Ted Turner: Men Should Be Barred From Political Office For 100 Years

September 23rd, 2013 10:37 AM
Media mogul Ted Turner reiterated an absolutely absurd idea Sunday. Appearing at the International Women's Earth and Climate Summit in New York City, Turner proposed “men be barred from political office. They could do everything else, be president of universities, business leaders, but they just couldn’t serve in any elected position for 100 years” (video follows with transcript and…

Ted Turner Tells Obama to Get 'Climate Change Under Control

April 4th, 2013 11:32 AM
In an exclusive Wednesday interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, CNN founder Ted Turner expressed his hopes for President Obama and advised him to "get this global climate change under control." During the 6 p.m. ET hour of The Situation Room, Blitzer teed up Turner to give Obama advice and promoted his new biography "Last Stand." He added that "Turner's politics clearly lean left" and noted "…

Ted Turner's Son: CNN Is So Far Left I Mostly Watch Fox

March 20th, 2013 5:36 PM
Republican Teddy Turner, the son of media mogul Ted Turner, made news last month when he blamed his father's liberalism on actress Jane Fonda. He made more news Wednesday on NewsMax TV's Steve Malzberg Show saying that CNN is "pretty much to the left" and that he has such a "hard time watching them" he mostly watches Fox (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional…

Republican Teddy Turner Blames Jane Fonda for His Dad Ted Turner's Lef

February 23rd, 2013 9:03 PM
Teddy Turner, a son of billionaire media mogul Ted Turner who’s now running for Congress as a Republican in South Caroliina, blamed his father’s 1991 marriage to Jane Fonda for his jaw-dropping turn to the Left. “I was raised in a different time at the Turner household … a very conservative household with capitalism and all of that kind of stuff,” the younger Turner told Newsmax TV’s “The…

Ted Turner, Prodded by CNN, Calls for Nuclear Disarmament, Says 'War I

December 13th, 2012 5:01 PM
CNN founder Ted Turner is well-known for his outlandish liberal views, and CNN's Suzanne Malveaux teed him up on Thursday to rant against nuclear weapons, call for higher taxes on the wealthy, and announce that "the big, intelligent, well-educated countries have already quit war." "President Obama, he says in his second term he wants to make climate change and protecting the environment a…

Ted Turner Says It's 'Good' More U.S. Soldiers Committing Suicide Than

October 25th, 2012 2:39 PM
[Update, Friday, 10:44 am Eastern: Ted Turner released an apology on Thursday. (via Yahoo! News)] On the October 19 edition of Piers Morgan Tonight, Ted Turner said it was "good" that more American soldiers are dying from suicide than in combat. "I think it's good, because it's so clear that we're programmed and we're born to love and help each other, not to kill each other, to destroy…

The MRC@25: The Worst Media Bias of

September 19th, 2012 7:56 AM
Since September 2, NewsBusters has been showcasing the most egregious bias the Media Research Center has uncovered over the years — four quotes for each of the 25 years of the MRC, 100 quotes total — all leading up to our big 25th Anniversary Gala next week. Click here for blog posts recounting the worst of 1988 through 2004. Today, the worst bias of 2005: NBC’s Brian Williams equates…

Still Crazy: Ted Turner Favors Global One-Child Policy for 100 Years

June 9th, 2012 7:47 AM
LifeSiteNews reports that CNN founder Ted Turner is still valiantly holding to his belief that the world is dramatically overpopulated, despite the fact that his pet Paul Ehrlich theories about a “population bomb” causing massive “die-backs” never occurred. When he was bothered on the street about his ideal population number for Earth, Turner insisted he would like to reduce the world’s…