From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 13:33:53 MDT
--- Keith Elis <hagbard@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> I went and re-read some of the old articles about Ted Turner's gift
> of $1 billion over ten years to the UN. I think Turner is in the
> running for 'Dunce of the Decade'. I respect his business acumen,
> but talk about just pissing money away for no good reason. It seemed
> like such a bad idea even then, in 1997 when he announced it. He
> wanted to take the money out of the US economy where it was doing
> some good and hand it off to the UN where now, it seems, they will
> use it to purchase new silverware. Turner might have invested it in
> a poor country, or several, and he would have been a real hero. But
> now, the UN is clinically impotent, and has lost whatever teeth the
> US was providing. Turner is no doubt spitting mad. I'd love for him
> to go public with some of his thoughts on Bush.
So would I. Turner has a habit of putting his foot in his mouth when he
is angry and/or disrespectful. It was, for instance, his comment
calling Catholic staffers on Ash Wednesday "cult freaks" that led to a
massive exodus to FOX News. It was also his memo banning the positive
coverage by CNN of gun-rights stories that led to a massive boost in
NRA membership and contributions.
Were Turner a slightly more rational human being, he'd be spitting mad
at the UN and asking for his money back, issuing memos banning positive
coverage of the UN, and using epithets against French, Germans, and Russians...
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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