Don't blame CNN, blame Piers Morgan

I've only seen Piers Morgan on the clip from Britain's Got Talent with Paul Potts (the tubby, broken toothed guy who turned out to have a beautiful, operatic voice)...and I think he may have been around when the frumpy Susan Boyle rocked the socks off the audience too. (It's too bad about Susan Boyle - I bet she used to enjoy life - now she probably has to get up two hours earlier than normal to apply the makeup and do the slimming exercises that she must be doing to look the way she does now - all artificial and glamorourized)

Back to the point, the British Morgan now has a show on CNN, I'm sure it's only about a month old. I've never watched it. But last night, apparently he had Donald Rumsfeld on it, and was asking him questions about his memoir, Known and Unknown:

RUSH: Here's Rumsfeld. This is Piers Morgan last night on CNN. Morgan says, "On 9/11 you didn't call your wife?"

RUMSFELD: Of course it's true. Torie Clarke said, "Have you called Mrs. R.?" And I said, "No," and she said, "You son-of-a-bitch," and I said, "Well, you may have a point."

MORGAN: Why didn't you?

RUMSFELD: Well, I was busy! My goodness gracious! The building was burning. They were still pulling people out of the building. It was a terrible, tragic day for our country. She knew where I was. She's terrific. She's lived with me for 56 years now as my wife. When people say, "How could you stay married to him for 56 years," she says, "He travels a lot."

RUSH: There you have it. That's Rumsfeld. Very mature answer: His wife knows where he is, he's in the Pentagon. The only problem is the thing just got blown up and he says he's still in the Pentagon. But after 56 years, wife might not care, you know, whether... (laughing) I'm just kidding, Dawn. Understand it's been a long three hours. I'm just teasing here.

Yes, it's kind of a trivial thing to be asking, but let's face it, Rush does have a habit of taking one or two soundbytes out of context. Who knows if the rest of the interview wasn't hard hitting, and these were just a couple of light-hearted things Morgan threw in there to lighten the tension?

I always think it's unfair to judge these things unless you've watched the whole of an interview from which certain excerpts are taken.
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