Posted on 04/02/2008 3:32:36 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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.
I suddenly have a craving for grilled Iraqi.
Ted is off the meds again.
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Say what? I couldn’t follow his ramblings.
Hmmm... with couscous and a nice mango chutney.
He’s James Carville without the charm.
Have to try and find a way to tie “Insurgents are Patriots” comment to Dems’ view point.
At least ask all the Dems to disavow it.
Then ask them to renounce it strongly if they beat around the Bush.
C’mon Hannity, get to work.
If an individual with unwashed hair, a torn shirt and dirty jeans made these same statements, we’d be immediately prescribing a regimen of anti-psychotics.
Ted Turner is, quite seriously, demented.
I hope he lives long enough, at his advanced age and with his obvious medical conditions, to understand just how ridiculous those comments are. In ten years, crops won’t be growing in Canada all right, but because it’s too COLD, not too hot.
Check this paper out: http://www.warwickhughes.com/agri/Solar_Arch_NY_Mar2_08.pdf
if you want to see why it’s already getting cooler.
I went to the Braves’ home opener against Pittsburgh Monday night with an older gentleman, a long-time Atlantan, who had seen Ted speak at a lunchtime event that day (the day before yesterday, just to make it plaing). His wife was with him at this, and afterwards, she said to him, “You know, he’s really just flat out crazy, isn’t he?”
I was surprised his wife didn’t already know this. I’ve been watching Ted operate for probably a decade less than them, and it has been quite obvious to me for some time.
See my previous. Concur.
Isn’t Turner that gap-toothed retard from Atlanta who’s still trying to learn to speak English?
The founder of CNN speaks.
All that money lets him live in his own fantasy world. People close to him humor him to stay in the will.
Or Jeffrey Dahmer.
Amen... eugenics, oops I mean global responsibility starts at home.
A loyal son of Mao, he is. Think folks, if what you breathe out is taxed and against the law, does that not mean next certain individuals will be a waste of oxygen and expel gases harmful to same said human?
Okay, some viewing (part one):
Bloody History of Communism Part 1 of 3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4728056907669314763
It sounds like Ted has watched one too many of his “B” movies on TCM.
They are currently building Aircraft carriers to shipp all of those shoes over to the US with.
And they already have ICBM’s in order to send shoes on quick delivery.
They are currently building Aircraft carriers to ship all of those shoes over to the US with.
And they already have ICBM’s in order to send shoes on quick delivery.
Ted was always a bit over the top but now years and years of psych meds have fried his brains completely. It’s more pathetic than anything.
Oh, wait this was last week in Berkeley.
Population Control Nonsense
Multi-billionaire, Ted Turner, Jane Fonda’s husband, told last week’s 27th annual meeting of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NEPRHA), “We have to defeat those congressmen and senators who are standing in the way of progress. We’ve got to win the next election.” Ted Turner, founder of CNN and vice chairman of Time-Warner, Inc., was sounding the alarm that something must be done about overpopulation. This father of five said we could achieve the “ideal” world population of two billion people, as opposed to today’s six billion, “if everybody adopted a one-child policy for 100 years.” How did Mr. Turner arrive at the ideal population? He learned it from his mentor Professor Paul Erlich, author of the 1968 best-seller, “The Population Bomb.” In that book, Erlich predicted major food shortages in the U.S. and by “the 1970s. . . hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” Erlich forecasted the starvation of 65 million Americans between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Professor Erlich saw England in more desperate situation, saying, “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
Idiots like Erlich and organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the State Department’s Agency for International Development (AID) and NEPRHA constantly sound nonsense warnings about how overpopulation produces disaster and poverty. There is absolutely no relationship between high populations, disaster and poverty. Population control idiots might consider Zaire’s meager population density of 39 people per square mile to be ideal while Hong Kong’s population density of 247,501 people per square mile is problematic. Hong Kong is 6,000 times more crowded than Zaire. Yet Hong Kong’s per capita income is $8,260 while Zaire, the world’s poorest country, has a per capital income of less than $200.
Planet Earth is loaded with room. We could put the world’s entire population into the United States. Doing so would make our population density 1,531 people per square mile. That’s a far lower population density than what now exists in New York (11,440), Los Angeles (9,126) and Houston (7,512). The entire U.S. population could move to Texas and each family of four would enjoy 2.9 acres of land. If the entire world’s population moved to Texas, California, Colorado and Alaska, each family of four would enjoy nine-tenths of an acre of land.
So-called overpopulation problems are really a result of socialistic government practices that reduce the capacity of people to educate, clothe, house and feed themselves. Poor countries are rife with agricultural restrictions controls, export and import controls, restrictive licensing, price controls, not to mention gross human rights abuses that encourage their most productive people to emigrate. The most promising anti-poverty tool for poor people and poor countries is personal liberty.
But let’s get back to the population control gang and ask: suppose the rest of us don’t feel like adopting a one-child policy, then what? The elite’s answer will be to use brute government force, like China does, to impose a one-child policy. You say, “Williams, what would make you say that? Just ask who are the heroes of America’s liberals, including Ted Turner’s wife, Jane Fonda? They are some of history’s most despicable blood thirsty tyrants like Mao Zedong, Lenin, Stalin and Castro. Don’t forget that it was the 1960s campus liberals who marched around singing the praises of Mao, Lenin and Ho Chi Min. The difference between now and then is that many of these liberals have moved up to become congressmen, senators, presidents, college professors and government workers.
Walter E. Williams
C9-99
February 19, 1999
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/99/Population-Control.htm
Ted spends 1/2 his time saying incredibly stupid stuff and the other 1/2 apologizing for what he said.....
“I suddenly have a craving for grilled Iraqi.”
I take grilled liberal please as long as it is fully done. Lots and lots of it.
Global warming was true... IT'S PEOPLE!!!"
That’s scary, I don’t care who you are.
Seriously, Ted’s given millions to UN Population Fund and for Zero Population Growth in General. He’s said many times we have to cut the population we have now... not only stop ‘certain folks’ from reproducing.
Eugenics/
I guess if you like snakes..........
Jeez, how about a gag alert next time? TT is totally unhinged at this point. But then again I guess anyone that would live with Hanoi Jane has to have some very serious problems.
Ugh, that’s just nasty. Ugly people should have better sense than to dress up as even uglier people.
None for me, even well done, thanks. I think the fugu is the safer choice.
A hydrocephalic Dobie Gillis????
Suppose Ted would be willing to take a bet against his Montana holdings that the world temperature 8 years from now will be lower than it is this year? If Ted really thinks we will be 10 degrees hotter in a few years, I’d love to bet his Montana ‘ranch’ (more like entire counties) that it will not only not be 10 degrees hotter but not even a single degree hotter.
Cuz I’d love to own a few hundred thousand acres of Montana ranch land....
Burning the world’s food in our cars will cause mass global cannibalism sooner.
I couldn’t believe he had become so senile.
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