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Shorter Piers Morgan: Mitt Romney is a liar but I still love him.

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CNN’s favorite nitwit, Piers Morgan wrote a piece called “PIERS MORGAN: He’s one of the least principled politicians I’ve met. But I believe Mitt Romney might just save America” for The Daily Mail that is so bereft of any kernel of sense or sensibility that he should be forced to freefall from space without a parachute.

In his article, Piers claims that even though Mitt Romney is the least principled politician in all the land, he might save America because he’s a super-awesome businessman, and he doesn’t drink, do drugs, smoke, curse, or fuck around on his wife.

No, seriously. That’s his argument.

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  2. 2.

    geg6

    Seriously, is there anyone in America who listens to this British criminal who doesn’t even get to vote and whose ratings make up about a twentieth of Honey Boo Boo’s?

  3. 3.

    Jay

    I’m (partly) British, so I think I can make this joke:

    Bigger Limey-Piers Morgan or Stuart Varney?

    I’m going with Morgan because he’s aalways after new viewers to run his nonsense on. At least Varney knows no one watches his show.

  4. 4.

    Davebo

    He really was in his prime when he judged televised talent show or writing for British tabloids.

    CNN hired him, but then they hired Erik Erikson too.

  5. 5.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I take a bus to campus every morning. Usually I get there early enough to get first dibs on a window seat, but sometimes I have to decide which stranger to sit next to. It can be awkward, but people deal with it, because it’s always a full bus.

    Anyway, it seems to me that some people, like Piers Morgan, (if he could vote in America) spend the same amount of time deciding who would be a good president as I decide on where to sit on a bus. That is fucking terrifying.

  7. 7.

    Bruce S

    I’m assuming Morgan’s editor left “…because I’m an idiot” off of that long, very revealing headline title to save precious space.

  9. 9.

    Jerzy Russian

    Why are you polluting my beautiful mind with such abject stupidity? There should be the equivalent of the Prop. 65 warning on such posts, as in “the contents of the linked article are known to the State of California to cause the severe loss of IQ points.”

  11. 11.

    lamh35

    OT, but Hmm, so SoS Hilary Clinton in an interview on CNN said she “takes full responsibility” for what happened in Benghazi.

    Hmm, I’ma say it here first, watch the Romney/Ryan camp try to make some PUMA vs “O-bot” hay over this somehow. Don’t know how they could, but they sure will try.

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the bucks stops with her when it comes to who is blame for a deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi.
    “I take responsibility” for what happened on September 11, Clinton said in an interview with CNN’s Elise Labott soon after arriving in Lima, Peru for a visit. The interview, one of a series given to U.S. television networks Monday night, were the first she has given about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
    Clinton insisted President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are not involved in security decisions, Clinton said…

    http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/15/clinton-i-take-responsibility-for-benghazi/

  12. 12.

    FridayNext

    not just a nitwit, but a Britnitwit. And if they make fun of him on SNL it will be a Britnitwitskit. And if a comedian makes fun of the SNL production it will be a Britnitwitskitbit.

    I could do this all night.

  13. 13.

    danimal

    In my head, I can not hear the name Piers Morgan without an introductory “The execrable…”

    If anyone ever wonders about why CNN sucks, all they have to do is watch the execrable Piers Morgan’s show. And you thought they couldn’t do worse than Larry King…they did.

  15. 15.

    Quarks

    The key quote in that article is this:

    “He sees America as a struggling company, and himself as therefore the perfect person to rescue it.”

    And you know, I believe, one hundred percent, that if Romney believes anything (which granted is dubious) Romney does believe this. And the problem is, what did he DO with struggling companies? He fired people and shipped elements of the companies overseas or sold the companies.

    So, yes, if he becomes President, we can expect exactly this: “firing people” (dropping people, and specifically “poor performing” people which means working class Americans); shipping elements overseas (selling off mineral rights to foreign countries, increasing wars) or selling bits (opening up national parks to drilling and so on.)

    He’s said this. I believe him. That’s why I sent in my absentee ballot firmly marked for Obama.

  16. 16.

    Ben Franklin

    OT, but worthy.

    Brookings, of course, was one of the leaders in persuading Americans, especially many American liberals, to support the attack on and eight-year occupation of Iraq, and it remains vocally in the lead in the fear-mongering campaign against Iran. Its national security “experts” have been lavishly funded by billionaire mogul Haim Saban, who has described himself as a “total hawk” and said: I’m a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel.”

