Why are British people so down on Piers Morgan?

[ShogunGino]

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When America's Got Talent aired here, he was the resident unhappy British judge for 5 years (to be fair, Nigel, the Brit on So You Think You Can Dance, is a decent guy), and I saw a few episodes of the first season, and let me tell you, he was indeed a ****. You know the three X things to stop a performance? He would press Sharon Osborne's and David Hasselhoff's buzzers when he didn't like someone in particular to get him to stop. And, yes, he had a terribly smug face. He may have made a fair judgment on a contestant from time to time, but that didn't stop him from from being unlikable.

Seeing episodes from later seasons, he didn't do that anymore, hopefully because we told him to dial back the cuntiness or else we would stuff him in a crate and para-deliver him back to Britain, where you would presumably ship him to Scotland, or something. Thing is, I've seen his 'news talk show' thingajig once, and he...sounds neutral enough, but after hearing what he did in his home country, I'm baffled as to how we let him start having a career here.

Perhaps its because Americans just love Brits. Whether it be your actors who are respectable making films and television that so many of us find enjoyable, playing all our most popular villains, or music bands no matter how good or bad, Australians who frequently act as British characters and we're too lazy to tell the difference and stern-faced contrarian judges who are so enjoyably hate-able, I have found that my fellow Americans just can't get enough of you guys. Even the cuntiest of your people can have a comfortable career in the United States...

 

[funnydude6556]

a lot of people seem to have it in for Lembit Opik but nobody seems to know why exactly their suppose to hate the guy.

Because he was an MP.

That's not really a good enough reason to hate someone, Lembit isn't even an MP anymore and people still hate him and even when he was an MP I don't think he ever did any of the things the British public hated MPs for. At least with Piers Morgon he actually did bad things for make people hate him but with Lembit it always seemed to be this weird "Your on the side we're suppose to hate so I guess we have to hate you now" way of thinking.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

He is the very definition of an arsehole. In fact he is The Alpha and Omega of arseholes and is a symbol of everything that is wrong with British tabloid "journalism". It was so nice of the US to take him off our hands.

Jeremy Clarkson should have been knighted and given a Victoria Cross or something for smacking Piers one.

 

[blueb0g]

I have absolutely no idea who he is & I'm pretty sure most British people haven't either. He doesn't sound nice but it's obviously quite easy to avoid him...

Most British people definitely know who he is and if you don't you've been living under a rock.

He's the British version of Bill O'Reilly.
He'll talk of different subjects, of course, but his method of argumentation is largely the same.
Be loud, pretend to always be right, try to talk down upon the opposition...and then make sweeping generalizations about a demographic to either prove your point or discredit the other guy despite the arse-pulled statistics being of debatable origin or not proving of a point.

That's why I don't like him, anyway.

Pretty much this.

From what I've learned during my time in London, Piers Morgan is a right-wing talking head on a far right news source.
That's bad enough.

As mentioned, he is more reprehensible than Jeremy "shoot people on strike in front of their families" Clarkson.

He's not that far right. In fact, on American TV, he's accused of being a leftie. His problem isn't his political affiliation, it's literally everything else.

 

[GonvilleBromhead]

He's been hated for years, way before the 'phone hacking scandal, for some terrible journalism and sensationalising - culminating in front page photos of British soldiers urinating on captured Iraqi's. British soldiers who, apparently, forgot how to lace their boots, whose uniform was 10 years out of date and travel around in the backs of Ford Transit vans. Yep, they were fake. Bloody obviously faked. He insisted they were real, of course. He got sacked.

What pisses people more off is that should have been it. He should have faded into obscurity. A nothing - no more than the piece of shit he is. And yet, he's managed to convince people with short memories he isn't a shit.

 

[Kmadden2004]

He seems like kind of a ****. That's about all you need to be honest.

Sorry, I couldn't help but laugh when I read your post there, especially given your avatar, because it just reminded me of a Piers Morgan-related joke Stephen Fry once told in the 'Uxbridge English Dictionary' round on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue...

 

[hazabaza1]

He seems like kind of a ****. That's about all you need to be honest.

Sorry, I couldn't help but laugh when I read your post there, especially given your avatar, because it just reminded me of a Piers Morgan-related joke Stephen Fry once told in the 'Uxbridge English Dictionary' round on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue...

Mind sharing with the class?
You can't say something like that and not expect me to get curious

 

[BlackStar42]

He seems like kind of a ****. That's about all you need to be honest.

Sorry, I couldn't help but laugh when I read your post there, especially given your avatar, because it just reminded me of a Piers Morgan-related joke Stephen Fry once told in the 'Uxbridge English Dictionary' round on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue...

Mind sharing with the class?
You can't say something like that and not expect me to get curious

They had to think of new definitions for existing words, and Stephen came up with:

Countryside: To kill Piers Morgan.

 

[Verlander]

Reverse Social Class-ism

He's a posh boy know it all crap editor conservative hack, and genuinely unlikable. Which kinda makes him a warm fuzzy hippy by US television standards. Jokes.

 

[Olas]

I have no clue why the whole internet is so determined to hate him, I know him mainly from America's got Talent and a few interviews he's done and if he ever struck me as anything it was a tad dull. Maybe it's because I agree with him on most issues like gun ownership rights, but aside from being a bit thick headed I don't see any real reason to label him the antichrist like other escapists on this thread have literally done.

