Ted Turner doesn't like Murdoch. Murdoch gives nothing to charity.

[wholetruth00]

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4668154

I don't like Murdoch either but for more reasons than failing to give to charity.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. you need about sixteen volumes to post the things I don't like about Murdoch...

but I've always thought Ted was cool.

[rpannier]

2. That's not true

Murdoch donates to the republikkan party 24 hours a day, 7 days a week -- faux news.

He probably writes that off on his taxes all the time.

[Greyhound]

3. A truly great man. A total bastard to work for, but a great man. n/t

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. You mean, in the historical sense, I take it. Influencing world affairs.

Like Hitler, Stalin, Pinochet, Reagan?

[Greyhound]

6. Name another billionaire that gave 1/3 of his money to promote world peace.

He was an enormously successful businessman and therefore is a sneaky, under-handed, back-stabbing, bastard, but he gave >30% of his fortune to promote world peace. He was cheap and demanding with his employees and was not above bribery and influence peddling in his quest to dominate the cable industry, and he gave $1 billion dollars to the U.N. to promote world peace.
He was not elected to any office, he has never been the leader of a country, he was never a dictator, and he never negotiated with terrorists in order to politicize a hostage crisis, nor has he ever bankrupt any nation.

And he gave 1/3 of his total worth in order to try and make life better for others, who among his class is better, or even as good?

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Ever heard of the widow's mite? How much do you think he had left?

Let me tell you this. In his ceaseless war against the working man he has spear-headed the grossest and most widespread injustice, world-wide. and that, my friend, is the very antithesis of engendering peace in the world.

The man who did more to engender peace than all of us put together was Christ, who lived the life of an indigent. To understand the wellsprings of peace, you need to read a book by a Catholic cardinal - whose name, unfortunately escapes me at the moment - who featured in an exceptionally popular TV series in the US in the fifties, I believe. If and when I remember, unless someone else does in the meantime, I'll post it here.

[Greyhound]

8. His current worth, according to Forbes is $1.8B, so if Bill Gates,for example,

were to make a similar commitment, he would give ~$15,000,000,000 away.

Would you care to explain what you are talking about here "...he has spear-headed the grossest and most widespread injustice, world-wide."? I am more than willing to believe he is thoroughly rotten, and since I've had personal experience with him and his organization (CNN/TNT/WTBS), I've listed his less than admirable qualities, but as far as spearheading world-wide injustice, you must know something I missed.

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. I'm astonished you didn't understand my post. Attacking the working man by

economic oppression, the murderous grand larceny of the far-right, is extremely unjust, and in that particular sphere he has been at the very forefront. Its effects are felt world-wide. (I shouldn't have to educate you in such basic matters).

You may work for him, but you really show your ignorance of the man, when you say he's not a world leader. President and prime ministers court his approval as if he were the divine judge on Judgment Day. To Blair, he certainly is God.

Not a dictator???!!! A more despotic CEO (when he was such) would be difficult to imagine.

You suggest he's a paragon among his kind. Choosing the gutter as your criterion is hardly instructive. There aren't too many good billionaires. At least, self-made. Ted Turner may well be one of the better ones, Murdoch certainly isn't. The Jewish people tend to provide extremes at both ends of the spectrum. They probably provide a substantial majority of the few truly great men among their ranks.

At great risk to his personal fortune, one of the Rothschilds chose to bankroll the English against Napoleon, because he knew that Napoleon would just go on shedding more and more blood. Then in the US, you have George Soros, who bet against the British pound and made another fortune. Incidentally, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time, Norman Lamont, was a great friend of Pinochet. Possibly the greatest department store owners in the UK, the Sieffs ofMarks and Spencer, have always been great charity givers and shown enlightened treatment of their staff.

TRUE PEACE IS ONLY POSSIBLE WHEN THERE IS AT LEAST A SEMBLANCE OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE, throughout society. Murdoch has always been a spear-head of the murderous and ugly excesses of capitalism. If he'd had his way, China would have gone the way of Russia - with nonagenarian old ladies standing by the side of the road, trying to sell the last of their knick-knacks, while a kleptocracy more than a little propelled by organised-crime organised has made hay. As it is untold suffering has been caused to millions of poor Chinese, because of the evil influences, the murderously impatient avarice of western capitalist wheelers and dealers.

