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Ted Turner: Mankind Will be Reduced to Cannibalism
By Global Warming
Just when you think Ted Turner can't possibly get any crazier
than the wack job he's always been, he spits out a lulu that
absolutely blows you away. Case in point, in a recent interview
with PBS's Charlie Rose the topic of global warming came up
and Turner's outlook about what will happen if something isn't
done was rather unhinged:
"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."
Holy cow! Compared to this guy, Al Gore is seeing the world
through rose-colored glasses. "An Inconvenient Truth" never
even mentions the prospect of cannibalism.
Later in the interview, Turner admitted to Rose that he's
"always suffered from foot-in-the-mouth disease," and then he
added, "I've gotten a lot better, though. It's been a long time
since anybody caught me saying something stupid."
Huh? Hel-lo-o! Earth to Ted. You just said that in a few
decades the world will lay in post-apocalyptic ruin where most
of humanity will have perished and the ones left will have
become cannibals, all because of anthropogenic global
warming. I can't scream this loud enough: That qualifies as
stupid! It is unimaginable, inconceivable stupidity on a
perversely grandiloquent scale. It makes every stupid thing
you've ever said sound like the epitome of carefully measured
prudence. You’re busted, again, and you’re too clueless to even
know you’re busted.
And yet, I've seen figures in oil paintings that were less
impassive than Rose during Turner's bug-eyed adumbration
about a devastated world populated by cannibals. Perhaps he
would have gotten more animated if Turner had said
something really radical, like, say, all government funding for
urban bike paths should be curtailed.
Turner also said in the interview that "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."
I guess Turner hasn't heard about that thing called the surge
that has exceeded most expectations. Doesn't matter, because
according to Ted the insurgents are "patriots" who "don't like
us because we invaded their country and occupied it. Nobody
likes to be invaded."
But everybody loves being lorded over by a ruthless, mass-
murdering totalitarian who maintains power through a never-
ending reign of terror in which people are snatched up and
imprisoned at will, children are tortured in front of their
parents and people are dropped head first into shredding
machines, right? What Iraqi "patriot" in his right mind would
want to be liberated from that?
Keep it coming, Teddy. As maddening as it can be sometimes,
we still love having you around.
By Global Warming
Just when you think Ted Turner can't possibly get any crazier
than the wack job he's always been, he spits out a lulu that
absolutely blows you away. Case in point, in a recent interview
with PBS's Charlie Rose the topic of global warming came up
and Turner's outlook about what will happen if something isn't
done was rather unhinged:
"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."
Holy cow! Compared to this guy, Al Gore is seeing the world
through rose-colored glasses. "An Inconvenient Truth" never
even mentions the prospect of cannibalism.
Later in the interview, Turner admitted to Rose that he's
"always suffered from foot-in-the-mouth disease," and then he
added, "I've gotten a lot better, though. It's been a long time
since anybody caught me saying something stupid."
Huh? Hel-lo-o! Earth to Ted. You just said that in a few
decades the world will lay in post-apocalyptic ruin where most
of humanity will have perished and the ones left will have
become cannibals, all because of anthropogenic global
warming. I can't scream this loud enough: That qualifies as
stupid! It is unimaginable, inconceivable stupidity on a
perversely grandiloquent scale. It makes every stupid thing
you've ever said sound like the epitome of carefully measured
prudence. You’re busted, again, and you’re too clueless to even
know you’re busted.
And yet, I've seen figures in oil paintings that were less
impassive than Rose during Turner's bug-eyed adumbration
about a devastated world populated by cannibals. Perhaps he
would have gotten more animated if Turner had said
something really radical, like, say, all government funding for
urban bike paths should be curtailed.
Turner also said in the interview that "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."
I guess Turner hasn't heard about that thing called the surge
that has exceeded most expectations. Doesn't matter, because
according to Ted the insurgents are "patriots" who "don't like
us because we invaded their country and occupied it. Nobody
likes to be invaded."
But everybody loves being lorded over by a ruthless, mass-
murdering totalitarian who maintains power through a never-
ending reign of terror in which people are snatched up and
imprisoned at will, children are tortured in front of their
parents and people are dropped head first into shredding
machines, right? What Iraqi "patriot" in his right mind would
want to be liberated from that?
Keep it coming, Teddy. As maddening as it can be sometimes,
we still love having you around.