Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/15/2013 04:46 PM Report

Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan Tonight

Network: CNN

Salary: $6 million

Total viewers: 560,000

$ Per viewer: $10.71

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Charlie Rose

CBS This Morning

Network: CBS

Combined salary: $8 million

Total viewers: 2.341 million

$ Per viewer: $3.41

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(Well then, who is overpaid?)

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/28/2013 05:41 PM Report

Brian Lamb and Charlie Rose are great!

Larry King did not prepare, had constant commercial interruptions and was ever so easy to channel surf away and never return.

Piers has gotten better in two years but with so many commercial interruptions he too is easy to channel surf away and never return.

Brian and Charlie keep the flow well paced and help us in our ADHD world.

citymoments  01/24/2013 09:27 AM Report

McNerney graduated from New Trier High School in 1967. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. degree in 1971. At Yale he excelled in baseball and hockey. After graduating from Yale he worked for a year at both British United Provident and G. D. Searle & Company, then attended Harvard Business School, receiving a Master of Business Administration in 1975.

Boeing is a company which makes planes, does it make sense to you the CEO of such an entity ( with a $12m compensation) should have some technical qualifications in relation to engineering? Of course, McNerney can hire a chief engineer to advise him on technical matters. Then, how does a CEO who has no engineering qualification know which engineer is best qualified for the job? To hire another adviser to help him out on how to hire the best engineer?

http://qnpress.blogspot.com.au...

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charliesheep  01/23/2013 01:01 PM Report

BOEING-HAS FOR 12 YEARS; ALONG WITH G.E.-PRODUCED 777- THAT ON INITIAL TEST FLIGHT- THE ENGINES "POPPED" CAUSED "RELIGHT "CONDITION THAT WAS JUST SHORT OF "STALLED

" AS THE AIRCRAFT; ON TAKEOFF-AND-ALMOST HIT TREES! THE COMPOSITE 787 HAS JUST-IN-TIME EVERYTHING- SO,THE WIRING HARNESSES AND BATTERIES[FAILURES]WHICH, ARE JAPANESE AND MAYBE THE[WAR] RECONSTRUCTION RULES EFFECT THAT! WHO KNOWS; THE TRIPLE "7" WAS AND IS STILL BEHIND;ON ITS DELIVERIES AND SO, IS 787 BUT, REALLY THE CORPORATE "RIDE" HAS GROUND AMERICA TO HALT BECAUSE M&A HAS SOLD OFF THOSE AMERICAN[BUILT] JOBS PRIOR TO THESE TWO NOW VERY LATE A/C BOEING -LOSERS! SO, JOBS AND AMERICA'S ROLE IN A SINGLE CORPORATE SUCCESS; BREEDS CONTEMPT FOR AMERICAN LONGEVITY FOR A/C OTHER THAN DEFENSE! WHICH SCALES THE HEIGHTS OF CREDULITY -REALLY! THE WEAPONS PRODUCED SINCE WW2 COULD END THE WORLD IN ONE SKIRMISH- PEACE-REALLY?

RegularViewer  01/23/2013 12:09 PM Report

We haven't had much respect for Piers's confrontational, often insulting style ... don't think it contributes to the understanding of issues ... and often detracts.

But THANK GOODNESS someone is creating a forum on the U.S. worship of guns ... and the effects, which pretty much horrify the rest of the civilized world and leave us completely mystified as to why Americans can't also see this in a no-brainer. Yes, yes, yes, we've all heard of the revolution, the constitution, the republic, the checks and balances, and "the rights" ... ad nauseam.

However, Piers will NEVER NEVER NEVER provide the world with the wonderful, interesting, educating CONVERSATIONS that Charlie does. It's not in his DNA. Charlie is irreplaceable. The thought of Piers being the interviewer at Charlie's wonderful table has absolutely no appeal whatsoever!

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/23/2013 02:50 AM Report

Here is a nice little story (2:29):

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/45740471#45740471

(MSNBC needs work on their streaming speed and perhaps should hire from Google. Piers needs work on his character and perhaps Google can also help him.)

