OH HAPPY DAY

[ramseycat]

That's a shitty attitude to have when you're interviewing people. Viewers don't tune in to hear what the host is saying. They tune in to hear the guest.

[Duchess]

Aha! He's gone.

Thank you, CNN.

[HairOfTheDog]

His closing remarks before signing off...

I have lived and worked in America for much of the past decade, and it is a magnificent country. A land of true opportunity that affords anyone, even British chancers like me, the opportunity to live the American dream. The vast majority of Americans I have met are decent, hard-working, thoroughly dependable people. As my brother, a British Army colonel, says, “You’d always want an American next to you in a trench when the going gets tough.”

But that’s where guns belong – on a military battlefield, in the hands of highly trained men and women fighting for democracy and freedom. Not in the hands of civilians. The scourge of gun violence is a disease that now infects every aspect of American life.
Each day, on average, 35 people in this country are murdered with guns, another 50 kill themselves with guns, and 200 more are shot but survive. That’s 100,000 people a year hit by gunfire in America.

Now, I assumed that after 70 people were shot in a movie theater, and then, just a few months later, 20 first-graders were murdered with an assault rifle in an elementary school, the absurd gun laws in this country would change. But nothing has happened. The gun lobby in America, led by the NRA, has bullied this nation’s politicians into cowardly, supine silence. Even when 20 young children are blown away in their classrooms.

This is a shameful situation that has made me very angry. So angry, in fact, that some people have criticized me for being too loud, opinionated, even rude when I have debated the issue of guns. But I make no apologies for that.

As Sir Winston Churchill said: “If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.”

My point is simple: more guns doesn’t mean less crime as the NRA repeatedly says. It means more gun violence, death and profits for the gun manufacturers. And to those who claim my gun control campaigning has been “anti-American”, the reverse is true. I am so pro-American that I want more of you to stay alive.

But I’ve made my point. I’ve given it a tremendous whack. Now it’s down to you. It’s your country; these are your gun laws. And the senseless slaughter will only end when enough Americans stand together and cry: Enough!

I look forward to that day. And I look forward to seeing you all again soon. Goodnight, thank you, and God bless America. Oh, and while I’m at it, God bless Great Britain too.

[Duchess]

Oh happy day.

Whoever they replace him with will be a tremendous improvement over Piers.

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh happy day.

Whoever they replace him with will be a tremendous improvement over Piers.

I never watched his show except for when he interviewed Trayvon's friend Rachel from the Zimmerman trial.

Seems like his parting speech was a re-iteration of what I've heard he screamed loudly and repetitively on his show over the years. It read to me like, "I love you too much to stop prosthelytizing and to allow you to kill each other off, America".

IDK. I don't think he lost his show because of his gun views or politics -- every talk show host and interviewer has political views. I've seen some video clips from his show over the years. I think Morgan was a poor interviewer, he didn't captivate the audience, and that's why his ratings were low. The NRA and the gun lobbyists didn't shoot Piers in the foot. He got canned because CNN made a business decision to terminate a poor performer whose return on investment for the network was minimal or negative. IMO.

[Duchess]

Exactly!

My eyes rolled all the way back in my head when he blamed his poor ratings on his gun control stance. He's a dumb fucker.

Thanks for allowing me to complain about him (while still tuning in) the past few years, Mockers.

[Duchess]

Could Chelsea Handler be getting that twat Piers time slot? That would make me very happy! Her show is ending in August on E and she said she's over the celebrity bullshit, she wants to interview people who can educate her. She'll announce what she's doing in two weeks.

[FAHQTOO]

Could Chelsea Handler be getting that twat Piers time slot? That would make me very happy! Her show is ending in August on E and she said she's over the celebrity bullshit, she wants to interview people who can educate her. She'll announce what she's doing in two weeks.

I like Chelsea and I would watch.

I know most people don't like her.

[Duchess]

People (some) rarely like women who call a spade a spade. She's a serious smartass and that's often viewed as being a bitch but that's what I find so appealing about her.

[Cutz]

People (some) rarely like women who call a spade a spade.

[Duchess]

CNN just needs to give me someone in the 9:00 o'clock hour that I can approve of. I suffered through years of the twat Piers.

[Duchess]

I've detested Piers for a long time, that pompous old fuck. He had a hissy fit on his morning show and walked off and now he's without a show. Again. HaHaFuckinHa. Beat it, bitchflake.

[Maggot]

He fits right in with Cuomo, perhaps he could team up with him.

[Duchess]

Piers is one of the most disagreeable people I've ever seen on television. He's just so fucking unlikeable & argumentative and on his pompous high horse. I'd like to shove him off.