The Thoughts of Chairman Ted.
{Ted Turner - another great anti-Christian mind of our time ]
Posted on January 9, 2011 by hauntingthelibrary
I thought it was time to collect some of the quotes from dear old Ted Turner, media magnate, Chairman of the UN Foundation, cheerleader for global warming and population control, and the man who owns more land in America than any other individual. So, here are the thoughts of Chairman Ted.
Ted Turner on why there are too many Haitian refugees coming to America – no one’s sterilized them yet:
“If the Haitians could get here, and if we’d let them in, we’d be knee deep in them . . . it’s like kittens, if you have two kittens and you don’t spay them, pretty soon you have more kittens then you can handle”
The Miami News May 20th 1986. P. 17
Ted Turner on not judging the Chinese Communist dictatorship for shooting students:
“We are often judgmental about people that are different from us . . . and we don’t even understand what their problems are. A lot of students got killed at Tiananmen Square, but I remember several students got killed at Kent State. And, remember, they have a lot more students than we do. We shot down our own students.”
Lisa de Moraes, “Ted Turner, Trying To Put His Spin On Planet Earth”. Washington Post, Sep. 24th, 1998. pg. B.01
. . . on the future of mankind if global warming isn’t ‘solved’:
“We’ll be eight degrees hotter in 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 . . . We’re too many people; that’s why we have global warming
Atlanta Journal Constitution, 4th March, 2008. Ted Turner: Global Warming could Lead to Cannabalism.
Don’t even ask me what his logic is here:
“The Judeo-Christian religion … says man was … given dominion over everything, and his salvation was that he was to go out and multiply. Well, we have done that … to the point where in Calcutta, it’s a hellhole. So it’s not an environmentally friendly religion.”
Tampa Tribune, December 19th, 1998, P.14. Ted Turner’s Strange World View.
His prescription for what we need to do to arrive at his vision of a “brave new world”:
We have two courses of action. We can be a bunch of dumbasses and go to extinction like the dodo. Or we can be real smart and intelligent, and progress to a brave new world . . . What we need to have for 100 years is a one-child policy…. If everybody voluntarily had one child for 100 years, we’d basically be back to 2 billion people,”
Thomas Goetz, Billionaire Boy’s Cause, The Village Voice, October 7th, 1997, Vol. 42, Iss. 40, PP. 41-4.
What he thinks of his fellow Americans – apparently the “dumbest people in the world” according to Turner:
“The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that; we know that. It’s a disgrace. I mean there are times when I have been so discouraged about my own country”
John Carmody, Turner Sees ‘Dumb’ U.S. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 20th, 1996, p. 2.
. . . and which country he sees as smart, and why:
“The Chinese are very smart. Just think: Have you ever met a dumb Chinaman? Very seldom do you see Chinese restaurants close”
Vanessa Hua, Ted Turner Apolgizes For Remarks on Chinese. San Fransisco Chronicle, March 14th, 2007.
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Ted Turner has a long record of open hostility to Christianity. In 1990 he told an audience at the American Humanist Association that “Christianity is a religion for losers.” At an event in 1999, he suggested that the Ten Commandments should be rewritten to eliminate the prohibition against adultery, and that the pope should “get with it. Welcome to the 20th century.” Turner then mocked the pontiff, who was Polish, by kicking his foot in the air and saying, “Ever seen a Polish mine detector?”
Turner has characterized Christians who oppose abortion as “bozos.” One Ash Wednesday he derided CNN employees whose foreheads were darkened with ashes as “a bunch of Jesus freaks” who “ought to be working for Fox [News].” Turner’s 2001 divorce from Jane Fonda was precipitated, in no small measure, by the fact that she had recently converted to Christianity. In an interview with New Yorker magazine, Turner stated: “She just came home and said, ‘I’ve become a Christian.’ Before that, she was not a religious person. That’s a pretty big change for your wife of many years to tell you. That’s a shock.”
Turner’s contempt for Fox News and its founder Rupert Murdoch is palpable. He compared Murdoch to Adolf Hitler, and later called Murdoch a “warmonger” for his network’s supposedly positive coverage of the Iraq War. When the size of the Fox television audience began to overtake that of CNN, Turner spun this development as “not necessarily a bad thing.... Adolf Hitler was more popular in Germany in the early ’30s than his people who were running against him. So just because you’re bigger, doesn’t mean you’re right.”
A longtime admirer of Fidel Castro, Turner has called the former Cuban president “one hell of a guy.” In 2001 Turner told a class at Harvard Law School, “You’d like him [Castro]. He has been the leader of Cuba for 40 years. He’s the most senior leader in the world, and most of the people that are still in Cuba like him.”
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Turner is similarly reluctant to classify Islamic terrorists as evil. In February 2002, for instance, he visited his Brown University alma mater and said that the 9/11 hijackers had shown themselves to be “brave,” though probably "a little nuts." "[T]he reason that the World Trade Center got hit," he added, "is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don’t have any hope for a better life.” Turner also took the opportunity to liken President George W. Bush to Julius Caesar.
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In 2005, Turner, who had recently traveled to North Korea, appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, where he was asked whether he believed that North Korean President Kim Jong Il was “one of the worst men on Earth.” Turner replied: “Well, I didn’t get, I didn’t get to meet him, but he didn’t look, in the pictures that I’ve seen of him on CNN, he didn’t look too much different than most other people.” When pressed by Blitzer about the mass starvation in North Korea, and about Kim Jong Il’s documented maltreatment of his countrymen, Turner reflected:
“Well, hey, listen. I saw a lot of people over there. They were thin and they were riding bicycles instead of driving in cars, but ah ... I didn’t see any brutality in the capital or out in the, on the DMZ.”
Assessing the implications of a nuclear-armed North Korea, Turner said: “It’s a small place, and we [Americans] do not have to worry about them attacking us.”
In a September 2005 appearance on NBC's David Letterman Show, Turner mused about the war on terrorism, declaring: “You don’t stop terrorism with tanks, you stop it with giving people hope so they won’t want to blow themselves up.”
At a September 19, 2006 news conference, Turner stated that the U.S. invasion of Iraq “will go down in history … as one of the dumbest moves that was ever made by anybody.... You don’t start wars just because you don’t like somebody.”
Turner further characterized President Bush’s demand that Iran abandon its nuclear weapons program as “a joke.” “They’re a sovereign state,” Turner said of Iran. “We have 28,000 [nuclear weapons]. Why can’t they have 10? We don’t say anything about Israel—they’ve got 100 of them approximately—or India or Pakistan or Russia. And really, nobody should have them. They aren’t usable by any sane person.”
Also in 2006, Turner signed a statement that accompanied the documentary film The Great Warming, which maintained that not only did global warming pose a threat to the future of life on earth, but also that it was largely a result of human industrial activity. The statement read, in part:
"The world’s scientists are in agreement: climate change is real, and we [humans] are largely responsible. America’s religious institutions, corporations, environmental and political leaders are in agreement -- we must recognize our moral responsibility to be good stewards of the Earth today and for all future generations."
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In 2010, Turner -- a father of five who has publicly lamented having brought so many children into the world -- called for a global policy that would penalize families for giving birth to more than one child. “If we’re going to be here [as a species] 5,000 years from now, we’re not going to do it with seven billion people,” said Turner. During a May 7, 2010 interview with National Public Radio, the media mogul praised the Chinese government for "wisely institut[ing] … the one-child family policy, … put[ting] in penalties, tax penalties and so forth, for people that have more than one child."
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