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Piers Morgan

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first: 2022-12-19
most recent: 2022-12-19
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Question. My question would be something like, Hey, Megan, why are you such a shameless hypocrite? And have you got any evidence for any of these lies you keep spewing?”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. You can tell him my studio awaits and it won't be quite like the interview she normally gives where the question goes something like, Megan, how long have you been treated so badly by the Beastly Royal?”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, look, I don't think that anyone should tweet stuff like that. And he deleted them. I think he sometimes gets sucked into people sending him stuff, which he doesn't really give a big enough forensic eye to. And he's learning the hard way that when you own the company, then it's a much more difficult position when you do that when you're just an individual having fun on Twitter. And I think he's learning that and he will learn that. But, you know, he is a guy who shoots from a hip and he'll just say stuff.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think you're right. I mean, I think probably not. I think you're giving a platform to people who are, I think, they're dangerous people with dangerous views. And I think where that danger strays into blatant anti-Semitism or racism or bigotry, where it endangers the lives of the people that is being spewed about, that's a line that should not be crossed.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think, yeah, I would not interview Nick Fuentes. I wouldn't give someone like him a platform. I don't think he should give people platforms when it's very obvious that they are hateful violence encouraging racist, anti-Semites. Anyone who's targeting people with a view to causing them harm should not be given platforms.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Near them at that dinner, and I wouldn't interview Kanye West again. By the end of my interview, he did apologize for upsetting people with it, which was the first recognition he thought he'd done something wrong. But, you know, I've had text messages from Kanye West since then where he gets extremely homophobic, anti-Semitic again, you know, and it's very unpleasant to read. So whether he's going through some sort of bipolar episode, as some people think, or whether he's just got a malevolent streak in him now where he doesn't care. And we're seeing the true colors of him. I don't know, but I would not feel comfortable doing another interview now.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I felt that with Kenya West, that after the initial tweet where he talked about going DEF CON 3 on Jewish people, there was still an element of doubt about what he meant by this. What was he referring to? And he certainly seemed to be suggesting it had been misconstrued or misinterpreted. I felt under those circumstances it was right and perfectly appropriate to interview him at length and try and get to the bottom of what his views are. Are they anti-Semitic? Did he regret what he'd said? And it was a fascinating experience, you know, and I don't think there's any journalistic reason why I shouldn't have done it. The interesting question now is, would I do another one with him? He's been trying to get me to do another one. And I don't think I would now. I think he's crossed the line. This man is now being blatantly anti-Semitic. It's indefensible. It's appalling. He's associating with people like Fuentes who are just awful, awful human beings. Trump should have been nowhere.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I certainly You know what? He's a fascinating interview because you'd find it a fascinating experience because his technique is to try and make you agree with everything he said. He would say, he would say, Clara, as you know, I'm the kindest. I am aware”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the problem before the last interview was that somebody had sent him about three pages of all the most critical things I said about him in the previous 12 months, including calling him a mob boss, a gangster, and saying he should never be allowed to run for office again. And that was one of the reasons why he was slightly touchy on air. So I think he knows I'm critical of him.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it was pretty frosty after that. He issued four statements from his office denouncing the interview whilst also saying he got great ratings. So rather mixed messaging. And then interesting foring of the ice came when our queen died and he'd always been extremely fond of the queen. And I wrote to his office and said, look, I'd love to talk to the president just about the death of the queen, nothing else. If he's interested, let me know. And I didn't hear anything. And then about three, four weeks later, what Trump does, he doesn't use email, but here your emails get printed out and he writes on them with a Sharpie, and that gets scanned and sent back. And I got my email request sent back and he just put Piers. She was great. Yours, Donald, which wasn't the longest interview I've had with him, but it was an indication that the ice has thawed.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Get interviews with him. And I think I've done that pretty successfully. It's a hard line because everyone on the right, if you criticize him about anything, they tear you to pieces on social media. And on the left, unless you're clubbing him literally with a iron bar repeatedly for an hour, it's never going to be hard enough. So about striking the right balance. I would hold my last interview with Trump up with any he's ever given and say that was the toughest interview he's done.