Ted Turner Apologizes to "JESUS FREAKS"

Ted Turner apologized profusely yesterday for calling CNN staffers who
wore ashes on their foreheads for Ash Wednesday "Jesus freaks" -
saying his insulting remark was "thoughtless." But the nation's largest
Catholic civil-rights group questioned Turner's sincerity and demanded a
face-to-face meeting with the CNN honcho "to find out what's bugging
him."

Turner made the remark at a staff meeting preceding a party for retiring
anchor Bernard Shaw. Of the 300 people present, three or four had
ashes on their foreheads to mark the start of Lent. Sources said Turner
stared at one and said, "At first I thought you were in the earthquake" in
Seattle that day. "But I realized you're just Jesus freaks..."

www.nypostonline.com/news.../26079.htm

He opened mouth and inserted foot!!! What a bonehead!


Stacie

Actually, I wouldn't mind being called that.

I'm not a doctor, but this seems to be a case of foot-in-mouth disease.

I think when his time comes T.T. is gonna wish he had been a Jesus freak!! (His forehead isn't gonna be the only place he will have ashes unless he mends his ways!!) I heard that when someone asked him if he accepted that Jesus died for his sins he said "I never asked him to do it!!"THAT is scary!!!

Yes that really is scary!! I pitty him so much! I only hope he can see the error of his ways before it is too late for him to do anything about it!! Definitely a man in need of our prayers!

Kelly

The cool thing is that there people working for Ted Turner who are living their faith in such a way that it will be hard for him to say he was never told.

Yep. He has no right to tell God on Judgment Day that he didn't know, had no idea, nobody told him, etc.

If he had made a racist comment about a black person, you know the media would be all over it. But make a comment about Christians and no one gives a hoot. Sad.

Here's an update on the story:

Moneyline News Hour" co-anchorman Stuart Varney "resigned in a huff" after hearing that Turner
referred to CNN employees who had attended Ash Wednesday services as "Jesus freaks."
The New York Daily News reported today that Christian-bashing billionaire bigot Ted Turner's
mean-spirited, insensitive remarks prompted the CNN newsman to jump the sinking ship.

Varney's absence from the anchor desk raised eyebrows in the CNN newsroom Monday, when he
missed out reporting on a major story: the stock market's plunge. CNN business reporter Allan
Chernoff took Varney's anchor seat that night and again last night, telling viewers he was "sitting in
for Stuart Varney."

newsmax.com/showinside.sh.../14/152325

Hay folks, He divorced Jane fonda when she became Born Again. He has given "Billions" the the "World Bank". What do you expect...

:lol: Amen!!

I'll be praying for him!