Piers Morgan vs Gove
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LordGrover

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34,080 posts

236 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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I've only seen a clip so far but apparently everyone's favourite Piers Morgan gave Michael Gove a rough time this morning.
Hope to remember to watch it on catch-up when I get home.

MrVert

4,456 posts

263 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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Gove tripped up badly, tried to deny in March that the initial rhetoric was to pursue a herd immunity approach...when at the time, Govt medical 'advisors' were all over the media stating that very approach...

He was definitely wobbling by the end, repeating himself in the same sentence as he struggled for an answer..

anonymous-user

78 months

super7

2,198 posts

232 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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I find Piers Morgan to be incredibly antagonistic in his approach to interviews.... He always seems to want to be-little and show up any interviewee.

Would love to see an interview where the interviewee tells him to F**K off.

Every interview turns into a slanging match.... and unfortunately Susannah Reid is getting dragged into his style of confrontational interviewing frown

98elise

31,527 posts

185 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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MrVert said:
Gove tripped up badly, tried to deny in March that the initial rhetoric was to pursue a herd immunity approach...when at the time, Govt medical 'advisors' were all over the media stating that very approach...
Were they? Herd immunity is when enough people are immune that infections reduce. It happens naturally by people being infected, or by vaccination.

I don't remember government advisors telling people to go out and get intentionally infected.

98elise

31,527 posts

185 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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super7 said:
I find Piers Morgan to be incredibly antagonistic in his approach to interviews.... He always seems to want to be-little and show up any interviewee.

Would love to see an interview where the interviewee tells him to F**K off.

Every interview turns into a slanging match.... and unfortunately Susannah Reid is getting dragged into his style of confrontational interviewing frown
Agreed. Any interview he conducts is to suit his own agenda which is all that counts.

Hub

7,003 posts

222 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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Was it funnier than Matt Hancock's fake crying yesterday? laugh

Muzzer79

12,716 posts

211 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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The most annoying thing about Morgan is the duty he has bestowed upon himself to 'grill' the interviewee.

Like he's doing all of us a favour or doing what we can't by being rude to people and not listening to people.

He's a journalist. His job is to question and report, not berate and shout.

He's taking the American style of news reporting and infecting the UK with it. Anyone who disagrees with his approach is then lampooned on Twitter.

Blue62

10,310 posts

176 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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super7 said:
I find Piers Morgan to be incredibly antagonistic in his approach to interviews.... He always seems to want to be-little and show up any interviewee.

Would love to see an interview where the interviewee tells him to F**K off.

Every interview turns into a slanging match.... and unfortunately Susannah Reid is getting dragged into his style of confrontational interviewing frown
What was it Stephen Fry said on ‘Sorry I haven’t a clue?’, Countryside = the act of killing Piers Morgan.

dandarez

13,904 posts

307 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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LordGrover said:
I've only seen a clip so far but apparently everyone's favourite Piers Morgan gave Michael Gove a rough time this morning.
Hope to remember to watch it on catch-up when I get home.
Everyone's favourite? I'd take Gove over Morgan any day - at least we realise politicians are slippery swine.
Anyway, 91 yr old Martin Kenyon on the show this morning showed Piers up.
Besides being 36yrs older than Piers, he was quicker and a darned sight more articulate. Well done sir! clap

https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1336599145902125057...

anonymous-user

78 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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Was great to see Gove picked up for his lies. Morgan did a great job, didn’t let him get away with it.
I guess Gove & co will boycott GMB again soon.
Then only give in depth interviews to Philip & Holly wink

FNG

4,638 posts

248 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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Blue62 said:
What was it Stephen Fry said on ‘Sorry I haven’t a clue?’, Countryside = the act of killing Piers Morgan.
Tim Brooke-Taylor, I believe.

The repeated killing of Piers Morgan. Piers-Morgan-re-cide.

pavarotti1980

6,070 posts

108 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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98elise said:
Agreed. Any interview he conducts is to suit his own agenda which is all that counts.
He wasnt very harsh on his mate Kay Burley.......everyone makes mistakes etc..

don'tbesilly

15,362 posts

187 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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Jimboka said:
Was great to see Gove picked up for his lies. Morgan did a great job, didn’t let him get away with it.
I guess Gove & co will boycott GMB again soon.
Then only give in depth interviews to Philip & Holly wink
You must have missed all the interviews Gove et al gave to the BBC whilst not going on that sh*ite show of Morgan's, with the doe-eyed puppy Reid.

The programme is a joke, and Morgan is a trumped-up gob*****



Octoposse

2,375 posts

209 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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I don't think Morgan was actually that effective . . . he should have kept returning to the key point of why rational people have grounds not to trust the government's COVID-19 pronouncements. Instead of being cool and forensic, he got diverted into a slanging match.

Pan Pan Pan

10,725 posts

135 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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98elise said:
super7 said:
I find Piers Morgan to be incredibly antagonistic in his approach to interviews.... He always seems to want to be-little and show up any interviewee.

Would love to see an interview where the interviewee tells him to F**K off.

Every interview turns into a slanging match.... and unfortunately Susannah Reid is getting dragged into his style of confrontational interviewing frown
Agreed. Any interview he conducts is to suit his own agenda which is all that counts.

As posted before Both Morgan and Reid make me think of a pair of Rottweilers behind a fence , where a person comes up to ask their owner a question, and any subsequent answer or dialogue is drowned out by the pair of them barking and yapping like mad, and not letting either owner or the person get their answer out. As interviewers they are just about useless.

Joscal

2,564 posts

224 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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I reckon Morgan is planning to do a Trump and go into politics.

p4cks

7,355 posts

223 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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Nagger Munstty should join ITV she has a similar abrasive 'interview' style in which she always tries to win.

Pan Pan Pan

10,725 posts

135 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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p4cks said:
Nagger Munstty should join ITV she has a similar abrasive 'interview' style in which she always tries to win.
I wonder if it is Nagger by name, Nagger by nature?

TwigtheWonderkid

48,076 posts

174 months

Wednesday 9th December 2020
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I've never been a fan of Piers Morgan, but during the pandemic, he's been one of the few tv journalists who have actually been prepared to hold this govts feet to the flames. Kuenssberg and Peston, the flagship political hacks at the BBC & ITV have been useless. Emily Matliss has done a pretty good job, and Naga Munchetty is trying too. The fact that the govt boycotted GMB for about 6 months shows they were scared stless.

Gove is a highly accomplished liar, unlike the PM who actually isn't a very good liar at all, despite a lifetime of practice. So for Morgan to have this slimy fking eel wobbling at all is a real plus.