| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
|
 Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:57 am Post subject: CNN jettisons Piers Morgan |
 |
|
Finally.
I guess Americans don't get off on that british way of subtly winding up whoever you're interviewing. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Old Painless
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 4:36 am Post subject: |
|
|
| That's nice, dear, but it sounds like he will still be with CNN in some capacity. Let us know when his pansy-ass has a one way ticket to Heathrow. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 4:40 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: |
I guess Americans don't get off on that british way of subtly winding up whoever you're interviewing. |
He wasn't exactly popular in the UK either. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:47 am Post subject: |
|
|
| His interview with Alex Jones was classic. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:43 am Post subject: |
|
|
| The guy's insufferable. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
He does a pretty good posh English accent at the end  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Hokie21
Joined: 01 Mar 2011
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:21 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Do what you like with Morgan but don't send him back to the UK, we don't want him |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:41 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| He's still better than Larry King. Anyone would be. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pugwall
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:15 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Please keep him, we really do NOT want him back. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Scorpion
Joined: 15 Apr 2012
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
He was, however, absolutely and completely correct about the NRA and guns. This isn't the 18th century. There are no more Indians hiding behind trees, the Spanish, French and British aren't about to invade. There is no sane justification for an urban gun culture that kills thousands each year. The 2nd amendment was passed in 1791, and reflected realities of rural life in that stage of American development. No one imagined it would be used to justify the ownership of weapons of mass destruction in an urban setting two centuries later.
We often talk about Korea needing to be dragged into the 20th century. With regard to the gun culture, that applies to the US as well.
So Morgan was right about that fact. I guess Americans didn't want to hear it from a 'ferner', as evidenced by the petition to have him deported. My only fear is that the NRA will cite his being replaced as a victory and resolve to redouble its 'guns are good' propaganda.  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:56 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Scorpion wrote: |
| There is no sane justification for an urban gun culture that kills thousands each year. |
That "urban culture" - and we all know who we're really talking about - actually provides the strongest argument in favor of civilian handgun ownership, though not as unrestricted as the NRA would have it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:05 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Don't know the background but it looked like from the interview he was just talking about banning the type of gun you can use to spray bullets around a school/office/cinema. Not self-defences type handguns. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
