February 24, 2014

Piers Morgan and CNN to Part Ways Due to Low Ratings and "The Provincialism" of CNN's Audience, Says the New York Times
— Ace

Actually, the reasons could include the British police's recent questioning of Piers "under caution" in regard to the 2011 phone hacking scandal.

What's astonishing to me is that the New York Times attributes Morgan's low ratings to the "provincialism" of CNN's audience.

There have been times when the CNN host Piers Morgan didn’t seem to like America very much — and American audiences have been more than willing to return the favor. Three years after taking over for Larry King, Mr. Morgan has seen the ratings for “Piers Morgan Live” hit some new lows, drawing a fraction of viewers compared with competitors at Fox News and MSNBC.

It’s been an unhappy collision between a British television personality who refuses to assimilate — the only football he cares about is round and his lectures on guns were rife with contempt — and a CNN audience that is intrinsically provincial. After all, the people who tune into a cable news network are, by their nature, deeply interested in America.

His evidence for this? The writer David Carr claims he himself is guilty of such provincial thinking:

. When something important or scary happens in America, many of us have an immediate reflex to turn on CNN. When I find Mr. Morgan telling me what it all means, I have a similar reflex to dismiss what he is saying. It is difficult for him to speak credibly on significant American events because, after all, he just got here.

Carr goes on to consider two other British hosts who have had success in America: Simon Cowell (?!!?!) and David Frost. But he finds them unlike Morgan, so he sticks to his "provincial" theory.

For some reason, he fails to consider the British/Iranian Christiane Amanapour.

Carr then blames it on America's provincial attitude towards guns:

In a sense, Mr. Morgan is a prisoner of two islands: Britain and Manhattan. While I may share his feelings about the need for additional strictures on guns, having grown up in the Midwest, I know that many people come by their guns honestly and hold onto them dearly for sincere reasons.

Mr. MorganÂ’s approach to gun regulation was more akin to King George III, peering down his nose at the unruly colonies and wondering how to bring the savages to heel. He might have wanted to recall that part of the reason the right to bear arms is codified in the Constitution is that Britain was trying to disarm the citizenry at the time.

He regrets none of it, but clearly understands his scolding of “stupid” opponents of gun laws was not everyone’s cup of tea.

That may be true, but what does that have to do with "provincialism"? If anyone's "provincial" here, it appears to be Morgan himself, confessedly, per Carr, a "prisoner" the islands of Britain and Manhattan.

But it's CNN's audience's fault for not appreciating this pudgy, poorly-informed histrionic doofus' take on the Second Amendment.

Posted by: Ace at 07:51 AM | Comments (303)
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1 All those wreckers in the CNN audience. Don't they know what's good for them?

Posted by: AMDG at February 24, 2014 07:55 AM (t7OO0)

2 Yeah, I think of CNN whenever big news is breaking -- and I happen to be sitting in an airport -- otherwise never.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 24, 2014 07:55 AM (CnA98)

3 Na na na na Na na na na Hey hey hey Goodbye Na na na na Na na na na Hey hey hey Goodbye Sing it with me, Horde....

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 24, 2014 07:56 AM (da5Wo)

4 Don't let the door hit you on your way out, Pierced Organ.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at February 24, 2014 07:56 AM (0HooB)

5 It just got boring. If I wanted to be lectured by a stupid British twat, I'd listen to Prince Charles blather on about global warming.

Posted by: Seems legit at February 24, 2014 07:57 AM (A98Xu)

6 Piers who?

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at February 24, 2014 07:57 AM (9+ccr)

7 If all goes right, he'll be a prisoner IN Britain.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at February 24, 2014 07:57 AM (bCEmE)

8 Or, maybe old Piers is a twat. That explanation seems to be the simplest.

Posted by: joncelli at February 24, 2014 07:58 AM (RD7QR)

9 "Twit" serves well as a description.

Posted by: Javems at February 24, 2014 07:58 AM (nTgAI)

10 Never saw him.  The only time I see CNN is at 6AM when I stop for caf at my local convenience store...it's always on the tube over the door.  They get me for 2 Minutes a day.

I get my news from the HQ.  How sad is that.

Posted by: trainer's looking for a Militia to join... at February 24, 2014 07:59 AM (n4ArD)

11 This is boilerplate stuff for David Carr. He's a famous bigot and smear merchant. I watched him years ago on some cable show smugly deriding middle-American "slopeheads." He wrote a revolting piece on Andrew Breitbart shortly after he died which was roundly panned as a bunch of lies, including how ACORN was a "non profit that helped poor people."

Posted by: rrpjr at February 24, 2014 08:01 AM (s/yC1)

12 CNN didn't like all the limey cops hanging around.

Posted by: Lester at February 24, 2014 08:01 AM (2UPXV)

13 Piers Morgan and CNN to Part Ways Due to being an asshat and "The Provincialism" of CNN's Audience.....  but mostly due to being an asshat.


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FIFY Ace.   Im always here to help.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2014 08:01 AM (nELVU)

14 It's not him. It's us.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at February 24, 2014 08:01 AM (0HooB)

15 But mostly being a total d-bag

Posted by: phreshone at February 24, 2014 08:02 AM (Q6pxP)

16 This is a

Posted by: Tragedy at February 24, 2014 08:02 AM (Aif/5)

17 Went back & got the others.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2014 08:02 AM (h1D+w)

18 He talks funny and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: NCKate at February 24, 2014 08:03 AM (4KFgL)

19 I didn't know that the definition of 'provincialism' was 'held captive in an airport'

Posted by: phreshone at February 24, 2014 08:03 AM (Q6pxP)

20 Who really cares about this limp-dick anyway?

Posted by: tubal at February 24, 2014 08:03 AM (YEQ2h)

21 Psychiatrist to patient: "my secretary has an interesting thought on what your problem is. She thinks you're just an asshole."


No reason to over-think this one either.

Posted by: Guido at February 24, 2014 08:03 AM (yICtd)

22 I don't consume bigoted third world fascist journalism and it's my fault? Go back to Albion you third world Viking's slave.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 08:03 AM (6bMeY)

23 What about Piers Morgans provincialism? Is he some how immune because he has an accent? How stupid

Posted by: Thunderb at February 24, 2014 08:03 AM (zOTsN)

24 Update with an "but mostly" if one occurs over lunch please.  I love that meme.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at February 24, 2014 08:04 AM (DL2i+)

25 Erudite Manhattanite cokehead David Carr?  The one from Minnetonka?

Posted by: huerfano at February 24, 2014 08:04 AM (bAGA/)

26 There have been times when the CNN host Piers Morgan didnÂ’t seem to like America very much Oh. I'm heartbroken.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 24, 2014 08:04 AM (sLGZD)

27 The Brit hating is rampant amongst the mouth breathing, knuckle dragging demographic. It's out of control. Whenever I see a Brit I want to throat punch the fucker.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 08:04 AM (32Ze2)

28 Oops. Should've read that last paragraph. Sorry Ace

Posted by: Thunderb at February 24, 2014 08:04 AM (zOTsN)

29 Plus, I'm certain he's ugly and his mother dresses him funny.



Oh, and he's an imbecile.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:05 AM (fwcEs)

30 get my news from the HQ. How sad is that.

You sire are better informed than most CNN viewers.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 24, 2014 08:05 AM (BvTwT)

31

Piers, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

CNN had early success with 24-hour news but has been dis-intermediated by the internet.  Lots of ways to get the news you want in near real-time.  There aren't many gripping Must Watch TV news stories like OJ in the White Bronco.

I thought Piers did his gun shows as a desperate attempt to create controversy to drive ratings.  It didn't work.

 

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 24, 2014 08:05 AM (EPEqj)

32 provincials = majority

Posted by: tmitsss at February 24, 2014 08:05 AM (7Rx8v)

33 Hated on two continents...

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at February 24, 2014 08:05 AM (QMRMM)

34 Why don't they deport him?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 08:05 AM (6bMeY)

35 Whenever I see a Brit I want to throat punch the fucker.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 12:04 PM (32Ze2)Being of Scots heritage, and drunken Irish, I concur.

Posted by: tubal at February 24, 2014 08:06 AM (YEQ2h)

36 When you can't out-demo the 3am sham-wow info-mercial, you're gonna get your silly-walking papers

Posted by: phreshone at February 24, 2014 08:06 AM (Q6pxP)

37

Doesn't Mark Steyn also have an accent?  Is he similarly rejected by the provincial rednecks of middle America?

