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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (8617)	11/16/2006 11:04:25 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224676

Pelosi's cmte appointments will assure a Republican victory in 2008. Pres Giuliani here we come. <g>

To: longnshort who wrote (8617)	11/16/2006 2:08:39 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224676

Murdoch should drop the CNN in his Headline News network(he purchased it from Ted Turner):Media mogul Turner takes a meaty poke at Murdoch By Aldo Svaldi Denver Post Staff Writer, 11/16/2006 Cable-industry legend Ted Turner has donated millions over the past nine years to the United Nations to promote world peace. But don't ask him to share warm feelings about Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., or Time Warner Inc., which purchased Turner Broadcasting System Inc. in 1996. "There is one person I don't like," he said of Murdoch. Turner lambasted Murdoch - whose net worth is $7.7 billion, according to Forbes magazine. "He gives nothing to charity," said Turner, whose net worth is estimated at $1.9 billion. Turner said living by the golden rule served him well in his business career until it came to Time Warner. "They did one dumb deal after another," said Turner, who resigned as vice chairman of the company in 2003, two years after its merger with AOL. "I had better luck with the Soviet Union than with one of America's largest and leading companies," he told an audience of several hundred people Wednesday night. Turner, 67, built his fame and fortune as founder of several popular cable channels, including CNN, TNT and Cartoon Network. He told the audience he was most proud of CNN, which he launched in 1980 because he didn't trust the mainstream news networks. "I'm curious. That is why I started CNN," he said. "Then I let my friends in on it." Turner said he spent a lot of time in Denver, once the hub of the nation's cable-TV industry, while running his Atlanta-based media company. Now what draws him to town is his Ted's Montana Grill chain, which has six restaurants in the metro area. Turner owns more than 2 million acres of land across 14 ranches in seven states, including Colorado. Turner said his acreage, much of it concentrated in the New Mexico desert near Truth or Consequences, wouldn't fetch as much as the 20 acres of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Turner's ranches host 45,000 bison, the meat of which he serves at his restaurants. Hickenlooper tried to grill Turner on the seeming contradiction of an ardent conservationist raising buffalo for consumption, but he didn't get far. "They keep increasing - that is why we eat them," said Turner, drawing laughter.