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/23/2013 02:05 AM Report

On the "militia" definition:

"The Second Amendment was not enacted to provide a check on government tyranny; rather, it was written to assure the Southern states that Congress would not undermine the slave system by using its newly acquired constitutional authority over the militia to disarm the state militia and thereby destroy the South's principal instrument of slave control.

In effect, the Second Amendment supplemented the slavery compromise made at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and obliquely codified in other constitutional provisions.[52]"

http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/bogus2.htm

Plasha  01/22/2013 09:54 PM Report

@Leila, lol do you work for Piers Morgan? No one can take those statements seriously, so either you work or him, troll, or you are too young to being watching this program.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/22/2013 06:26 PM Report

Yes, a yellow journalist indeed:

http://topconservativenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Piers-Morgan-hoax-soldier-photo.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3716151.stm

Different kind of gun control, eh?

MisterMittster  01/22/2013 06:10 PM Report

A talent show judge. A Very Serious talent show judge. A Very Serious cheesy talent show judge. A Horse's ass. A Horse's ass to replace that famous guy, what's his name.

How can that be? Who IS this guy? This snob from England. What the Hell does he know?!!!!

What next for him? .. The Director of FEMA?.

Massive  01/22/2013 04:54 PM Report

Wow! Piers does not even know the gun laws in Britain. You can't own a handgun there at all. There is no long psychological process, you can't have it at your club, shoot it and leave it there. That is the old system, the destruction of which he constantly mentions, post Dunblane.

The UK does have certain security exceptions, but that is not something regular folk have access to.

Massive  01/22/2013 04:41 PM Report

"Need" is a sneaky word because it is subjective. Maybe I feel I need a sex change operation, but someone else might not agree. Morgan could get many answers to the questing what are guns like the AR "used" for. The answer is:

1) target shooting like hugely popular 3 gun shooting matches; 2) hunting, there are many companies selling them for those uses; 3) Every generation wants the gun they learned to shoot in basic training. The AR is not that gun, but pretty close in look and feel. Then as has come up on his show, the gun has self-defence, and fun aspects. There is also national defence as the government normally encourages civilians to develop competence with the national service firearm,though these programs are not so PC today.

Firearm wounds are horrible, but the AR shoots one of the lowest energy rounds there is, it is not legal in most places for hunting deer. The destructive bullet performance he refers to is exactly what hunters use to minimize pain and suffering in game. That is not going away either. It is just a very tough thing to come back from if you are a human and got shot.

People often assume that since it is a military round it must be super potent. That is not the case. Assault rifles are hybrid machine pistols/battle rifles. Key to their success is a blend of pistol cartridge and rifle cartridge performance. And for this a cartridge designed for hunting gophers was adopted. Combines high volume of fire from the machine pistol with the long range of the battle rifle. A gun that tried to do that with a full size cartridge is going to weight too much, etc... The AR's .223 is basically the 30-06 round from WWI and WWII reduced 2/3rds in size.

Leila  01/22/2013 04:28 PM Report

I know Piers comes from Tabloid land, however he looks like

a genius, on CNN. I also think he is doing a good job, having

a conversation on guns in America. I think is is honest and

is appropriately outraged. Only American's aren't. He's way

over Charlie's head. All Charlie can do is interview and when he gets out of his own way, it's a good interview. Charlie is too busy, being a wannabe.

Massive  01/22/2013 04:25 PM Report

Morgan's problem on gun control is that banning guns, confiscating them or even heavily regulating them are all options a reasonable person can subscribe to. The moment, however, that you concede the second amendment, hunting, and other uses (which he does), it is no longer a simple argument. At that point, some knowledge of guns is actually necessary in order to make any sense of the situation, since the kinds of shootings that have taken place are easily possible with with any guns that could credibly be left over. And Morgan knows nothing about guns, and makes preposterous statements about them that immediately destroy his credibility.

