Ted Turner: American Patriot! /s
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.
Something’s been eating Ted’s brains for years now.
Ted Turner: American Patriot! /s
“LOL” just doesn’t do justice to that...
Well so much for the old saying “You gotta be smart to be rich.” This guy is a nut.
25 years ago these same people had us convinced the world would end soon because of nuclear war, thanks mostly to Reagan. The Soviets, of course, were sweethearts.
I think they need to name a sickness after ol’ Ted.
“if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we’d be doing the same thing.”
wrong! we have 20 million illegals here and we dont do squat but offer them meal cards
So looney, even Hanoi Jane left him.
Eat me
I guess that means I should look for some menu changes in the near future at my neighborhood Ted's Montana Grill
IMHO, Ted’s elevator does not reach the top floor, the lights are on, but no one is home, you know what I mean.
Not as rich as he once was...
The funny thing is that, mathematically, everyone in the world could live in the state of Texas, 4 people to a house, each house on 1/4 acre of land.
If I’m off, it’s not by much.
In 1994 Ted Danson said if global Warming continued, life as we knew it would end in 10 years.
Great, I’ve already got a list of people I want to eat. ;)
This lunacy deserves a Slings and Arrows ping.
Please dear Lord, let Ted be the appetizer!
Hey Turner! Eat me!!!!!
(oops, never mind.....)
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