Ted Turner was Charlie Rose's guest last night.
I didn't watch. I opted for the Magic Bullet infomercial instead.
I wasn't in the mood to hear Turner's drivel.
NewsBusters has some excerpts.
Like Michael Moore, Turner considers the American-killing Iraqi insurgents to be "patriots."
Turner told Rose:
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.
Turner is clueless. He's no patriot. I guess it does take one to know one.
His prediction of what the world will be like if global warming isn't addressed is priceless.
TED TURNER: 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. Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state -- like Somalia or Sudan -- and living conditions will be intolerable. The droughts will be so bad there'll be no more corn grown. Not doing it is suicide. Just like dropping bombs on each other, nuclear weapons is suicide. We've got to stop doing the suicidal two things, which are hanging on to our nuclear weapons and after that we've got to stabilize the population. When I was born-
CHARLIE ROSE: So what's wrong with the population?
TURNER: We're too many people. That's why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff. If there were less people, they'd be using less stuff.
Over billions of years, the earth has seen dramatic climate changes.
Turner predicts a dramatic change, a catastrophe in just over a generation.
I don't think so.
Turner goes beyond being an eccentric rich guy. He's nuts.
His comments about the insurgents being patriots anger me.
His comments about the age of cannibalism being on our doorstep are so over the top that it's funny.
(Thanks, Dave!)
"[President Bush] said it very clearly, he said 'Either you're with us, or you're against us.' And, I had a problem with that because I really hadn't made my mind up yet."
--TED TURNER
2 comments:
Turner is a fruit cake. He thinks that the government of Iraq isn't legit, but the terrorists who weren't elected are.
He's a nut, but he's not alone.
That's the problem.
There are others like him, and they pose a real threat if their idiocy is adopted as truth by people in power.
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