Piers Morgan co-opts the Sandy Hood dead into a rolling freak show
PIERS Morgan will come home to the UK when Americans tired of his views on guns get to deport him. Morgan is accused of using guns to show-off and promote his TV show. Andrew Sullivan is unimpressed:
We absolutely should have this debate – in as reasonable and calm a fashion possible, if only out of some shred of respect to the twenty murdered children in Newtown and their families. Instead we got a rolling freak-show designed entirely for ratings, since Morgan has never actually practised anything but gutter tabloid journalism and once sent an email to a policeman aggrieved by Morgan’s disgusting contempt for the privacy and dignity of anyone in public life: “fame and crime sends most of the usual rules out of the window.” Hence the phone hacking which forced the closure of the newspaper, The News Of The World, he once edited, and his being fired from the second tabloid he edited for publishing fake photographs of supposed prisoner abuse by British soldiers.
Note: Morgan still refuses to accept that the photos were faked. He forgets all sorts of things.
Michael Moynihan says “fake”:
This is not an argument about the wisdom of owning an AR-15 or the judiciousness of outlawing certain high-capacity clips, but of the silliness of the Drudge and Morgan-style debate, which has abandoned reason for moral outrage. To disagree with Piers Morgan is to argue in bad faith, to be opposed to common sense, to be an uncaring, unfeeling tool of the gun lobby. Former CNN host Larry King, who Morgan replaced in 2011, told the Huffington Post this week that the show was now “all about the host,” where “the guest becomes the prop to the host.”
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Posted: 14th, January 2013 | In: Celebrities Comments (4) | TrackBack | Permalink