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, it was friendly and then it was horrible. It was 70 minutes. I think actually the interviews I've done with Trump since he ran for office and won the presidency and post-presidency have been the toughest he's done, actually. If you go back and watch them all in their entirety, you might be pleasantly surprised that they weren't the softball that people thought they were. And this last one was the best of a lot, in which we had a lot of fun exchanges. And then we had the hardball stuff when it got around to the big lie about the 2020 election being stolen, which he repeatedly calls me a fool. He tries to walk off. He then comes back and it's just a general, you know, carnage going on. But that's fine. That's Trump. He's a performer too, and he doesn't like people who say, I don't agree with you. And I'm quite happy to occasionally take him on, but I'm also quite happy as somebody who builds relationship with him and interviewed him many, many times, or spoke to many, many times to use that relationship to try.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, absolutely not. In fact, I think the people who are overdoing it are her and Harry who are on a relentless assault of trashing their families.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I honestly don't. And if I thought that, I would say it. I wouldn't defend them irrationally. But the tabloids are far, far less aggressive now in this country than they used to be in the Diana years. I think we did learn lessons from what happened with Diana.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I got it that people took it, but I think people exaggerated what the intention was of these very occasional one headline here, one little piece of them. So I think the answer is the British media were not racist. And I went back and read my own piece on the day of the wedding. It couldn't have been more ecstatic about this biracial union. So I just don't accept it. Britain is a very, very tolerant, multicultural country. And the idea that we're a racist country who drove her out with our bigotry is just completely untrue.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Honestly, I think there were probably a hundred thousand articles, minimum, maybe double that, I don't know, in the period from when Mega Markle's relationship with Harry was announced to the wedding. And of that, I would say 99.999% did not have a single comment in them or headline which could even be construed as vaguely linked to any form of racist intent. I think there was one headline about straight out of Compton, which I thought was a wrong headline. And the truth is Mega Markle was brought up about seven miles from Compton. And Compton was where you understand.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, not really, because I mean, Princess Diana used to ring me up and give me stories. And she used to get people to ring me and tell me her movement so that she could be photographed on certain days. You know, when Camilla Parker Bowles had her big famous coming out with Prince Charles, Dinah was with Mohammed Al-Fayed on a boat in the south of France, and she got fired to call me and make sure I had a photographer on the beach at nine o'clock on the morning of the party so we could get pictures of her doing a handstand in a leoperskin bikini. So I'm afraid I'm rather cynical about all this because I've been on the receiving end of people like Princess Diana who I loved using the media when it suited her. And I've seen Megan Markle and Prince Harry who profess to hate the media. But by God, do they use the media a lot, whether it's Oprah Winfrey, James Corden, Netflix series, books, you name it, podcasts, they are pretty aggressively using a media they profess to hate.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Simply not true. The American tabloid culture is just the same as the UK one. It's vibrant, it's aggressive, it's opinionated, it challenges people, it criticizes people, it's exactly the same. And by the way, so it is around most of Europe. This idea that the Brits are somehow worse than the others is nonsense. And I was thinking about that.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fine. You think the royal family are a bunch of callous racists who deny your suicidal thoughts? You can say these things to Oprah Winfrey. You can say them on Netflix in your droopy documentary. But at some point, you are actually going to have to produce some hard factual evidence because the damage you're doing to the reputation of this institution and the family is incalculable.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's just the way it is with the royals. They're the biggest stars in our world. And they all get the full media treatment. So my question really about Meghan Markle.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Carry on using George Clooney and Elton John's private planes like a cab service. They preached about poverty on the day that Mega Markle threw a $500,000 baby shower in New York. They preached about privacy and then would pop up doing interviews. And so this went on and on and on. And each time they did it, they would be criticized as any royal would have been if they'd also been hypocritical by the media. And the media got increasingly critical and they got increasingly angry with the media and they also got increasingly angry with the royal family who they thought weren't protecting them enough. But I can tell you from 30 years working in the British media, mega Markle didn't get anything like the treatment Princess Diana got. Kate got exactly the same treatment when she first got together with William. And then over time, because she behaved herself and did her duty and smiled nicely and didn't attack everyone all the time. Everyone began to love and respect.