 

Oh, he isn't?  Guess David Carr will have to come up with a different, non-bigoted explanation.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 24, 2014 08:06 AM (PFy0L)

38 20 Who really cares about this limp-dick anyway? Posted by: tubal at February 24, 2014 12:03 PM (YEQ2h) Not me. If it wasn't for the Internet, I would have no clue as to who he fucking is.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 24, 2014 08:06 AM (sLGZD)

39 Yeah, and WE'RE the mouthbreathing knuckle draggers. Um, right.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:06 AM (fwcEs)

40 I really don't give a shit.  Every single time I turn on CNN these days, I end up switching channels in disgust a few minutes later.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey Graham at February 24, 2014 08:06 AM (Z7PrM)

41 Never mind, now that I've read it.
pudgy, poorly-informed histrionic doofus'

Is great but twice in a sentence is clumsy.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at February 24, 2014 08:06 AM (DL2i+)

42 Look who brought it, bitch

Posted by: Megyn at February 24, 2014 08:06 AM (Q6pxP)

43 Damn sock.. off!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 24, 2014 08:07 AM (Z7PrM)

44 We have some British friends. We call them every Fourth of July and Thanksgiving to wish them happy holidays and ask them what they are doing to celebrate. We think its funny. Not sure they do

Posted by: Thunderb at February 24, 2014 08:07 AM (zOTsN)

45 good old Musket: forgotten, but not gone.

Posted by: redc1c4 at February 24, 2014 08:07 AM (q+fqH)

46 Can't we hate him because he just doesn't understand what makes America special AND for being a limey twat that wags his finger at the people who do?

Posted by: Clownf*cker at February 24, 2014 08:07 AM (CGjum)

47 I think you have to go back to May 6, 1937, Lakehurst New Jersey, for the last time a gas bag as big as Piers Morgan exploded in America.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 24, 2014 08:07 AM (CnA98)

48 a CNN audience that is intrinsically provincial. After all, the people who tune into a cable news network are, by their nature, deeply interested in America. Sorry, I left CNN at the point where they quit reporting NEWS. Remember around the world in 30 minutes? HLN is now an incomprehensilbe rat warren and Zucker is going to make it even worse (gameshows?!?). And how dare Americans be interested in America. I mean, we could be like the Canadians who don't have laws about "Canadian content" or anything. The NYT needs to be beaten repeatedly with a kielbasa.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2014 08:07 AM (659DL)

49 That's the reason all those Harry Potter movies flopped in the US - knee-jerk provincial fear of British accents.

Posted by: Waterhouse at February 24, 2014 08:07 AM (t8ySh)

50 Manhattan is a small island off the coast of America. It is America that the New York Times hates.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 08:07 AM (6bMeY)

51 Piers made Monty Python look a History Channel series

Posted by: phreshone at February 24, 2014 08:08 AM (Q6pxP)

52 As one of CNN's last remaining 10 viewers (long story.) I hardly ever watched Piers Morgan. When they launched him, I expected a rapid fire interview hour not unlike if you fed Larry King some uppers. Little news, mostly personal interest stuff. What you got was a weird sort of carnival barking that made absolutely no sense. Less interview and more poorly thought out lecture. And his tone is insufferable. Even the reboot of crossfire does a better job of at least respecting their opponents. And FFS, that leads with Van Jones and Stephanie Cutter. So to put that in perspective, Piers Morgan is less civil than those two. Axing him won't save CNN though. I still watch "Out Front" because I like the format of hitting several shorter stories, but Anderson Cooper really isn't doing news anymore, and who knows what they'll replace the British douche with.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at February 24, 2014 08:08 AM (hq5sb)

53 Even I like shotguns.

Posted by: Slow Sheriff Joe Biden at February 24, 2014 08:08 AM (Aif/5)

54 America is a rock band wrapped in pita bread inside an taco layer in seven secret sauces.

Posted by: The FCC at February 24, 2014 08:08 AM (rCS6C)

55 35 Whenever I see a Brit I want to throat punch the fucker. Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 12:04 PM (32Ze2) Three or four times.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 24, 2014 08:08 AM (sLGZD)

56
Eeeeeeeek!!!   A g-g-gun!!!!!

Posted by: Any Britisher at February 24, 2014 08:08 AM (OZmbA)

57 Hated on two continents...


Oh, the Aussies hate him too. Took a couple of cricket bowls to the body in December, to the cheers of the crowd in Sydney.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at February 24, 2014 08:09 AM (BvTwT)

58 I like being a provincial person. I like provincial people. Screw the elites.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 08:09 AM (7ObY1)

59 Can't we hate him because he just doesn't understand what makes America special AND for being a limey twat that wags his finger at the people who do? Orrrr for being a ladder-climbing, password-hacking hypocrite who wants to grab guns from law-abiding citizens.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2014 08:09 AM (659DL)

60 I never watched the show but conservative sites spent lots of time talking about MSNBC, how could you miss the coverage? I get my news online and have not watched a TV news cast since 9-11.

Posted by: Seems legit at February 24, 2014 08:09 AM (A98Xu)

61 It’s been an unhappy collision between a British television personality who refuses to assimilate — the only football he cares about is round and his lectures on guns were rife with contempt — and a CNN audience that is intrinsically provincial. After all, the people who tune into a cable news network are, by their nature, deeply interested in America. **** I can't help but think he has a complete lack of understanding of the word "provincial" and might even give him the benefit of the doubt that he has misused the word. Yes. When we turn on CNN or Fox, it is because we are deeply interested in what is happening in/with regard to America. Piers Morgan seemingly despises America and Americans despite being a beneficiary of all that is good about America. We do, indeed, despise men such as he. THAT is why parallels cannot be drawn to other Brits/foreigners.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 24, 2014 08:09 AM (DmNpO)

62 The New York Times should go back to Poland.

Posted by: Helen Thomas at February 24, 2014 08:09 AM (6bMeY)

63 I have nothing to add on Piers so instead I will link a funny AR lower that someone posted on the Gun thread.

No Pew>Pew>Pew Pew Pew

http://tinyurl.com/k6ej2pm

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 24, 2014 08:09 AM (tf9Ne)

64 If Morgan is accusing CNN's audience of being unsophisticated and narrow minded why argue with the man?

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 24, 2014 08:09 AM (P1WNR)

65 We have some British friends. We call them every Fourth of July and Thanksgiving to wish them happy holidays and ask them what they are doing to celebrate. We think its funny. Not sure they do. Insert retarded hyena laugh here -> ____

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2014 08:09 AM (h1D+w)

66 56
Eeeeeeeek!!! A g-g-gun!!!!!

Posted by: Any Britisher at February 24, 2014 12:08 PM (OZmbA) Love the hash, by the way....

Posted by: tubal at February 24, 2014 08:10 AM (YEQ2h)

67 One down, All the rest to go.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 24, 2014 08:10 AM (bb5+k)

68 Watching PM get beaten severely about the upper body area by a cricket pitcher was the highlight of his career here, IMO. It's what he was born to do and to be.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at February 24, 2014 08:10 AM (0HooB)

69 Ole Piers tweeted this: @piersmorgan: I wouldn't get too excited @NRA - I'm not done with you yet. So I responded: Go get 'em Piers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPsBgkbdBU Â… RT@piersmorgan: I wouldn't get too excited @NRA - I'm not done with you yet. Seems about right.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 24, 2014 08:10 AM (N/cFh)

70 Personally, I simply found him to be the subhuman mongrel king of the untermenschen.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 24, 2014 08:10 AM (SXji2)

71 ...and nothing to do with Piers being a sanctimonious twit. BTW, Piers was under fire from the gay rights community for his interview of Janet Mock. He allegedly insulted the transgender author while she was a guest on his program discussing her memoir. Maybe Piers angered the wrong people and that caused the timing here.

Posted by: duke at February 24, 2014 08:10 AM (d3clc)

72 56 Eeeeeeeek!!! A g-g-gun!!!!! Posted by: Any Britisher at February 24, 2014 12:08 PM (OZmbA) --------------- But look! An Arab is hacking off someone's head! Get your cellphones ready!

Posted by: Another Britisher at February 24, 2014 08:10 AM (Aif/5)

73 55 35 Whenever I see a Brit I want to throat punch the fucker.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 12:04 PM (32Ze2)

Three or four times.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 24, 2014 12:08 PM (sLGZD)



Eewww, then you'd have to TOUCH him. Ick.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:11 AM (fwcEs)

74 Because he sounds British?
Did it hurt him when he was on America's Got Talent?
Did it hurt Simon Cowell?
Did it hurt Gordon Ramsay?
Did it hurt One Direction?
Or because he's a individual rights hating a-hole

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 24, 2014 08:11 AM (WdbF7)

75 The reason the Beatles never made it in America???

Knee-jerk provincial fear of British accents.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2014 08:11 AM (nELVU)

76

You want to talk provincial?

 

Put a Manhattanite in the middle of Mobile, AL.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 24, 2014 08:11 AM (PFy0L)

77 Pierced is just trying to save us from ourselves. Shouldn't we listen to him? Shouldn't he, quite rightly, be feted?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 08:11 AM (32Ze2)

78 I've got a less provincial word to characterize Piers Morgan: wanker. That internationally British enough for ya, NYT?

