Lionel Nation - Meet Piers Morgan: The Brit Twit Full of Sh*t
Aired: 2025-06-01
Duration: 09:54


=== Piers Morgan's Phony Game (09:18) ===

[00:00:00]  Let's be honest, okay?
[00:00:02]  Piers Morgan is the Brit twit who's full of shit.
[00:00:06]  Sorry.
[00:00:08]  Okay.
[00:00:10]  And while we're setting the record straight, Piers Morgan is not a journalist.
[00:00:16]  He's not a thinker.
[00:00:17]  He's not even a credible commentator or communicator.
[00:00:21]  He's a glorified referee for human cockfights.
[00:00:24]  Dressed in a suit.
[00:00:25]  And trying to pull up the.
[00:00:30]  Americans fall for a British accent.
[00:00:33]  Not the, you know...
[00:00:35]  Not the Johnny Rotten, you know, accent, but...
[00:00:39]  He's such a phony.
[00:00:43]  You buy this property.
[00:00:48]  Look at the Mid-Atlantic accent.
[00:00:49]  Look at George Plimpton.
[00:00:50]  Look at William F. Buckley.
[00:00:52]  And how they contrive this.
[00:00:54]  It's nonsense.
[00:00:55]  It's a shill.
[00:00:58]  He's a dupe, a shill, a phony, fugazi.
[00:01:04]  He's a work.
[00:01:05]  And for reasons still unexplained, he keeps tricking American audiences into thinking he possesses some kind of wisdom.
[00:01:14]  Spoiler, he doesn't.
[00:01:17]  I don't know what this is.
[00:01:18]  He's made a career out of asking leading questions.
[00:01:23]  Pitting people against each other because he doesn't have to do anything.
[00:01:27]  Then he steps back like a smug bartender who started the brawl, started the bar fight, and then watches from behind the counter.
[00:01:36]  He lets other people do the work because he doesn't have anything to do.
[00:01:39]  That's more and more of the deal, especially on YouTube, where you just pit people together.
[00:01:46]  You know, interviews are great, except that they do all the work.
[00:01:49]  You don't have to do anything.
[00:01:51]  You don't have to think anything.
[00:01:53]  Put people together.
[00:01:54]  I mean, just go down the list.
[00:01:57]  He'll get shmooly and junk yogurt and he sits back and he, hey, good friend, he gets a million hits, doesn't have to do anything.
[00:02:05]  Let them do the work.
[00:02:06]  But he doesn't have anything.
[00:02:08]  He's not controversial because he speaks the truth.
[00:02:12]  He's controversial because he thrives on chaos that he creates.
[00:02:16]  He lets other people do it.
[00:02:17]  He doesn't offer analysis.
[00:02:19]  He offers provocation.
[00:02:21]  And there's the difference.
[00:02:23]  Remember Geraldo Rivera?
[00:02:24]  Bless his heart.
[00:02:26]  Bless his heart.
[00:02:28]  Let me tell you something.
[00:02:29]  There's a Pruder film.
[00:02:30]  Geraldo during his day.
[00:02:32]  But he was the best.
[00:02:39]  Geraldo Rivera.
[00:02:40]  He was more...
[00:02:43]  He pretended to be more illegitimate.
[00:02:45]  But like Horrendo Revolver, I think that was...
[00:02:50]  Anyway, like Geraldo.
[00:02:52]  Without the stache or the porn star flair, Piers is a character.
[00:02:58]  He's a cartoon character made for TV relic who serves one purpose, to stir the pot and stir the shirt so others can make the meal and do the work for him.
[00:03:09]  He plays devil's advocate not out of intellectual curiosity but because he doesn't have a solid position of his own.
[00:03:16]  He's not courageous.
[00:03:17]  He's not insightful and certainly not original.
[00:03:21]  He takes cheap shots, low blows, throws gasoline on ideological fires, and then feigns confusion.
[00:03:29]  Listen to him talk about science.
[00:03:31]  Oh, my God!
[00:03:34]  Did you hear the...
[00:03:35]  When he puts on that other Charlotte and Eric Weinstein?
[00:03:39]  I mean, it's...
[00:03:50]  And when it all explodes, he's happy.
[00:03:53]  He gets his numbers.
[00:03:54]  This isn't journalism.
[00:03:55]  It's ratings garbage.
[00:03:56]  It's grabbing showmanship wrapped in a faux intelligence package.
[00:04:01]  And Americans, I keep saying, are too stupid to realize he doesn't know what he's talking about.
[00:04:06]  When he interviews someone, if that's what you want to call it, it's never about truth or accountability.
[00:04:10]  It's about drama.
[00:04:11]  He cuts off his guests, cherry-picks quotes, and creates the illusion of tension because he knows that outrage is currency.
[00:04:19]  It's like he's taking two roosters and putting them together and letting them go.
[00:04:23]  And he loves to stir the shit.
[00:04:26]  If you think he has values or a worldview, you haven't been paying attention.
[00:04:31]  Piers Morgan is a bankrupt guy.
[00:04:36]  Blank slate with a microphone.
[00:04:38]  He doesn't stand for anything because standing for something would...
[00:04:45]  You know, having an opinion, going out on a ledge, standing there, putting your convictions up.
[00:04:51]  But if he does have a conviction, it's kind of like this no-shite obviousness.
[00:04:55]  And risk is not in his nature.
[00:04:58]  Performances.
[00:04:59]  Better yet, views, metrics.
