his life.
Any republican donations of his went to RINOs like Kemp and McInsane.
People here loved McCain. Some old timers were even banned for speaking poorly of him in 2007-2008.
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