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think I am. I don't even hate Megha Markle or Prince Harry. I hate what they're doing to the royal family. And I was brought up a monarchist. But the truth is I knew her a bit before she met Harry and then like a lot of people in her orbit never heard from her again after that, which is perfectly her choice. In fact, I carried on after that writing very nice things about her right to the point of the wedding, actually, 18 months later. But the coverage was, I mean, universally popular. Everyone in Britain was thrilled about this biracial wedding of what it said about the royal family and everything else. Everyone loved it. And then after the wedding, there were a series of missteps, which I think caused the problem with them and the media and then the subsequent fallout. And it can be brought down to one thing, I think hypocrisy. They began to see it as their role to preach to people about carbon footprint, for example, but also wanted to.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't agree necessarily at the time. I think that no platforming in American president has ridiculous consequences then for what you really are going to allow on your platform. So I think it was a wrong. I also think it empowered Trump. I think it had the opposite effect to what they thought. I think it made him a martyr. It made it look like there was one rule for him and one rule for Republicans and one rule for everybody else. I don't think that helps political discourse in America. I think it pours fuel onto the fire. So I think for all those reasons, I'd have made a different decision. But I don't pretend these decisions are easy. They're difficult.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, obviously, if you're going to make that decision, you've then got to be consistent and you've got to remove. Iran, Russia, and all the others.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's the criteria they use for allowing people like Putin, the Taliban, and the Supreme Leader of Iran to have accounts. So they make an exception for world leaders who they believe this is a historical importance to their public utterances. Most people recognize that was just a mistake. Trump should have been allowed a platform. Now, if he then uses it to tweet, I want you all to attack the capital in a brazen, direct manner like that. That crosses the line of all Twitter's rules. And he would be suspended quite rightly and he would face criminal charges. But as we sit here now that we haven't reached that stage with Trump on January the 6th, we need to get the results of this.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because Jack Dorsey thinks it was the right decision look, you're allowed to lie in public in America. You are allowed to lie in public in the UK. The question is, what is the purpose of those lies? If your purpose is to put people's lives at risk and there's a whole debate about January the 6th and his culpability, and we'll see how that plays out, but I think that in the end, did Donald Trump cross the line that Twitter had in place to justify his removal from a platform given his status as president of the United States”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think they made a big mistake, and I think it's quite obvious why, because actually all you did was play into the idea that Twitter was politically partisan, because they still allowed the supreme leader of Iran to have a Twitter account. No, I did that.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think he will, when it all settles down, I'm sure he'll have a team of people and they will try and work out the fair way to resolve these things. You know, I do think it's very difficult. I know Jack Dorsey quite well, and I've always had huge admiration for him. I think it's very, very difficult to control something like Twitter in a way that also defends free speech. Where is that line and who decides it are really important questions? But I do think it's been skewed too far politically against one side. And I think it's good that that's been restored back to a middle ground. And then you have to work out what is acceptable. I would hope that people on all sides of the political divide would all agree that what Alex Jones did crossed a line that should not be allowed. And he should not be given a platform to compound the misery of grieving families by telling wicked lies which put their lives at risk.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have a shorter excuse. Yeah, listen, I think it's a good debate to be had, and we have to have the debate vigorously and we have to work it out. Elon Musk is putting together this kind of collection of people from all walks of life to try and determine where that line is. The truth is you're never going to complete.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You talk about cancelled culture, there are people who should not be given platforms, and he's one of them. And who should decide”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I thought he was a shock jock performance, shock jock at the time. It was quite an interesting thing because he launched a petition to have me deported. It reached the threshold. It was a White House petition site. It reached the threshold where the president, who was then President Obama, had to intervene and make a decision about my deportation or not. And he allowed me to stay, which was very good of him. And I thought then at the time that the problem with Alex Jones was increasingly for purely financial reasons, he would tell deliberate, horrible, terrible lies which brought misery and put people's lives at risk who were already going through unrelenting misery. And I'm talking about the Sandy Hook families who'd already lost their children to a maniac, then having people making death threats against them because they believed Alex Jones when he said they'd staged the whole thing. And so he's now got his comeuppance. He'll be wiped out financially. But more importantly, he shouldn't be on the airways.