Piers Morgan tweeted a photograph of a “rally” of his supporters outside CNN center in Washington, DC, but whereas over 100,000 Americans signed a petition to deport the CNN host, the rally in support of Morgan was noticeably less popular.
Four people showed up.
Morgan re-tweeted the image with the message, “Supporters rally behind @piersmorgan w signs outside #CNN DC bureau.”
Given that Morgan’s CNN viewing figures are only slightly less abysmal than those of fellow gun control advocate Chris Matthews, one wonders whether this turnout amounts to half his audience.
One of the “supporters” is holding a sign that encourages CNN to give Morgan a raise, presumably upset at the paucity of the former Daily Mirror editor’s $8 million dollar contract. Morgan got the prime time CNN gig despite being fired from the Mirror for printing a fake story and being embroiled in the phone hacking scandal.
Yesterday, the Obama administration defended Morgan’s right to use his first amendment to trash the Constitution, completely oblivious of the fact that non-citizen foreign nationals do not have first amendment rights under legal precedent.
At one time the sun never sit on the british empire, they were killing and enslaving around the world. And today you have this garbage acting like the crap don't stink. Pakistain, india, iran, iraq, etc all the way they are today because of the british. And they are still meddling.
Piers Morgan claims over phone hacking branded 'utterly unpersuasive'
ZitatLord Justice Leveson has described former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan's assertion that he had no knowledge of alleged phone hacking as "utterly unpersuasive", and said the practice may well have occurred at the title in the late 1990s.
Morgan was asked during his evidence to the Leveson inquiry about an interview he gave Press Gazette in 2007 when he said that phone hacking was an "investigative practice that everyone knows was going on at almost every paper in Fleet Street for years".
In his testimony, Morgan, who now hosts a chatshow on CNN in New York, downplayed the comment as "passing on rumours that I'd heard" and said that there was no phone hacking at the Daily Mirror under his editorship from 1995 to 2004.
"Overall, Mr Morgan's attempt to push back from his own bullish statement to the Press Gazette was utterly unpersuasive," said Leveson in his report on the culture, practices and ethics of the press, published on Thursday. "This was not, in any sense at all, a convincing answer."
ZitatTHE brother of a Government Minister is the first person to face charges over the Mirrorgate share dealing probe. Tim Blackstone, the colourful City public relations guru and former porn film star, has been summonsed to face magistrates next month over charges relating to insider share dealing.
Mr Blackstone, whose sister is the Labour Minister for the Arts, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, has been under investigation by the Department of Trade and Industry over dealings in Murray Financial, an Edinburgh company specialising in buy-outs of building societies.
The Mirror's former City Slicker columnists, James Hipwell and Anil Bhoyrul, wrote several glowing pieces about Murray Financial in 1999 when it launched a hostile takeover bid for the tiny Leek United building society.
Mr Blackstone, a contact of the Slickers, was at the time acting as PR man for Ken Murray, the highliving millionaire Scottish financier who runs Murray Financial.
Shares in Murray Financial almost doubled to 14p on news of its bid but fell back when Leek managed to beat off the assault.
Dealing in shares tipped in the Mirror column has been at the centre of a DTI investigation for more than two years.
The finance writers are alleged to have tipped shares bought by members of the staff, including the newspaper's editor Piers Morgan.
Morgan, himself under investigation by the DTI as part of the probe, was severely censured by the Press Complaints Commission for his dealings in Viglen shares, one of the Slickers' share tips.
1."Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been sacked after the newspaper conceded photos of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake."
2."Morgan was asked during his evidence to the Leveson inquiry about an interview he gave Press Gazette in 2007 when he said that phone hacking was an "investigative practice that everyone knows was going on at almost every paper in Fleet Street for years".
3. Dealing in shares tipped in the Mirror column has been at the centre of a DTI investigation for more than two years. The finance writers are alleged to have tipped shares bought by members of the staff, including the newspaper's editor Piers Morgan.
****************** Now we know what he's doing over here and why they don't want him back. Bottom feeder fits right in at CNN.