Thank goodnes for Putin, a patriot, whatever else he is, or they'd have bought up all Russia' natural resources, selling some of them to foreign interests. Which of course the US would have loved, and feels bitterly cheated.

I've never been so incensed by the incomprehension of any poster on here in relation to such an elementary matter, as I am by your's with regard to my post. And your insensate, attempted blandishments, e.g. "I'm more than willing to believe...", etc, etc., without any attempt at giving a reason why you "are more than willing, etc") sounds so hollow as to beggar belief. Don't you realise that such blandishments are one of the key hallmarks of the fifth-columnist trolls on here??!!!!

The other day, a poster whose heart apparently bled for "the people", as he put it, "with the deepest pockets", and were the victims of large awards by the courts for such things as medical malpractice (his aim was evidently to impugn the integrity of John Edwards), bent over backwards so far to impute credibility to the person he'd been using as his authority and source of information, that he all but disappeared up his own backside. Like a human letter P.

I won't be responding to any further posts from you, because you appear to lack the most elementary knowledge or understanding of the subject.

[Greyhound]

10. LOL!

I think you must be stuck in some kind of time-warp. Turner was pretty powerful 20 years ago, today he barely gets noticed. I never worked for him, he hired my services in the early 90's. You never did make any argument in support of your wild invective, so I will assume you have some personal axe to grind.

Ted Turner is an unredeemable cad for giving 1/3 of his total worth to charity, but Rothschild, Soros, and Putin are OK? Yeah, that's rational.

He is the better of a thoroughly reprehensible lot. But at least I know where you are coming from now. Good luck with that.

[Joe Chi Minh]

11. Strums lips

[Greyhound]

14. Apropos on so many levels...

:rofl:

[Joe Chi Minh]

15. LOLer! Furrin words too.... My, my. I think you're the dumbo who

attacked Edwards, aren't you? So transparent, you have to be a freeper.

[Cerridwen]

18. 1. It is against DU rules to call someone a freeper.

2. As you noted in your reply to me, you were talking about Murdoch, and as I pointed out, greyhound was talking about Turner.

3. Better search and find the post attacking Edwards and compare names.

4. Take a class in reading comprehension.

5. You owe greyhound an apology - make it as public as you made the ridicule and accusations.

edit for #5

[Joe Chi Minh]

20. Sorry miss. You're not going to give me hundred lines too, are you?

The first few posts contained references to both men. In fact, I thought, more times to Murdoch.

Sorry if I didn't read your post or pay much attention to it. I must have recognised the username name and subliminally remembered the quality to expect.

What sort of a character are you that you seem to think apologising is something to baulk at. Apologising has never been a problem for me when I realise I am in the wrong. And as for doing so publicly, loud and clear.. the louder, clearer adnd more public the better, as far as I'm concerned. What a sorry (ironically) mindset you seem to have.

[Greyhound]

19. No, I think John Edwards would be a good, possibly great leader.

And I'm going to let this last freeper accusation pass, for the last time, make it again and deal with the Mods.

Apparently you didn't realize that I was talking about Ted Turner, and that makes your reply more understandable, but in future you might want to actually read before you go off.

[Joe Chi Minh]

21. I'm sorry I misunderstood your post, greyhound, and appreciate

your understanding.

I don't know the general tenor of your posts, but I think it unlikely I would want to call you out as a troll or freeper, judged on the basis of this thread.

[Cerridwen]

13. greyhound is talking about Ted Turner...who are you talking about?

Are you saying Turner was a despotic CEO? Are you saying Turner is a world leader courted by presidents and prime ministers and is a god to Blair?

I'm not singing Turner's praises, just trying to make sense of what you wrote.

[Joe Chi Minh]

16. Murdoch.

[Lance_Boyle]

12. Christo-babble nonsense.

Yep, we all need to read books by some baby-diddlers, or baby-diddler-protectors, to understand peace. :eyes:

Drink your wine and eat your jesus crackers quietly. The rational among us do not require your input.

[Joe Chi Minh]

17. Tee hee, you don't like Christianity, do you...! I wonder why?

[MannyGoldstein]

5. He Donated A Few Million to Terrorists

for the release of his reporters.

And of course he threw a gala for Mrs. Clinton.