    Moderates beware. Greenwald link.http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/15/drones-brookings-media

  17. 17.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @Quarks:

    He’s said this. I believe him. That’s why I sent in my absentee ballot firmly marked for Obama.

    The United States of America is the greatest country in the world for shysters, grifters and confidence tricksters. That is why Mitt Romney stands a chance of leading it.

  18. 18.

    AA+ Bonds

    .
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    October 15, 2004:

    And so I guess what I’ve seen is that we’ve still got these last two stages to play, obviously. But I would say the first debate was just a giant thing. It was the first debate when Kerry really came even with Bush. And since then I think some people have argued that the Cheney debate, the vice presidential debate stopped that momentum and we’ve been in stasis since then, and I guess that’s what I see, this period of stasis. And then we really don’t have results from the third debate and this little Mary Cheney issue, there’s a lot of things that could play out of that. But we’re basically even going into the sleazy stage.
    __
    JIM LEHRER: Even going into the sleazy stage, Mark?
    __
    MARK SHIELDS: Jim, I think Democrats anyway, the ones I’ve talked to have moved from decidedly pessimistic which they were two weeks ago to guardedly optimistic right now. And I think it’s because essentially three events, three, I think, defining moments of any presidential campaign after the conventions. The first obviously is the debates. The second are events, realities, the external reality, the world.
    __
    JIM LEHRER: Something outside the campaign itself.
    __
    MARK SHIELDS: Everything is crowding in on the president at this point, I mean, you announced in the news summary 13 Americans killed this week; for the first time suicide bombers have penetrated the green zone, the safety zone; the secure zone in Baghdad. And freedom is on the march, it’s limping right now in Iraq. And then you’ve got, in addition to that you’ve got, we’ve reached the spending limit, I mean, the debt limit of the country.

  20. 20.

    AA+ Bonds

    Enjoy your validate-the-elites party, just realize that everyone is telling the same lies as before

  23. 23.

    General Stuck

    It’s not just that Mitt Romney has set all records for lying as a candidate for president of the US. It is now, I am convinced the center piece of his strategy as a race based gamble as a kind of heads I win, tails you lose, that burst out in the first debate.

    He is using his white entitlement to the hilt, and daring Obama to personally call him on it face to face, on the debate stage, and risk triggering more ancient white anxiety regarding black people in this country’s history. And Mitt is fully ready to take it as far as possible in the “did to, did not” department.

    Obama is going to have to figure a path through this maze of racial booby traps, to pin Romney’s lying ass to the barn door, and do it with a smile and some primo presidential snark. I like the skinny Kenyan’s chances, with a roll of the dice in front of tens of millions. Riverboat ring your bell.

  24. 24.

    history repeats itself

    @AA+ Bonds:

    Interesting callback… (Also a reminder of how late everything is this year, in terms of both conventions and debates — if it had been this close to the election in ’04, Kerry had the momentum and would have won.) The one thing about the transcript, and I don’t want to look it up, but what happened to O’Reilly that had “sidelined” him?

  25. 25.

    JenJen

    OMG Twitter is down! Ah-oooooga! (ETA: DEFCONTWIT Alert Canceled)

    The nutters are pumping the Piers Morgan thing with everything they’ve got today. There’s something kind of weird-feeling about this lull in the campaign news compared to this time four years ago, no?

  26. 26.

    Baud

    @JenJen:

    There’s something kind of weird-feeling about this lull in the campaign news compared to this time four years ago, no?

    Good, it’s not just me. The last three days especially have seemed way too quiet given that we’re so close to election day.

  27. 27.

    Spirula

    Captain Yardley: I never liked you. You know why? You don’t curse. I don’t trust a man who doesn’t curse. Not a “fuck” or a “shit” in all these years.

  28. 28.

    Quarks

    @pseudonymous in nc: Yep, and this election season we don’t have the “Oh my god do not let that woman NEAR the nuclear button” that we had in the last presidential election.

    Ryan’s still scary, but more on a social and economic level and not on a “I can’t trust him with nuclear weapons” level. And Romney’s considerably younger than McCain was, so it’s less of an issue anyway.

  29. 29.

