Nice Summary of Why Piers Morgan was Fired

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**Frazzled**

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100263513/piers-morgans-guest-explains-to-him-why-he-lost-his-cnn-show-because-he-was-rude/

My bold as its so choice.

There's been a lot of debate about why Piers Morgan lost his CNN talk show. A couple of days ago the comedian Chelsea Handler gave him a definitive explanation. Piers was "interviewing" her, they cut to an ad break, and when they returned they had this priceless exchange.

PIERS: You tweet very amusingly.
CHELSEA: I wish you did.
PIERS: Ha.
CHELSEA: I mean in the middle of the commercial break — I want your viewers to know, although they must know, because they're probably following you on Twitter. I mean you can't even pay attention for 60 seconds. You're a terrible interviewer.
PIERS: Well you just weren't keeping my attention.
CHELSEA: That's not my problem.
PIERS: That is your problem.
CHELSEA: This is your show. You have to pay attention to the guests that you invited on your show.
PIERS: If they're interesting enough.
CHELSEA: Yeah, listen. It doesn't matter how interesting I am. You signed up for this job.
PIERS: Of course it does.
CHELSEA: Well, maybe that's why your job is coming to an end.
PIERS: Wow.
CHELSEA: Wow.
It's better watched that read, because that way you can hear Piers' painful laughter.

Here's why the CNN gig didn't work out: Morgan was too rude. A lot of Brits go to America and presume that a) all Americans are fake and b) they'll appreciate someone explaining to them what's wrong with their country. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Oh, Americans can take criticism – which is why Christopher Hitchens and John Oliver flourished out there. But they're not "fakes" and they don't like being told by foreigners that they're "messed up". Who would? Americans are, nine-times-on-ten, honestly nice people who appreciate good manners. Be polite to them and tell them how much you like their country before you offer any spiky observations about their (often) bizarre way of life. In other words, act like a polite guest would. Not like the jerk who turns up uninvited to the party, helps themselves to a beer from the fridge and starts asking the host why his kids are so fat.

To rudeness, Piers added arrogance. Take the guns debate. When the Sandy Hook massacre happened it was right for Morgan to broadcast about it and, as a Brit, he was entitled to raise questions about America's gun laws. But he acted as though no one had ever thought to discuss the subject before. Like, ever. He tried to make gun control his own personal crusade, to "school" the Americans on law and order. And he displayed a crass insensitivity towards issues such as the importance of the Constitution or the American tradition of self-reliance. The scale of his ego was extraordinary. No US liberal has ever managed to challenge their country's fundamental respect for gun ownership. Why did he imagine that a guy with an English accent – the accent of George III no less – would succeed where Bill Clinton, Teddy Kennedy or Barack Obama had failed?

So Chelsea Handler nailed it. When he should've been talking to his guest during the ad break, he was tweeting – sharing his invaluable wisdom with America. And he failed even on air to show due deference to the fine people from the great country that was kind enough to host him. The embarrassing thing about the whole Piers Morgan affair is that it has turned the tables on us Brits. We always insisted that we were the courteous ones and the Americans were the boobs. In this case, it's been the other way around.
Tags: chelsea handler, CNN, Piers Morgan

**OgreChubbs**

So who is this CHELSEA and why is she throwing a tantrum? I actually think what you said is hypocritical because if you watch any american tv show all they do is tell other countries what they are doing wrong. Followed by vague threats and complaints. But I do not want to start anything so good day mate

**Frazzled**

She's a comic.

But thats American TV. We're not going onto feren devil TV and explaining why they are feren devils.

Or are we...

**Tibbsy**

So he got fired for being a tosser?

Sounds about right!

**iproxtaco**

Surely this isn't news to anyone. Piers Morgan was an arrogant gak long before he ran away to the US. We don't like him either.

**Frazzled**

You can be honest. Is shipping him over here payback for that whole Revolution thing?

**Pedro Kantor**

Yes.

. The only thing is, now that he's got the boot, he will be back over here looking for work and defiling our tv ( again ). Can't you keep him as a carnival attraction or something ?

**Relapse**

She just kind of bounced his self righteous ass all over, didn't she?

**kronk**

I don't find Chelsea Handler funny. At all. But that was a pretty good burn.

**Frazzled**

Pedro Kantor wrote:
Yes. . The only thing is, now that he's got the boot, he will be back over here looking for work and defiling our tv ( again ). Can't you keep him as a carnival attraction or something ?

We have enclosed game hunts here. I've previously been aggressively opposed to them, but in this case I would make an exception.

"There is no hunting like the hunting of a man. And those who've hunted armed men long enough, and like it, never really care for anything else thereafter."

**Jihadin**

We still have Bieber.....still a bargain well and done

**Frazzled**

Jihadin wrote:
We still have Bieber.....still a reason for total war with Canada.

Corrected your typo.

**Jihadin**

No war. we lost against Canada at Olympic Hockey Sochi via Crimea...

