O/T:- Piers Morgan

[magpie_mania]

Did you see him when he was interviewing the Trump supporter? Really put him on the spot, probing questions and not letting him off the hook.

[drillerpie]

Ladies? You mean the nurses and other health workers saying last week that hospitals are two thirds empty. A fact eventually reported yesterday on mainstream?

Just clarify for me what was reported in the media?

That non-Covid wards in hospitals are almost empty because non-urgent surgery has been cancelled and people are avoiding A+E?

Or that the hospitals are almost empty because Covid is just a big con. It's no worse than the flu, no extra people are dying, the ONS are publishing fake figures and Bill Gates and George Soros are coming to microchip you with their dodgy vaccines.

[i961pie]

The reality is that he doesn't allow them to openly avoid the question. If they actually appear to be giving an answer he lets them, but as soon as they start evading and waffling he interrupts and gets back to the question. Like him or loathe him, the reason questions aren't being answered is down to the person wriggling and squirming and not down to him.

Bit of both imo. He sometimes doesn't let them get a few words out before he interupts, funny how he didn't do it to his mate Trump.
When they squirm or try to avoid answering them I am all for it but give them a chance first. He even does it to ordinary guests that have nothing to do with politics. Loves the sound of his own voice.

[seriouspie]

Let me be honest from the start, I have never been a fan of Piers Morgan. I find the man ill-mannered, self-centred and unbearably smug.
Just recently he has had a record number of complaints received by Ofcom re his interviewing style whereby he has rinsed a government minister per day for most of the last fortnight.
... and he has been magnificent.
He has done what a proper journalist should do and not one of the top Tories he has confronted has even made an honourable draw of the interview.
The latest today was Victoria Atkins and her performance was just lamentable.
Their inability to answer his questions leaves them wide open so he reloads the gun and fires it through their waffle. They smile in frustration and he responds with 'why are you laughing, minister? Do you think this is funny?'
All they need to do is admit that for 10 years the NHS has been denuded to the point where its stocks have run dry.
Not their fault. Blame the previous governments in between 2010 and 2017. Oh but wait on...
Yes, I am now a fan of Piers Morgan.

You've obviously not heard what his old pal (no longer) Alan Sugar has to say about the man. Although he's Labour, I like Al because he's created his own wealth by hard graft. Nothing harder than cold calling and door knocking to sell a product - as when he started - and still today knows more about 'selling' than all the pimply faced yuppies that go on his TV show.

Sugar's view of Morgan is much what most of us feel insomuch as he continually promotes himself by his interviewing techniques and general manner towards the government. Sugar comments that Morgan made a good job of promoting GMB but viewing figures are plummeting on account of his aggressive attitude and points out the 'idiots' (in his words) criticising the shortfall in PPE by simply saying that if they understood when demand exceeds supply ( this demand being global and impossible to foresee) shortages will occur until production is increased. He should know, he sold a few million Amstrad dishes didn't he? However to conclude as Bernard Manning used to say, "As long as you hold the mic, you can win every argument".

[TheBlackHorse]

... although clearly a man of talent Alan Sugar made much of his fortune from property dealings rather than other entrepreneurial dealing. Just saying ...

[seriouspie]

... although clearly a man of talent Alan Sugar made much of his fortune from property dealings rather than other entrepreneurial dealing. Just saying ...

Not disputing this Blackie ..... all I'm just saying is he started it all by direct selling before he moved on to bigger things.

[TheBlackHorse]

... agreed, and credit due to him; although some say he was a shocker to work for, but hey, most dictators upset some people along the way ...

[seriouspie]

... agreed, and credit due to him; although some say he was a shocker to work for, but hey, most dictators upset some people along the way ...

I know exactly what you mean - believe me. I worked for one but never regretted the experience.

[Bushwacka]

Morgan was the darling of many on the right for a good 10 years. Whenever he called out 'lefty liberal PC nonsense' he was someone who 'tells it how it is'. Since he's started calling out Tories, all of a sudden he's not 'telling it how it is' but he's attention seeking and trouble causing.

Conversely, there are those on the left who despised him but are now liking and retweeting everything he posts about the Tories.

Then there are those on both sides with the modicum of intelligence that was required to know all along that Twitter (and being contrary) is what he's been doing for a living for the last 10 years.

[i961pie]

Morgan was the darling of many on the right for a good 10 years. Whenever he called out 'lefty liberal PC nonsense' he was someone who 'tells it how it is'. Since he's started calling out Tories, all of a sudden he's not 'telling it how it is' but he's attention seeking and trouble causing.

Conversely, there are those on the left who despised him but are now liking and retweeting everything he posts about the Tories.

Then there are those on both sides with the modicum of intelligence that was required to know all along that Twitter (and being contrary) is what he's been doing for a living for the last 10 years.

When was this? I know he was editor of the Mirror which isn't a darling of the right. I am not disputing you just curious to know.