Posted on 02/26/2014 7:57:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This week, CNN's Piers Morgan announced that "Piers Morgan Live" would be coming to an ignominious end sometime in March. His replacement has not yet been chosen. But his television demise came not a moment too soon for millions of Americans who had tired of his sneering nastiness.
The New York Times chose not to see it that way. Instead, the Times insisted, Morgan's problem sprang from his British accent and heritage: "Old hands in the television news business suggest that there are two things a presenter cannot have: an accent or a beard ... Mr. Morgan is clean shaven and handsome enough, but there are tells in his speech — the way he says the president's name for one thing (Ob-AA-ma) — that suggest that he is not from around here." Morgan himself attributed his downfall to his foreignness: "Look, I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it."
No doubt the notion of a British entertainer coming to America, clearing millions of dollars, and then lecturing Americans on their fundamental rights galled many. But what truly galled so many Americans was Morgan's underlying perspective — a perspective shared by the Times, as well as most of the left. Morgan, unfortunately, believes that Americans are typically racist, sexist, homophobic bigots clinging to guns without regard to the safety of children. We, in his world of unearned moral superiority, are the bad guys.
Which is why Morgan had nothing to say when I appeared on his program in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, handed him a copy of the Constitution to remind him of the Second Amendment, and then told him that he was a "bully...demoniz(ing) people who differ from you politically by standing on the graves of the children of Sandy Hook." His only response: "How dare you."
It's why Morgan had nothing to say when I suggested a few months later that his gushing response to gay basketball player Jason Collins' coming out sprang from his disdain for the American people: "Why do you hate America so much that you think it's such a homophobic country, that when Jason Collins comes out it is the biggest deal in the history of humanity, and President Obama has to personally congratulate him?" Again, Morgan had no answer.
As the left has no answer. The left's perspective on the role of government is inextricably linked to its view that Americans, free of government strictures, are brutally discriminatory, selfishly violent. Without the guiding hand of our betters, we would all be Bull Connors (a government employee), hoses at the ready. Without the sage wisdom of our leftist superiors, we would all be shooting each other at shopping malls.
The countervailing perspective — that America is a pretty damn great place filled with pretty damn great people — has little currency for the left. But when their hate-Americans perspective is repeatedly exposed, Americans begin to find it tiresome. That's what happened with Morgan. That's what will happen to the American left if the American right somehow finds the stomach to call out the left's snobby scorn for everyday Americans.
-- Ben Shapiro, 30, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, a radio host on KTTH 770 Seattle and KRLA 870 Los Angeles, Editor-in-Chief of TruthRevolt.org, and Senior Editor-at-Large of Breitbart News. He is the New York Times bestselling author of "Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America." He lives with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles.
Trump can like him all he wants. Remember Trump is basically a New Yorker, and even a conservative New Yorker loves more government, hates fears and doesn’t understand freedom, loves the taste of bootpolish, and thinks New Yorkers should tell everyone else what to do. They can’t help it. Their arrogances is born of equal parts of stupidity, bone deep ignorance, and moral cowardice.
RE; I can easily dispute this nonsense...Mark Steyn and Stuart Varney.”
Both are AMERICANS despite their accents.
Mark Steyn’s British accent is anything but pompous & arrogant a la Piers Morgan. Steyn’s is working class fish-n-chips British, more Andy Capp than Alistair McLean.
Mark talks much like Eliza Doolittle’s longshoreman father in My Fair Lady, which IMO is kind of strange since he is native Canadian.
The principal difference is that Mark Steyn loves America just as much as Piers Morgan hates & despises it.
Hoping that P.M. will make good on his threat to cause trouble for the N.R.A. (”I’m not finished with you yet!”). What’s he going to do, walk up to Wayne LaPierre and kick him in the shins?
Because he's a condescending, snobby, liberal idiot?.................just a guess................
They’re just reciting the leftist propaganda Americans won’t recite...
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Returning the Churchill bust was a classless act made by a classless pathological socialist.
This guy was too liberal for the low hundred thousand remaining CNN viewers. What do the 2 things have in common?
Mark Steyn is a Canadian Citizen and Stuart Varney apparently has never claimed US Citizenship, despite living in the US since 1974.
I cant understand why Americans wouldn’t like a smug, sanctimonius, self righteous foreigner lecturing us on how we should run our country.
Condescending asshats from across the pond would do well to identify their problems at home.
I think Mark Steyn has already gotten his US citizenship
Oh, I don’t know, maybe because he was an arrogant, condescending, liberal who claimed all Americans were bigots, but would cross the street to avoid the black guys coming toward him..?
That’s truly odd....I watch about 2 episodes a day of Top Gear, but apparently I only dislike Piers Morgan because he has an accent....
Have you watched his documentaries? He’s an obnoxious a$$ who basically turns so much of it into a joke, putting the people he interviews in awkward spots and basically making a fool of himself.
His accent drives me insane.
I thank our forefathers every day that they got us out of that rotten country’s control. I wish the Brits would deal with their own problems instead of mouthing off to us and other countries about how to run our lives.
I think the NYT believes not Father Knows Best, but that we’re all like The Beverly Hilbillies or Green Acres. A bunch of country idiots who know nothing.
The same road BTW we are skipping along
Stuart Varney is an enjoyable and knowledgeable Brit on the Fox Business Channel. He frequent comments on the cultural aspects if the US he likes all without losing his British-ness. Piers could have learned a thing or two from him.
lol
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