# Piers Morgan and his phoney balony pictures **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 15, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-and-his-phoney-balony-pictures/245275 "2004-05-15T14:44:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-and-his-phoney-balony-pictures/245275/1 "2004-05-15T14:44:02Z")
[It’s about bloody time, I say.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3716263.stm) I saw one of those radical clerics waving The Mirror pictures about on the news trying to recruit more lunatics. Ruined the British Army’s reputation in Iraq all for a good story. What a world. The thing that ires me the most is how he was saying the pictures were genuine right up until they showed him the door. They were FAKE. As in NOT GENUINE. They weren’t even [taken in Iraq!](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3709289.stm) Once again, thanks for endangering the lives of my countrymen in Iraq to sell copies of your newspaper. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-and-his-phoney-balony-pictures/245275/2 "2004-05-15T14:50:02Z")
I’m just amazed this wally lasted so long. It’s astounding that in a country where Rebecca Wade is allowed to run newspapers, she’s still not the editor with the least credibility. Frogmarched off the property without being allowed to pick up his coat, too. Nice touch… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-and-his-phoney-balony-pictures/245275/3 "2004-05-15T15:42:22Z")
The real tragedy is that Piers Morgan’s moronic behaviour means that the very genuine reports of illtreatment by British troops will have less credibility than they deserve. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-and-his-phoney-balony-pictures/245275/4 "2004-05-15T16:10:09Z")
Feh. It’s the _Mirror_, nobody believed more than a 50/50 chance of it being genuine pictures, anyway. Right? _Right?_☹ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-and-his-phoney-balony-pictures/245275/5 "2004-05-15T16:19:21Z")
I doubt most Iraqis have any inkling that _The Times Of London_ differs in any way, shape or form from _The Mirror._ I certainly wouldn’t be able to name which Arabic news sounces are credible and which seek to spin (save a couple). Bad judgement combined with bad timing here to make an unfortunate situation even more inflamatory. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-and-his-phoney-balony-pictures/245275/6 "2004-05-15T22:23:03Z")
No, see, they were _genuine_ in the way that they showed things that had _genuinely_ happened. This is what the Mirror (or more specifically Morgan) had meant all along, but some people obviously misunderstood what they were saying. Don’t laugh. This is what the Mirror were trying to spin in recent days. I think they reckoned that if it could work for Bush and his WMDs, it could work for them. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-and-his-phoney-balony-pictures/245275/7 "2004-05-15T23:39:26Z")
Right…these were genuine RECREATIONS. :rolleyes: Whatta maroon. Nice that he was fired.