CNN Host Is Dragged Into Phone Scandal

In the latest high-profile spat between a pro-gun advocate and outspoken CNN host Piers Morgan, Breitbart.com’s editor-at-large Ben Shapiro called the Brit a “bully” who is “standing on the graves of the children of Sandy Hook.”

Piers Morgan, the CNN talk show host and a former editor of the British tabloid The Mirror, faced calls from prominent British lawmakers to appear before a parliamentary committee.

Shortly after spending 15 minutes ranting at CNN host Piers Morgan Monday night, conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones recorded a 12-minute YouTube video that took his paranoia to new heights, suggesting New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had hired either mafia or undercover cops posing as crackheads to kill him. “If something happens to us, we’re killed by crackheads, it was the NYPD or mafia they hired. Period,” he told viewers. “If you don’t know Bloomberg is total mafia, you are not living on planet Earth.

Former British newspaper editor Piers Morgan, now a presenter for US television network CNN, on Thursday denied fresh allegations that he printed stories obtained through phone hacking.Morgan -- a former editor of Rupert Murdoch's now shuttered News of the World paper and of the rival Daily Mirror tabloid -- made his latest denial after British media printed comments that he made in a BBC radio programme in 2009.

CNN host Piers Morgan testified by video conference Tuesday before the panel investigating British press practices. Morgan has repeatedly denied allowing phone hacking while he was a high-profile tabloid editor in London.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

Nearly 84,000 people want British CNN host Piers Morgan deported from the U.S. for calling a gun advocate stupid, but at least 6,000 would prefer he’d stay on American soil. The reason? The UK doesn’t actually want him back — or so says a new petition posted to the White House e-petition website.

On Monday night, CNN host Piers Morgan invited Alex Jones — 9/11 Truther, radio host and founder of the “Deport Piers Morgan” petition — on his show to debate him on the issue of gun control in America. What resulted was less of a debate and more of a verbal trainwreck, as Jones delivered an epic rant for the YouTube age, calling for a gun-powered revolution against “megabanks” and “foreigners” and somehow invoking Hitler, Stalin, anti-depression drugs and Europeans currently burning down their cities. (They are not.)