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Agreed over the gun nuts. They're far worse. 'Twats' would be too polite a word for these morons. It was only the other day some guy in the US doing a gun safety lecture actually shot himself in the face and was killed. Complete fucking lunatics.

But, I wasn't asked to compare Piers over the gun nuts, just my opinion on the man.

I was thinking he might end up with his own news show on Sky, but then he was never in with the Murdoch lot - unlike Kelvin "Hillsborough" McKenzie, who edited The Sun and because of that is often seen on Sky these days. No, I can see Piers Morgan with his own show on ITV, possibly in the daytime, doing current affairs/news-related stories, but with a tacky tabloidy-style approach.

Talking of Kelvin Mackenzie, I heard someone once use an analogy for what it is to be very scared. They used two in fact, referring to anyone in ordinary society who is in a situation they would rather not be in and are now terrified because they are:

"sweating like Kelvin Mackenzie at Anfield"
"trembling like Nick Griffin at the Notting Hill Carnival"

Hehe!

Don't know if you are aware of 'my first rifle'.Rifles are specially adapted for children.They are also available in cute pink colour for cute little girls.These rifles fire life rounds by the way.

I hope he stays in the US. We have more than enough smug wankers on TV as it is......Ross, Holmes, Paxman......

max_tranmere wrote:

> I was thinking he might end up with his own news show on Sky,
> but then he was never in with the Murdoch lot ? apart from the time he edited Bizarre on The Sun and then became editor of the News of the World...

max_tranmere wrote:

> 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.

As ITV did a few years back when they hired Jerry Springer to host chat shows.

max_tranmere wrote:

> I've never really liked Piers Morgan, I.....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.

Max, don't be taken in. Those shows are as pre-planned just as much as Parkinson or Jonathan Ross. When Barbara Windsor was on, Piers never once mentioned her second husband. Watching the show, you'd think she'd only ever been married twice. When Katherine Jenkins was on, her drug habits were treated with kid gloves; you'd think she'd only dabbled in cocaine once or twice and then at her ex's insistence. The celebrities know exactly what is going to be asked of them, or they wouldn't go 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

? he doesn't have a temporary visa ?

> and is commenting so much on internal issues,

? that's what he's paid for. No point hiring a Brit who talks about Britain on an American TV show, they are rather a parochial nation ?

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.

No, he's not. His contract doesn't run out till September and his show runs till March. He is also likely to be doing one-offs for CNN.


The sad thing is he might now
> end up hosting some sort of political interview type show here.

Done one, didn't work out. It was on Channel 4 ? he was the Leftie to Amanda Platell's Rightie.

I've always known that Piers Morgan was a prominent tabloid hack, I assumed it was just at the Daily Mirror though. I wasn't aware of his associations with the News Of The World or The Sun. I've not followed his career that closely.

"No point hiring a Brit who talks about Britain on an American TV show, they are rather a parochial nation".

He wouldn't be expected to talk about Britain on an American TV show, it is inevitable he would talk about America, I just think it is more appropriate to have an American do it - and if I was a yank I would think the same too. Why have a foreigner as the anchor on a domestic TV show? Rather odd, me thinks.

"Done one, didn't work out. It was on Channel 4 ? he was the Leftie to Amanda Platell's Rightie."

If his last attempt at a British political/current affairs type show didn't work out then maybe he WON'T be hosting another one here now that his attempt at doing one in the USA hasn't worked out. We can but hope!

Editor of the News of the World at 28... after a few years running Bizarre.