**Kilkrazy**

To be fair to Piers it was CNN who hired him. He didn't pay them to get the gig.

**kronk**

Jihadin wrote:
No war. we lost against Canada at Olympic Hockey Sochi via Crimea...

Those were the terms and we need to meet our obligations. A Lanister always pays his debts!

**shamikebab**

Yeah I feel it should be made really clear that us brits ******* hate Piers Morgan too!

**Tibbsy**

shamikebab wrote:
Yeah I feel it should be made really clear that us brits ******* hate Piers Morgan too!

You mean that wasn't obvious already?

**Steve steveson**

Piers Morgan got fired because his ratings were not high enough. He could say whatever he wanted and be as much of a jerk as he wanted if he had the ratings.

Having said that I think most of the UK wondered what the feth was happening when he got his own chat show.

**cincydooley**

Steve steveson wrote:
Piers Morgan got fired because his ratings were not high enough. He could say whatever he wanted and be as much of a jerk as he wanted if he had the ratings.

Having said that I think most of the UK wondered what the feth was happening when he got his own chat show.

Well thats sort of the problem, isn't it. Ask any American and they'll tell you we almost always like British folks on our television. Morgan has been one of the real exceptions because he's such an unabashed know-it-all and pompous ass. As such, his ratings sucked because no one wanted to ever watch him.

I know I've never watched the show. What I have watched is YouTube clips of better informed guests just lambast him when he talks out of his ass.

**KingCracker**

OgreChubbs wrote:So who is this CHELSEA and why is she throwing a tantrum? I actually think what you said is hypocritical because if you watch any american tv show all they do is tell other countries what they are doing wrong. Followed by vague threats and complaints. But I do not want to start anything so good day mate

Reads this classy obviously biased answer.....

Pedro Kantor wrote:Yes. . The only thing is, now that he's got the boot, he will be back over here looking for work and defiling our tv ( again ). Can't you keep him as a carnival attraction or something ?

Hmm..... Let's compromise and send him to Canada instead. Savvy?

**cincydooley**

Now, to be entirely fair, Chelsea Handler isn't exactly a bastion for morality and good choices, but that's sort of her schtick.

**Dreadclaw69**

Steve steveson wrote:
Piers Morgan got fired because his ratings were not high enough. He could say whatever he wanted and be as much of a jerk as he wanted if he had the ratings.

Having said that I think most of the UK wondered what the feth was happening when he got his own chat show.

When it was announced that he got his own show on CNN the universal reaction was "Really? Him??"

**kronk**

I had never heard of him nor watched his show until the night New Jersey got hit with the hurricane. Watching CNN's coverage for about 30 minutes with him lambasting the police and fire departments response time was about all I could take. This is a huge feth-off storm and everyone is scrambling from emergency to emergency and you're honestly complaining about response times?

**liquidjoshi**

Again, America, we're really, really sorry that he's a thing...

Is it against any sort of convention to just ship him to Antarctica where he can't offend anybody?

**kronk**

liquidjoshi wrote:
Again, America, we're really, really sorry that he's a thing...

Is it against any sort of convention to just ship him to Antarctica where he can't offend anybody?

He's already been there. He was wearing a penguin suit.

**Dreadclaw69**

Why don't we send him to Russia unless they withdraw from the Crimea and allow an international peacekeeping force in?

**liquidjoshi**

kronk wrote:
liquidjoshi wrote:
Again, America, we're really, really sorry that he's a thing...

Is it against any sort of convention to just ship him to Antarctica where he can't offend anybody?

He's already been there. He was wearing a penguin suit.

...

What about the Moon? Helmet optional.

**Frazzled**

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Why don't we send him to Russia unless they withdraw from the Crimea and allow an international peacekeeping force in?

Now thats out of the box thinking.

**Hulksmash**

Frazzled wrote:
Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Why don't we send him to Russia unless they withdraw from the Crimea and allow an international peacekeeping force in?

Now thats out of the box thinking.

I heartily approve.

Oh, and while I don't love Chelsea Handler my wife did enjoy her show for quite a while and whenever I caught it she was obviously took her role as host seriously with her guests. Well...the ones that didn't seem to be friends outside of the show. Those she just barely managed to get their plug in for

**Hlaine Larkin mk2**

KingCracker wrote:
OgreChubbs wrote:So who is this CHELSEA and why is she throwing a tantrum? I actually think what you said is hypocritical because if you watch any american tv show all they do is tell other countries what they are doing wrong. Followed by vague threats and complaints. But I do not want to start anything so good day mate

Reads this classy obviously biased answer.....

Pedro Kantor wrote:Yes. . The only thing is, now that he's got the boot, he will be back over here looking for work and defiling our tv ( again ). Can't you keep him as a carnival attraction or something ?

Hmm..... Let's compromise and send him to Canada instead. Savvy?

How about Australia: no one can be charged with murder if the indigenous species did it