Like Paul Revere at Valley Forge, I tried to alert the nation to the menace of this bumptious British invader, who fancies himself a cheeky chippy chappie or some other such s--t* and somehow managed to usurp the host chair of America's most beloved pterodactyl, Larry King.
In a previous installment of his harlequin career, Morgan was the editor of the Daily Mirror and has insisted his chariot-reined hands were clean of the corruption of the phone-hacking clusterphuck that has convulsed Britain.
The cracks in Morgan's denials seem to have opened the way for a deluge. Now comes a damning bombshell from the blogger Guido Fawkes, who has been on Morgan's case with bloodhound zeal:
Morgan Mocked Macca's Misery Voicemails
"Macca" being, of course, Sir Paul McCartney.
Yet another Piers Morgan phone-hacking implication has surfaced from his own misguided boasts. Writing in the Daily Mail in 2006 when Sir Paul McCartney split from Heather Mills, Morgan went into some extremely voyeuristic detail about their relationship:
?Stories soon emerged that the marriage was in trouble - at one stage I was played a tape of a message Paul had left for Heather on her mobile phone. It was heartbreaking. The couple had clearly had a tiff, Heather had fled to India, and Paul was pleading with her to come back. He sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang ?We Can Work It Out?�?
Who played it to Piers? How did they get it? Did he procure the illegal interception of an electronic communication - an imprisonable offence - with a maximum two-year stretch on conviction? Looks like it to Guido.
How can Piers say he never authorised phone-hacking when he admits to listening to recordings of the voicemail of a distressed old man and his soon to be ex-wife? How can Piers say he never published anything on the back of phone hacking when he regaled this very story to the world in print under his own byline? Where was the public interest here?
It gets worse, Guido has been told Morgan played the recording out loud to the newsroom for fun. Laughing and mocking Macca?s misery.
This is not the behavior of a gentleman. And it is especially galling for those who practice Transcendental Meditation (I am among them) to see one of its proudest advocates promoting peace and psychological outreach subjected to Morgan's intrusive eavesdropping and schoolboy giggling, if this account is accurate. I hope other high-profile TM'ers, such as Russell Brand and David Lynch, will confront Morgan point-blank on this should they ever lower themselves to appear on his utterly declasse CNN show.
Those wishing to keep up with the latest sordid/exciting developments should check into Guido Fawkes' Twitter page.
*Consider this a spelling test.
P.S. It has occurred to me, as it has occurred to others, that said voicemail may have been obtained other ways than by phone hacking--that perhaps Heather Mills herself may have passed it along for some reason of her own, who knows? British celebrities are not like our own and the tabloid culture over there has bred many mutant strains of behavior.
Perhaps Larry King, using his ace ninja interrogation skills, could ask Piers about this tonight when he sits in as guest for the full hour.
Related:
?It?s Morgan In America? (April 2011)
?Mourning with Larry? (September 2009)
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