Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan Links to Fake News Report to Mock Sarah Palin
October 24th, 2013 1:06 PM
Piers Morgan used a fake news site to mock Sarah Palin on Twitter on Thursday. He linked to the satirical news site The Daily Currant saying that Palin claimed Jesus celebrated Easter.
"And she's back!" Morgan gloated, with absolutely no mention that the article was fake. When critics told him the website was satire, Morgan answered that he knew it was. Yet he praised the notion that it was…
Piers Morgan Admits American Press ‘Quite Soft’ on President Obama
October 24th, 2013 10:24 AM
Piers Morgan, the liberal host of an eponymous hour-long weeknight program on the Cable News Network, said during an interview posted on Newsmax.com on Tuesday that the American news media have been “probably quite soft and could have gone harder” when covering President Barack Obama.
But while promoting his new book -- “Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God and George Clooney” -- the former…
Piers Morgan Openly Declares Support for ObamaCare
October 22nd, 2013 1:13 PM
British import Piers Morgan showed himself to be a left-wing hack on Monday night when he openly stated his support for ObamaCare on his eponymous CNN program Piers Morgan Live. The host brought on White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and asked a couple of critical questions about the rollout of the health care law. However, it soon became apparent that Morgan’s criticism came from his desire…
Piers Morgan Asks If Dems Will 'Unleash' Cory Booker on 'Renegade' Ted
October 18th, 2013 3:58 PM
In an interview with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on his Thursday night show, CNN's Piers Morgan sounded just like a Democratic strategist.
Morgan told the Democrat that "you sound eminently reasonable" and accused Sen. Ted Cruz of being the problem in Washington. "[H]e thinks that getting the shutdown was good business for Ted Cruz, Incorporated. What are you going to do about this young…
Alan Gottlieb Column: You Might Want to Brush Up on the Constitution
October 17th, 2013 7:11 PM
After yet another contentious debate with CNN’s bombastic anti-gun talk host Piers Morgan this Monday, he demonstrated to the entire nation during a subsequent interview on CBS that he doesn’t even know which constitutional amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms. This is yet another reason neither I nor anyone else can take him seriously about guns.
On CBS This Morning, Morgan…
Dershowitz: 'Very Strong Argument That What Ted Cruz Is Doing Is Deepl
October 15th, 2013 10:38 PM
UPDATE AT END OF POST: Mark Levin responds.
Ted Cruz's former law professor at Harvard had interesting words for the Texas Senator on CNN's Piers Morgan Live Tuesday.
After calling his former student "among the brightest" he's every had, Dershowitz said, "I think you can make a very strong argument that what Ted Cruz is doing is deeply unconstitutional."
Pathetic Piers Morgan Rolls Out the Red Carpet for DNC Chair
October 15th, 2013 1:52 PM
Does Piers Morgan even try to show integrity anymore? The CNN host goaded the chair of the DNC into bashing Republicans on his Monday night show and plugged her new book without asking her one tough question about her own party.
Morgan's first question to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) was this pathetic softball: "What is going on with the GOP right now?" Schultz laid into her…
Piers Morgan Stumbles Over Second Amendment; Hails 'Most Courageous' B
October 15th, 2013 1:05 PM
Piers Morgan still can't basic details about the gun rights debate right, even after his protracted involvement in the controversy, as he revealed on Tuesday's CBS This Morning. Morgan incorrectly claimed that the First Amendment – not the Second Amendment – protected the right to keep and bear arms: "I have no problem...with a family exercising their First Amendment (sic) right to defend their…
Gun Supporter to Piers Morgan: ‘That’s Probably Why You Don’t Ha
October 15th, 2013 9:59 AM
Another day, another epic battle between Piers Morgan and a gun rights advocate.
What made Monday’s skirmish on CNN’s Piers Morgan Live so delicious was Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb marvelously informing the host that his anti-gun campaign is probably responsible for his dismal ratings (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Piers Morgan Cheers 'Excellent Good News' of Fewer Gun Permits During
October 1st, 2013 4:57 PM
CNN's Piers Morgan thinks it's "excellent" that less gun permits will be issued during the government shutdown.
"One of the only positives I've heard so far," Morgan told business anchor Christine Romans, "is that actually gun permits, new gun permits may be delayed as part of all this." He added that "without them realizing it, the Tea Partiers, may have literally shot themselves in the foot…
Piers Morgan Wants 'Fascinating' Bill Clinton to Still Be President
September 26th, 2013 1:52 PM
CNN's Piers Morgan fawned over the Clinton family on his Wednesday night show and on Thursday morning's New Day. He lamented that Bill Clinton can't still be president.
In his interview at the Clinton Global Initative, Morgan boosted Bill with this glowing introduction: "There is no better person to explain what's going on in Washington and the world for that matter, but Bill Clinton. The…
Bill Clinton Tells Piers Morgan 'I Used to Worry That CNN Was Going to
September 26th, 2013 10:47 AM
Readers are strongly advised to remove all flammables, liquids, and sharp objects from their computer's proximity as the following is likely to cause an uncontrollable fit of laughter.
Former President Bill Clinton told Piers Morgan Wednesday, "I used to worry that CNN was going to lose too many viewers" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CNN Hammers 'Deluded' Ted Cruz; 'Kid Playing With Matches
September 25th, 2013 4:46 PM
On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, CNN lambasted Sen. Ted Cruz who led a 21-hour Senate floor speech against Obamacare.
During the speech by Cruz and other Republican senators, CNN hosts Piers Morgan and Chris Cuomo mocked Cruz as "deluded" and a "kid playing with matches." Chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash called it "by many people's account here a fool's errand." [Video…
CNN's Reliable Sources Scolds Reporters for Linking AR-15 to DC Shooti
September 22nd, 2013 3:08 PM
As NewsBusters reported several times last week, CNN's Piers Morgan refused to retract his repeated claim Monday that Aaron Alexis, the shooter at the Washington Navy Yard, used an AR-15 during the massacre.
On CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday, guest host David Folkenflik of NPR did a six-minute segment addressing the mistake several in the media made concerning this issue without once…