Memo to Turner
Almost everyone except for the most radical elements of the Professional Left question the timing of Obama, Pelosi and Reid jamming ObamaCare down our throats in the middle of a horrendous recession. But as is his wont, Ted Turner puts a crazy new spin on their efforts:
U.S. President Barack Obama made a “big mistake” in pushing health-care legislation before climate change, billionaire Ted Turner said today.
“We would have an energy climate change bill in the United States if President Obama had made that his top priority and brought that to the American people and Congress first rather than the health-care bill,” Turner, founder of Time Warner Inc.’s CNN, said today at a conference in Cancun, Mexico. “But he didn’t, and I think it was a big mistake.”
Obama, who campaigned on a promise to fight climate change, made the economy, health care, energy and education his top priorities after taking office. Health-care legislation was signed into law earlier this year after contentious debate while a “cap-and-trade” bill to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions stalled in the Senate. Obama now says he doubts such a measure can win passage until 2013 at the earliest.
“The climate bill is much more important than health care because the climate situation is about life and death whereas the health-care bill was much more limited,” Turner, 72, said.
If it’s life and death, then act that way, Ted. Time to retire the private jet. Since self-described climate experts have claimed that “meat [is] making global warming worse,” time to close the giant bison ranch and restaurants. There’s a stadium in Atlanta with your name on it. Demand that they disable their lights. Although you no longer own the TV networks you built, your word still likely carries some sway there as their founder. Demand that they go off the air and close down their Websites to eliminate their carbon footprint.
And it’s some footprint.
Here are seven more things I’d like to see, to prove that you’re serious about this “life and death” issue.
Because, to paraphrase the Professor, I’ll believe that global warming is a matter of life and death when the people who tell me that it’s a matter of life and death start to act that way themselves.
Related: The USS Neverdock spots the Guardian noting that “WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord.” Meanwhile, in England’s Sun, “Author claims we’re in the grip of a mini ice age.” Everything old is new again!
Update: “Now the father of five, who has often publicly regretted having so many children, [Turner] wants to extend China’s policy to the rest of us.”
I wonder if the Ted’s kids — or his ex-wives — ever ask him which child he regrets the most?
I guess Turner fails to see that climate Change regulation is just as disasterous to the economy as Obamacare. Of course it may help protect his business through the corporate protectionism legislation. Of course, I also tend to view him in the same vein as Gates and Soros, though not as sporked as Soros.
Yeah, well about that mini-Ice Age… as we all know from listening to officially sanctioned scientists like Al Gore, EVERYTHING that happens validates the Global Climate Constipation Theory. So, it doesn’t matter if it snows in Florida in July or Minnesota doesn’t get its one day of summer next year; everything that goes wrong with the effing climate is PROOF that man’s carbon emissions are wrecking the planet. I hope we’re clear on that now, otherwise the UN climate panel will have to meet for another discussion on why we are too stupid to understand this at an expensive vacation spot next year. But they will probably do that anyway, regardless of what we do.
Turner’s view is just the normal, run-of-the mill, elite view. “All of you peasants out there, stop ruining my world, and get off the grass, it is spoiling my view.”
“All of the peasants…” and two or three of his kids which he regrets having.
Agree with Andrew. In addition, progressive “elites” do not like the proles using their resources, hence their extreme need to ration energy and health.
I’ve worked in cable TV for about twenty years — largely for networks affiliated with Turner’s former empire — and while I never had the honor of meeting the Tedster, *everyone* who has says about the same thing (usually *sotto voce*): he’s a rambling, largely medicated, incoherent mess. How he ever got his millions is a bit beyond me, but it clearly wasn’t with the state-of-mind he’s been in for the last decade or more. From (admittedly) hearsay, I’ve always envisioned him as a pathetic shadow of someone like Hunter S. Thompson (and *significantly* less amusing): usually drugged, nutty, inaccessible and not much connected to reality.
Which pretty much explains his “climate change” stance (among others).
I first heard Turner speak in some TV interview back in the 80′s…and it became painfully apparent to me after listening to him for about 5 minutes,that in spite of his genius in starting and running a media empire,he was one of the most profoundly ignorant and uneducated people I have ever heard…his knowledge of virtually everything outside his chosen field is minimal at best and non-existent in most cases…and this latest episode just serves to confirm my opinion of him
He inherited most of his millions and had the wherewithall to hire competent managers and accountants.
Climate change was to science and journalism, what abusive priests were to religion.
I love that, perfect for Christmas Dinner with the liberal family elites! Heh!
