Ted Turner: Still Crazy After All These Years
Tuesday, January 25th, 2005Somebody let Ted Turner out of the basement today:
Ted Turner called FOX an arm of the Bush administration and compared FOXNEWS’s popularity to Hitler’s popular election to run Germany before WWII.
Turner made the controversial comments before a standing-room-only crowd at the National Association for Television Programming Executives’s opening session Tuesday.
I guess if you are a liberal you compare anything that you don’t like to Hitler. Kerry’s supporters did it before and during the election, now Ted Turner is doing it to Fox News. Used to be that the people in the Democratic Party who acted like this were the lunatic fringe; now they have taken over and are the mainstream.
While FOX may be the largest news network [and has overtaken Turner's CNN], it’s not the best, Turner said.
He followed up by pointing out that Adolph Hitler got the most votes when he was elected to run Germany prior to WWII. He said the network is the propaganda tool for the Bush Administration.
“There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s certainly legal. But it does pose problems for our democracy. Particularly when the news is dumbed down, leaving voters without critical information on politics and world events and overloaded with fluff,” he said.
It’s obvious that he doesn’t watch Fox News, or he would know that this is drivel. As for being a “propaganda tool” for the Bush Administration, I guess he missed it during the 2000 Election when Carl Cameron broke the DUI story.
The funniest part of this story is the response from Fox News:
A FOXNEWS spokesperson responded: “Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network and now his mind — we wish him well.”
It seems that Fox News has a hard time taking Ted Turner seriously. The rest of the country should, too.
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