Headline: Breitbart Editor (Ben Shapiro) calls Piers Morgan a bully standing on the graves of the children killed at Sandy Hook
On Thursday Morgan had Breitbart News Editor-at-large Ben Shapiro on his show 'Piers Morgan Tonight' to talk about gun control as part of a series of episodes Morgan is doing about 'Guns in America.'...You may recall that in the first episode of the series Morgan called the Executive Director of Gun Owners an “unbelievably stupid man.” He then brought on Fox News contributor and gun advocate John Lott only to call him a liar....
Last night, when Morgan asked Shapiro why Shapiro thinks he's “off the rails on this issue,” Shapiro quickly fired back with, “You have kind of been a bully on this issue....You tend to demonize people who differ from you politically by standing on the graves of the children of Sandy Hook, saying they don’t seem to care enough about the dead kids. If they cared more about the dead kids, they would agree with you on policy..."
“How dare you... How dare you accuse me of standing on the graves of children who died there...How dare you.....” Morgan responded.
(Shapiro) continued to tear into the host: “I think we can have a rational, political conversation about balancing rights and risks and rewards of all of these different policies, but I don’t think that what we need to do is demonize people on the other side as being unfeeling about what happened at Sandy Hook....Well, I mean, you can keep saying that, but you’ve done it repeatedly. What you do, and I’ve seen you do it on your program, is you keep saying to folks if they disagree with you politically, then somehow this is a violation of what happened in Sandy Hook....I would really like to hear your policy prescriptions for what we should do about guns because you say you respect the Second Amendment....”
(Shapiro) present(ed) a pocket version of the Constitution. “I brought this here for you so you can read it...I would really like for you to explain to me what you would do about guns that would have prevented what happened in Sandy Hook....If you want to do what you did in the U.K., which is ban virtually all guns, that is at least a fair argument and we can have a discussion about whether that’s something that we ought to do or not.....Your passion on the issue doesn’t really justify the rationale for why you want to ban assault weapons....”
by Laura Byrne/Andrew Kirell January 11, 2013 11:56 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/breitbart-editor-calls-piers-morgan-a-bully-standing-on-the-graves-of-the-children-killed-at-sandy-hook
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/breitbart-editor-battles-piers-morgan-accuses-cnn-host-of-standing-on-the-graves-of-children-of-sandy-hook/
Direct Headline: Lorraine Kelly Argues Piers Morgan Has Not Been 'Cancelled' As Pair Clash
In Cancel Culture Debate
"You’re not cancelled though! That’s the thing."...Lorraine Kelly tried to prove to Piers Morgan that he hadn’t been “cancelled” as he made an appearance on her chat show on Thursday....The former Good Morning Britain presenter returned to ITV for the first time since his infamous exit from the channel’s breakfast show last year to promote his new talkTV series Piers Morgan Uncensored.
Back in March 2021, Piers departed GMB after calling into question Meghan Markle’s claims that she’d experienced suicidal thoughts during her time as a senior royal....He later revealed ITV bosses had asked him to apologise for his comments or leave GMB, with Piers opting to stand by his words and exit the show....Piers has since landed a show on new station talkTV, which he says will aim to “cancel the cancel culture” that saw him forced to leave his previous job....
“But you’re not cancelled though! That’s the thing,” she insisted. People say that you’re cancelled, but you’ve got this massive show coming up.”
....Piers responded: “Lorraine, I do and I’m thrilled and excited about it, but I was cancelled from Good Morning Britain, because I did not want to leave and I was told, ‘You’ve got to apologise or leave’ – that is what cancel culture is....Sharon Osbourne was cancelled from her show simply for saying I had the right to an opinion, and I just think society has got to get a grip of this....I respect your opinion, but we should be allowed to have different opinions and this woke mob have decided that only your opinions can be tolerated, and if you deviate one iota from it, then you will have to be destroyed. They’re not liberal, they’re a new form of fascist and I’m not going to let them get away with it...."
By Ash Percival 21/04/2022 12:00pm BST
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lorraine-kelly-piers-morgan-itv-interview_uk_6261279de4b09c32edf8e8b7
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Again, Piers Morgan was formerly a blood hound for the left. There were times he'd go full tribal and savage. Then he got 'cancelled' Then all those former left leaning MSM outlets turned their back on him. Only his long standing name recognition and ability to draw in an audience helped him survive ( much like Rogan and Chappelle and Gervais and a few others have managed to pull through)
The cancel culture is just blood lust. The only survivors are not fellow liberals, but the handful that have such powerful established platforms that they can adjust and keep moving forward. Very few people have that option. Very few people could have survived what Joe Rogan escaped from and battled through.
Morgan tried to cancel Shapiro, then nearly a decade later, Shapiro gave Morgan a chance to get his voice out into the public sphere again to a US audience.
As I always say, everyone has their name on the cancel culture list, just some are written a little further down.
Here's something you probably haven't considered, if the radical left and establishment Democrats wipe out all the Conservatives and Republicans, someone will end up being the new "right wing" to be persecuted and hunted down.
What if it's your kids? Someone you love? Someone who helped you in the past and you know is a good person? What if it's you?
"Everyone laughs until they realize they are standing in front of a mirror" - GordonGekko