Skip to comments.
Ted Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism
Newsbusters.org ^
| April 2, 2008
| Brent Baker
Posted on 04/02/2008 1:08:30 PM PDT by Alouette
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 hotter 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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; communist; globalwarming; gorebullwarming; manbearpig; tedturner
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-60, 61-80, 81-100, 101-108 last
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Separated at birth?No, but they do share a "brain"....
101
posted on
04/03/2008 2:56:27 AM PDT
by
dirtbiker
(I 'm a liberal's worst nightmare:A redneck with a pickup, a library card, and a conceal carry permit)
To: jdm
More like face paint and a balloon.
102
posted on
04/03/2008 6:03:59 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: Alouette
Ted Turner proving once again that the difference between “insane” and “eccentric” is the size of your bank roll.
103
posted on
04/03/2008 7:33:03 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Alouette
>>>>>Admitting that he's "always suffered from foot-in-the-mouth disease," Turner added, "I've gotten a lot better, though. It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid."LMAO
104
posted on
04/03/2008 7:55:53 AM PDT
by
Reagan Man
(McCain Wants My Conservative Vote --- EARN IT or NO DEAL !!!)
To: Rummyfan
The natural tendency for famous rich people (pampered, fawned over, given accolades they don't earn) is to lean way left and to become moonbats. They start to believe the hype, that they are geniuses and can fix everything and know all, when in reality they know nothing (but the press won't tell them that). Funny b/c they are only able to say the things they do b/c they are fixed for life (they have their money hidden from the IRS, their house paid for, their kid's college education paid for many times over). It's easy to be a lefty socialist moonbat if you are very rich (your money is hidden so you approve of more taxes) or very poor (give me on someone else's back).
Related note: sadly last night here in Pittsburgh Mario Lemieux backed Clinton. Easy to be socialist when your money is hidden and when the tax payer is going to build your new stadium.
105
posted on
04/03/2008 8:44:19 AM PDT
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: Alouette
He has said this before. Might be a symptom.
106
posted on
04/03/2008 8:58:14 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
To: RightWhale
The only way to respond to this is with a joke...
OK what did the cannibal who was late to dinner get?
The cold shoulder!
107
posted on
04/03/2008 10:54:49 AM PDT
by
TheDoctorNoh
(The road to hell is paved with liberal stupidity)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ted Turner’s getting weirder...
108
posted on
04/04/2008 9:32:41 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dem Power is the back room deal. Dem Voters are phony baloney window dressing.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-60, 61-80, 81-100, 101-108 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson