Piers Morgan: always this bad?

I really hate the English language. :smiley:

Of course he’s not English. He would never have survived his condition under the NHS.

Which is why NHS stands for No Handicapped Survive.

“Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they’re asking me to do Specsavers ads…”

Even worse - GoCompare.

I don’t particularly like the guy either, but I too admire that he actually challenges people on shit unlike most reporters who let them talk any kind of idiocy, and fall for any kind of weak tea dodge, without so much as a follow up.

All that said, did you see the pro gun guy that was screaming in his face about how, “it would be 1776 all over again, blah, blah, blah”, if any gun laws are passed etc? He just let that guy rail away, with bemusement. I think he’s a little bit maybe thinking if he challenges them they all fall into truly ridiculous and stupid like this other guy did. He got his point across without saying much more, just let the blowhard show his true colours. Maybe he’s thinking, it worked once, maybe it will again?

elbows: ah! I must have missed that part of the interview. I confess, I came in to it partway through, and only listened for the 20 or so repetitions of “Answer my question.”

I definitely agree, as others have noted, that British interviewers do tend to do a better follow-up that we Yanks. They’ll just plough right in with “Wait a moment, you just said X, but you voted Y.” Bless 'em!

If Morgan did, in another part of the interview, sit back and allow the other guy to speak (or pontificate, or bloviate, or even rant) that makes up, a little, for my objection to his hectoring.

I think a good part of my objection is, in general, to the practice of having two people trying to talk at the same time. O’Reilly, Limbaugh – hell, Lawrence O’Donnell, over at MSNBC, on the left side of the ideological divide – they all engage in “Interrupt the Other Guy” as a major part of their discussion technique.

(I have a lot more respect for Ed Schultz, who prefers to take turns.)

That is his way of doing things. he is a dick and a troll and a shit stirrer.
He seems to think we all are a bunch of psychos, and this country sucks, but he refuses to take his sorry ass back to England (they don’t want the son of a bitch either).