AntonGrambihler  01/22/2013 02:03 AM Report

If Piers Morgan thinks the purpose of the news is to bring forth the truth, where is his investigation of the crimes that took place in the USA on Sep 11, 2001? See: AE911Truth.org

Max83  01/21/2013 09:39 PM Report

Piers Morgan just received the American equivalent of a British Knighthood, one hour on the Charlie Rose Show and a recorded handshake by Charlie Rose. Congratulations :-) and don't let it go to your head Piers :-)

SoCalGal  01/21/2013 09:25 PM Report

Here's the putrid Piers Morgan, fresh from the tabloid toilet, pontificating on, of all places, The Charlie Rose Show. Shame on you, Charlie. You're giving Morgan credibility in your carefully scripted, orchestrated program designed to make Morgan appear other than what he really is: a smelly tabloidist. Morgan is a "journalist" like I'm the Queen of England! He is, at best, a jeernalist.

For readers not fully aware of Morgan's "credentials," he was an entertainment reporter for The Sun (1989-94), and editor of News of the World (1994-95) and The Daily Mirror (1995-04). He did damage to reputations at all of them and laughed about it all the way to the bank. Lying, gossip, unfounded innuendo, going for the jugular. He's a jeernalist.

There’s also Morgan’s involvement in the Viglen shares scam. Morgan made thousands ramping up share values by promotion in his paper; yet escaped the fate of fellow journalist-conspirators who went to prison. Shouldn’t be a surprise that James Hipwell and Anil Bhoyrul are helping to spill the beans on Morgan’s dodgy background. Google for the sordid details.

After having practically been run out of Britain on a rail (Iraq photo hoax), Morgan took Simon Cowell's advice and moved to America where U.S. viewers don't really know his tawdry tabloid history. Now Morgan's sordid past is being exposed along with every other low life at NOTW. Without a public acknowledg­ement--inde­ed, an apology for deceiving the public during his years as a presence at not one but three notorious British tabloids--­Morgan will never be able to wash the stink off himself from being mentored by Rupert Murdoch and Kelvin Mackenzie, both repulsive yellow journalist­s. Now he's trotting himself out as a mainstream interviewe­r on CNN. Shame on CNN for hiring this disreputab­le and lame excuse for a journalist­. It's a sad day for journalism when Piers Morgan is considered "quality journalism­."

The Daily Mail is, in fact, a tabloid, no matter what Morgan says. The world's biggest, fattest liar [Lance Armstrong] has got nothing on Morgan.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/21/2013 06:49 PM Report

Over 2,000 weapons were taken off Los Angeles streets during a gun buyback on Dec. 26--including two military grade rocket grenade launchers.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/rpgs-collected-los-angeles-gun-buyback-program-article-1.122 9810#ixzz2Ien4D7xT

Yes Piers, we are indeed a well armed militia. Imagine in "Zero Dark Thirty" if UBL's compound had been in Los Angeles and all those citizens start approaching with weapons.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  01/21/2013 06:36 PM Report

Piers, your blood pressure is 147 over 89 per Doc Oz.

You blame America "Deport British Citizen Piers Morgan for Attacking 2nd Amendment 109,334 Signatures."

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/when-discussing-second-amendment-keep-first-mind-too

Let Charlie help you with both his MD and his style.

Dasein  01/21/2013 04:14 PM Report

It was awfully nice of the guest to pretend Rose's job is desired by many. Did I say "job?"

Ricardo_Amaral  01/21/2013 01:46 PM Report

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NeilMacCallister  01/21/2013 01:15 PM Report

This from John Frisby:

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"Why is it that it is always a progressive liberal who steals these guns and then goes to kill movie goers and children in schools? They are never a conservative -- much less an NRA member!

Ft Hood: Registered Democrat

Columbine: Too young to vote; both families were registered Democrats and progressive liberals

Virginia Tech: Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to his staff; Registered Democrat

Colorado Theater: Registered Democrat; staff worker on the Obama campaign; an Occupy Wall Street participant; progressive liberal

Connecticut School Shooter: Registered Democrat; hated Christians

The common thread is that all of these shooters were progressive liberal Democrats."

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(Wow!!! ..maybe our newspapers should post the names and addresses of these dangerous 'progressive' Democrats!!!)

