Larry King retired back in June, and ever since then the most-rumored name to replace him was “America’s Got Talent” judge Piers Morgan. Today, in news I can barely muster the energy to write about, Morgan was officially named King’s successor.
Morgan, a veteran journalist who hosts a popular interview program in Britain, will do a similar show for CNN. His selection as King’s replacement had been widely expected for the past few months.
Take the phrase “veteran journalist” with the largest possible grain of salt. Piers Morgan is a journalist in the same way that pond scum is “nature.” Let’s look at his highlights from being editor of the UK’s Daily Mirror:
In 2000, he was the subject of an investigation after [it was revealed] that he had bought £20,000 worth of shares in the computer company Viglen soon before the Mirror‘s ‘City Slickers’ column tipped Viglen as a good buy. Morgan was found by the Press Complaints Commission to have breached the Code of Conduct on financial journalism, but kept his job…
Morgan was fired from the Mirror on 14 May 2004 after authorising the newspaper’s publication of photographs allegedly showing Iraqi prisoners being abused by British Army soldiers from the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment. Within days the photographs were shown to be crude fakes. [Wikipedia]
But hey, he won “The Celebrity Apprentice.” In America, winning a reality show cancels out two decades of slipshod yellow journalism.
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In America, winning a reality show cancels out two decades of slipshod yellow journalism.
USA! USA! USA!
/scarfs down fried triple bacon cheeseburger donut
MSNBC just popped the champagne in celebration of Rachael Maddow’s future ratings spike.
But did he photoshop Lobster Dog into those torture pics? I think not.
You mean like this?
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Okay, it’s not my best work. But it’s still better than those Iranian cloned missles from a few years back.
at least he’ll know who it is he’s actually interview, unlike larry king who had no fucking idea/would nod off at various points during his show.
@Rebecca: +1
BTW, which one on the leash did she call Lassie?
Countryside n. to murder Piers Morgan.
/said by Stephen Fry.
Karma must have a blind spot where this overconfident asshole is concerned. He should have been sat on by an elephant ages ago. Instead it just rains money wherever he goes.
@Rebecca, great hustle.
Rebecca, shame on you for making me laugh so hard.
But will Bill Mahler still constantly show up to share with America his unique brand of smarmy, smug ultra-liberal douchebaggery? I MUST KNOW!!!!
Way to go CNN to somehow still continue to suck as much as Fox and MSNBC. I can’t imagine that to be very easy.
Piers Morgan, Simon Cowell, Gordon Ramsay…its like we’re going through another British Beatlemania, except instead of talented British artists, we’re getting untalented British douchebags here in the States.
this is the very reason you have the second amendment in your country. go to to it guys. you can’t miss him, he’s sure to be swaggering around town like the colossal cunt he is. two in the chest one in the head – drop the gun and calmly walk away. make me proud you gun loving fucks.
oh, and you bury him there as well, cos we don’t want him back.