# Piers Morgan to lose his CNN show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2014, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077 "2014-02-24T08:33:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/21 "2014-02-24T19:10:24Z")
Send him to Canada. Better yet, Australia or New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/22 "2014-02-24T19:10:24Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Why do you hate fish? They know why. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/23 "2014-02-24T19:15:59Z")
Never watched his show. Just not enough hours in the day. I don’t know if Larry King needed replacing because I didn’t think much of his show either. Sure he got the guests, but he thought “how are you?” to be a hardhitting question. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/24 "2014-02-24T19:21:54Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Never watched his show. Just not enough hours in the day. I don’t know if Larry King needed replacing because I didn’t think much of his show either. Sure he got the guests, but he thought “how are you?” to be a hardhitting question. That’s the kind of gotcha journalism that torpedoed the Sarah Palin campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/25 "2014-02-24T19:24:41Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Never watched his show. Just not enough hours in the day. I don’t know if Larry King needed replacing because I didn’t think much of his show either. Sure he got the guests, but he thought “how are you?” to be a hardhitting question. Larry King needed replacing because he was pretty obviously senile. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/26 "2014-02-24T19:26:26Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Larry King needed replacing because he was pretty obviously senile. Larry King needed retiring sure. But I’m not sure they needed to substitute another similar show in prime time. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/27 "2014-02-24T20:18:46Z")
Never watched it. Don’t think I missed much. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/28 "2014-02-24T20:41:05Z")
The torching of Morgan’s show puts a dent in the theory that you can sell just about any hogwash to Americans if your spokesperson has a British accent. Maybe he can get a job selling insurance. > [@drewtwo99](#): > > I do respect King because of the fact that because all he did was lob softballs Odd, that was exactly the reason I didn’t respect him. You could be a flaming turd and Larry would fawn all over you. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/29 "2014-02-24T21:14:25Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > No givesie backsies! The US took him and the US has to keep him! Would you take Justin Bieber instead? We’re trying to get rid of him, too, but Canada won that side bet, and we’re stuck with the dude for the moment: [http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/winonadailynews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/fe/7fe50f93-b3d0-592b-b9b9-cec2aa06f1b7/530892275793c.preview-620.jpg](http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/winonadailynews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/fe/7fe50f93-b3d0-592b-b9b9-cec2aa06f1b7/530892275793c.preview-620.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/30 "2014-02-24T22:34:12Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Send him to Canada. Better yet, **Australia** or New Zealand. (My bolding.) Don’t. Even. Think. About. It. We have enough home-grown twats without importing them, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/31 "2014-02-24T22:44:24Z")
I’d like to use this opportunity to dredge up Stephen Fry’s definition of “countryside” : the murder of Piers Morgan. ---
**Author:** ![BrokenBriton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@BrokenBriton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrokenBriton)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/32 "2014-02-24T22:46:37Z")
I’d forgotten that! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/33 "2014-02-24T23:24:19Z")
In a “perfect world”, there would be two replacements - one (say, Ryan Seacrest, although he’s not available on Thursday nights from mid-February through mid-May) to handle entertainment interviews, and one (say, Wolf Blitzer or Anderson Cooper) to do the more hard-news stuff. Larry King seemed to me to have a grasp of the news stories. Piers doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/34 "2014-02-25T01:57:10Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > I’d like to use this opportunity to dredge up Stephen Fry’s definition of “countryside” : the murder of Piers Morgan. Uh… I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/35 "2014-02-25T02:18:10Z")
Can we get Graham Norton instead? ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/36 "2014-02-25T02:20:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Uh… I don’t get it. Took me a minute too. cunt-ricide ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/37 "2014-02-25T03:07:14Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > Larry King needed replacing because he was pretty obviously senile. Not at all. I’ve listened to him do long interviews as the interviewee in recents months. He is still very sharp. That’s not to say it wasn’t past time to get in someone new. > [@emcee2k](#): > > They should replace him with news. News? On a news channel? That’s the kind of outside the box thinking we are looking for! ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/38 "2014-02-25T03:09:47Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Send him to Canada. Better yet, **Australia or New Zealand.** (Bolding mine) Oh no you don’t. We’ve well and truly reached our quota for English celebrities past their glory days filling our TV with their inanity. Maybe the South Africans could be persuaded to take him instead? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/39 "2014-02-25T03:14:53Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Took me a minute too. > > cunt-ricide That should be cunt-icide, then, shouldn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077/40 "2014-02-25T03:37:17Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > News? On a news channel? That’s the kind of outside the box thinking we are looking for! Yeah right. Next they’ll be playing music on MTV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piers-morgan-to-lose-his-cnn-show/682077.md?page=3)