REMant  01/21/2013 12:14 PM Report

Since I don't watch CNN anymore, and aside from seeing it in a few public places, it's been more than a decade since I have, and I haven't paid a lot of attention to the Fleet St capers, I was unaware of Mr Morgan's notoriety until his name came up in connection with claims that handgun confiscation in Britain has been a great success, because it hasn't, indeed far from it. And there nevertheless is a tabloid quality to these continual Chicken Little episodes which speaks less to understanding or amelioration than a failure to grow up. I really don't know why such ppl make such a fuss about climate, terrorists etc, etc, when they don't apparently care whether they live or die, making such a feeble attempt at the former, and spending like there's no tomorrow. Tho it has the odor of religion gone sour.

After the 1996 Dunblane massacre in Scotland, in which 16 schoolchildren and a teacher were killed, and another 15 wounded, by a man wielding only handguns, Britain's already strict gun laws were enlarged to include them. The newspaper leading the call for this ban was the Daily Mirror, editor, Piers Morgan. Britain, however, has had a lower murder rate than the United States for all of the past two centuries, during most of which neither nation had strict gun control. But since the gun ban took effect, the total number of firearm offenses, in England and Wales has risen 89 percent, and in some areas of the country is five times what it was. In 2010, Derrick Bird went on a four-hour rampage around Cumbria with a shotgun and a rifle, killing 12 and wounding 11.

The US homicide rate has been falling for more than two decades, the British homicide rate growing. In the 1990s alone, the homicide rate their jumped 50 percent. From 1997 to 2005, both total homicides and gun homicides increased by more than 25 percent. A comprehensive 2007 study showed Britain was not only the burglary and assault capital of Europe, it also had higher than average rates of car theft, robbery and sex offenses, coming in second only to Ireland. A study last year by the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control found that Britain has higher robbery, assault, and burglary rates than the US. One Manhattan British expat remarked that while he isn't afraid to ride the subway at midnight, he had been mugged at night at home in Manchester three times. His honor the mayor may claim that as a victory for his policies, but Manchester is supposed to have considerably fewer guns. Studies also show that perpetrators armed with knives and clubs are more likely to wound their victims than those with guns, because they know they have to incapacitate them to attain their object.

And who would deny that with all its databases and surveillance cameras, the UK is fast becoming a totalitarian state?

The same is true of Australia and Canada, which followed Britain in tightening gun controls. Many other countries with stronger gun control laws, such as Russia, Brazil and Mexico, have higher murder rates than the US. Gun ownership is three times higher in Switzerland than in Germany, but the Swiss have had lower murder rates. Holland, with the lowest rate of firearm ownership in Europe has a 50 percent higher murder rate than Norway where ownership is very high. Besides Norway, countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, Greece, and Austria.

The rate of gun ownership is higher in rural areas of the US than in urban areas, but the murder rate is higher in urban areas. Gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks, but the murder rate is higher among blacks. There are more such examples in my comment January 14.

For the US as a whole, hand gun ownership has doubled in the last few decades, while the murder rate has steadily declined.

According to recently released FBI data (http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-ho micide-data-table-8) total and firearm homicides in 2011 dropped 15 percent, rifle homicides twice as fast at 29 percent. Rifle homicides (of which "assault rifles" are but a part), are now far below those by club or other blunt object, or beating and far below those committed with knifes. The turning point seems to have come with the easing of restrictions in 1986.

As is their wont the news media are now headlining every criminal use of guns they come across, just as they do when after an airline accident, despite the fact that air travel is many times safer than driving one's car, and all of this hullaballoo only encourages copycats.

Advocates such as the Great Schumer yesterday conjure up a decline in "gun deaths", but suicide is by far the greatest source of "gun deaths," and of the source of suicides, hanging and poisoning outstrip it as the method of choice, and when added to jumping, drowning and stab wounds, greatly so. As I mentioned earlier the most anyone has put firearm mass murders at in this country this past year is 151, while 349 American military service members took their own lives. Tho, of course, the First Lady is working on that. Suicide rates are fairly stable in any case, thus indicating gun restriction not much of a factor.

According to Wikipedia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied the "assault weapon" ban and other gun control attempts, in Oct 2003 and found "insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence," noting "that insufficient evidence to determine effectiveness should not be interpreted as evidence of ineffectiveness."

