Taliben-lover Ted Turner attacks American values; CNN considers itself a Global Network, not America's
This entry was posted on 10/11/2006 2:59 AM and is filed under Politics '06 - 03.
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By AmericasNewsToday.Org staff
Geek-babe and radio talk host Laura Ingraham joined Bill O'Reilly last night to discuss Ted Turner's attacks on American values when appeared at the National Press Club in Washington Monday.
CNN founder Ted Turner has objected to displays of the American flag by journalists — saying they should have a more neutral posture. And now Turner says that he was not sure which side he was on in the War on Terror ten-days following the 9/11 terror attacks. Turner spoke to the National Press Club, and referred to a quote by President Bush in February of 2002:
"Our president said it very clearly. He said 'either you're with us, or you're against us.' And I had a problem with that because I really hadn't made my mind up yet." Turner did not say whether he has since made up his mind about which side he's on.
"I mean, I just really wonder during the, during the last war, you know, what business did it have in the news sets to have the American flag flying in the background (Fox News). Uh, I mean, it was like the news media covered the Iraq war, at least at the beginning of it, almost as like it was a football game with us versus them."
Former CNN executive Eason Jordan admitted that Ted Turner's CNN had withheld reporting on Baathist atrocities in exchange for inside access and protection of its Baghdad staff -- Jordan's statement was published in the New York al-Qaeda Times after America knocked over Saddam's regime in April 2003
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Additional reporting by Fox News.