Posted by: zombie at February 24, 2014 08:12 AM (+cx5n)

79 What the hell do they mean provincial?  I've never even been to Canada.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 24, 2014 08:12 AM (YEelc)

80 Put a Manhattanite in the middle of Mobile, AL Bay. FTFY

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2014 08:13 AM (659DL)

81 Mr. MorganÂ’s approach to gun regulation was more akin to King George III, peering down his nose at the unruly colonies and wondering how to bring the savages to heel. In many ways, isn't this also the story of Barack Obama?

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 08:13 AM (7ObY1)

82 Put a Manhattanite in the middle of Mobile, AL.

Make sure you put that on YouTube.

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 24, 2014 08:13 AM (ZKzrr)

83 The     key takeaway here is that anyone who does not subscribe to the left's vision of the US and the rest of the world    is 'provincial'.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2014 08:13 AM (0Jb7F)

84 Eewww, then you'd have to TOUCH him. Ick. Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 12:11 PM (fwcEs) Nah. Use concertina wire gloves.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at February 24, 2014 08:13 AM (sLGZD)

85 The real reason Bill Clinton didnt want to bang Liz Hurley???

Knee-jerk provincial fear of British accents.

Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2014 08:13 AM (nELVU)

86 Doesn't Mark Steyn also have an accent? Is he similarly rejected by the provincial rednecks of middle America? He should be. ♪ It's Reigning Mann! Hallelujah! - It's Reigning Mann! Amen! ♪

Posted by: Micheal Mann [/i] at February 24, 2014 08:13 AM (CnA98)

87
"David Carr"




Dave back to smoking crack?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 24, 2014 08:13 AM (kdS6q)

88 In so, so many ways ... this tragic case of provincial rejection of one of such obvious refinement is also the story of Obama.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 24, 2014 08:13 AM (SXji2)

89 Of course, if we were talking about a TV idiot's, say, midwestern or southern accent as being a cause for the failure of said TV idiot's show...well, I'm sure that the NYT idiot would find that to be a perfectly sensible reason, and not provincial at all.

Posted by: Stu-22 at February 24, 2014 08:14 AM (AiYlm)

90 62 The New York Times should go back to Poland. Posted by: Helen Thomas at February 24, 2014 12:09 PM (6bMeY) 1950s Moscow.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 24, 2014 08:14 AM (bb5+k)

91 The NYT treats the midwest with a few quaint photos of supper clubs in the travel section. Never mind the fact that real America loves to eat at supper clubs and hang out at the local corner bar--in New Yawk, it is all so very "provincial."



Now who is stuck on some island in the middle of nowhere? That would be Manhattan. Can't we give it back to the Indians?

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:14 AM (fwcEs)

92 I think Morgan was merely copying the style of a UK talker. This guy invites people on and then shout spews sarcastic solipsisms on them. I can't find his name. The show is awful, but Brits love it

Posted by: Thunderb at February 24, 2014 08:14 AM (zOTsN)

93 So, all those people watching Megyn Kelly? NOT PROVINCIAL. Or something.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2014 08:14 AM (659DL)

94 CNN & the NYT?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2014 08:15 AM (t3UFN)

95 I think most viewers just want Morgan to STFU and go back to Britain, if he hates our laws and culture so much.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 24, 2014 08:15 AM (Lo5Rt)

96 70 Personally, I simply found him to be the subhuman mongrel king of the untermenschen. Posted by: ScoggDog at February 24, 2014 12:10 PM (SXji2) Careful. We decided that calling someone a "subhuman mongrel" is racist.

Posted by: D-Lamp at February 24, 2014 08:16 AM (bb5+k)

97 Little Feat liked Provincial People: "I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonapah Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed And if you give me: weed, whites, and wine And you show me a sign I'll be willin', to keep movin'" -Lowell George "Willin'"

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 08:16 AM (7ObY1)

98 If the NY Slimes bothered to get past the unpleasant experience of reading stories in British papers  unfavorable to their boyfriend, they'd know that Piers is even more hated in the UK than in the USA

Posted by: kbdabear at February 24, 2014 08:16 AM (aTXUx)

99 He was a tabloid editor mixed up in illegal stuff before he came over to re-invent himself as a television "personality". If you are running from the law it is best not to be on television five times per week. If you are in late middle age is harder to turn your stripes. And you need to have a personality rather than a personality disorder to be successful at much of anything.

Posted by: Lester at February 24, 2014 08:16 AM (2UPXV)

100 Piers Morgan's argument with Alex Jones is what finished him. His superior peasant intellect was done in by a provincial college dropout.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 08:16 AM (6bMeY)

101 We also hated Churchill and Thatcher because of our provinciality as well.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 08:16 AM (32Ze2)

102 I get my news online and have not watched a TV news cast since 9-11. Posted by: Seems legii That makes two of us! Stay away from TV as an actual information source, people. There's only two reason to perceive TV news: 1. To "hate-watch" it; or 2. To analyze its bias. Period. All other couch potatoes must report to the Re-Education Center to Eliminate Self-Indoctrination. We will force you to free your mind!

Posted by: zombie at February 24, 2014 08:16 AM (+cx5n)

103 "...a CNN audience that is intrinsically provincial."

Er, isn't the real problem that CNN doesn't really have an audience at all, provincial or otherwise? (Bored captives in waiting rooms do not an audience make.)

Posted by: Stu-22 at February 24, 2014 08:17 AM (AiYlm)

104 Somewhere,   there is a glory hole with  Piers's     name  on   it.

Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2014 08:17 AM (VndSC)

105 95 I think most viewers just want Morgan to STFU and go back to Britain, if he hates our laws and culture so much.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 24, 2014 12:15 PM (Lo5Rt)


This, times 100. Who the hell appointed him arbiter of what Americans should think and do?



Clueless asshat, beclowning himself daily.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:17 AM (fwcEs)

106 When you get bad ratings on CNN it's time to pack it up.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 24, 2014 08:17 AM (WdbF7)

107 The people that watch CNN aren't exactly MENSA candidates but even they can spot a bald faced pandering Limey when they see one. Hiring a shitcanned huckster with an English accent doesn't give him cultural relevance or gravitas.

Posted by: ontherocks at February 24, 2014 08:18 AM (Qxl+E)

108 they'd know that Piers is even more hated in the UK than in the USA

I wish they'd hurry up and ask us to extradite him already.

Posted by: HR, watching scripts run at February 24, 2014 08:18 AM (ZKzrr)

109 Can't we give it back to the Indians? No want land of heap big sodomites, heap big bad men and heap big elites. You no be Indian giver. You keep.

Posted by: Native Americans at February 24, 2014 08:18 AM (7ObY1)

110 We also hated Churchill and Thatcher because of our provinciality as well. All those Bond flicks? Total washouts in floyover country.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 24, 2014 08:18 AM (659DL)

111 ""Mr. MorganÂ’s approach to gun regulation was more akin to King George III, peering down his nose at the unruly colonies and wondering how to bring the savages to heel. He might have wanted to recall that part of the reason the right to bear arms is codified in the Constitution is that Britain was trying to disarm the citizenry at the time.""



Totally this.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2014 08:18 AM (FMbng)

112 Perhaps we would lose all that awful provincialness if we just renounced our citizenship and declared we are citizens of the world. Or something

Posted by: Thunderb at February 24, 2014 08:18 AM (zOTsN)

113
Hiring a shitcanned huckster with an English accent doesn't give him cultural relevance or gravitas.

Posted by: ontherocks at February 24, 2014 12:18 PM (Qxl+E)


Wasn't that pretty much the idea behind MSNBC hiring Sharpton?


Resist we much.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:18 AM (fwcEs)

114 Can I haz some poo to eat now?

Posted by: Martin Bashir at February 24, 2014 08:19 AM (6bMeY)

115 When you get bad ratings on CNN it's time to pack it up. Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 24, 2014 12:17 PM (WdbF7) I think that's "Pack it IN"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2014 08:19 AM (t3UFN)

116 No want land of heap big sodomites, heap big bad men and heap big elites.

You no be Indian giver. You keep.

Posted by: Native Americans at February 24, 2014 12:18 PM (7ObY1)


I was thinking maybe it would be more of a hunting ground. Just sayin'.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:19 AM (fwcEs)

117 The Communist News Network is not communist enough?

Posted by: burt at February 24, 2014 08:20 AM (1+kJ5)

118 I blame the Brits for inflicting us with Soccer

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 08:20 AM (32Ze2)

119 Piers is now interviewing to become the  U.N.  Commissioner  of  High  Tea.

Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2014 08:20 AM (VndSC)

120 What language does al sharpton speak?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2014 08:20 AM (t3UFN)

121 Piers Morgan's method of 'bringing it' is to get fired for abysmally low ratings.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2014 08:21 AM (0Jb7F)

122 Watch the movie "A Touch of Cloth" if you can find it. It's a UK satire on British detective shows. It's hilarious especially if you're a fan of the shows but the best is the recurring gag at the crime scenes. Every time the cops come upon a gruesome scene, they recoil, supposedly because of the corpse, but each time it turns out they've actually come upon a photo of Pier Morgan. I don't think the UK wants him back.

