Does Ted Turner ever engage brain before opening his mouth? Or is the problem that he does, but he’s only running on half a mental cylinder?

“The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don’t have any hope for a better life,” he said.

He said the attacks were an act of desperation, and that Americans lack an understanding of a willingness to die for one’s country.

“I think they were brave at the very least,” Turner said of the 19 airliner hijackers believed to have committed the attacks, adding that they “might have been a little nuts.”

Well, I can think of at least one decrepit former media mogul who they’re at least a little saner than…