By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--April 21, 2022
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Fox News, the same cable network that called the election for Joe Biden while folk were still voting in Arizona on Election Night—used former president Donald Trump to kick off ego maniac Piers Morgan’s coming primetime Fox News show, "Piers Morgan Uncensored,"premiering on Monday.
“The provocative TV host Piers Morgan is returning to Rupert Murdoch's media empire. In the U.S., Morgan will host a primetime show on the right-wing streaming service Fox Nation, and he'll write columns for the New York Post. He'll also appear in Murdoch's U.K. and Australian outlets.” (NPR, Sept. 16, 2021)Support Canada Free Press
“A blockbuster exclusive to rocket-launch my new global TV show, “Piers Morgan Uncensored” on Monday, April 25”, tells the whole story about cable television today! “My four-camera crew were all set up in a palatial bar, I was suited, booted, made up and had been exchanging cordial small talk with Secret Service agents designated to ensure we behaved ourselves.(Just so you know how important Piers Morgan is.)
“But as I hurriedly scanned the three-page white paper document, my heart sank.(Fox News) "There were several dozen comments from me, taken from columns I’d written and interviews I’d given, in which I was savagely critical of Trump’s conduct in the last year of his presidency, from his woeful handling of the coronavirus pandemic to his refusal to accept defeat in the 2020 election, and the appalling January 6 riot at the Capitol that followed. “Whoever sent it knew exactly what they were doing.”Brexit leader Nigel Farage, usually does!
“In the suddenly very chilly light of a sun-kissed Florida afternoon, however, they made distinctly unhelpful reading. "Is he going to cancel the interview?" I asked, trying not to panic.” "I don’t know," came the reply. "But he is VERY upset." "See if I can go and talk to him about it," I suggested. “Twenty minutes later, I was sitting in Trump’s office. “Normally, he’d greet me with a cheery smile and the words, "How’s my champ?," because I was his first "Celebrity Apprentice" on the series that made him a TV superstar.”So it was Morgan who made Trump a TV superstar?! Morgan accused Trump of “a one-sided hatchet job designed to stop you doing our interview”.
“It looked for sure like Trump was about to can the interview, which would have been a massive waste of time and money for me and our team and leave me an even more massive hole for the first show.” (Fox News)Poor, poor Piers
“…But things took a dramatic downward turn when I finally brought up his refusal to accept defeat in 2020 and the appalling scenes on January 6. (Fox News) "I told him I believe he lost the supposedly "rigged, stolen" election, I repeatedly pointed out his failure to produce any evidence of the widespread voter fraud he insists occurred to rob him of his presidency, and I blamed his refusal to admit defeat for the deadly riots at the Capitol.
“He was back to the furious Trump he’d been in his office and branded me a fool six more times, in between calling Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell "stupid," and his former vice president, Mike Pence, "foolish and weak.”(Fox News) “Our collective crime was that none of us agree he had the election stolen.”Morgan’s immoral crime is that he attributes guilt to all American citizens still being held without bail—some in solitary confinement—in a Washington jail.
“As he bellowed insults at me for disbelieving his rigged-election bulls–t. “...I don’t expect Trump to ever admit he lost the election fairly or confess to being responsible for the January 6 carnage. “But I thought it (the damning interview) was the best one we’ve ever done together, and all the tension created by the damning document he was given gave it a crackle and energy that makes for compelling television. “As for who sent him the document in the first place, Trump told me it came from London and gave it to me to "keep as souvenir of your treachery." “Mysteriously, it contains two random, very positive comparative quotes from British politician Nigel Farage, who now works as a presenter for my rival UK network GB News. “Oh, and by an extraordinary coincidence, Farage happened to have dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on April 8, just three days before I was there. “The next day, I sent Trump an email thanking him for his time and included these words: "You had every right to get annoyed and call me a fool for not believing the election was stolen from you, but I also have every right to my opinion, and I wasn’t going to lie to your face just to avoid annoying you. The best friends are the most honest/critical ones, not the sycophants.” (Fox News) “As I write this, 10 days later, I haven’t had any reply.“Perhaps we’ll never speak again, and our friendship is over? “I hope not. Donald Trump remains one of the world’s most interesting people, he is still the most popular Republican choice for 2024 nominee, and if Biden’s presidency continues to self-implode as badly as it currently is, he could end up back in the White House in two years. “In which eventuality, I can only imagine his fury if we all say that election was rigged, and Biden had the presidency stolen from him.”For the sake of the masses trying to hold on to their sanity in a world imploding around them, they should turn off their televisions and ignore pompous Piers Morgan on the new “woke” Fox News.
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