Posted by: jeannebodine at February 24, 2014 08:21 AM (2LJqa)

123 What language does al sharpton speak?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2014 12:20 PM (t3UFN)


Well, it ain't the King's English, that's for sure.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:21 AM (fwcEs)

124 Piers Morgan Groom of Stool has a nice ring to it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 08:21 AM (6bMeY)

125 What language does al sharpton speak? Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2014 12:20 PM (t3UFN) Well, it ain't the King's English, that's for sure. Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 12:21 PM (fwcEs) I teed that one up for ya

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2014 08:21 AM (t3UFN)

126 OT: Harold Ramis, Chicago actor, writer and director, dead at 69 Best-known as an actor for 'Ghostbusters', 'Stripes', writer/director for 'Caddyshack', 'Groundhog Day'

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at February 24, 2014 08:21 AM (bCEmE)

127 Same problem obama has. Float up on our shores as an adult and then lecture us on whats wrong with America without, you know, actually growing up here.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (FMbng)

128 What language does al sharpton speak? Desperanto?

Posted by: Native Americans at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (7ObY1)

129 Could you give me permission to set fire to Piers Morgan now?




Posted by: Jeremy Clarkson at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (aTXUx)

130 What is this CNN audience of which you speak?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (6bMeY)

131 Can I laugh now?  At Piers and CNN?

Just like every other chattering idiot Socialist stripe, they failed because the rest of us are too stupid.  Right....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (iVmdV)

132 High Minister of Scatology.

Posted by: Piers Morgan at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (Aif/5)

133

OT: Harold Ramis, Chicago actor, writer and director, dead at 69

Best-known as an actor for 'Ghostbusters', 'Stripes', writer/director for 'Caddyshack', 'Groundhog Day'

 

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That's the suck.  He was funny.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (PFy0L)

134 Boy I'm glad our Olympic athletes showed those intolerant Russians the superiority of our tolerance towards the otherly-sexed by sweeping the medal count. It was like Jesse Owens and Adolf Hitler all over again.

Posted by: Confused Godwin Spewing Liberal [/i] at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (CnA98)

135 RIP Harold Ramis. Sad. Too young to die that's for sure.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (32Ze2)

136 As silly as it is, I think this post would be so much better with the the video of Morgan being nailed by the provincial game of cricket. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgJAvkvuG78

Posted by: MJ at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (oari7)

137 I teed that one up for ya

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2014 12:21 PM (t3UFN)


Ayep.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:22 AM (fwcEs)

138 I dunno, I thought Carr had a good point. Piers Morgan refused to assimilate, unlike Mark Steyn, for example. The sum of all his cricket and soccer faggotry, the constant reminders that he isn't an American (as if we couldn't tell), combined with his constant scolding of traditional American practices grated on even those who might normally agree with him, like David Carr. Instead of coming off as the sophisticated European exemplar of advanced culture, he came off like King George, demanding that us hairy-backed savages be reined in. If you're a European shitting on America from Europe, you're a liberal icon. His mistake was that he came to this country and has been complaining about it ever since. Nobody likes an ungrateful guest, and that's how he comes off.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 24, 2014 08:23 AM (CJjw5)

139 Jeremy Clarkson had the right idea when he used PM for a punching bag. I sense a pattern developing: PM is only good for one thing and one thing only.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at February 24, 2014 08:23 AM (0HooB)

140 OT : BREAKING: Actor/Director Harold Ramis dead at 69. Funny and talented guy. RIP

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 08:23 AM (olDqf)

141 Since the left dislikes America, Piers had a ready made audience. So, something else must be going on here. Brits like to bash us but they love to work here because of the big bucks and the better jobs. Contrary to public opinion, the BBC really sucks. Everything is pc up the wazoo and it tends to be boring. I believe Piers made 6 million a year so he did well. I think he owns a big house in LA.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 24, 2014 08:23 AM (6Nj7A)

142 OT RIP Harold Ramis. Right after I posted a Ghostbusters clip, too.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 24, 2014 08:23 AM (N/cFh)

143 Rush is on this right now. Come on Rush! Quote us.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 08:23 AM (32Ze2)

144 Doe, Ray, Egon!

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:23 AM (fwcEs)

145 Actor/Director Harold Ramis dead at 69. Funny and talented guy. RIP WTF? Stripes? Ghostbusters? WTF?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2014 08:24 AM (h1D+w)

146 56
Eeeeeeeek!!! A g-g-gun!!!!!

Posted by: Any Britisher at February 24, 2014 12:08 PM (OZmbA)

 

The Top Gear guys don't seem to mind them.

Posted by: buzzion at February 24, 2014 08:24 AM (LI48c)

147 Have to play  "do wah diddy diddy dum.."  today.

Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2014 08:24 AM (VndSC)

148 The headline here feels like a joke Ace forgot to finish, a la the "jihadi death" headlines: "...But Mostly Low Ratings."

Posted by: Jeff B. at February 24, 2014 08:25 AM (ewYO6)

149 Not bad: http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/02/from-vaults-piers-morgan.html

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 24, 2014 08:25 AM (6Nj7A)

150 David Carr threw way to many interceptions.

Posted by: The Texans at February 24, 2014 08:25 AM (bX7ov)

151 Bummer about Ramis

Posted by: Thunderb at February 24, 2014 08:25 AM (zOTsN)

152 >>What language does al sharpton speak? Blackmail

Posted by: ontherocks at February 24, 2014 08:25 AM (Qxl+E)

153 and yet oddly enough I trust British media more than U.S. media. and the Rusiians? They're Pussies!

Posted by: X at February 24, 2014 08:25 AM (KHo8t)

154 In many ways, this could be the story of Obama. Seriously. If TFG's policies are seen as massive failures isn't that also the fault of Americans? Progressives can't understand how their ideology could possibly be rejected by intelligent people so, ipso facto, any rejection of gun control or global warming or whatever article of faith is under discussion that rejection can only be because the American people are stupid.

Posted by: MTF at February 24, 2014 08:25 AM (F58x4)

155 Have to play "do wah diddy diddy dum.." today. That's a fact, Jack!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2014 08:25 AM (h1D+w)

156 Mr. MorganÂ’s approach to gun regulation was more akin to King George III, peering down his nose at the unruly colonies and wondering how to bring the savages to heel. He might have wanted to recall that part of the reason the right to bear arms is codified in the Constitution is that Britain was trying to disarm the citizenry at the time.
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I'm more of a glass half-full kind of guy.  I thought I'd never read something like that in the NYT.  The Founding Fathers supported gun rights?  Oppressed subjects revolted against an oppressive government rather than be disarmed?  That really happened, according to a NYT business writer (media)?

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2014 08:26 AM (JBggj)

157 Lets all eat a Twinkie today in honor of Egon.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2014 08:26 AM (iVmdV)

158 Well, why do you think our self-appointed betters are trying to import a new electorate, anyway ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 24, 2014 08:26 AM (TOb4i)

159 Typical - they always blame the audience, because it can't be that the show sucks, right?

In addition to just being bad, he took his tabloid approach to agitating for the removal of one of our country's most basic rights. Would that approach work in any country - say, agitating for full gender integration in Saudi Arabia, or against France's fierce protection of it's language and culture?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2014 08:26 AM (aq/zi)

160 Somewhere, someone at CNN is desperately trying to find the last Clinton staffer that doesn't already have a TV news gig.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 24, 2014 08:26 AM (SY2Kh)

161 Via the Chicago Tribune. Evidently Ramis had been suffering from vasculitis. Sad. http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-harold-ramis-dead-20140224,0,2259309.story

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 08:27 AM (olDqf)

162 What language does Chris Matthews speak? Tinglish (Thankyou thankyou. I'll be here all night. Don't forget to tip your wait staff!)

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 08:27 AM (7ObY1)

163 Good riddance, and it always smacked me like an incredibly desperate attempt at becoming relevant when Piers tried to make his mark being the anti-gun crusader after Newtown. 

At the end of the day though, even if Piers had never spoke a word about gun control, I think he's still be getting shit canned.  He's just not that talented or interesting as a broadcaster.  It was like CNN thought if the just put anyone in there with a British accent and Americans would ooh and awe at his brilliance and crowd around the set to hear his opinion.

Posted by: McAdams at February 24, 2014 08:27 AM (nUepm)

164 140
OT : BREAKING:


Actor/Director Harold Ramis dead at 69.

Funny and talented guy. RIP


Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 12:23 PM (olDqf)

 

Probably going to hurt those plans for a new Ghostbusters sequel.

Posted by: buzzion at February 24, 2014 08:27 AM (LI48c)

165 >>>I dunno, I thought Carr had a good point. Piers Morgan refused to assimilate, unlike Mark Steyn, for example. The sum of all his cricket and soccer faggotry, the constant reminders that he isn't an American (as if we couldn't tell), combined with his constant scolding of traditional American practices grated on even those who might normally agree with him, like David Carr. ... EoJ, Then why not blame Morgan himself for Moran's provincialism? Why is the audience blamed for failing to embrace Morgan's provincial attitudes?

