"Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve kind of enjoyed it.”

No, really, Jay Carney would like to know.  Even though he only showed his face in the briefing room twice this week, and even though the White House press corps used him as a punching bag, Barack Obama’s press secretary wants you to know he’s really enjoyed having to address this avalanche of scandals.  Wait [...]

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Emotion.

Via the Right Scoop, gaze upon the ruins of Obama’s months-long gun-control campaign, designed from the word go as a way to corner Republicans on a tough vote ahead of 2014 and now cause for angry shrieking at Democrats among the liberal base. For once, I’m on Moore’s side: How about a Senate vote, Harry? [...]

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"The reality is we all need a bit of nannying about us."

Via NRO, which not only cut the clip but snagged this ode to petty for-your-own-good authoritarianism from Morgan’s Twitter account: If a Mayor can’t do things to make his city’s populace healthier – what’s the point of his job? Bloomberg’s 100% right on supersized soda. — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) March 11, 2013 “I think people [...]

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Motives.

If that’s not proof enough that he’s a liberal, he also praised Chris Christie and Jon Huntsman. The manifesto is predictably long and a bit lighter on Illuminati-type stuff than most other rampaging-nutjob screeds, but lest there’s any doubt what sort of mind we’re dealing with here, a quote: It’s kind of sad I won’t [...]

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"Why is it that the people who are for gun control don’t want to go to Chicago to find out why gun control has failed so much?"

Twelve minutes long but worth watching in full, partly because Gingrich is in fine form and partly because it’s a nice demonstration of how futile and bad-faith the “debate” over guns is. Morgan’s point is straightforward: If gun-rights fans think it’s okay to ban machine guns because rapid-fire weapons are too dangerous for the public [...]

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Ambush.

They need a gun-rights supporter for their ritual shaming ceremony and since Shapiro embarrassed Morgan the other night, he was naturally a top choice. Alternate headline: “Man declines to serve as prop.” [W]hen it came time to book the show, Morgan’s team refused to tell Shapiro what the format of the show would be. When [...]

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Dismissed.

Normally I’d be tempted to just add this as an update to the previous post, but it’s just too delicious not to highlight on its own.  As Duane wrote in his GR post, Piers Morgan went from his embarrassing display in his interview with Ben Shapiro to lamenting about Shapiro’s “intransigent” performance with Mark Kelly [...]

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"It's not the quality that counts anymore. It's how loud did you yell, how vituperative can you be."

Duane hit this in the Green Room, but I want to note a few passages from the appearance of Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro on CNN with Piers Morgan last night. First, Ben calls out Morgan for acting like a bully to his guests and an activist rather than a journalist, a theme that fits nicely with [...]

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Rights.

Via Mediaite, even a grandstander as pompous as Morgan knows better than to sneer at a vet the way he routinely does at other gun-rights activists. Boston, the author of the letter read ’round the blogosphere, does well for himself but I always come away from these debates wondering why the two sides end up [...]

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"Sometimes it's better to let somebody have the rope they need to tie themselves in knots."

Last night’s cable-news car crash reminded me of how reporters used to go to tea-party rallies and seek out the nuttiest people they could find for self-discrediting quotes and photos. A cheap tactic to smear the whole group, but an effective one. Took Morgan awhile but somehow he figured out that insulting soft-spoken gun-rights advocates [...]

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Guns.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a vocal proponent of tighter gun laws, confirmed Monday he was advising Vice President Joe Biden’s task force to help curb gun violence… Bloomberg detailed his recommendations, saying he’s pushing for criminal background checks on all gun sales, not just at gun dealers. He’s also calling for better enforcement [...]

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“Both the bible and the Constitution were well intentioned, but they are basically, inherently flawed."

And not just the Bible, but Piers Morgan wants to amend the Constitution, too. It’s a darn good thing that the CNN host needed work badly enough to emigrate to a place that he finds so disagreeable.  What did we ever do without him? I have no issue with the concept of amending the Constitution [...]

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Brit trip

Here’s a plan which probably has roughly the same chance of succeeding as a NASA mission to land on the sun, but it’s attracting more than a little attention this holiday weekend. One of the “reasonable discussion” voices in the gun grabbing movement will be familiar to regular readers. He’s CNN’s Pier’s Morgan, who reasonably [...]

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Tone.

Via News Busters, the media id unleashed. Your companion reading for this clip is Byron York’s piece about cable-news sanctimony over gun control this week, and not just from the prime-time commentators either. Says York: Why such open advocacy? What seems to have happened is that some journalists have assumed that since everyone is horrified [...]

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Freudian slips and historical harmonics.

Allahpundit included this in last night’s QOTD post, but it’s worth a separate look. If you’ve already watched this once, try this thought experiment the second time through.  Pretend that the topic isn’t the terrorist attack on Benghazi in 2012, but the WMD case in Iraq in 2003-4.  Suddenly, this sounds awfully familiar, doesn’t it? [...]

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What could go wrong?

9 p.m. ET on CNN — if it happens. As I write this, Morgan’s show says he’s booked: He’s the biggest name of the day.He’s the man everyone is talking about.And tonight, he’s on with @piersmorgan. @toddakin. 9p #CNN — Piers Morgan Tonight (@PiersTonight) August 20, 2012 Dana Loesch says he’s not: Akin is not [...]

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"You guys almost sound like you're an extension of the Obama campaign."

Even those of us who couldn’t quite bring ourselves to back Newt Gingrich in the primaries hoped that he would play a big role in the general election as a surrogate. This video demonstrates why. Gingrich reacts to Piers Morgan’s suggestion that the “big flaw” in Ryan’s budget was that the rich would do well, [...]

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"I thought this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. And now he’s changing."

Via Mediaite, the third in an ongoing (and, judging by the page views, extremely popular) series. I’m going to give you two words and I want you to think hard before you react: Romney/Lovitz. It’ll be a fusion ticket. Republican and Democrat, stiff and comedian, trim and husky — basically a Romney/Christie ticket, in other [...]

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"I'm really quite in awe of him."

Allahpundit introduced you to the story of the Obama campaign documentary — allow CNN’s Piers Morgan to introduce you to its producer, documentarian Davis Guggenheim. Morgan fillets Guggenheim after the filmmaker insists that he found no negatives at all about Barack Obama, and that the only negative aspect of Obama’s term as President comes from [...]

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Bachmann to Morgan: "I think I've had enough of this conversation."

Last night on his show, Piers Morgan hosted Michele Bachmann for the full hour and, in one segment, tried pointedly to elicit her reaction to recent controversial comments from actor Kirk Cameron. Last week, Cameron told Morgan he thinks homosexuality is “unnatural and … detrimental and … ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations [...]

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"There's something I like about it."

Tonight on the Piers Morgan show, Donald Trump talks China, Gov. Rick Perry, birtherism and Occupy Wall Street — and, on that last subject, he has an unexpected take: “I sort of think it’s cool,” he says. “There’s something I like about it.” But Trump is worried about how it affects business: “They’ve been there [...]

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Huh?

Maybe Herman Cain is trying too hard to be likable. He doesn’t need to enter attack mode or anything, but it would help if he didn’t pander to lefty media hosts, either. I have to assume that’s what this is — unless Cain really doesn’t think it’s the government’s business to ban abortion? Last night, [...]

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"The Tea Party [is] a spontaneous American expression of shock and concern over spending."

Why I love Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), reason No. 825 (still the number of days the Senate hasn’t passed a budget!): Tea Party trash-talking has crept from the extreme corners of the progressive movement to NYT columnists to the second-highest seat in the country (although Vice President Joe Biden denies it), but Sessions doesn’t take it. [...]

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