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Ted Turner, AKA
'Mouth
of the South'
Thinks
Hijackers Were 'Brave'
By Jake Easton
R A D O K N E W S
Posted: May 16, 2003
DURING A SPEECH at Brown University in Providence, RI, Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, said "I think they [the 19 hijackers] were brave at the very least," and they "might have been a little nuts."
And despite the seriousness of the war against al Qaeda terrorists, the media mogul continues by discussing his dissatisfaction of the 2000 elections, "a few more votes in Florida, and we could have had the best environmental president we ever had."
AOL Time Warner was characteristically mum on the subject, but in an interview with The Guardian, Turner did admit that he was wrong to call the September 11 hijackers "brave" in the Rhode Island speech that sparked the outrage. "I made an unfortunate choice of words," he says, adding that his ownership of the Atlanta Braves baseball team meant the word was never far from his mind. "Look, I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word… I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it."
The outspoken billionaire should surprise few. He's well known for knocking Christianity, saying that America has "some of the dumbest people in the world" and even suggesting that the Star Spangled Banner anthem be replaced with a less violent theme.
Turner was expelled from Brown University during his junior year in 1960. The Ivy League school then awarded him an undergraduate degree in 1990.
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