Posted by: ace at February 24, 2014 08:27 AM (/FnUH)

166 "...But Mostly Low Ratings." I'd settle for "...But Mostly For Being An Insufferable Douche".

Posted by: t-bird at February 24, 2014 08:27 AM (FcR7P)

167 Second that on losing an argument with Alex Jones. Best historical analogy might be Mussolini getting pantsed by the Greeks in ww2

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 24, 2014 08:27 AM (WaedO)

168 The fact of the matter is that CNN could sit any fat ass in that chair in place of Pierced Organ and the ratings would double.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 08:28 AM (32Ze2)

169
Fortunately for CNN, CNN's audience, like the audiences of most of the MSM (with their glassy eyes) don't even realize they've just been insulted.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 24, 2014 08:28 AM (BZAd3)

170 Oh no on Ramis. Please tell me it is hoax :^(

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 24, 2014 08:28 AM (WaedO)

171 OT RIP Harold Ramis.

Oh, yes.  RIP.  Thank you for Groundhog Day and the rest.

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2014 08:29 AM (JBggj)

172 It appears Ramis has been very ill for a long time.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 24, 2014 08:29 AM (6Nj7A)

173 Losing an argument to Alex Jones is like having a baby steal candy from YOU.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 08:29 AM (7ObY1)

174 126 OT: Harold Ramis, Chicago actor, writer and director, dead at 69
Best-known as an actor for 'Ghostbusters', 'Stripes', writer/director for 'Caddyshack', 'Groundhog Day'  Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2014 12:21 PM (bCEmE)

And SCTV !!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 24, 2014 08:29 AM (kVfSG)

175

Probably going to hurt those plans for a new Ghostbusters sequel.

 

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Undoubtedly, but I refuse to admit Ghostbusters II even exists.  I didn't have much hope in the new one.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 24, 2014 08:29 AM (PFy0L)

176 If anyone is provincial it is Manhattanites. There is a big, diverse country out there. They really need to get out of their liberal, elitist bubble and expand their horizons.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2014 08:29 AM (Uo7Tv)

177 Wasn't Ramis one of the writers for Animal House?

Posted by: ontherocks at February 24, 2014 08:30 AM (Qxl+E)

178 135 RIP Harold Ramis. Sad. Too young to die that's for sure. Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 12:22 PM (32Ze2) /takes Harold by the hand.... leads him on...

Posted by: Slimer at February 24, 2014 08:30 AM (84gbM)

179 Well Ghostbusters II had something right, the sea of slime under NYC....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2014 08:30 AM (iVmdV)

180 All I know is, finally I get to kill somebody.

Posted by: Psycho at February 24, 2014 08:30 AM (Aif/5)

181 Somewhere, someone at CNN is desperately trying to find the last Clinton staffer that doesn't already have a TV news gig. Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 24, 2014 12:26 PM (SY2Kh) __________________ I have some spare time..... and the money would be nice

Posted by: Webster Hubbell at February 24, 2014 08:30 AM (32Ze2)

182 Reading the entire article, I really don't see much with which I disagree, his misuse of the word "provincial" aside. He's basically slamming Piers for his lecturing and his refusal to assimilate and, yes, he even has a point about our dislike of, what he calls "accents". We DON'T like someone coming in from the outside, hating all that we stand for, and benefiting from our generosity nonetheless.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 24, 2014 08:31 AM (DmNpO)

183 Sit down Francis.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2014 08:31 AM (iVmdV)

184 170 Oh no on Ramis. Please tell me it is hoax :^( Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 24, 2014 12:28 PM (WaedO) Sad to say it isn't. On a show biz insider level, he was one of maybe a handful of people who could singlehandedly get a picture green-lit. If he was a lefty he kept his politics mostly to himself. But he leaves behind an incredible body of comedic work. RIP

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 08:31 AM (olDqf)

185 176 If anyone is provincial it is Manhattanites. There is a big, diverse country out there. They really need to get out of their liberal, elitist bubble and expand their horizons.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2014 12:29 PM (Uo7Tv)

 

New York - Biggest little hick town in the world.

Posted by: buzzion at February 24, 2014 08:31 AM (LI48c)

186 Probably going to hurt those plans for a new Ghostbusters sequel. Unless he's one of the ghosts!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2014 08:31 AM (h1D+w)

187 177 Writer and screenwriter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 08:31 AM (6bMeY)

188 181 Somewhere, someone at CNN is desperately trying to find the last Clinton staffer that doesn't already have a TV news gig. Vince Foster unavailable for comment...

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 08:31 AM (7ObY1)

189 Oh FFS! @HuffPostPol: John Dingell's wife may run for her husband's seat in Congress

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at February 24, 2014 08:31 AM (bCEmE)

190 176 If anyone is provincial it is Manhattanites. There is a big, diverse country out there. They really need to get out of their liberal, elitist bubble and expand their horizons. Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2014 12:29 PM (Uo7Tv) Please, tell me about it. Every time I sit down to a meal with a table of lefties, the xenophobia, contempt and derision of the rest of the country is revolting to be around. But of course, they're not bigoted, no sir!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 08:32 AM (olDqf)

191 @HuffPostPol: John Dingell's wife may run for her husband's seat in Congress (Facepalm)

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 08:33 AM (7ObY1)

192 The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra sent a representative to Iran this week as part of an exploratory trip aimed at arranging the first official U.S. orchestra concert in Iran since the fall of the Shah. I wonder of the gays in the Orchestra will swing from the Iranian Cranes while they are there? Great outreach

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2014 08:33 AM (t3UFN)

193 189 Oh FFS! @HuffPostPol: John Dingell's wife may run for her husband's seat in Congress Posted by: Tami at February 24, 2014 12:31 PM (bCEmE) His father held the seat from 1928-'56 and passed it on to his cocksucking son, as if he was royalty.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 08:33 AM (olDqf)

194 Morgan out Big fat cry baby Ed Schultz still employed. Must burn like Hell

Posted by: Thunderb at February 24, 2014 08:33 AM (zOTsN)

195 I am confused. I thought that the CNN audience was special, sophisticated and intelligent- they want balanced news. Guess the NYT did not understand that and now that same audience is called 'provincial".

Like Elliot Spitzer and a host of other CNN discoveries, Piers was simply not that likeable nor that interesting. That CNN could not find any talent internally and had to import a condescending, obnoxious Brit was an example of the lack of talent.
But if your selection process requires know-it-all liberals first...then what do you expect.

Guess the accent was another problem...after all both Alister Cook and David Frost were big failures too. Americans don't like serious Brits at all.

Anyway, now CNN will search for another personality.

Posted by: standfast24 at February 24, 2014 08:34 AM (wx/BY)

196 yet oddly enough I trust British media more than U.S. media I find a bunch of stories that the USA MSM won't touch in the Brit media. The very best editorial I ever read about how to 'fix' USA capitalism I read in Pravda a couple years back. I had one of those Talking Heads moments like '♪ how did I get here? ♪'.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 24, 2014 08:34 AM (CnA98)

197 Hardest Hit: CNN viewers. Both of them.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at February 24, 2014 08:34 AM (R5UOB)

198 Harold Ramis was in the class of ZBTs that got them kicked permanently off campus at Wash U. To this day, they are not allowed a house on frat row. I think that was his first accomplishment as an adult. He never looked back.


RIP, you clever man.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:34 AM (fwcEs)

199 So glad we fought a war to rid ourselves of the House of Lords, only to develop our own.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 08:34 AM (7ObY1)

200 That pasty ckufhead with the Animal Husbandry is available.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 08:34 AM (6bMeY)

201 Looked up the Pier's incedent at the MCG last year, too funny.

http://youtu.be/3DZQIjp4vjo
Aussie what were the crowd chanting after the over?

Posted by: Forty Baht Barack at February 24, 2014 08:34 AM (dptrA)

202 "We also hated Churchill and Thatcher because of our provinciality as well. All those Bond flicks? Total washouts in floyover country." I'm afraid that if my wife was in a room with Daniel Craig, he'd have to take out a restraining order.

Posted by: duke at February 24, 2014 08:34 AM (d3clc)

203 >>John Dingell's wife may run for her husband's seat in Congress.