The ones who live in a tony hood in the city and swore they would never use re-useable diapers until their own liberal offspring was spawned. Oh wait they recycle the Moet bottles, that makes them even steven with gaia.
Now wait just a minute, Ed.
Was Henry the VIII subject to the laws he imposed on everybody else? Julias Caesar? Napolean? Obamy?
Ted Turner is a card-carrying member of the Ruling Elite, whose mission in life, other than living in regal splendor and lording it over everybody else, is to guide, instruct, and diktate to the ignorant masses how to live, eat and breathe.
Give Ted a break.
Why does anyone care what Ted Turner says. He lost all credibility when he married Jane Fonda. Ted is a self centered A**hole. He either will make money from this or just wants to spew his opinion.
What a monumental devastatingly repulsive plick. Leftist + big money = monster. Show me a great man, hell show me a decent human being that ascribes to the crap the Left espouses. Right. None. None are so blind as those who will not see.
If all Liberals who demand the rest of us cut back on our energy consumption were to commit suicide then they’d be helping reduce our national carbon footprint and save the planet, right?
I want to see all Lefties give up their cars and only use public transportation or walk/bike, have themselves made unable to reproduce, become vegetarians or vegans, get rid of all non-essential electric gadgets (cell phones, Wii/Playstations, TVs, set their heat at the minimum tolerable for comfort, turn off the A/C altogether, grow their own food and when they all do these things I might take them seriously. I doubt it but at least they won’t be able to nag the rest of us.
Or at least their fifth, fourth and third homes, ey?
Am I the only one remembering that the House passed their climate change bill before going for health care? And that’s what cost the Dems so much political capital that they had to sneak Obamacare in under the wire? And cap’n trade isn’t law just because Reid counted the votes in the Senate and never brought it to the floor?
And if those facts are true, which they are, then Pelosi drove the House bill, and I even recall also at the time that she was encouraged to do so by Obama. Turner is wrong off the bat, and nothing else he says matters.
Thanks for that chronology, it really supports the article.
I remember that Christopher Monckton was in the US giving speeches warning us that Obama was about to sign that extra-governmental treaty, and that was about the time that senate support for climate change legislation collapsed. Later, the climate gate emails were leaked, Nov. 9, 2009, and that should have been the last nail in the coffin for the AGW hoax.
So yes, Turner is in error from his first statement.
Oops, Nov. 19, 2009.
Ted is good at telling everybody how to live but when you become one of the elite , above the cloud bunch , you kinda feel the presence of immortality and see the cerfs as ants and squash everything in his path . The problem is that these ants are the big red ant bunch and they ain`t gonna tale this propoganda anymore . Castro is the true climate leader . Look at his economy . It is still as good as it was 60 years ago and the air is still clean and the peasants are still as poorer than they were 60 years ago . LET`S FACE IT , THESE BLOW HARDS only benefit themselves with wealth redistribution and are still trying to tell us what to do . Ted , eat a cucumber !
Tell it to China, Farmer Ted.
[You'd think the climate never changed before 'scientists' noticed it].
anyone else sick and tired of hearing from these self indulgent millionaire idiots like Turner, Buffet and Gates? Yes they have got their millions now for some kind of sick liberal delusional reason they are now big libs who want to give it all away! Pathetic and it will be a relief when they exit the stage. Retire now and spare us your crap!!
they are now big libs who want to give it all away! Pathetic and it will be a relief when they exit the stage
Actually, they’re lying about giving it all away. They’re giving away no more — proportinally — than normally generous regular folks. Buffet in particular is “giving away” Berkshire Hathaway “preferred” stock that only costs him 1% of the face value! What a weasel!
On top of all that, the money they’re giving away is to causes and research that already get vast amounts of money. Mendacious pricks.
I agree with you Tommy Gunn. Well said. On another note I would like to publicly thank the survivors of Pearl Harbor seeing as what day it is. Each one of them is worth 10 Ted Turners.
I think we all seem to forget that just because someone has made a lot of money in one field it doesn’t mean they are any brighter that the next guy outside of their areas of expertise. They aren’t. Society today seems to hang on their every word just because they are rich. Does making them a lot of money in one area automatically make them any smarter that someone else in other areas? No, it definitely doesn’t.
Don’t sell yourself short, listen to your own instincts.
[“The climate bill is much more important than health care because the climate situation is about life and death whereas the health-care bill was much more limited,”]
The climate bill is much more important…because, the socialist progressive elites behind Cap-And-Trade stand to profit personally, by the billions and trillions of dollars. The CAT would be a new segement of the global commodities market in which they would control nearly lock-stock-and-barrel.
