Piers Morgan Emerges as A Staunch Defender of Murdoch

[RandySF]

Rupert Murdoch has an increasingly outspoken defender on TV: Piers Morgan. After a week of relative silence on the subject of the ballooning hacking scandal, the CNN primetime host and one-time Murdoch tabloid editor has taken to the airwaves as a staunch champion of the Murdochs and their associates.

In an appearance on Wolff Blitzer’s afternoon program The Situation Room, Morgan lambasted a conservative member of the British Parliament for alleging that, in his memoirs, Morgan had indicated he had first-hand knowledge of phone hacking by Mirror reporters during his tenure as editor of that tabloid.

“The only intrigue in my book referring to phone hacking was when somebody warned me that my phone might be hacked and advised me to change my pin number. I was pretty outraged ,” Morgan said. (Earlier in the day, Morgan had denied flat out that any hacking had taken place at News of the World or the Daily Mirror during his time at the helm of those tabloids). “None of these things she says that I wrote actually exist in book.”

He then went on to offer a defense of the Murdochs as thorough as anything Rupert or James have said about the scandal on their own behalf. The hearings before Parliament in which the Murdochs and Rebecca Brooks appeared were “a most extraordinary spectacle,” he said.

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[Oceansaway]

1. Morgan makes me hurl....nt

[WCGreen]

2. I am shocked, I tell you shocked that this ass hat would defend the

gnarled gnome...

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Well Piers you can sue for defamation of character

yes you are a public figure, but you still could in this case...I am betting you are more afraid of this reaching YOU.

[beac]

5. Yup. Covering Rupert's ass with a LITTLE left over to try and keep his own

heinie out of sight.

Good luck with that Piers, you insufferable tool!

[Drale]

4. May he be mounted by a rabid dog. /nt

[Dawson Leery]

6. Piers Morgan is a sensationalist.

He is in the back pocket of Murdoch and Co.

[madinmaryland]

7. When Morgan said he would never interview KO, I knew the guy was a douchebag.

Fuck him.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. Not to mention how he played Susan Boyle while Britain Has Talent was filming.

She told him she has a crush on him and he played it for every tabloid moment and photo op he could about them 'dating' while he has a long time live-in partner.

Poor woman had a nervous breakdown by the end of the run from all of the stress and head games from his shit.

Gutter scum, he is.

[murielm99]

15. Piers is married to the partner now.

Celia Walden is the lady, the daughter of a Tory MP.

[malaise]

8. Send him back to England

:puke:

[Ruby the Liberal]

9. No shock. Mr NoTW/Mirror is knee deep in this as well.

I wish intrade would set up a News Corpse board. LOL

[Dappleganger]

11. Seriously.

[EFerrari]

12. He's probably there as damage control. This investigation was on for 2 years

this isn't a surprise to Murdoch.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Go back home Piers, and defend the disgusting bastard there. nt

[spanone]

14. he's a media freak....