Right, because after 58 years he probably thinks he *owns* it.
How Kenedyesque of them.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2014 08:34 AM (aq/zi)

204 What a bummer about Harold Ramis. I can't think of a single movie of his that I didn't like.

Posted by: L, elle at February 24, 2014 08:35 AM (0xqKe)

205 His father held the seat from 1928-'56 and passed it on to his cocksucking son, as if he was royalty. Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 12:33 PM (olDqf) Is that where they got the word dingleberry from?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2014 08:35 AM (t3UFN)

206 How ya gonna to keep the rubes down on the farm, after they've seen Paree?

Posted by: The NYT at February 24, 2014 08:35 AM (Dwehj)

207 Ahhh the memories. What might be my favorite Piers Morgan fail: http://t.co/5JDmR4mIc6

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 24, 2014 08:36 AM (DmNpO)

208 Please, tell me about it. Every time I sit down to a meal with a table of lefties, the xenophobia, contempt and derision of the rest of the country is revolting to be around. But of course, they're not bigoted, no sir!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 12:32 PM (olDqf)



Anyone who lives where most folks don't even own cars and wouldn't dare own a firearm doesn't understand mainstream America. Period.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:36 AM (fwcEs)

209 I fear a Dingelless congress.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2014 08:36 AM (IV4od)

210 50 Manhattan is a small island off the coast of America.

Blow the bridges and the tunnels. Sink the ferries. Don't let them surrender til the cannibalism starts. It won't take long.

Posted by: tu3031 at February 24, 2014 08:36 AM (nsQhi)

211 >>@HuffPostPol: John Dingell's wife may run for her husband's seat in Congress Â….there's a dingleberry joke hanging in there somewhere.

Posted by: ontherocks at February 24, 2014 08:36 AM (Qxl+E)

212 All the various Ghostbuster clubs around the world are probably putting black armbands on their uniforms right now.

Others are rushing to list Ramis signed items on eBay.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2014 08:36 AM (iVmdV)

213 If he was a lefty he kept his politics mostly to himself. But he leaves behind an incredible body of comedic work.

RIP

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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My dvd copy of Groundhog Day has an extensive Ramis interview in which he discussed viewer reaction to the movie, particularly the theological aspects noted by several religious authorities.  A remarkable man and thinker.  He will be missed.

Posted by: mrp at February 24, 2014 08:37 AM (JBggj)

214 I find a bunch of stories that the USA MSM won't touch in the Brit media. The very best editorial I ever read about how to 'fix' USA capitalism I read in Pravda a couple years back. I had one of those Talking Heads moments like '♪ how did I get here? ♪'. *** Yes. I used to read the Telegraph daily until they instituted a maximum number of free reads per month.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 24, 2014 08:37 AM (DmNpO)

215 EoJ, Then why not blame Morgan himself for Moran's provincialism? Why is the audience blamed for failing to embrace Morgan's provincial attitudes? Posted by: ace at February 24, 2014 12:27 PM (/FnUH) --------------------------------- I thought Carr's use of the word "provincialism" was clumsy, as it is generally regarded as derogatory. What I took as the writer's intent was that it was Morgan's failure to understand that NO audience cares to be lectured by a foreigner about how their country should be run, and that when you do that, their natural instinct is to get defensive. As in, I can talk about my family, but YOU can't talk about my family. Because you're not in my family, you don't know my family and fuck you. That's the point I understood him (Carr) to be making, and that the failure of his show is because of his boorishness. I just don't think he expressed it well with his word choice.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 24, 2014 08:37 AM (CJjw5)

216 I couldn't remember Keith Olbermann's name.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 08:38 AM (6bMeY)

217 Wow. The Dingle family seat has been in said family for 76 years. He has been quite the shitstain for at least the last 25 of them.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 08:38 AM (32Ze2)

218 So sad to lose Harold Ramis, and what a joy it was to see his films. We send prayers and best wishes from our house to theirs.

Posted by: MTF at February 24, 2014 08:38 AM (F58x4)

219 That's the point I understood him (Carr) to be making, and that the failure of his show is because of his boorishness. I just don't think he expressed it well with his word choice.


Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 24, 2014 12:37 PM (CJjw5)


Probably could have cut to the heart of the matter and just called him an asshole. Would have been clearer all around.

Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 08:39 AM (fwcEs)

220 NO audience cares to be lectured by a foreigner about how their country should be run, and that when you do that, their natural instinct is to get defensive. In so many ways, Morgan's story is the story of Obama

Posted by: Thunderb at February 24, 2014 08:39 AM (zOTsN)

221 I thought Carr's use of the word "provincialism" was clumsy, as it is generally regarded as derogatory. What I took as the writer's intent was that it was Morgan's failure to understand that NO audience cares to be lectured by a foreigner about how their country should be run, and that when you do that, their natural instinct is to get defensive. As in, I can talk about my family, but YOU can't talk about my family. Because you're not in my family, you don't know my family and fuck you. That's the point I understood him (Carr) to be making, and that the failure of his show is because of his boorishness. I just don't think he expressed it well with his word choice. *** This is basically how I see it as well. I stated above that I believe he misused the word "provincial" in this case.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 24, 2014 08:39 AM (DmNpO)

222 LOL. This is almost like blaming website contractors for people not signing up for PP/ACA...chuckle. Evidently, it might hit the wires later today that another such contractor has bit or is in the process of biting the dust.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at February 24, 2014 08:40 AM (PFcQG)

223 Manhattan is a small island off the coast of America. To put Manhattans size in perspective, Dallas-Fort Worth airport is larger. Not the two towns, the airport itself.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 24, 2014 08:40 AM (CnA98)

224 Probably could have cut to the heart of the matter and just called him an asshole. Would have been clearer all around. Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 12:39 PM (fwcEs) --------------------------------- When was a writer for the NYT ever incentivized to communicate clearly?

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 24, 2014 08:40 AM (CJjw5)

225 Ok, I gave the NYT some business and read the article. Carr goes over twenty or thirty problems with CNN and Morgan contributing to their failures. He pretty much pounds them both. The 'provincialism' line seems a non-sequitur that an editor slipped in.

Posted by: t-bird at February 24, 2014 08:41 AM (FcR7P)

226 RIP Harold Ramis.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at February 24, 2014 08:41 AM (0HooB)

227 217 Wow. The Dingle family seat has been in said family for 76 years. He has been quite the shitstain for at least the last 25 of them. Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 12:38 PM (32Ze2) 86 years. But who's counting?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 08:41 AM (olDqf)

228

96: "We decided that calling someone a "subhuman mongrel" is racist."

 

Yes. But the rest of we also concluded that we just don't give a damn anymore. 

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at February 24, 2014 08:42 AM (/qzu7)

229 I also agree that if anything, the article seemed to put more blame on Piers than the audience, at least that was the impression I got.  I actually double checked to see it was indeed the New York Times running that article.

Also agree it's sad about Harold Ramis, loved his work no matter what his politics were.

Posted by: McAdams at February 24, 2014 08:42 AM (nUepm)

230 "Provincialism"? The NYT is now the house organ for the British monarchy? Good to know!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 24, 2014 08:42 AM (HsTG8)

231

This Carr guy sounds like an idiot.  Not that that's a headline, as he is writing in the NYT.

 

JJ, haven't been to Manhattan since a few months after 9/11.  Or SF for almost as long.  The Stupid is so overwhelming.  But mostly it's because the dumbest, least fit, least deserving, least able people have now taken over America, and they cluster in and worship these cities. 

 

And I rarely have to sit down with idiot "progressive" bigots any more, they've been quietly flushed out of my life.  Along with the even greater number of soft/semi-political/mush-heads who are simply passive floating trash on the NPR-stupid tide. 

Posted by: non-purist at February 24, 2014 08:42 AM (afQnV)

232 "To put Manhattans size in perspective, Dallas-Fort Worth airport is larger. Not the two towns, the airport itself."

Yeah I don't think so.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2014 08:42 AM (IV4od)

233 Here's a campaign slogan - "Pull out the Dingells, 2014"

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at February 24, 2014 08:42 AM (WaedO)

234 Ok, I gave the NYT some business and read the article. Carr goes over twenty or thirty problems with CNN and Morgan contributing to their failures. He pretty much pounds them both. The 'provincialism' line seems a non-sequitur that an editor slipped in. *** Yes. He is not kind to Piers in his article. One might even feel he, too, doesn't like the asshole for the same reasons we don't like him.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 24, 2014 08:43 AM (DmNpO)

235 It’s been an unhappy collision between a British television personality who refuses to assimilate — the only football he cares about is round and his lectures on guns were rife with contempt — and a CNN audience that is intrinsically provincial. Ace read this sentence and got the same thing I got from it....equal parts failure for Morgan and the audience. Morgan is lecturing, hectoring boor and the audience are provincial hicks.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at February 24, 2014 08:43 AM (da5Wo)

236 The Brief: Abbott Lead Over Davis Pushes to Double Digits Hahaha! And this is from that lefty rag, Texas Tribune.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 24, 2014 08:43 AM (6Nj7A)

237 208 Anyone who lives where most folks don't even own cars and wouldn't dare own a firearm doesn't understand mainstream America. Period. Posted by: tcn at February 24, 2014 12:36 PM (faces) Well, I don't own a car because I don't need it and it's too expensive to own. OTOH, I would LOVE to own a couple of guns.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 08:43 AM (olDqf)

238 Math..... How DOES it work....

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 24, 2014 08:43 AM (32Ze2)

239 So sad to lose Harold Ramis, and what a joy it was to see his films. Looked thru his wikipedia entry. Wow, he knew success!

