Piers Morgan

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Civil Rights

Goodbye, Piers

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Piers Morgan signed off on his last CNN broadcast tonight. He didn’t skimp on the melodrama.

But that’s where guns belong — on a military battlefield, in the hands of highly trained men and women fighting for democracy and freedom. Not in the hands of civilians. The scourge of gun violence is a disease that now infects every aspect of American life.

At least he finally came out and said it.

The gun lobby in America, led by the NRA, has bullied this nation’s politicians into cowardly, supine silence. Even when 20 young children are blown away in their classrooms.

I’d respond that we did no such thing. We opposed broken and ineffective regulations that, by the admission of the people promoting them, would have done nothing to stop another mass shooting.

Ah, but why bother? He’s going back across the Atlantic, and he can be their problem. Let’s hope he keeps that cricket bat handy.

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Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out

Piers Morgan is leaving CNN. I can’t say I’ll miss him. His unrelenting condescension towards the country that hosted and employed him wore thin long ago.

His constant hammering on the gun issue was repetitive and often surreal. While I’m of two minds about Larry Pratt, he was civilized and patient in his first go-round with Morgan. He didn’t deserve to be treated like this. I don’t care what the issue is, or who’s right. A display like that from a man in Morgan’s position is absolutely unacceptable.

Was there ever an apology? No. Morgan doesn’t do apologies, not now and not when he slandered the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment.

I daresay his chances of finding gainful employment in the UK may be worse than his chances here. At least he’s not our problem any more.

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Care to Recant, Piers?

It appears that witnesses and/or reporters got mixed up because there were AR-15’s at the scene. The distinction is that they were being carried by law enforcement and security personnel, not being used by Alexis to shoot civilians.

It may seem a small point, but I’d think it’s a bit important. Will Piers Morgan issue a correction? I’m not holding my breath.

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Vultures

The blood isn’t even dry in the Washington Navy Yard, but that doesn’t stop some folks from politicizing it. Piers Morgan dedicated his entire show to it tonight, which isn’t much of a surprise. We don’t know the details, or which guns were used. We do, however, know that one of them might have been an AR-15, and that’s enough for him.

Dianne Feinstein is also calling for new gun laws, because that worked out so well for her earlier in the year. Surely the way to stop lunatics from acts like this is to punish those of us who aren’t violent sociopaths.

Aaron Alexis had a history, including two incidents in which he resorted to gunfire after his anger got the better of him.

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No Metal Shark in the Water

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Alex Jones was interviewed by Piers Morgan on CNN tonight. I don’t know where he conjured up the arrogance to presume to be the mouthpiece for the gun culture, but this is an absolute disaster for us all.

I’ve never liked Jones. He’s a rabble rouser and panic monger of the worst order. I’ve held nothing but contempt for his 9/11 conspiracy theories, but up until now, I’ve been able to groan and ignore him because of his insular and isolated exposure. That changed tonight.

Those who see us as a bunch of shrill, incoherent ideologues will now have a prime example of that stereotype. He was rude, aberrant, and disinterested in dialogue. When Morgan managed to ask him one question…one, he dodged it. He wasted time on a disjointed rant about “criminal elements of the military complex” and something about a “metal shark in the water.” Then he sank to mocking Morgan’s accent and mannerisms.

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Piers Morgan. Again.

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Piers Morgan

I’m not sure why CNN hired this hack. He used to run the Daily Mirror, a British newspaper a scant step above tabloids in credibility. In 2004, they ran photographs purporting to show the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment abusing and torturing Iraqi prisoners.

It was a big deal. It made the cover of Time. It put Morgan on the map.

There was one small problem, however. The pictures were fake. In the ensuing fallout, Morgan was fired. To this day, he has not apologized.

So, now he’s all over CNN, and he has a global reach for his opinions. He has gone on record supporting Bob Costas’ prime-time television remarks on gun control, and he now thinks he understands the Bill of Rights.

If I’m to follow his interpretation of it, the 1st Amendment doesn’t cover the mimeograph or the internet. The 4th Amendment doesn’t apply to wiretaps or surveillance drones.

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