Piers Morgan: Jon Stewart’s Rally Speech Was A “Jump The Shark Moment”

Mediaite.com ^ | 12/9/2010 | Colby Hall

[OldDeckHand]

Well the onslaught of Piers Morgan publicity is ratcheting up, evidenced by the steady flow on online clips (which are exceptionally well produced we might add.) The latest features Morgan sharing with his staff plans to avoid predictably partisan takes in his future show and coverage. He also notably both lauds and takes a shot at Jon Stewart for ‘jumping the shark’ at the end of his rally.

From CNN:

“I don’t want to be too nicey-nicey,” said Piers. But: “I’m not going to be partisan. Although I have lots of opinions which I will share with you in the bowels of the Mandarin bar at midnight about all sorts of stuff, I don’t see the need to be partisan.”

The “Rally To Restore Sanity” was still fresh in the minds of those in attendance, and Piers gave his take on Stewart (who he “loves”) and the big moment. “Everyone knows Jon Stewart is a liberal, and he turns up at that big rally and he turns into a politician,” said Piers. “I don’t want to watch him doing that.”

[OldDeckHand]

It will be interesting to see how Morgan does. He has a lousy lead-in with Spitzer (a program that I believe only averaged 545K viewers last week). I have seen some of Morgan's ITV interviews, and he's quite good. But, those were exclusively celebrity interviews. He doesn't have to do great to beat King, who himself is barely beating Behar.

In fact, not a single CNN primetime program averages above 1M nightly viewers.

[Charles Bronson Forever]

CNN has a death wish, and I don’t mean a good, Charles Bronson-type death wish.

[norge]

Personally, I think he’ll do well. He’s bright, light and humorous...quite a change from the current dead man talking.

King is only one of a number of hosts who, upon hearing Ahmadinejad say “I’m going to bomb Boston”, would respond by asking, “how’s your wife?”

[StormEye]

"CNN has a death wish, and I don’t mean a good, Charles Bronson-type death wish."

For CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, WAPO, NYTimes etc. ratings or circulation doesn't matter. Spewing the leftist/DNC/socialist worldview and propaganda is what those outfits are all about.