I'm not sure why CNN hired this hack. He used to run the Daily Mirror, a British newspaper a scant step above tabloids in credibility. In 2004, they ran photographs purporting to show the Queen's Lancashire Regiment abusing and torturing Iraqi prisoners.
It was a big deal. It made the cover of Time. It put Morgan on the map.
There was one small problem, however. The pictures were fake. In the ensuing fallout, Morgan was fired. To this day, he has not apologized.
So, now he's all over CNN, and he has a global reach for his opinions. He has gone on record supporting Bob Costas' prime-time television remarks on gun control, and he now thinks he understands the Bill of Rights.
If I'm to follow his interpretation of it, the 1st Amendment doesn't cover the mimeograph or the internet. The 4th Amendment doesn't apply to wiretaps or surveillance drones. By his logic, the 8th Amendment provides no protection from kneecapping, electrocution, or waterboarding, since those things weren't around at the founding, either.
Good to know, Piers. Say, how many guys working your security detail carry guns?
Piers is literally a conniving liberal tard with no education on the foundations of the USA.
ReplyDeleteI said to one of my friends, not very long ago, that in Britain there were fewer protections for the freedom of the press. She replied that it was because yellow journalism reigns in Britain and so there was little call to protect it. I doubt she was correct about every British newspaper but I suppose she was definitely right about Piers Morgan.
ReplyDeleteAnd now he's here. Poisoning the press in my country. Gods help us.