    Cacti

    @Ben Franklin:

    Brookings, of course, was one of the leaders in persuading Americans, especially many American liberals, to support the attack on and eight-year occupation of Iraq

    Would that be the attack on Iraq that Greenwald supported antebellum?

  30. 30.

    JenJen

    @Baud: Right? I mean, it just feels weird. Out of sorts. We’re three weeks away and it definitely seems the reliable polling that I thought would be furious right now has grinded to a halt. That useless aggregate USA Today swing state poll is practically a placeholder, and you’re really not hearing much about the candidates on the trail.

  31. 31.

    Political Observer

    And Romney CONTINUES TO SURGE with the latest poll in Pennsylvania showing up cutting Obambi’s lead to only four!

    Halperin said that if Pennsylvania and Michigan began to tighten considerably, that’s the “canary in the coal mine” for BHO’s political career.

    Looks like that particular avian specimen just took a dirt nap.

  33. 33.

    Political Observer

    @Cacti:

    Whine, liberal. Whine whine whine about how it’s so UNNFAAAAIR that you lost the election.

    Hey maybe Diebold stole it. Take it TO TEH STREETZ, maaahn!

  37. 37.

    JenJen

    @Political Observer: Time to invoke The Halperin Rule, then! Seriously? I think it would be fantastic for Romney to pull resources out of Virginia and Colorado to go chase fool’s gold in Michigan and Pennsylvania right now. Take his advice, Mitt!

    I love this Halperin guy!

    @Baud: Even the debate talk isn’t all that amped compared to two weeks ago. What the hell is going on, seriously?

  39. 39.

    Eric U.

    @Quarks: Romney didn’t just fire people and send their jobs overseas, he made them take on lots of debt and paid himself way too much money out of the proceeds. It’s how he got rich. The Republicans have been doing this to the country for quite some time, but it really got out of control under Bush the lesser. I’m sure Romney would just start writing checks and not require any faulty gooder service be provided in return.

  41. 41.

    Political Observer

    @JenJen:

    You don’t get it, do you? I’m not saying that Romney should necessarily start competing in PA–it’s that if PA is tightening, that’s bad news for BO in Ohio, Wisconsin, and possibly Iowa.

    Canary in the coal mine, idiot. What, you’ve never heard that metaphor before?

  42. 42.

    Cacti

    @Eric U.:

    Romney didn’t just fire people and send their jobs overseas, he made them take on lots of debt and paid himself way too much money out of the proceeds. It’s how he got rich.

    Whether a company succeeded or failed, Mitt walked away with money in his pocket.

    His “business acumen” was his ability to cash in on a rigged game.

  44. 44.

    Political Observer

    One thing *I* would really be happy about is if Obambi is stupid enough to pull resources out of Wisconsin and Florida to compete for fool’s gold in North Carolina OH WAIT HE’S ALREADY DOING THAT!

  50. 50.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Southern Beale:

    Why the fuck is Frank Luntz involved with the NHL lockout?

    Because it’s about making a profit by making people unhappy. That always draws Republicans like flies to shit.

  53. 53.

    Political Observer

    @gbear:

    Greece? If Obambi gets reelected, they way he’s spending us deeper and deeper into debt we will ALL be taking vacations in Greece–Greece West.

  54. 54.

    Applejinx

    They desperately don’t want the party to be over. Obama’s ground game is quiet and very thorough. If they look too closely, it begins to look like Romney won’t win.

    So DON’T LOOK.

    If they talk about anything, pretty much anything Romney or Ryan are doing since Romney’s one big break which itself is being shown by polling to be a false break that didn’t really win over voters or change anything but the Village spin, it might look like Romney won’t win.

    So DON’T TALK.

    The idea is to put the entire election process into a deep-freeze immediately after the first Presidential debate, and allow nothing to happen. Don’t look, don’t think, don’t talk- leave it right at that moment and there can still be a ‘race’.

    Race ends, the money stops.

  55. 55.

    Zifnab25

    Is it me, or is there some obligatory “Obnoxious to the point of absurdity shallow-as-hell argument for the Republican Candidate” quota that needs to be met every four years?

    Why do I never hear this shit about Obama. “The ACLU may be furious with the Obama for his disappointing human rights record, but they need to support him because he’s got great hair and a hot wife.” I never get to see that column. Instead, its twenty idiots lining up to tell me why Mitt Romney has a bigger dick or was an idiot savant CEO or wears the magic Mormon underoos that will make all the difference.

