CNN’s main man in prime time, Piers Morgan, has responded to the massacre in Newtown, CT with his usual restraint: He called a guest “dangerous” and “incredibly stupid” during Tuesday’s night’s show, because the man defended the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans.
The term “incredibly stupid” might be an appropriate label for Mr. Morgan to wear around his neck. As editor if the Daily Mirror in 2004, he was fired when his newspaper published photos that purported to show British troops abusing al Qaeda terrorists.
The photos turned out to be obvious fakes. Once published, those faked photos put the lives of British troops in real danger as they became a recruiting tool for al Qaeda. Obviously, that’s dangerous.
At a news conference in Preston on Friday afternoon, the regiment demonstrated to reporters aspects of uniform and equipment which it said proved the photographs were fake.
The regiment’s Brigadier Geoff Sheldon said the vehicle featured in the photographs had been located in a Territorial Army base in Lancashire and had never been in Iraq.
He said the QLR’s reputation had been damaged by the Mirror and asked the newspaper to apologise because the evidence they were staged was “overwhelming”.
What does this say about Mr. Morgan’s skill in discerning the validity of information presented to him? What does it say about his adherence to truth? Whatever it says in answer to those questions, what happened after the photos were revealed to be fakes says quite a bit about Morgan’s ego and character.
The BBC’s Nicholas Witchell said it appeared Piers Morgan remained unrepentant right to the end
“According to one report Mr Morgan refused the demand to apologise, was sacked and immediately escorted from the building,” he said.
Ta-ta!
After that, eventually, Morgan failed up to land a position on struggling CNN where he replaced Larry King. Somewhere in there he also became a sanctimonious judge on a variety show.
This qualifies the man to assail our Second Amendment, which is part of a document he probably barely comprehends?
I wonder, how did he explain this episode during his job interviews at CNN? Did they even bother to ask him about all this?
I sent CNN an email this morning letting them know what I thought of Morgan’s outburst. I’m tired of these idiots from Europe presuming to know better than I what I need for personal protection. British deaths by handguns may be much lower than that in the US but their overall violence rate eclipses ours by a significant margin. Idiots like this enjoy armed guards compliments of the 2nd amendment – all I ask is for the same consideration. When idiots like Morgan decide to forgo their armed guards I may rethink my total support for the 2nd amendment. But not before.
Gun Bans: Mad Dogs & Englishmen
http://predicthistunpredictpast.blogspot.com/2012/12/gun-bans-mad-dogs-englishmen.html
A modest proposal:
I in fact have become convinced that there is a problem with a culture in America, a culture that wrecks lives and kills innocents, a culture that offers cheap thrills and false senses of person-hood, but that at the end of the day is nothing but wretched excess based on shallow thinkng more suited to a more barborous age than the refined times we should be living in, and, as I said, harms and kills innocents. I thus think it is time to enact some reasonable controls on this culture, to wit:
America’s infatuation with overt displays of sex appeal.
I propose that banning sex outside of marriage might due wonders to bring some order back to society, and stop children from being harmed, either by being killed in the womb, or by growing up in fatherless households at public expense, damaging to children in the now, as children, and to them in the future, as taxpayers. It is time we had the courage to tackle this sex culture head-on, regardless of political price. It’s for the children.
I will note that banning sex outside of marriage might very well have saved that NFL player and his girlfriend. I have no way of knowing for sure, of course, but I find it hard to believe both wouldn’t be here today if we had some kind of sensible sex control.
Or, it would just be another meaningless broken law added to his list offenses.
Lets ban ALL THE THINGS!
Ban sex outside marriage? Sounds like one of the ennumerated powers of the constitution to me ^^ I read it right next to “Congress may regulate citizens religious activities, as correct morals are much more important then frivolous freedom.”
You are way too modest in your proposal – if we make chastity belts mandatory, and bugged all our kids’ bedrooms, then we could get people from having that dirty dirty sex! =O
Leftists don’t acknowledge the concept of truth. It interferes with their plans.
You cannot hope to bribe or twist—
Thank God!—the British journalist,
But seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there’s no occasion to.
—I forget who said it
It is stunning that CNN puts a foreigner on my television to loudly advocate the destruction of a Constitutional right. Maybe they can hire a member of the Chinese or North Korean Communist Party to tell us how we have too much free speech or why the police shouldn’t need a warrant to search my house.
When it comes to gun crime statistics in the UK there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. The UK is the most violent country in Europe by one study and has gotten more so as the weapon controls have gotten more draconian. It’s a sick version of the old cliche, “When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.”
The Islands have too much coastline, border controls are too lax, and it is too economically advantageous for the criminal element to have weapons. I am neither an inhabitant of Blighty nor do I play one on TV, your mileage may vary due to extreme conditions.
I imagine the Redcoats in 1776 would have vastly preferred an unarmed American population.
I invite Piers Morgan to perform a physical impossibility upon himself.
I like to imagine Morgan as one of those Redcoats trying to grab guns in Lexington and Concord – or marching up Breed’s Hill in a nice tight formation.
“I wonder, how did he explain this episode during his job interviews at CNN? Did they even bother to ask him about all this?”
I imagine it was considered an important part of his qualifications. Remember, CNN spent over a decade lying about what was happening in Iraq in order to curry favor with Saddam.
“I wonder, how did he explain this episode during his job interviews at CNN? Did they even bother to ask him about all this?”
Considering who runs CNN: It wasn’t a bug, it was a feature.
5. Buzzsawmonkey: That was Humbert Wolfe, a popular early 20th writer, poet and translator.
Please don’t tar all us British with the same brush you apply to Piers Morgan. The man is obnoxious and stupid, and unfortunately does typify a certain blindness found among some Britons where it comes to the defects of their own country. Britain is indeed the most violent OECD country, and not only that, is more violent than South Africa! Gun violence and the possession of handguns has actually risen since strict laws against any ownership of firearms were introduced, and Britain is a good place to prove that pretty much everything the NRA claims happens with gun control is absolutely true. Outlaw guns and the only people with guns will be outlaws. Fire Piers Morgan now.
the fake war crimes pictures were probably the reason CNN hired him. It’s just like haveing Dan Rather on board.