Heil ... Rupert ?

Leave it to Ted Turner to take a perfectly credible sentiment and then undermine his own point by subjecting it to the sort of contortion that would make a Rumanian gymnast wince.

At the National Association for Television Programming Executives conference, Broadcasting & Cable reports, the fabled Mouth of the South called Fox News nothing more than the propaganda arm of the Bush Administration.

Well, no argument from us there.

But then came the unfortunate, and inevitable, inference. According to the magazine: "While Fox may be the largest news network [and has overtaken Turner's CNN], it's not the best, Turner said. He followed up by pointing out that Adolph Hitler got the most votes when he was elected to run Germany prior to WWII."

Fox News officials declined comment.