Friday, February 01, 2013
Talking Heads - CNN's Piers Morgan
A former tabloid editor from the U.K. who was fired for faking news and a wholesale hypocrite besides.
CNN probably thinks this guy has it all...
However, on the Daily Caller website, Charles C. Johnson shares some of Mr. Morgan's past:
"CNN host and outspoken gun-control advocate Piers Morgan once joked about shooting professional enemies and separately wrote that he was a 'rabid fascist' who wanted burglars tortured after a 'decent period of cattle-prodding, testicle electrode treatment, and slow gentle skewering over hot coals.' Morgan’s comments came in an interview with England’s Daily Mail newspaper. They concerned his dismissal as editor of the Daily Mirror, a rival British tabloid, after he was fired for publishing fake photos supposedly showing British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. Morgan, wrote Daily Mail reporter Frances Hardy, 'ruminate[d] merrily' about things he imagined doing to his professional enemies, including Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson, writer A.A. Gill and editor Ian Hislop. 'So the real question is, if I had a gun with just two bullets, who would I shoot?' Morgan said during the May 2006 interview."
