The Moron known as Ted Turner is at it again

He took time out from flipping bison burgers and worrying about the financial success of his newest investment on West Dodge Road, in Omaha, Nebraska the other day to regale us with his opinions on the war in Iraq.

According to the guy who's also known for being one of Nebraska's biggest non-resident-non-taxpayers, the country of Iraq is not better off without Saddam Hussein. This should come as no surprise. As we have since learned, Saddam Hussein was quite the buddy of Turner's CNN for a long time. The TV network that Ted started did their best to hide Saddam's atrocities in exchange for media access. WhaddaSurprise, ehh??

Now, with their sugar daddy sitting in prison, they no longer have the edge. (see commentary below, for more scintilating quotes from the Moron Turner), . . . But what has to be most depressing to Ted is that Iraqis are now living in freedom. They now have more clean water, electricity and schools than they did before the war. There have been free elections. A Constitution has been drawn up. We have won the war.

I guess we should cut Ted a break, . . . he hasn't been this depressed since the Berlin wall fell and the Soviet Union broke up. Oh, and some ballsy journalist should ask him if Iraqi women were better off being raped by the Fedayeen. Perhaps what Ted meant to say was that CNN was no better off now than it was when Saddam was in power. That might be quite a bit more accurate!

Here are some other fine quotes from the Moron Turner:

"I ended the Cold War"
( 6/7/2005 ) Ted Turner – never known for his modesty - claims credit for helping end the Cold War, saying his 1986 Goodwill Games eased international tensions through sports competition. "I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War," he told a conference of CNN employees and contributors marking the network’s 25th anniversary. "And by God, we did."

"Propaganda tool of the Bush administration"
( 1/25/2005 ) Ted Turner called Fox a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared Fox News Channel's popularity to Adolf Hitler's popular election to run Germany before World War II. Turner made those fiery comments in his first address at the National Association for Television Programming Executives' conference since he was ousted from Time Warner Inc. five years ago. The 66-year-old billionaire, who leveraged a television station in Atlanta into a media empire, made the comment before a standing-room-only crowd at NATPE's opening session Tuesday. His no-nonsense, sometimes humorous, approach during the one-hour Q&A generated frequent loud applause and laughter.

"Hijackers were motivated by world poverty and were brave at the very least"
( 6/19/2003 ) Media mogul Ted Turner Monday praised the firefighters, rescue workers and police officers for their courage on Sept.11, but said he thinks the terrorist themselves were brave because New York's World Trade Center crumbled and the Pentagon in Washington was partially destroyed.

During a speech at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Turner, founder of CNN, said the hijackers were motivated by world poverty and "were brave at the very least.

"The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life," he said.

Turner added that he thinks the terrorists "also might have been a little nuts." (From an article dated 2/12/02)