A 2004 critical review of research on firearms by a National Research Council panel also noted that academic studies of the assault weapon ban "did not reveal any clear impacts on gun violence" and noted "due to the fact that the relative rarity with which the banned guns were used in crime before the ban ... the maximum potential effect of the ban on gun violence outcomes would be very small...."

In 2004, a research report submitted to the United States Department of Justice and the National Institute of Justice found that should the ban be renewed, its effects on gun violence would likely be small, and perhaps too small for reliable measurement, because rifles in general, including rifles referred to as "assault rifles" or "assault weapons", are rarely used in gun crimes. That study by Christopher S. Koper, Daniel J. Woods, and Jeffrey A. Roth of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania to the National Institute of Justice also found no statistically significant evidence that either the assault weapons ban or the ban on magazines holding more than 10 rounds had reduced gun murders.

And the 3rd edition of More Guns, Less Crime in 2010 reported empirical research finding no impact of the ban on violent crime rates, though found some evidence that the assault weapon bans slightly increased murder rates.

Attempts to renew the "assault weapons" ban have nevertheless continued, and shortly after the 2008 election, Change.gov, the website of the office of then President-Elect Barack Obama, listed a detailed agenda for the forthcoming administration, originally published on his campaign website, BarackObama.com., which included "making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent" the statement appearing subsequently on WhiteHouse.gov, its wording unchanged. Of course, this may have only been the president cosying up to the Left.

It is also apparently necessary with Herr Morgan to distinguish what we are talking about. Sub-machine guns have been banned in this country, legally or illegally, since 1934. A semi-automatic AR-15 is not substantially different from an M1 Garand, left out because the Garand takes an eight-round clip instead of a magazine. Only semi-automatic weapons with an external magazines were banned in 1994, which means that most semi-automatic pistols were also excluded. But having been produced in the thousands in WWII, M1s are all over the world. And the Garand's rate of fire in the hands of a trained soldier averages 40-50 accurate shots per minute at a range of 300 yards.

It is also argued that the 2nd Amendment's prohibition, like the 1st's, has not been maintained by the courts - termed an "hybrid" right - for instance, by suggesting there's a difference between bearing arms and bearing concealed arms, or that only the bearing of militia weapons is covered. But it is no more accurate than the inanity concocted in 1905 that the amendment applied only to militias or that the militia was always conceived the same as the National Guard, which we still hear despite having been debunked decades ago.

It is clear that gun control advocates from Defoe to Delbert Cress have believed that guns in the hands of citizens amounted to arming a mob, but as I quoted Beccaria the other day, you cannot expect virtuous citizens when you keep them in a bubble, monetary or otherwise. Jefferson denounced depending on "pauper hirelings" for our defense, and as much as anyone else spoke of the "necessity of obliging every citizen to be a soldier." Indeed, he suggested "we must...make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education." Enervation of the population has always been thought as much the reason behind limiting arms, as the limitation itself, something I think we have seen with the abolition of the draft. To a nephew on the virtue of exercise, he wrote "As to the species of exercise, I recommend the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind." Maybe if we treated our children less like babies they might act less like them.

Richard_DeBiase  01/21/2013 11:56 AM Report

Dear Piers,

Hearing Barack Obama talk about fantasy violence in movies and video games is unbelievable, when the Obama Drug War is the greatest source of actual violence in the real world.

In regard to gun violence in the United States, these mass shootings seem to be mental health related, not drug related. But in regard to the day-to-day shootings, a fair number of them appear to be related to drug illegality, not drug use (unless the drug is alcohol); that is, rival drug dealers fighting over turf, drug deals gone bad, or dealers versus the police (this problem probably includes marijuana). You might even see a drug user commit an armed robbery to obtain drugs (certainly not marijuana) because there is no methadone clinic available, and they can’t go to a doctor or hospital for help without being arrested, and they have no other options. Certainly ending the Drug War in the U.S. would reduce the daily gun violence and free up tax dollars for mental health care, and those things would be good for both sides in the gun control debate. President Obama should have known this a long time ago, are we supposed to be impressed that Obama may finally be forced to do something about gun violence here at home?

RichardDeBiase.com