TED TURNER COMPARES FOXNEWS TO HITLER
Tue Jan 25 2005 15:53:55 ET

Ted Turner called FOX an arm of the Bush administration and compared FOXNEWS's popularity to Hitler's popular election to run Germany before WWII.

Turner made the controversial comments in Las Vegas before a standing-room-only crowd at the National Association for Television Programming Executives's opening session.

His no-nonsense, humorous approach during the one-hour Q&A generated frequent loud applause and laughter, BROADCASTING & CABLE reports.

While FOX may be the largest news network [and has overtaken Turner's CNN], it's not the best, Turner said.

He followed up by pointing out that Adolf Hitler got the most votes when he was elected to run Germany prior to WWII. He said the network is the propaganda tool for the Bush Administration.

"There's nothing wrong with that. It's certainly legal. But it does pose problems for our democracy. Particularly when the news is dumbed down," leaving voters without critical information on politics and world events and overloaded with fluff," he said.

A FOXNEWS spokesperson responded: "Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network and now his mind -- we wish him well."

In 1996, Turner apologized to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for comments he made comparing FOX head Rupert Murdoch to Hitler.

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Just couldn't pass this Drudge headline.

:falls out of chair laughing:

I love Ted Turner.

Ted is one to talk, he firmly believes he is the messiah.

It's competition, baby.

Yeah, FOX is just telling it like it is. Get a life Ted.

Wait, do I actually hear someone defending FAUX news?

All news is faux news unless you witness it.

So true.

i have no problem with any of this.

That IS pretty damn funny.

FYI....to Ted Turner!!!!


Hitler was never ELECTED!!!!!

I'd say its safe to say that he absolutely would have been...

But was he?

well, i'd like to see a quote from the Ted before I judge him on that front.

This just in from "the Ted":

I am better than you.....bow down to me!

I care neither for Fox nor TNT/TBS/CNN etc.

Or the Dodgers and Braves for that matter.

sadly, he doesn't own the Braves anymore. If he did they could spend more money. sigh.

Hitler was elected as much as Tony Blair was elected. He was the leader of his party which was voted into power in the election of 1933. It was with far short of a majority, but they were the highest vote receivers, and it was enough to form their first coalition government, which they quickly dispatched and seized all power.

--PunkDavid