Posted by: t-bird at February 24, 2014 08:43 AM (FcR7P)

240 What, Dingell doesn't have offspring he can will the seat to?

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at February 24, 2014 08:44 AM (A9hpr)

241

What language does Rachel Maddow speak?

Clitorish?

Posted by: mc at February 24, 2014 08:44 AM (lrfmC)

242 For those of you scoring at home, that would be David "Dance of the low-sloping foreheads" Carr.

Posted by: radar at February 24, 2014 08:44 AM (eNZFc)

243 Maybe CNN could get Wendy Davis to take over Pierced Organs slot?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2014 08:44 AM (iVmdV)

244 Like I mentioned in an earlier thread, painful as it was, I read the Baldwin piece over at Drudge. (and I haven't read Ace's post yet, but just when I was about to post this to the morning dump thread, Ace posted about the Ukraine, so...) It was the most stunning case of willful ignorance possible. Baldwin rails against: Andrew Sullivan Anderson Cooper TMZ Shia LaBeouf MSNBC NBC Rachel Maddow Mika B. Phil Griffin Capital One Bank AT&T WNYC radio Huffington Post Then blames Fox, Roger Ailes and Breitbart. He says If MSNBC went off the air tomorrow, what difference would it make? If the Huffington Post went out of business tomorrow, what difference would it make? And, that Liberal and conservative media are now precisely equivalent. He makes no connection to JEF and the divisiveness of the country. Us bitter clingers. Even the U.S., which is so preposterously judgmental now. The heart, the arteries of the country are now clogged with hate. The fuel of American political life is hatred. Who would ever dream that Obama would deserve to be treated the way he has been? And, then, if you can stomach any more, he tilts conservative -- but, is still in denial about it. I had dreams of running for office at some point in the next five years. In the pyramid of decision-making in New York City politics, rich people come first, unions second, and rank-and-file New Yorkers come dead last. I wanted to change that. I wanted to find a way to lower the cost of the city government and thus reduce New YorkÂ’s shameful tax burden. I would have decentralized the schools. My father was a public-school teacher. He always told me that although you could encourage a child to work hard, you could only go so far; that half the goal had to be achieved at home. As progressive as IÂ’ve been in my politics, there are other things I donÂ’t think of as liberal or progressive, just common sense. I probably have to move out of New York. I just canÂ’t live in New York anymore. Everything I hated about L.A. IÂ’m beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that. But New York has changed. Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be. I have to accept that. I want my newest child to have as normal and decent a life as I can provide. New York doesnÂ’t seem the place for that anymore. His only choices are NY and LA. Hysterical.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 24, 2014 08:44 AM (IXrOn)

245 A Dingell in every seat.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 08:44 AM (6bMeY)

246 Ok it has been driving me nuts who was the CNN guy from England that was arrested and had the sex paraphernalia in Central Park? I know it wasn't Piers but who was it?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at February 24, 2014 08:44 AM (RZ8pf)

247 Does he have some kind of work visa where once he loses his job he has to go back? Then he won't have to be worried about our mean, old guns. He can go back to Britain and worry about being kicked to death by soccer hooligans.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 24, 2014 08:44 AM (Uo7Tv)

248 5 ...stupid British twat... There's life in the British export economy yet!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 24, 2014 08:44 AM (HsTG8)

249 Manhattan has an area of 23 square miles.

Posted by: @JohnTant at February 24, 2014 08:45 AM (PFy0L)

250 Manhattan 34 sq. miles.
DFW  27 sq. miles

Closer then I thought.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2014 08:45 AM (IV4od)

251 Piers Morgan with his haughty, condescending British empirical air, thought he could sell America a Cleveland Steamer every night and get the love. Yah, gotta, be from KenyÂ…. er,I mean Hawaii to get away with that crap.

Posted by: ontherocks at February 24, 2014 08:45 AM (Qxl+E)

252 231 Posted by: non-purist at February 24, 2014 12:42 PM (afQnV) As you may know, my wife is a professor here in town at a major institution of higher indoctrination. Had to drop off some papers to her this morning and I thought, in this building, an incredible amount of time, energy and money are being wasted on utter magical thinking all in service to destroy the country. I cried. Then rage-stroked.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 08:45 AM (olDqf)

253
Harold Ramis

Most know him from the movie years, but he was so great in the first season of SCTV, and before that on The National Lampoon Radio Hour.

RIP.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 24, 2014 08:45 AM (kdS6q)

254 Piers thinks capitalism is bad? I wish I could remember where I read something about him being indicted in some kind of fraud but getting off by giving evidence on the others. Was it the journalistic hacking thing or investments? Can't remember.

Posted by: Justamom at February 24, 2014 08:47 AM (Sptt8)

255 I think Clay Aiken would be a good replacement for Piers.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 24, 2014 08:47 AM (IXrOn)

256 http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/02/from-vaults-piers-morgan.html Posted by: Judge Pug at February 24, 2014 12:25 PM

Being unemployed and living next to the Osbourne's...  what a sentence. HAHAHAHA!!

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 24, 2014 08:47 AM (KQp38)

257 Of course Manhattan might have lost a few acres in Super Rainstorm Sandy.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at February 24, 2014 08:47 AM (CnA98)

258 245 A Dingell in every seat.Posted by: Boss Moss at February 24, 2014 12:44 PM (6bMeY)
Is that like a cling on?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 24, 2014 08:47 AM (kVfSG)

259 CNN guy from England that was arrested and had the sex paraphernalia in Central Park Richard Quest No relation to Johnny Quest, I take it.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 08:47 AM (7ObY1)

260

Jeff Zucker will choose another host from amongst the same insular crowd.  Someone that he has seen in NYC, DC, and LA.  Someone that attends all the same parties and charity affairs.  Some one he has partied with in the Hamptons and at Tina's.  Someone whose views he is comfortable with.  A safe choice which will be lauded by the NYT and WaPo.  Probably someone from the NBC/ABC/CBS/NYT/WaPo/MSNBC/Politico crowd.

 

And he will not be able to understand why the ratings are even lower.   

Posted by: rd at February 24, 2014 08:47 AM (D+lxs)

261 Like I mentioned in an earlier thread, painful as it was, I read the Baldwin piece over at Drudge. (and I haven't read Ace's post yet, but just when I was about to post this to the morning dump thread, Ace posted about the Ukraine, so...) *** I read a good bit of the Baldwin piece but couldn't take the self-serving holier-than-thou bullshit and didn't finish it. I feel gratified that, at the end of my life, that will be 15 minutes of my life I won't regret spending elsewhere.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 24, 2014 08:48 AM (DmNpO)

262 I have found that there is no situation in which a comment quoting "Ghostbusters" - either one - would be inappropriate.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at February 24, 2014 08:48 AM (CJjw5)

263 You expect me to live in flyover country!

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at February 24, 2014 08:48 AM (Aif/5)

264 Were so sorry, Uncle Morgan, but we haven't heard a bloody thing all day.

Posted by: redenzo at February 24, 2014 08:48 AM (WCnJW)

265 It was the investments.

Posted by: Draki at February 24, 2014 08:48 AM (L8r/r)

266 Ramis thread up

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 24, 2014 08:48 AM (iVmdV)

267 "Manhattan has an area of 23 square miles."

34 sq. miles total, land mass 23 sq. miles. You are correct sir.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 24, 2014 08:48 AM (IV4od)

268 Simon Cowell When I hear Simon Cowell, I think, two sizes too small t-shirts drenched in armpit sweat.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 24, 2014 08:49 AM (IXrOn)

269 "Give me a Sandwich and a Dingell, and there is nothing I cannot do."

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 08:49 AM (7ObY1)

270 Yeah, us Americans are notorious for our anti-Brit provincialism. We hate all things British. The Beatles; The Stones; Led Zeppelin, The Who; Benny Hill; Monty-Python; Elton John; Lawrence Olivier; Anthony Hopkins; Ian McKellan; the English language; Anglo common law... I mean, the list goes on and on and on. We hate Piers Morgan because we hate Great Britain. /sarc

Posted by: IronDioPriest at February 24, 2014 08:49 AM (1dJQd)

271 Maybe Johnny Weir can take over and do sports. That will show that CNN understands America.

Posted by: t-bird at February 24, 2014 08:50 AM (FcR7P)

272 Thanks bluestaterebel!

Posted by: ParanoidGirlinSeattle at February 24, 2014 08:50 AM (RZ8pf)

273 Ace read this sentence and got the same thing I got from it....equal parts failure for Morgan and the audience. Morgan is lecturing, hectoring boor and the audience are provincial hicks. *** The full article takes Piers to task. I really do think that, in this instance, the writer misused the word "provincial".