Start thinking and talking Constitutional Amendment, Article I, Section 8, Commerce Clause!!!!!!! A cure all move move for SOOOOO many ills!
Turner got lucky when he started CNN. He got luckier still when he sold it to AOL. But his luck has run out. He is a senile old man and needs to STFU and retire to his rocking chair in Montana.
Ted should shoot all of his buffalo. Consuming buffalo meat exacerbates global warming. Buffalo farts are worse than cow farts and are destroying the planet. If the Mouth of the South would just shut up, the quantity of hot air entering the atmosphere would decrease significantly.
I’ve thought for years that Ted Turner is two bricks short of a load, but in this case, I say follow the money. What of Turner’s many financial holdings would profit from pushing new climate and energy legislation?
I also have a memo for Ted; Go pound sand.
I dont think they could print my “memo” to that f#@king tool.
Hanoi Jane and him made such a great couple.
Turner’s so insufferable that Hanoi Jane dumped him. THAT speaks volumes.
Also, Turner is the idiot who tried (and maybe succeeded, I forget) to give the U.N. $1 billion. How much of a frakkin’ fool do you have to be to do that?
Best course of action for Ted.
Drive to the ocean. Park vehicle. Walk into water and start swimming. Removing yourself from the earth will both reduce your carbon generation and replenish the food chain in the ocean.
Update: “Now the father of five, who has often publicly regretted having so many children, [Turner] wants to extend China’s policy to the rest of us.”
Now if he puts them to work will it help fund Social Security?
I have a dream. A governor of a state gets elected on a platform of cheap energy for all. New power plants (probably nuclear pocket plants) produce energy in such abundance that old people don”t have to count pennies to stay warm and people can enjoy the warmth of incandescent bulbs without sacrificing food.
It’s a state where youngsters grow up with abundance and confidence rather than scarcity and fear
I dream of a state where businesses small and large thrive under few but reasonable regulations.
Where will it be?
When?
Never happen….too many REAL producers for the connected statist imbeciles to compete with.
They can only survive by bleeding the productive nearly to extinction.
They need to play with the money, pretend they had something to do with it, and have “importence and influence” for themselves and their ilk.
A free and productive society would force them to STARVE.
I don’t get where the enviro’s think the climate is supposed to be stable. Really, the earth has been warming or cooling its entire history. Why should now be any different?
The one child thing is especially ridiculous. Look around at birthrates. The US is at replacement rate, Much of Europe and the east Asian Tigers are shrinking. Latin America is at replacement rate. Really South Asia and Africa is where most of the population growth is happening. I’ll bet they slow down as the develop too.
Ted Turner, dumb as a rock, to hear him speak is almost painful.
Inherited money, met some people with brains, learned how to read & write, a bit, became a liberal{?}, naturally thereafter became both nasty and arrogant, and follows the party line.
Probably has a vague idea as to how a thermostat works.
I need to put Ted’s head between my legs.
He needs to smell the sauce.
Ted Turner is very wealthy, extremely enlightened, and has reams of pseudo-scientific data to back up his beliefs….so all you dumb cretins should just bugger-off.
Dear Mr F..ART, You sir,are a troll and probably are one of mr Turners employees at his ‘men only’ spa.(that covers Jane as well)
Are we not fortunate that those Climategate emails were exposed and that nature decided to start cooling down………again, before warming up………..again, before……….well….you get the picture. And isn’t it amazing that someone as dumb as a stump can cloak his stupidity in an air of intellectual superiority and deep concern for the environment and become one of the richest men in the world? Baffling, and only in the America he no doubt finds so much fault with, none of his making of course.
Ted Turner must have Oldtimers Disease. Sheesh.
Of all the liberal celebrities – Sean Penn and Danny Glover come to mind – who voice a strong opinion on such matters, I have yet to see one – not one – put their money where their mouth is. If Sean Penn, for instance, would return to the community the ill-gotten gains from his enthusiastic embrace of capitalism, he wouldn’t be the hypocritical clown that he is. The day Ted Turner consumes anything near what the average American consumes in a given day will be the day I care what he thinks about climate change or anything else. Hypocritical clowns, all.
“Come now, gentleman, I know there’s some mistake.
How forgetful I’m becoming, now you fixed your business straight.”
Will he atone for his mistake by killing his kids? Anything else is just talk.
Without life, the earth is just an unimportant rock circling an obscure star, but it floats Ted’s boat.
I received my water bill electronically this morning at 5:09 am. $18.81.
My natural gas bill this month was $16.54.
I wonder what Ted’s utilities add up to….