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The best conversation I had about it was with Jay Leno, actually, when I did the tonight show, and he came on a cup of tea with me in my dressing room. He said, a lot of smart people in America agree with you, particularly those on the eastern west coast, and they'll be cheering you on. But there will be many millions of Americans, particularly in the middle of America, who will see you as the reincarnation of George III. And of course, we got rid of George III and the red coats with guns. And he said the irony will not be lost on them. And he said, the truth is, they don't want to hear it from a British guy with your accent and they don't want to hear it from you. And he said, it'd be like you're going to Germany and lecturing the Germans on television every night about speeding too fast on the Autobahn. And I thought that was very smart analysis. And I fired my time again, I would be less inflammatory and less confrontational. And I would probably try and frame the debate away from gun control and make it more about gun safety, because I think the word control to make”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I learned that I have a very thick skin. I have an ability to bounce back from adversity. I subscribe to the Rocky Balboa mantra, which is life's pretty tough, and it's not about how many punches you can throw. It's how many you can take and get back up and keep moving forward. It was a very bruising time for me professionally. I was leading the news over here and around the world. And it was an uncomfortable time. I always felt that over time my whole position about the Iraq war would be vindicated. I was editor of a newspaper which violently opposed that war and tried to stop it happening. And I also exposed abuse, which was happening.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To giving it to the Ministry of Defence at midday, they didn't come back with any denial. And in fact, denials only happened about a day and a half later was the first time they veracity the pitchers was questioned by anyone in authority. And that was a heartstopping moment, obviously, for me. And it led to my departure. Interestingly, none of the stories that we published around the pictures and for the next two weeks were ever denied and they're accepted to be true, i.e. the abuse was happening. The only question became were those pictures genuine or not? And we still, to my satisfaction, we still don't know. So, you know, it's a murky one. I don't think it was as clear-cut as people felt.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I learned that the old rule that if you survive 11 days of a scandal, you'll be okay isn't true because I was fired on day 12. So that was the first thing I learned. Secondly, I learned that you can never ask enough questions. You know, in that case, we were given a series of photographs by two people who were who they said they were, attached to a regiment that had been fighting in Iraq and the Iraq war in the British Army. And they purported to show British troops abusing Iraqi civilians. And we held those pictures for two months. And we were debating and checking and debating and checking. And then the Abu Graib scandal broke in America with those horrendous pictures. And I had members of my team come to me and say, we now had a moral duty to reveal what we knew about what our troops had also been doing. And then we published the story after.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, absolutely. Yeah, I think there are a lot of people who are on the sort of periphery of social media who now have access to people like me and you who can express vile opinions. And we're supposed to just suck it up and take it. And actually, Elon Musk, he often responds to them. And he can be quite intemperate himself. But I quite like the honesty of that because that's how we all feel. But I do think sometimes you have to be aware of the impact of putting something in front of 8 million people on his case, whatever it is, 100 million now followers, that it can have a very large impact on the person that you're talking to. Yeah. And I think it's just better to keep the punching up or sideways than down.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I never really regret if it's a high profile person having a pop at me and have a pop back. I've got no sympathy for people who then play the victim if they start it by being abusive about me. But if I see a troll saying something particularly vile and I in a moment of intemperate weakness respond in a sort of personally abusive way, whatever it may be, you know, mocking their haircut or something, to give myself a cheap laugh. But then I remember I've got 8 million followers on Twitter. And then I see the pile on that happens to this troll. You might have 50 followers that's ever been exposed to this kind of thing. That does make me think. And that has made me think over the last few years in particular that if you're going to punch on social media, at least punch at your own level or up. But don't punch down to people who perhaps just cannot handle that kind of attention.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which I think I think that a lot of it is what I would call theatrical. I think that when I'm expressing my strongly held opinions, there's always a bit of theatre to it. I think that it goes with the territory of social media. It goes with the territory of, I think, being on television. It's all performative to a degree. Podcasts can be performative. But underpinning it, the question really is, do I say things I don't believe no? Do I say some things knowing it's trivial and just designed to wind people up? Yeah, sometimes for fun, I wasn't aware that that was against the rules either. So I don't really mind if people think I'm being performative, well, fine. I don't get it.