[00:05:02]  That smug demeanor, the finger-wagging style, his habitual interrupting, these aren't traits of a tough interviewer.
[00:05:10]  They're the tics of a man who knows he has no substance and how he overcompensates with volume and condensation and lets the people fight themselves.
[00:05:21]  He puts people on who have moral conviction in one way or another.
[00:05:25]  He wants fighting!
[00:05:27]  Three, four people cut him off.
[00:05:29]  He just sits there.
[00:05:30]  He's thinking, how much money is this generating?
[00:05:32]  And it's the usual suspects.
[00:05:34]  You don't walk away from a Piers Morgan segment enlightened.
[00:05:38]  You walk away irritated, disgusted, like you've...
[00:05:46]  You're thinking, what was that?
[00:05:47]  What was that?
[00:05:48]  That's him.
[00:05:49]  And maybe that's the point.
[00:05:51]  Maybe I'm missing the point.
[00:05:52]  Maybe he's the embodiment of everything wrong with the modern media by design.
[00:05:57]  Noise without meaning, an opinion without foundation, theater without conviction, without a plot, without a denouement.
[00:06:05]  Even when he occasionally says something you agree with, it feels unearned because it is.
[00:06:11]  He parrots consensus when it benefits him and then swings at easy targets when the mob already has its pitchforks up.
[00:06:18]  It's a...
[00:06:19]  There's no...
[00:06:23]  He never leads.
[00:06:24]  He follows the outrage.
[00:06:26]  Adds some British accent-flavored sarcasm and waits for the applause.
[00:06:32]  He's a carnival barker, not a commentator, a parasite on the news cycle, not a contributor to it.
[00:06:41]  Oh, no.
[00:06:43]  In America, where people still think, I keep saying this, a British accent is somehow systematically, automatically means intelligence.
[00:06:51]  Piers Morgan has found his niche.
[00:06:54]  Faux, artificial, synthetic gravitas.
[00:06:58]  He's the thinking man's fraud.
[00:07:00]  The pseudo-intellect posture boy.
[00:07:03]  You listen to him not because he has insight, but because you mistake his tone for depth.
[00:07:09]  He could be reading a laundry list because people would...
[00:07:14]  what He does it.
[00:07:20]  You know, there was a time when Morgan pretended to be a moralist.
[00:07:23]  Remember his anti-gun crusade?
[00:07:25]  Remember when Alex Jones broke it off at him?
[00:07:27]  By the way, that was by the design.
[00:07:29]  He is smart enough to know when he's doing well.
[00:07:31]  He tried to, remember, he came to CNN and he said, get the hell out of here.
[00:07:35]  He tried to take the moral high ground, remember that?
[00:07:37]  Only to crumble.
[00:07:38]  Under the actual debate.
[00:07:40]  Then came the celebrity interviews, oh my God, where he offered softballs wrapped in fake outrage.
[00:07:46]  Then came the Twitter wars where he swings wildly.
[00:07:49]  And he fancies himself as being this courageous, I don't know, arbiter of bullseye.
[00:08:01]  And he cuts people off and blocks people.
[00:08:02]  He can't handle it.
[00:08:04]  He's a wimp.
[00:08:04]  He's spineless.
[00:08:05]  He's implicit.
[00:08:07]  Atesticular.
[00:08:08]  He's a gelding.
[00:08:09]  He swings wildly at every trending topic to stay relevant.
[00:08:14]  He's not a man of principles.
[00:08:15]  He's a man of trending hashtags.
[00:08:17]  He couldn't hack it in serious journalism if his life depended on it.
[00:08:21]  He couldn't hold his own in real editorial environments.
[00:08:24]  So he settled into the only role he was ever really good at.
[00:08:27]  Agent provocateur for hire.
[00:08:30]  And the tragedy is that this works.
[00:08:33]  It works.
[00:08:34]  And I've got to hand it to him.
[00:08:37]  And I will concede it works.
[00:08:38]  In a media landscape that's obsessed with friction, his brand of, you know, feigned and deliberate adversarial ignorance is in demand, I guess.
[00:08:47]  Piers Morgan is not brave.
[00:08:49]  He's not smart.
[00:08:50]  He's not interesting.
[00:08:52]  He's a clown with a microphone, with a smug face attached, reciting, feigned and choreographed outrage, performative BS.
[00:09:01]  This is this theater for the benefit of producers and YouTube clip editors.

=== Starve the Market (00:50) ===

[00:09:05]  Look, he's the intellectual equivalent of a drive-thru burger.
[00:09:09]  Loud, over-processed, empty, greasy, stale, and intellectually not nutritious.
[00:09:16]  And yet he endures.
[00:09:17]  Bless his heart.
[00:09:19]  Not because he deserves to.
[00:09:22]  But because there's a market for bombastic fools, idiots with accents, and no shame.
[00:09:27]  That market needs to be starved.
[00:09:29]  Turn them off!
[00:09:30]  Tune them out!
[00:09:32]  Stop pretending this man offers anything of value.
[00:09:35]  Because he doesn't.
[00:09:36]  And you know this and I know this.
[00:09:38]  And you don't need me to establish it.
[00:09:41]  But you need me sometimes to say, you know what, you're right.
[00:09:45]  So, remember, there's so much greatness out there.
[00:09:49]  True.
[00:09:51]  True genius.
[00:09:53]  Folks with intellectual heft.