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Ted Turner Moonbats On PBS

Ted Turner Moonbat’s it right out of the park with his interview on the Charlie Rose Show on PBS. There are excerpts all over the Internet and I’ll be pulling some from the Atlantic Journal Online. Ted Turner, a hard-core member of the “do as I say, not as I do” left, gave a far reaching interview that covered numerous topics from Global Warming to the military and Iraq. And he get’s it wrong on every issue. Not surprising from the former husband of Hanoi Jane. Okay, he gets one point half-right.

From AJC:

Admitting that he’s “always suffered from foot-in-the-mouth disease,” Turner added, “I’ve gotten a lot better, though. It’s been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.”

Using the AJC as a reference point, I counted 11 things he said that were either stupid or wrong. If that’s what it is like being cured of “foot-in-mouth” disease, I would like to see what he would have said if he had been full on chewing on his foot.

Here’s an example:

If steps aren’t taken to stem global warming, “We’ll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow,” Turner said.

I don’t think anyone has made such a far fetched prediction. By the way, in the actual interview, he started to say in 10 years it would be that hot, then corrected his self to 30 or 40 years. Sure, if the Earth were to warm by 8 degrees Celcius, that would be pretty bad, probably put the Earth 3-4 degrees the mean average over the last 10 thousand years. However, it took over 150 years for the Earth to warm roughly 1 degree Celsius since the end of the Little Ice Age and the beginning of the Industrial Age. Most of that increase was prior to 1940.

Turner continues:

“Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.”

Assuming a doomsday scenario warming on the Earth, the equatorial regions may be too hot to handle, but the polar regions will become quite nice with rich, farmable, land. Plus, there is space. We could easily begin moving out into space building O’Neil colonies and sending farm products back to Earth.

He gets even nuttier by asserting that there are too many people using too many things and that civilization should “voluntarily” implement a policy limiting couples to two children. Like Turner had. Oh, wait, he has five children.

Turner asserts that the U.S. is spending too much money on the military.

“Right now, the U.S. is spending $500 billion a year on the military, which is more than all 190 countries in the world put together,” he said.

Part of the reason most countries do not spend a lot on their military is because they know the United States will show up to protect them. Like we did for Kuwait in the ’90s and have done for Europe since the end of WW2. Not all countries rely on the U.S. to provide for their national defense, fortunately. The U.K. is one of our most steadfast allies and they have a world class military as well. The same is true for Australia and Israel. Although Israel maintains their own military because they are under constant threat of annihilation from Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Syria and Iran.

What would happen if we cut back our military presence in countries like Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea? In the last example, North Korea would immediately invade and so much for South Korea being a free country. Japan would also be threatened unless it greatly expanded its military. China, who Turner describes as only wanting to sell us (crappy) shoes, would invade Hong Kong and Taiwan. And there is no telling what Germany, Italy and the rest of Europe will have to do.

Then we get into the really interesting Moonbattiness:

He said that despite the United States’ huge military budget, “we can’t win in Iraq.”

“We’re being beaten by insurgents who don’t even have any tanks, they don’t have a headquarters, they don’t have a Pentagon, we don’t even know if they have any generals,” Turner told Rose.

Turner called the Iraqi insurgents “patriots” who “don’t like us because we invaded their country and occupied it. Nobody likes to be invaded.”

Last I checked, we were winning militarily in Iraq. It is only on the home front and congress where victory in Iraq is threatened. That has been true since 2003, and remains so today. This is not to say that mistakes have not been made in Iraq. There have been. Like dealing with Muqtada al-Sadr.

We’re not being beaten by insurgents. They may not have a Pentagon, but they do have clandestine hideaways they use for their planning and staging, usually in populated areas to reduce the threat of air strikes. They do not have “generals” as that is a military designation. When Turner asserts they do not have “generals” he is trying to make it sound as though they don’t have leaders. They do have leadership, like Osama bin Ladin and Muqtada al-Sadr, amongst many others.

To call the terrorists operating in Iraq “insurgents”, especially since many of them are foreign nationals, is truly an outrage and displays a certain level of stupidity of what is happening in Iraq.

With all of this being said, it looks to me that Ted Turner is a prime candidate for an award. Congratulations, Ted, you are a recipient of the Moonbat Award. How could someone with so much money be so stupid?

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