Ted Turner’s Nazi shame exposed after swastika stunt
Media mogul Ted Turner took a Nazi secret to his grave RadarOnline.com can reveal.
The CNN founder – who died on May 6 at the age of 87 – was expelled from college for painting swastikas on the doors of Jewish students.
Known as The Mouth of the South for his outspokenness, Turner has made public enemies over the years as he took wild shots at Jews and religion.
Porter Bibb, author of the biography Ted Turner: It’s not as easy as it seemsreported how the future billionaire taunted Jews in college.
According to Bibb, who died in 2025, Turner was thrown out of Brown University for painting swastikas on the doors of Jewish students’ dormitories.
Turner also wore a Ku Klux Klan mask and jacket, although he was not anti-black, Bibb said.
Reporter Neal Travis witnessed veteran sailor Turner’s bad taste when he covered the America’s Cup sailing races decades ago.
“Turner totally embarrassed the hunting world with his crude anti-Jewish jokes,” said Travis, who died in 2002.
“They offered to pull him out of the post-race press conferences for fear of what he would say.”
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Turner called Christianity “a religion for losers” and the Ten Commandments were outdated.
In response to the outrage over his comments, Turner changed the services at the First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Georgia, to a media event where he apologized to the congregation.
Months after the September 11 attacks, Turner was lambasted for telling an audience at Brown University that the 19 terrorists responsible were “at least very brave.”
In yet another disgusting bout of foot-in-mouth disease, Turner told a London reporter Guardian newspaper: “Aren’t the Israelis and the Palestinians both terrorizing each other right now?
“The Palestinians are fighting suicide bombers. The Israelis… they have one of the most powerful military machines in the world. So both sides are involved in terrorism.”
The interview reached newsstands on the same day that twenty people were killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in Israel.
Turner backtracked as quickly as possible, saying in a prepared statement: “I regret any implication that I believe the actions Israel has taken to protect its people amount to terrorism.”
