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Piers Morgan dubbed ’empty parasite’ in heated clash with The Wire creator David Simon following Tucker Carlson interview
Piers Morgan didn’t mince his words as he descended into a heated clash with The Wire creator David Simon overnight, following his interview on Fox in the US.
The former Good Morning Britain host chatted with Tucker Carlson following his polarising thoughts on Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, as well as his well-documented departure from the ITV breakfast programme last month.
In it he doubled down on his previous ‘disbelief’ of what the duchess and Prince Harry said in the interview, as well as Princess Diana and his GMB exit after he quit the programme following 41,000 Ofcom complaints in response to saying he ‘didn’t believe’ Markle felt suicidal during her time in the UK.
Reacting to the interview, Simon didn’t hold back himself as he dubbed Morgan an ’empty parasite’ with the journalist lobbing back his own spicy replies, claiming the showrunner was once ‘all over him like a sycophantic chap rash’ showing both men love an adjective.
Simon first wrote on Twitter, alongside a link to the interview: ‘In an ocean of talking-head sewage, what are the chances that the two most pouty and puckered a**holes in broadcast television would ever swim through the brown, find each other, and discuss the events of the day?’
It didn’t take long for Morgan to notice he was the subject of such a tweet and thought he’d send one back.
He replied: ‘Talking of sewage, Dave… you were all over me like a sycophantic chap rash when I interviewed you. Yet now you play the vicious horrible illiberal liberal to appease your vile woke base. All a bit s**t, really. But on a positive note, I loved The Wire.’
You’d think that was it. Done. They said their piece. However, the pair had more in their arsenal as they kept the Twitter chain going.
Simon hit back, saying Morgan had only met him ‘once’ at a panel at Cannes alongside Richard Plepler Aaron Sorkin.
He added: ‘1) Didn’t know you from a fart in high wind. 2) Was polite to said fart at Richard’s request as that man was a Medici to me.’
Now even though Morgan had previously said he loved The Wire, his mind had changed at the mention of Sorkin, who created The West Wing – apparently a ‘much better’ show than The Wire to the Life Stories host wrote: ‘Aaron was a class act. You…. not so much. Probably explains why The West Wing is so much better than The Wire.’
Getting slightly more personal now in this running he said/he said/then he said palaver, Simon made a dig at Morgan’s current employment status, noting Sorkin ‘has gigs’ and he was ‘working for Time Warmer after a quarter century’.
Simon went on: ‘You’re unemployed and if it was a Tijuana cathouse and you had a fistful of fifties, you still couldn’t get laid at TW or anywhere else over here. Not after that pratfall you did at CNN.’
But, old faithful insult ahoy, Morgan brought their differing Twitter follower count into the fold. A classic.
Morgan mused that he had ’26 times as many followers’ as Simon, adding he was a ‘repulsive human being’ and mentioning Sorkin, again, being a ‘better writer’.
Just when you thought things were over, because perhaps they shouldn’t have even begun, Simon kept on the ‘fired’ train and mentioned previous allegations of phone hacking, which Morgan – who was previously editor of the Daily Mirror for nine years until 2004 – has long denied, as well as denying any knowledge his journalists were hacking voicemails.
Simon wrote: ‘Yes, popularity on this platform is truly indicative of worth and mettle. It’s a damn wonder you keep getting fired when actual journalism is required. Now go hack some poor girl’s cellphone and call that moral midgetry reporting, you empty parasite.’
It seems his nasty clash with Simon hardly deterred his spirit, with Morgan later claiming on Twitter he’d ‘had further interview requests from 30+ countries’.
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