Posted on 02/23/2014 4:27:25 PM PST by kristinn
There have been times when the CNN host Piers Morgan didn’t seem to like America very much — and American audiences have been more than willing to return the favor. Three years after taking over for Larry King, Mr. Morgan has seen the ratings for “Piers Morgan Live” hit some new lows, drawing a fraction of viewers compared with competitors at Fox News and MSNBC.
It’s been an unhappy collision between a British television personality who refuses to assimilate — the only football he cares about is round and his lectures on guns were rife with contempt — and a CNN audience that is intrinsically provincial. After all, the people who tune into a cable news network are, by their nature, deeply interested in America.
CNN’s president, Jeffrey Zucker, has other problems, but none bigger than Mr. Morgan and his plum 9 p.m. time slot. Mr. Morgan said last week that he and Mr. Zucker had been talking about the show’s failure to connect and had decided to pull the plug, probably in March.
Crossing an ocean for a replacement for Larry King, who had ratings problems of his own near the end, was probably not a great idea to begin with. For a cable news station like CNN, major stories are like oxygen. When something important or scary happens in America, many of us have an immediate reflex to turn on CNN. When I find Mr. Morgan telling me what it all means, I have a similar reflex to dismiss what he is saying. It is difficult for him to speak credibly on significant American events because, after all, he just got here.
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Yeah, I’m devastated.
He's been married to two different women and has several children by them. So stop insulting f**s.
In other news, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is deeply saddened by this turn of events.
What’s a “piers morgan”?
Stuart Varney also has a British accent, and as far as I know, he connects with Americans just fine. He connects fine with me, anyhow.
Dear Prick Piers Morgan: IT’S NOT THE ACCENT.
I think it’s similar to a Red Ken Livingstone, but without the govern-MENTAL experience.
Mark Steyn has one of those snooty-sounding pseudo-British Canadian accents, and he connects fine with me as well.
Alistair Cooke did pretty good here as well.
So Piers Morgan spawned?
Hope those kids turn out alright.
LOL!
We don’t watch television “news” in our house-—turned it off years ago.
You can’t believe how pleasant it is.
If it’s not on FR, I don’t need to know about it—LOL!
I know, I know, but he just seems so gay.
Piers Morgan was a man on a mission to help “fundamentally transform.” America.
His contemptable, snarky attitude towards Americans and particularly those who disagreed with him, and his views made this inevitable.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving person...err, well, actually it could.
Barack Hussein Obama, whose own ratings, and whose own attitudes are very similar...but whose impact is greater by many orders of magnitude is much more deserving.
America at the Crossroads of History
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
Who really is Barack Hussein Obama?
http://www.jeffhead.com/whoisobama.htm
If I were President, here’s what I would do
http://www.jeffhead.com/aspres.htm
yeah remember he host Masterpiece theatre when he had I Claudius Upstair Downstairs those were good BRIT Shows
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