Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Patriots | NewsBusters.org

Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose’s PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don’t die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don’t like us because we’ve invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we’d be doing the same thing.” On not taking drastic action to correct global warming:

Not doing it will be catastrophic. We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Jebus Christo on a popsickle stick. Turner has gone full bull-goose lunatic. Cannibals. Cannibals. I repeat, CANNIBALS. In 30 or 40 years. OK, Ted — I’m going to teach the grandkids how to cook up Red Ass.

Quick Poll: What’s Worse? A) Charlie Rose and PBS taping and airing this demented bastard, or b) the demented bastard and his lunatic, tissue-boxes-for-slippers, Hughes-worthy theories? Before you vote, remember that PBS gets some of your tax dollars. I think. Maybe they don’t anymore, so they’re just busy airing crackpots and hoping the Art Bell types tune in and pick up their bag o’ crap for a donation.

Just remember this, next time you see that something capital-I Important was aired on PBS or Charlie Rose. Remember that they had Ted “A Man In Full” Turner talking about cannibals and ‘basically, none of the crops will grow.’ Yeah, nobody would ever think of moving rice production up to Iowa. We’re going to be CANNIBALS.

ALT SUB-HED: Never trust the pencil-thin moustache. Sorry, you just shouldn’t spend that much time on your facial hair.

I just watched that little clip, and I think the guy’s higher than a kite.