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 24, 2014 08:50 AM (DmNpO)

274 "To put Manhattans size in perspective, Dallas-Fort Worth airport is larger. Not the two towns, the airport itself." Yeah I don't think so. Airport & the land it sits on. Word.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2014 08:50 AM (h1D+w)

275 Ramis was a master of comedy. Funny writer, good actor as the straight guy and quite an able director. His body of work arguably is as important as any director out there, for its impact on the culture as well as the box office.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 24, 2014 08:50 AM (olDqf)

276 Ramis thread up

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 24, 2014 08:52 AM (DmNpO)

277 If low ratings were the concern, he would have been gone long ago.

Morgan was fired to minimize the embarrassment to CNN when he is charged with felonies in regard to his involvement with the phone-hacking scandal in UK.  That's all.

Someone should remind David Carr that NYT is only still publishing because of the infusions of cash from Mexican monopolist billionaire Carlos Slim.  Without him, it would have been acquired and sold for parts years ago.  In fact, just before his initial bailout, a study by Wall Street M&A specialists showed the assets of NYT Inc., including their prime Manhattan real estate, vehicles, presses, etc., to be worth more than the capitalization of the newspaper.

IOW, the newspaper operation devalued the company, it is worth less as a newspaper than as component properties.

Posted by: Adjoran at February 24, 2014 08:52 AM (QIQ6j)

278 The fuel of American political life is hatred. Who would ever dream that Obama would deserve to be treated the way he has been? Oh, the irony burns! In case you missed it, Lexi, Barky is the one who brought the devisiveness, which has putrified into "hatred" (if you want to go that far - me, I prefer "loathing").

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 24, 2014 08:53 AM (HsTG8)

279 For some reason, he fails to consider the British/Iranian Christiane Amanapour. While only a contributing guest or visitor, Katty Kay is in the same vein.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 24, 2014 08:53 AM (IXrOn)

280 divisiveness

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at February 24, 2014 08:53 AM (HsTG8)

281 If we hate the brits, there wouldn't be so many brit actors in American television shows. The brits don't care for piers, either. There was a brit police story type show where the cops would arrive at a place where blood and guts were all over the place. But it was only when they saw a photo of Piers Morgan at the scene, did they puke their guts out.

Posted by: Judge Pug at February 24, 2014 08:54 AM (6Nj7A)

282 103 Stu-22, Truer words are seldom typed. I just endured 2 hours of CNN at the military hospital here. Two hours more than the last two years.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 24, 2014 08:56 AM (TE35l)

283 "Piers Morgan and CNN to Part Ways Due to Low Ratings and his show sucking like a fucking dredge" Says the New York Times, but mostly due to both.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 24, 2014 09:01 AM (4tfpq)

284 Ok it has been driving me nuts who was the CNN guy from England that was arrested and had the sex paraphernalia in Central Park? I know it wasn't Piers but who was it?

Richard Quest?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 24, 2014 09:03 AM (6qlHs)

285 The coming civil war will be the urban "elitists" versus the common "folk" of  the Fly-Over Hinterland.


The liberal rats within the cesspools of the cities will eat their own, and their starving hordes will make a target-rich environment as they wander into the countryside fleeing for survival.

Posted by: Strife at February 24, 2014 09:06 AM (ZW1Ga)

286 I'm a little uncomfortable with the treatment Piers is receiving. Buy a "Free Piers!" mug at Factor Gear--please.

Posted by: Bill "Not a Retard" O'Reilly at February 24, 2014 09:10 AM (JQuNB)

287 Morgan's a gloryhole reject

Posted by: rik at February 24, 2014 09:11 AM (rVEZt)

288 What language does Mrthin Bashir speak? CACA-sian

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 24, 2014 09:18 AM (7ObY1)

289 How do you become part of the "CNN Audience?" Do you have to have a cable-package that only offers, like, 4 channels - one of which is CNN and the other three are Redneck? Because my satellite system comes with this thing called a Remote Control. It's cool, if you haven't seen one before - I can watch one of 100 channels with just the push of a button, without even getting up. Whether I'm liberal or conservative, I can point this thing at the TV and, poof, watch whatever I want. I'm not a "Member" or any network's viewership unless I like what's on. So... it's the CONTENT that grabs me. Pretty cool, eh? Mr. Morgan, please go away and take Mr. Baldwin with you.

Posted by: RobM1981 at February 24, 2014 09:21 AM (zurJC)

290 278, how right you are. Remember all of those jibes about how "we" got the bus into the ditch, or how we had to sit in the back of the bus, etc. Guns, bibles - ring a bell? Trayvon Martin could have been me. The Cambridge police acted stupidly. Etc., etc., etc. The list is long and continues to grow. Obama is a race baiter. Always has been, and always will be.

Posted by: RobM1981 at February 24, 2014 09:25 AM (zurJC)

291 Yes, Jeremy Clarkson has heard the news about Piers ...

Jeremy Clarkson ‏@JeremyClarkson 9h

I'm feeling strangely contented this morning. I wonder if something wonderful has happened somewhere.

Jeremy Clarkson ‏@JeremyClarkson 9h

I understand that Nigerian TV is looking for a new chat show host. Anyone got any suggestions?

Jeremy Clarkson ‏@JeremyClarkson 9h

Hmm. Morgan has told us for years that his ratings are sky high. So obv he wasn't sacked for that reason. Why else could it be, I wonder?
 

Posted by: kbdabear at February 24, 2014 09:33 AM (aTXUx)

292 Stuart Varney at Fox Business News laughed about Piers' fate this morning.  He had an obvious schadenboner.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 24, 2014 09:34 AM (6H6o8)

293

@ kbdabear..........   Morgan was actually sky high, thinking that he had any ratings at all, other than abysmally low ones.

 

 

 

Jim

Sunk New Dawn

Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 24, 2014 09:45 AM (SUC5U)

294

PM never fit in because he was a pompous ass and treated everyone to his intilectual superiority.

 

Boot, door, ass > curb

 

Some assembly required but a seriously high level of satisfaction.

Posted by: Gmac-Pondering...something, when I get mad enough I;ll do someting about it. at February 24, 2014 10:02 AM (4pjhs)

295 Piers Morgan and CNN parting ways, but not due to Viktor Yanukovich charging CNN for collaborating in a vast right wing Western conspiracy, or something. What do Piers Morgan, Viktor Yanukovich, CNN and the Olympics US media coverage share in common? LOW RATINGS loaded with prejudicial hubris. ...And Piers, it's that island you call home playing our province since 1945. You're the provincial bitch that bit the hand that fed you. Predictions proven SOONER than later: CNN dumps Piers Morgan turd. Russian state television could not even wait for the end of the Games to launch a scathing attack on the ousted Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich.

Posted by: at February 24, 2014 10:17 AM (MhA4j)

296 To put Manhattans size in perspective, Dallas-Fort Worth airport is larger. Not the two towns, the airport itself."

Yeah I don't think so.


Just looked it up...
Dallas Ft. Worth airport:
69.63 square KM

*land area* of Manhattan:

59.5 square KM.

So, yeah...the airport is bigger.


Posted by: GMan at February 24, 2014 10:19 AM (sxq57)

297 296 heh, too big to fail (too big to jail) meets biggest is bestest.

Posted by: at February 24, 2014 10:22 AM (MhA4j)

298 Ha! Relegated to second division status. Maybe he'll be an MSNBC pickup.

Posted by: Pigilito at February 24, 2014 10:27 AM (AW99N)

299 He should have been fired for being an Arsenal fan, just on principle. 

Posted by: trumpetdaddy at February 24, 2014 11:35 AM (YhH+L)

300 I dunno. Piers Morgan certainly fits in as the butt of a joke formerly involving Obama. Ol Piers is interviewing a good old cowboy somewhere in deepest West Texas. There are flies buzzing all around Morgan---he's batting them away but they just keep coming back. Pier's asks the cowboy, "What are these flies?" Cowboy replies, "Horse flies--they hang around a horse's ass." Piers says "You calling me a horse's ass!!" voice rising in indignation. Cowboy replies "Nope." Sucks on a straw for bit and then says, "Can't fool them flies though." Have to say that Ol Piers couldn't fool the flies in CNN's miniscule audience either.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at February 24, 2014 01:06 PM (wdHk6)

301 I'm not provincial I'm just allergic to douche.

Posted by: Mr. FeverHead at February 24, 2014 02:01 PM (6ahup)

302 What will CNN do with all that leftover money? No more payments to Saddam for access, no more payments to Piers... Maybe they'll hire someone who might report the news. I like my Powerball odds better, but it could happen.

Posted by: MarkD at February 24, 2014 02:12 PM (06gsL)

303 "Provincial" means "from the provinces" as contrasted to the Big City, so being a creature of New York (or London) is the opposite of being "provincial".

It's not a very useful term -- suburban London's Mick Jagger is said to have complained that Liverpool's Beatles were hopelessly provincial.

Posted by: Ken at February 25, 2014 05:55 AM (U04AC)

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