Asshole Gun Lobbyists Happy to see Piers Morgan go

Piers Morgan's CNN show is gone. Whether he did better or worse than gnarly old Larry King, I'm not sure. The one thing that isn't disputed, is that at 9pm on weeknights, people had better things to do than watch him talk to idiot movie stars or dreary politicians. Especially when the politicians were generally assholes who sided with the GUN LOBBY that lines their pockets with campaign contributions.

There's no question Piers is a prig. No question he's done some obnoxious things and didn't always take the moral high road when he was an editor working in the seamy world of British tabloids. Still, Morgan was an amusing provocateur in a disgusting business, and for a while on "America's Got Talent," he was fun to watch. He was Simon Cowell with some actual wit. He was the "mean" judge, but gradually, probably in response to the boos and the hate mail, Morgan pretended to like some pretty shitty singers and novelty acts, getting as soppy as the other idiots (Hasselhoff and Sharon) in cheerleading for losers and praising people who were never going to be the next Susan Boyle.

I actually read three of his "diary" best-sellers, and even if I didn't know all the players (the first two were, after all, printed in England and concerned mostly with British celebrities and politicians) I found much of it a lot of fun. I got a vicarious thrill out of the very idea that SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD, a mere WRITER could make money and influence people and BE A STAR.

Piers left the air in a very special, very classy way. Someone else would've offered a cheery "Bye, I'll be back someday, someway" salute. Someone else would've done a middle-finger and offered up a "best of" showing all the great moments, wicked remarks, zany jokes and provocative comments that could've continued if anyone had been paying attention. But after devoting his show to the now-dreary topic of the Malaysian plane that nobody could find because Google doesn't map obscure parts of the ocean...he spent his last CNN minutes discussing GUN CONTROL.

I leave you with what Pier Morgan left in his CNN farewell:

"I assumed that after 70 people were shot in a movie theater, and then, just a few months later, 20 first-graders were murdered with an assault rifle in an elementary school, the absurd gun laws in this country would change. But nothing has happened.

The gun lobby in America, led by the NRA, has bullied this nation's politicians into cowardly, supine silence. Even when 20 young children are blown away in their classrooms.This is a shameful situation that has made me very angry. So angry, in fact, that some people have criticized me for being too loud, opinionated, even rude when I have debated the issue of guns. But I make no apologies for that."

As Sir Winston Churchill said: 'If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.'

My point is simple: more guns doesn't mean less crime as the NRA repeatedly says. It means more gun violence, death and profits for the gun manufacturers. And to those who claim my gun control campaigning has been "anti-American", the reverse is true. I am so pro-American that I want more of you to stay alive.But I've made my point. I've given it a tremendous whack. Now it's down to you. It's your country; these are your gun laws. And the senseless slaughter will only end when enough Americans stand together and cry: Enough!

Goodnight, thank you, and God bless America. Oh, and while I'm at it, God bless Great Britain too.