With his gun control obsession, Piers Morgan tanked CNN ratings when he took over for Larry King. Since reemerging on British television sometime after his CNN gig was cancelled, Morgan has tried to introduce some balance in U.K. television coverage, otherwise mostly negative, of U.S. President Donald Trump.
In a heated back and forth today with a prominent activist who plans to protest Trump’s first official visit to the U.K. as president because of immigration enforcement, the Good Morning Britain host raised the issue of hypocrisy and/or proportionality because of the lack of protests over Barack Obama’s visits or minimal, if any, demonstrations against various human-rights-violating dictators who have recently made state trips to London.
Morgan, a former Celebrity Apprentice winner, was really fired up about giving a pop quiz about Obama deporting three million illegal aliens (which is misleading because the administration adopted a very loose definition of deportation). Neither Morgan nor anyone else on the panel seemed to be aware that Obama also separated families at the border, however. In fact, the social media image of “kids in cages” that ignited the entire controversy dated back to the Obama era.
Apparently the explanation is that unlike other countries, America must be held to a higher standard because it is a traditional ally of the U.K. But that doesn’t explain the lack of demonstrations against Obama.
The studio guest, Ash Sarkar of the so-called Stop Trump Coalition, insisted to Morgan that she was no fan of Trump’s predecessor or the Democrats, adding that “I’m a communist, you idiot.”
Susanna Reid, Piers Morgan’s virtue-signaling co-host, violated one of the rules of good television, which is never interrupt or derail a compelling rant or debate with a strawman argument
Apparently the Trump administration wants to make sure that minors are not turned over to smugglers, human traffickers, and pretend parents, and evidently has been conducted DNA testing to protect the children.
In this context, The Washington Post published the following in January 2016, which prompted zero outrage.
“The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers, a Senate investigation has found.
“The Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, failed to do proper background checks of adults who claimed the children, allowed sponsors to take custody of multiple unrelated children, and regularly placed children in homes without visiting the locations, according to a 56-page investigative report released Thursday. And once the children left federally funded shelters, the report said, the agency permitted their adult sponsors to prevent caseworkers from providing them post-release services.”
The Trump administration announced today that it has reunited kids under age five with their bona fide parents who had illegally crossed the border, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