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not though, is it? Hang on. It's like when you redefine things, you've got to be extremely careful. Meat is meat. Vegan sausage rolls are not sausage rolls.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, actually, it's an interesting question, isn't it? Because to me, it's duplicitous. And in France, they banned it. That's a new meaning of me.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I mean, I would say, look, I would say I always express honestly held opinions. But for example, is the biggest story in the world whether a company called Greg's in the UK releases a vegan sausage roll, which I made into a huge furore, which led to, I think Greg's claim they sold a billion pounds worth of sausage rolls off the back of my fury. Is that a valuable use of my time? Probably not. Was it quite fun? Yes, was that underpinning it a belief by me that vegan and vegetarian companies, as they're banned from doing in France, by the way, should not be allowed to use meat language to promote their products. Yes, so there was a point there, which I do believe in, but it was also quite good fun having a running battle with vegans on Twitter because the one thing about vegans isn't that free speech to call?”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Listen, I love opinions. I like expressing opinions. I like stirring up debate. I like arguing with people. I like it if people challenge me and take me on. I used to get thrown out of my local village pub on a Friday night for getting drunk and boisterous and arguing too much. Nothing's really changed other than I've never been suspended from Twitter quite miraculously. So look, I do like a debate. I like an argument.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of it, a lot of it I would agree with him about. And the rest of it, I would say he's entitled to have his opinions.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Working that out for himself. I also think he happens to be a genius, whether it's SpaceX or Tesla, has actually always been a force for good actually in Tesla and SpaceX. So he may be public enemy number one now to the Woke Brigade, but I think he's right to take them off.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I agree. That's entirely true. And it is a private company. Elon Musk and I can do what the hell he likes with it. But I do admire at least his aspiration to make it more of a balanced town hall, if you like, or town square, where at least the people who are constantly being silenced are not all from the same political persuasion, which is what has been happening. We used to write about this, about the double standards. And I always made the point, it will come back and haunt you. If you try and tamper with free speech and democracy in this way, it will always come back and bite you. And I don't think Elon Musk is off to a perfect start. He's throwing a lot of stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. He's trying to work it out. I do support him in the general aspiration to bring people back to the platform and give them a chance to show they understand that there are limits. And he's shown that we can you west. If you cross the line again, then he will remove you. So he's...”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About Dorsey immediately saying it was a mistake. Let me just say if it had been Donald Trump Jr.'s laptop, do you think the same decision would have been taken? I don't think it would have been suppressed. The New York Post would not have been prevented from promoting their scoop. And it would have been followed up with enormous enthusiasm by the whole of the mainstream media. So there you had a story which, in my view, perfectly exposed the utter hypocrisy of a predominantly liberal-dominated media, both social media platforms and mainstream media, making a conscious decision to protect Joe Biden and to do something they wouldn't have afforded Donald Trump. And that to me is where the problem starts about if you start to do that kind of thing, then I think you're having a really bad impact on democracy.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, that's not what happened. If you go and check it, the New York Post was not allowed a Twitter account, but two weeks. So that was two weeks in the month before the election. I think that's completely outrageous.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, let me just finish, and they think it's perfectly reasonable to suppress that story to the extent they removed the New York Post Twitter account in the run-up to an American election, a story which could, and I say could, could have impacted the result of that election. That is a malevolent suppression and censorship of free speech and of First Amendment rights of media publications.”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure, but I'd have to hear what his explanation was first before I would judge him. I would say that he's not an absolutist because we've seen McCanye West that when Kanye West or Yay, as he calls himself now, then immediately responded to being allowed back onto Twitter by posting a photograph of swastika and a star of David, then that crossed the line for Elon Musk and he removed him from the platform. He's not a complete absolutist. He doesn't believe everything goes, but he is, I think, quite correct in saying that there has been a ludicrous situation on social media platforms like Twitter, where you end up in a situation where a very woke-skewed workforce think it's perfectly reasonable to suppress a story like the New York Post scoop on Hunter Biden's laptop.”
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“The Elon Musk thing. I've not seen that, but it may well be a security issue, is it? So, I mean, I don't want, I'd have to hear what his”
2022-12-19 · On with Kara Swisher · Piers Morgan On Murdoch, Musk and – yes – Meghan Markle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT