Piers Morgan sacked from CNN...

[max_tranmere]

I've never really liked Piers Morgan, I've always thought he is quite smug and that interview programme he does with a different celebrity every Friday on ITV is very tabloidy. I've watched it a couple of times, but only because I've been interested in the subject and I've just had to put up with his questions about affairs they've allegedly had, questions that clearly mildly upset the person which makes him go on and on even more in the hope they might get more emotional, and so on.

I've seen the odd clip of that CNN show he does in the USA, and I must say that if I was an American I would be wondering why this foreigner is on the network asking Americans about their views on a certain domestic policy, implying that this or that which they do is wrong, etc. If I was from America watching this foreign guy who had flown in, been given a temporary visa and is commenting so much on internal issues, I would think: "who the hell are you, you're not from here, mind your own business - in fact why not get on a plane and bugger off back to Britain where you are from?!".

Well, that has now happened, his ratings dropped from 2 million to just over 0.25 million and now he IS going to be boarding a plane and returning to Blighty. The sad thing is he might now end up hosting some sort of political interview type show here. His credibility here, if he ever had any, was lost after he was sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror when he published photos of British soldiers apparently beating up Iraqi prisoners in a jail there when the war was on. The photos turned out to have been posed by actors. He was fired and was apparently not even allowed to collect his jacket from the office, he was literally instantly dismissed and told to leave the building that second.

He would have bound to have been paid a fortune for hosting that show in the USA though, so he won't need to work again if he doesn't want to. I am sure though that he'll be on our screens, doing something political/current affairs orientated, before long. What do other people think of Piers Morgan?

[Sam Slater]

He's clearly a twat. But as for the 'foreigner' thing: he was hired by an American company to give his views. You can't blame him for that. And sometimes it's healthy to have a foreigner's perspective on your own country's affairs, regardless of whether you agree with them or not.

But, yeah......complete twat. As much of a twat as his nemesis, Jeremy Clarkson......but at least Clarkson is a twat in a thick, slightly loveable way.

And I hope we haven't heard the last of this phone hacking business, too.

[max_tranmere]

If there was a panel of commentators on one of these American shows, and they had one foreienger - a Brit or someone from wherever - then that would be ok as there would be the foreign person's perspective given. But to have a foreigner as the main person, the 'anchor' as the yanks call it, is strange and would likely have annoyed a lot of locals. I would have been annoyed if I was American. Imagine if the host of Newsnight here was not Jeremy Paxman but instead some TV presenter from New York who had flown in, been granted a visa, and sits there criticising members of the domestic population for their position to do with local policy and so on.

[Cuntybollocks]

Total Arsehole.

[lensman]

Not just any 'local policy' but the 'Gun Law' for Christ sake.I really hope he could make it over there so that we wouldn't have to see his face on our TV here.

[max_tranmere]

Gun law was just one thing he grilled people over. He was on the programme for a couple of years and therefore grilled locals on hundreds of issues.

[max_tranmere]

Agreed.

[Arginald Valleywater]

He can stay in the US. Big ego, small talent.

[max_tranmere]

Charlotte Church calls Piers Morgan a 'prick'. I have to say I agree with her:

[frankthring]

"Prick", "big ego", "smug".....yes we are all agreed Morgan is all these things
and more - though whether he warrants "twat", as Sam says (adding in
Jeremy Clarkson for good measure) makes me wonder whom Sam might
rate as the absolute opposite of twat - ie super non twat ?
But for all Morgan`s faults - and I almost bumped into him once outside the
Royal Academy in Piccadilly (yes, he seemed smug even in the street) - he
did do one thing right - in my opinion - for which I give him some praise. He
dared to lecture these idiot Americans on their ridiculous gun laws and the
obscene ease with which Yanks can slaughter themselves !!! He might
have done it for the ratings, he might have done it to create controversy, but
watching him on CNN I got the feeling he genuinely hates American gun
culture and he did not mince his words. Lets give him a little pat on the back
for that.....because these gun toting fools are, in my opinion Sam, far worse
"twats" than Piers Morgan will ever be !!