Maybe the people who hate him so much haven't seen or read much American news and therefore haven't seen bogus journalism in it's prime. We don't even have real news anymore, it's mostly just idiots arguing over whether Obama's an American or not being filmed and presented as news.

 

[Kmadden2004]

Okay, well for everybody who's never heard it, I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue is a spoof quiz show on BBC Radio 4, and the Uxbridge English Dictionary round is basically where the players have to say a word and come up with an alternative definition for it (e.g.: measles - what artists use for self-portraits, or Condense - to fool the stupid).

One night they had Stephen Fry on, and he came up with this line that will forever go down in history, etched on a gold-plated wall-mount;

Countryside - to murder Piers Morgan

The fact that BBC Radio 4 got away with broadcasting that joke at 6.30PM on a Monday morning (and at midday the following Sunday) without a single complaint to Ofcom just shows how much people dislike Piers Morgan over here.

EDIT: Damn, ninja'd ;p

 

[sky14kemea]

Because it's funny?

Everyone likes a scapegoat, and he's a very very easy target. I hear people saying how rude and annoying he is, though I don't see it myself. Though he is pretty pompous.

Also he has one of those "slapable faces". The kind where even if they're not saying anything, you just wanna swing your hand at them hard enough to leave a bruise. e_e

 

[rodneyy]

As mentioned, he is more reprehensible than Jeremy "shoot people on strike in front of their families" Clarkson.

Except Jeremy Clarkson is joking when he says that sort of thing, I get the impression Piers isn't.
Charlie Brooker was sooo correct when he called him a "Slimy Prick"

yeah i always got that impression as well. he might say twattie things but its more his act, he plays a childish man/boy who prats around and says petulant things. just sometimes he goes a little far and missjudges something and it gets him in trouble.

 

[In Search of Username]

He's the British version of Bill O'Reilly.
He'll talk of different subjects, of course, but his method of argumentation is largely the same.
Be loud, pretend to always be right, try to talk down upon the opposition...and then make sweeping generalizations about a demographic to either prove your point or discredit the other guy despite the arse-pulled statistics being of debatable origin or not proving of a point.

That's why I don't like him, anyway.

Pretty much this.

From what I've learned during my time in London, Piers Morgan is a right-wing talking head on a far right news source.
That's bad enough.

He's actually fairly left-wing. Slimeball either way, though.

 

[Defeated Detective]

So I'm a fat American and recently I've gotten into watching British panel shows on YouTube. They've all got their own gimmicks and quirks, but if there's one thing that seems to be consistent it's that everybody hates Piers Morgan. Even Professor Elemental, the "chap-hop" artist rags on him a couple of times in his songs. Personally I'm only vaguely aware of the man. He was a host of some contest show I think for a while, and now he's apparently some sort of news show host on CNN.

But apparently he's managed to gain the ire of an overwhelming number of British citizens, and I'm rather curious as to what he's done to earn that much hate. I mean really, I understand there are some pretty un-liked celebrities, but this seems to be on the level of George W. Bush.

Jeremy Clarkson once punched him in the face, which really impressed me.

But then again, they're natural enemies. Brits must hate him since I see a lot of comments saying America deserves Piers Morgan, but I don't like him either due to how biased he is especially with the whole gun ban issue.

 

[Verlander]

He's the British version of Bill O'Reilly.
He'll talk of different subjects, of course, but his method of argumentation is largely the same.
Be loud, pretend to always be right, try to talk down upon the opposition...and then make sweeping generalizations about a demographic to either prove your point or discredit the other guy despite the arse-pulled statistics being of debatable origin or not proving of a point.

That's why I don't like him, anyway.

Pretty much this.

From what I've learned during my time in London, Piers Morgan is a right-wing talking head on a far right news source.
That's bad enough.

He's actually fairly left-wing. Slimeball either way, though.

I've seen this a few times. He's pretty centre-right in relation to UK politics. If you're American you could argue that he leans to the left, but compared to some American politicians Maggie Thatcher was a dirty commie.

 

[dreddfan]

That's not really a good enough reason to hate someone,

Yes it is. MPs are evil, greedy little bastards. Not allowing life saving medicine in hospitals, but voting themselves pay raises and extra expanses.

There are a lot of people in Britain who will be suffering in the near future because of MPs.

 

[Galletea]

I think the main reason we hate him is simply that he isn't very good an anything he does, but he seems to be everywhere and getting paid an awful lot for it, to the point where someone in the States is happy to pay him money to badly interview people.

Being part of a scandal that invaded the privacy of the family of a murder victim was just the cherry on a hate filled gateau.

 

[Fimbulvetr3822]

That's not really a good enough reason to hate someone,

Yes it is. MPs are evil, greedy little bastards. Not allowing life saving medicine in hospitals, but voting themselves pay raises and extra expanses.

There are a lot of people in Britain who will be suffering in the near future because of MPs.

I think the only MP gaining "extra Expanses" is Eric Pickles . Also UK MPs are by far the lowest paid in the g8 and possibly the g20, the only reason the expenses system is even present is because 25 years or so ago Margret Thatcher was unable to sell the idea of the 125% pay rise that would be required to keep UK MPs salaries level with the rest of the developed world would be impossible to sell to the Public.

Re: Lembit Opik: I didn't even know he was hated, if anything I respect him more than any other libdem (admittedly that is not much), maybe because he is/was dating one of the cheeky girls?

Re: Piers Morgan: as mentioned several times above, his involvement with the phone hacking scandal and the damage he and his ilk have done to press freedom in the UK is probably responsible.

Cheers,

Fim