OT: The Further Adventures of Ted Turner...

[J Lee]

...the man who banned Indian cartoons and Speedy Gonzales from Cartoon Network, but gets upset if anyone tries to stop him or other Atlanta Braves fans from doing the tommahawk chop, is at it again.

It's not cartoon-related, but the comment towards the end about "This Land Is My Land, It Isn't Your Land" again points out Captain Planet's hypocracy, and so long as he keeps doing these things, and those cartoons stay off CN, I'll keep posting this stuff. (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,45376,00.html)

[redhotrider]

But has anyone really documented that it is Ted Turner specifically who sees to it to remove anything offensive. After all-this was the same person who (after buying the pre-48 package) in the late eighties used to run Fresh Hare, Hare-Ribbin and I'm sure others uncut on TNT. I know Tom and Jerry used to include 90% of the blackface stuff they cut now as well.

I'm not trying to defend or accuse Ted here, I'm just kinda curious myself as it seems to be the general board consensus to blame Ted. IMO it was more when Turner/Time/Warner/ect. (the big corporation) conglomerated that cartoons started disappearing. The other biggest factor was when the notoriously strict former executive of kids WB programing (that hacked the batman beyond movie to death with cuts and censorship) god status at cartoon network

Cartoons Cartoon are gonna eventually take over the channel one day :mad: -so hopefully one point in the future someone will play classic cartoons that knows truly what to do with them



BIG EDIT
MUCH aplogies for not reading that article-he's scum-forget everything I just said-talking before thinking again

[Matthew Hunter]

What a.....jerk.
-Matthew

[Cartman]

That guy sounds like he's glad the World Trade Center was bombed. Kinda makes a person wonder doesn't it?

[Emmanuel Cruz]

Turner is such a friggin' D.A.!!! He moans about cartoons being offensive, and he makes such despicable remarks about more serious matters! What a low-life!

[billyjoelfan]

>That guy sounds like he's glad the World Trade Center was >bombed.

accualy if your referring to 9-11 it wasent bombed but atticked by having 2 jets crash in to them in the early 90's the basement was bombed but the towers still stod (GOD I HOPE WE GET THE PEPOLE RESPONSIBEL FOR THE 9-11 ATTICKS)

also his marrage to jane fonda the same person who supported the communists back in the 60's

[Patrick McCart]

Turner, IMO, is a real jerk.

Bad Turner, Good movies (and cartoons).

[J Lee]

But has anyone really documented that it is Ted Turner specifically who sees to it to remove anything offensive. After all-this was the same person who (after buying the pre-48 package) in the late eighties used to run Fresh Hare, Hare-Ribbin and I'm sure others uncut on TNT. I know Tom and Jerry used to include 90% of the blackface stuff they cut now as well.


Off the top of my head I forget who on this board got the e-mail, but if you do a search on the message board under "Speedy Gonzales," there should be a thread about 18 months ago on the e-mail which was sent from CN that pointed the incriminating figuer at one Robert E. "Ted" Turner for the Speedy ban. Apparently, it was on the grounds that he was setting a bad example for Mexican Americans by always dating everybody's "seester," if I remember the e-mail corrently

While that is third-hand information, and it is true that Turner used to run all of the pre-48 cartoons uncut, Ted's mecurial nature combined with his drift towards political correctness over the past 17 years (conservatives wanted Ted to buy CBS in 1985 and fire Dan Rather), makes the chances that this is something he would have come up with on a spur-of-the-moment impulse highly plausable. Plus when the ban began it was pre-AOL Time Warner merger, and Turner was still in charge of all of Time-Warner's non-pay cable operations, including Cartoon Network.

[Sogturtle]

Ted Turner may well have this carved on his tombstone someday... "Here lies the mortal remains of Robert E. "Ted" Turner ~~ once viewed as a visionary of sorts. But in death as in most of his life viewed as the man for whom the expression 'once an imbecile always an imbecile' was coined. He lies in soil he owns but cannot use, his billions wasted, his ideas reputed by most of mankind, and him utterly unmourned by all... A life and soul utterly squandered. God have mercy on him"

[DR. BELCH]

That the man supports Gore makes him suspect in my eyes to begin with--sounds like he would actively back Gore on the TV ratings system and even demand they be even more strenuous and incomprehensible. That he seems to be in support of the Emergency Number Bombings demonstrates he's far worse than a madman; he's a monster. This isn't far from former President Clinton essentially saying he wishes such a thing happened during his term so he could look important (conveniently forgetting the Murrow Building in Oklahoma and how he had his thumb firmly in his tuchus on that deal).
The pastor at my church discussed Turner two weeks in a row during his Sunday sermon, essentially saying Ted's the quintessential example of a man who has everything he could want and yet lost his soul. He hates himself, despises God, has alienated Hanoi Jane for embracing Him, disinherited--more or less--his children, and is probably the angriest, emptiest son of a buzzard what ever walked.

[Pilmedium]

It doesn't sound like Turner wanted the terrorists to do that. He was calling them brave people. I think anyone who fights for their beliefs is brave, but not necessarily right, in this case wrong.

Actually, about half the country supported Gore in November 2000. Even after that, Turner wasn't the only one.

[Brandon Pierce]

http://www.foxnews.com/images/47782/6_21_100_turner_ted.jpgIs it just me, or has Turner's face gotten a little fat over the past few months? Now he doesn't look much like Dic Van **** anymore. That's a shame. I was going to do a joke someday about Turner resembling Van ****, but that's a no-no, now!
Jezz-us, Turner! Why do you always have to ruin my fun?!

[Joe Tully]

Judging from that pic, you can still do a joke on him resembling some squinty-eyed, hairless form of Rodentia (the naked mole rat comes to mind :D )

[Matthew Hunter]

I'm sure he's not the only one like him. Yet, more than anything I feel sorry for him, that he's so cold and empty when he owns so much land, a share in politics, about a third of one of the world's largest media corporations, and I'm sure Lord knows what else. (I know he has a huge Buffalo ranch in New Mexico, I've driven by it once.) He just opens his mouth without thinking, yet he criticizes others for doing the same. Consider him an example of human nature gone awry, that is, life in the absence of God and in the presence of too much money and too little to do. I don't think it's a coincidence he's lost so much standing in the merger, I imagine the other execs don't like him. I hope he finds God or shuts up, I would prefer the former, but in his case I would accept the latter. It was indeed Turner who, I guess on a whim, decided to not 'ban' but 'refrain from showing' Speedy Gonzales cartoons because of international interests. Jon and I both emailed Daniel Wineman, a programmer at CN, about it, and got the same kind of response, Jon got the main idea and I got a few more details. It's still puzzling to me why they don't air more Speedy cartoons now, since Turner really doesn't control CN in any way anymore, it is now under the watch of Jamie Kellner, formerly of the WB network. WB showed Speedy regularly.
-Matthew