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01/22/2013
Piers Morgan wants to you to know that he is an expert on guns or at least his British Army officer brother is an expert on guns, so therefore he must be one by extension.
Morgan, whose CNN show Piers Morgan Tonight has become a nightly hour-long screed ridiculing anyone who doesnt precisely agree with the host on gun control, regularly mentions his brothers biography in what appear to be lame but sincere attempts to buttress his own moral authority on various topics.
This motif emerged at the shows birth. While interviewing former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during just his third broadcast, Morgan brought up his brothers service in order to claim greater credibility in criticizing the phrase war on terror.
And I suppose my point to you would be that a war on terror suggests if you declare war as an administration normally theres an end game, he lectured Rice on January 19, 2011.
You know, theres a moment when you declare victory. And actually psychologically with your people, its important theres an end game. And if there isnt, it gets messy. And for that reason I I thought it was an odd choice of phrase because and my brother is an Army colonel in the British Army, and has fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its its hard for the troops to know what theyre fighting if its called war on terror.
Oh, your brother is an officer in the British military, Piers? Well, in that case, argument won.
Morgan would go on to sprinkle references to his brothers service into his show during the next two years, including in a debate over WikiLeaks with former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.
I can perhaps answer for my brother, whos a British Army colonel, he said, trying to counter the former Navy SEAL and renowned conspiracy theorist.
But Morgans references to his brother have increased astronomically since the December 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Since then, in his one-man campaign to shame Congress into supporting an assault weapons ban, he has become increasingly fond of bringing up his fighting brother in the apparent hope of stealing some of his moral authority.
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TheDC's Jamie Weinstein: Piers Morgan says he is an expert on guns because his brother is an expert on guns | The Daily Caller
Senior Editor See All Articles
01/22/2013
Piers Morgan wants to you to know that he is an expert on guns or at least his British Army officer brother is an expert on guns, so therefore he must be one by extension.
Morgan, whose CNN show Piers Morgan Tonight has become a nightly hour-long screed ridiculing anyone who doesnt precisely agree with the host on gun control, regularly mentions his brothers biography in what appear to be lame but sincere attempts to buttress his own moral authority on various topics.
This motif emerged at the shows birth. While interviewing former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during just his third broadcast, Morgan brought up his brothers service in order to claim greater credibility in criticizing the phrase war on terror.
And I suppose my point to you would be that a war on terror suggests if you declare war as an administration normally theres an end game, he lectured Rice on January 19, 2011.
You know, theres a moment when you declare victory. And actually psychologically with your people, its important theres an end game. And if there isnt, it gets messy. And for that reason I I thought it was an odd choice of phrase because and my brother is an Army colonel in the British Army, and has fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its its hard for the troops to know what theyre fighting if its called war on terror.
Oh, your brother is an officer in the British military, Piers? Well, in that case, argument won.
Morgan would go on to sprinkle references to his brothers service into his show during the next two years, including in a debate over WikiLeaks with former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.
I can perhaps answer for my brother, whos a British Army colonel, he said, trying to counter the former Navy SEAL and renowned conspiracy theorist.
But Morgans references to his brother have increased astronomically since the December 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Since then, in his one-man campaign to shame Congress into supporting an assault weapons ban, he has become increasingly fond of bringing up his fighting brother in the apparent hope of stealing some of his moral authority.
***snip***
Continue reading: ---->
TheDC's Jamie Weinstein: Piers Morgan says he is an expert on guns because his brother is an expert on guns | The Daily Caller
