{"id":4846,"date":"2014-02-24T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2014-02-24T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:00:31","slug":"so-long-piers-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4846","title":{"rendered":"So long, Piers Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When you think about, the news that CNN has canceled Piers Morgan’s prime-time talk show should come as no surprise.<\/p>\n

His ratings were terrible, almost as terrible as his show.<\/p>\n

I tried many times to sit through his hour-long broadcasts. I don’t think I went the distance a single time.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/alyssa\/2012\/10\/25\/1086071\/why-piers-morgan-is-terrible-in-five-interviews\/#<\/p>\n

CNN brought in the “Britain’s Got Talent” judge to succeed the venerable Larry King. From the get-go it became clear why Morgan was so different from King: He wouldn’t let his subjects speak their minds without getting into an argument with them.<\/p>\n

Yes, King got downright bland late in his lengthy run on CNN. I reckon he grew tired. He’s, what, about 150 years old by now, right?<\/p>\n

Morgan, though, distinguished himself — as the link attached to this blog notes — by making a fool of himself<\/em> while trying to shame his guests.<\/p>\n

He got onto an anti-gun kick for several weeks in a row after the Newtown, Conn., massacre of those children and their teachers, prompting some diehard Second Amendment fanatics to call for his deportation back to the UK. I did not buy into that silliness. He is, after all, entitled to speak his mind — even if he is a citizen of another country.<\/p>\n

However, he seemingly failed to grasp how so many millions of Americans hold the words written into the Constitution as bordering on the holy.<\/p>\n

I won’t miss Morgan. Frankly, I hadn’t watched his show in many months. <\/p>\n

Which goes to show you just why CNN canceled his show. It’s the ratings, baby.<\/p>\n\n

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When you think about, the news that CNN has canceled Piers Morgan’s prime-time talk show should come as no surprise. His ratings were terrible, almost as terrible as his show. I tried many times to sit through his hour-long broadcasts. I don’t think I went the distance a single time. http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/alyssa\/2012\/10\/25\/1086071\/why-piers-morgan-is-terrible-in-five-interviews\/# CNN brought in the … Continue reading So long, Piers Morgan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1043,2735,3600,4169],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cnn","tag-larry-king","tag-piers-morgan","tag-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}