Imagine an industry where every single opponent worked in the same street, competing with each other by day—drinking, brawling, fornicating, night clubbing and cocaine-snorting with each other by night. A street full of the most ruthless and amoral people in the world existed, and it was called Fleet Street.Piers Morgan • Discussing his new Starz TV show, Fleet Street, a new dramatic series about his time working the tabloid journalism circuit in the ’70s. It’s a lot like working on ShortFormBlog now.
Tonight on Pierce Morgan: Airport metal detectors are the worst!
And don’t get him started on Buckyballs.
Let’s not let arguments over the Constitution’s Second Amendment violate the spirit of its First. President Obama believes that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. However, the Constitution not only guarantees an individual right to bear arms, but also enshrines the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press — fundamental principles that are essential to our democracy.White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, responding to the Alex Jones-initiated petition to deport Piers Morgan.
Looks like Piers Morgan found found a voice louder than his: Morgan had Alex Jones on his show because Jones was one of the loonies behind that petition to get Piers deported for using his First Amendment rights to criticize the Second Amendment. (The White House responded last night, by the way.) Say what you will about Alex Jones, but I would watch this every single night, CNN, just because it’s so craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy. How crazy? Well, at the airport, he wouldn’t take his shoes off.
On Twitter today, Chris Christie reached out to Twitter super-user Justin Bieber for help promoting the New Jersey Sandy relief fund. He’s also sent similar messages to Bruce Springsteen, Piers Morgan, Danny DeVito, the Jonas Brothers and “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro in the past two hours. For what it’s worth, Bieber’s working on it. Are you? (ht Matthew Keys)
Perhaps he doesn’t plan to drop out? The Missouri Senate candidate, who was rumored to be dropping out as of yesterday afternoon, appears to be at least trying to salvage his campaign right now, releasing this ad. Akin didn’t have the best day on Monday, facing sharp rebukes from his own party and skipping out on “Piers Morgan Tonight” at the very last second. Akin drew stern criticism over the weekend after he claimed that women couldn’t get pregnant from “legitimate rape” — a claim that suddenly gives Claire McCaskill a chance to win re-election.
I don’t think any of my colleagues on any cases vote the way they do for political reasons,” he said. “They vote the way they do because they have their own judicial philosophy.Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia • During an interview with Piers Morgan for “Piers Morgan Live” last night, refuting claims that he was feuding with Chief Justice John Roberts. The claims surfaced following the 5-4 upholding of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. Scalia, who is currently touring to promote his new book, also took time to defend the court’s infamous Citizens United decision. “I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better,” said Scalia, adding, “That’s what the First Amendment is all about. So long as the people know where the speech is coming from.” source (via • follow)
It was clearly something that he was familiar with and I wasn’t. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that this went on.Journalist Jeremy Paxman • Testifying before the Leveson inquiry, about an event he attended during 2002, during which then Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan taught him about phone hacking. Paxman told British officials that Morgan’s openness was “quite shocking”, particularly when it came to gaining and maintaining access to phones. “[Morgan explained] that the way to get access to people’s messages was was go to the factory default setting and press either 0000 or 1234,” testified Paxman, adding, “if you didn’t put on your own code… his words: “You’re a fool.” Unsurprisingly, Piers Morgan was less than pleased with Paxman’s testimony. (slight edit) source (via • follow)
Watch and enjoy Touré’s complete takedown of Piers Morgan.
In a lot of ways, Touré and Piers are arguing for different schools of journalistic thought here — both with separate sets of supporters and detractors. Piers is concerned about objectivity in this clip, while Toure clearly comes at this with emotion and a fight for “the truth.” In a lot of ways, they’re arguing the party lines that their networks sell. Personally, I think both got hits in. Both looked good at points. Both looked bad at points. But the real story is over here, not in this video, where strong personalities overshadow the story. — Ernie @ SFB
What disheartens me, to be honest with you, is that when you’re sitting across the table from someone who knows what your perspective is… I’ve been very consistent, I don’t think anything I said surprised anybody as a Bible-believing Christian… to then take some answers, reduce an important and personal and sensitive issue to a four-second soundbite, and toss it into a community to start a political bonfire and really upset people that you’re saying you’re looking to protect, I think it’s disingenuous.Kirk Cameron • Taking a shot at Piers Morgan, who interviewed Cameron for his CNN show a few weeks ago, during an appearance on Fox & Friends. Morgan asked him about his views on homosexuality, as Cameron (no stranger to controversial statements) is known as a very dedicated, and very vocal Christian. After some prodding, he admitted that he viewed homosexuality as “unnatural,” and “destructive” to civilization – words which, unsurprisingly, were outraging to a ton of people. Frankly, the idea that Morgan’s questioning and handling of this issue has been disingenuous is quite the contrary of what we’d say; Morgan asked an honest question, got an honest answer, and now Cameron is learning what everybody else honestly thinks about it. If anything, the entire incident has been dripping with sincerity. source (via • follow)
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Earlier in the day, Keith Olbermann learned that Current TV had benched him for tonight’s Iowa Caucus coverage, choosing to go with other personalities as word of a fractured relationship surfaced. It was in this environment that Piers Morgan decided to throw a verbal molotov cocktail:
Cheer up @KeithOlbermann - you can catch all the big Iowa political news on my live show at midnight ET. #CNNElections
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 4, 2012
Which drew an entertaining response from Current TV:
@piersmorgan You go big. We’ll go best. #politicallydirect
— Current TV (@current) January 4, 2012
And a harsh one from Keith Olbermann himself:
Great! So you’ll be showing your latest subpoena? RT @piersmorgan Cheer up @KeithOlbermann you can catch all Iowa political news on my show
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 4, 2012
And it devolved from there. Mediaite has more.
So heartwarming that everyone in U.K.’s missing me so much they want me to come home.CNN host Piers Morgan • Joking earlier this year in regards to allegations he faces over possible involvement in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Morgan, a former tabloid newspaper editor who’s built a second life as a TV host, will take part, via video-link, in a judicial inquiry into the alleged practices of “News of the World” and other British tabloids. Morgan’s past could come to haunt him in the future. source (via • follow)
I am going to tell you your kiddie has no talent…this nonsense of Howie and Sharon putting through less than talented people has got to stop. Under my administration, there will be no Frank Sinatra impersonators winning.Howard Stern • On his new job as judge on “America’s got Talent,” replacing Piers Morgan, who’s going to focus on his popular CNN show. Some people are not on board with the new addition to the show, while others are ready for the honesty he’ll bring to the table. Especially Stern. “I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but feelings are going to be hurt,” Stern said. Will this discourage some of the softer competitors from trying out or force a tougher crowd? Who knows. We’re just excited to see what names Stern plans to call little children. source (via • follow)
This is officially our new favorite video. In it, Rick Santorum (speaking to a group of students at Penn State on Tuesday night) makes a strong argument why he’s not a bigot for thinking gay marriage is wrong, and a student tears into him, basically shutting down his argument. This is arguably more damaging than his Piers Morgan interview, where the bigotry charge came up. Rick Santorum, you just got shut down by a college student. source
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