    Where do I go for the completely uniformed voter’s guide of superficial reasons to vote Obama?

  57. 57.

    MikeJ

    The helicopters aren’t laughing! Today is the third anniversary of balloon boy’s big adventure.

    Fax me your credenza!

  58. 58.

    Baud

    @Zifnab25:

    Why do I never hear this shit about Obama.

    I think we have some of that too – it’s inevitable. The difference is that the media portrays the superficial stuff on the other side as a “serious” argument.

  59. 59.

    JenJen

    @Applejinx: This pretty much explains mine and Baud’s perception that things feel out of sorts three weeks out and that the coverage has slowed to a grind. Sharp analysis.

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate: @Southern Beale: I am seriously going to lose my shit over the news of Luntz’ involvement in the NHL lockout, pretty much the last thing I care deeply about.

  61. 61.

    Jules

    @Political Observer:

    I know you are a troll and I am mostly a lurker, but the name is Barack Obama or Mr. Obama or Obama or President Obama or The President of The United States.

    So unless you can give The President just a wee bit of respect then I would like to suggest that you FOAD.

  62. 62.

    NonyNony

    @Zifnab25:

    Why do I never hear this shit about Obama.

    Because there are real reasons why liberals should support Obama, even if he’s not the President that they would want given a perfect world.

    There’s no good positive reason why anyone would want Mitt Romney to be President. There are some negative reasons (not black, not a Democrat) but no good positive reasons.

    Hence the flail around looking for something to say “you should vote for Romney because…” that isn’t openly stupid (“… he’s not a Democrat!”) or openly racist (“… he’s not the black guy!”)

  63. 63.

    Political Observer

    @gbear:

    I’m only rich compared to you losers, which makes me rather solidly upper-middle class, compared to the people who post here most of which, when they’re not living in their childhood bedrooms staring at fading Obama posters, are age 35 working at Starbucks and still have roommates.

  64. 64.

    blingee

    I hope this statement pisses all you women off. The polls are showing that most of the Rmoney bounce were women being SUCKED IN by his political performance in the debate.

    All women should hold their head in shame over this statistical fact. Up until I heard about this I always thought women were sensible and immune to snake in the grass salesmen like Rmoney who will tell them whatever they want to hear. No more.

    Maybe Republicans are right when they question a womens right to choose and whether giving them the right to vote was a good idea! Yea, the SAME Republicans Rmoney is surrounding himself with and will help him run his administration and will help him make decisions….regardless of what you think HE thinks.

    Yea fire away…..I don’t care.

  65. 65.

    Steve Crickmore

    Our problem with Obama is that in 2008, he exhorted the public that he would be the standard bearer of a new breed of transcendent anti-politician; he would transform the way politics was done in Washington with a bold transparent administration. Instead as many of you intimidated, he goes into this election now rebranded simply as a mainstream Democrat, the lesser of two evils, yes considerably lesser, because of the wingnut freak show, but harldy one who in retrospect was straight with the American people that he would change the way politics was done, by example.

  72. 72.

    Foregone Conclusion

    Oh, how glad we were when we realised that you’d agreed to take him off our hands. Although it did convince a lot of Brits that CNN wasn’t a proper network…

  73. 73.

    Lurking Canadian

    @Political Observer: You’re jumping for joy because your guy is, uh, losing by somewhat less than he was yesterday?

    Do you also make a habit of betting your rent money on the Washington Generals, based on their traditional strong showing in the third quarter?

  75. 75.

    magurakurin

    @Lurking Canadian:

    actually, according to PEC and Nate, he’s losing by slightly more than yesterday.

    Even in Obama’s deep dark week of pain….he never lost the lead on all of the election models that had had in in the lead prior to his long day’s journey into night.

    Ohio, bitches.

  79. 79.

    pseudonymous in nc

    Like I said, America is fertile land for shysters and grifters: where else can trolls aspire to be paid a nickel a post?

  82. 82.

    Steve Crickmore

    @Mnemosyne It would be undoubtedly be worse, with Romney. But some day when the Republicans win the presidency, and return to their delusions of a truly imperial presidency, and ratchet up the executive powers, the Democrats and progressives will have considerably less credibilty, in their opposition.

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