CNN’s Piers Morgan Calls Sarah Palin “Mesmerizing”

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by Mark Joyella | 12:45 pm, December 16th, 2010

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CNN’s next new top talk show host Piers Morgan was on John King USA last night–alongside, of all people, Sam Donaldson–and the conversation turned to Facebook, Twitter, TIME‘s Person of the Year, and Sarah Palin.

And Morgan, perhaps angling to be the next in a suddenly long line of non-Fox hosts to get interviews with the Mama Grizzly, described her as “mesmerizing.”

Donaldson confirmed he’s not on Facebook or Twitter–and don’t hold your breath, it ain’t happening–but he does “know how to email.” (Why must people over a certain age talk about email like it’s something that must be figured out?) He also suggested that Palin had a pretty big impact on political movements in the U.S. this year, and would’ve been a top contender for his Person of the Year.

Morgan gave Palin credit for using social media to–much like Barack Obama did on his way to the White House–build a grassroots movement with a great deal of real power. He also said she’s good on camera, and–his word–”mesmerizing:”

She’s a mesmerizing character on television…she tweets all the time. She is leading from the front…she is using those platforms in a highly effective way. She is driving a movement through the prism of social networking, and recognizing that if she can talk and communicate to people in a simple, effective manner, through these social networking sites, she’s going to get votes.

Watch it here, from CNN:

Did you happen to notice something odd about that segment? For extended periods, rising star Morgan was speaking in a small box on screen, while past-his-prime Donaldson sat quietly in a MUCH BIGGER BOX. What the heck…? Piers, get on the phone and crack some skulls over there…

mesmerizing, Piers Morgan, Sarah Palin

http://www.facebook.com/people/Antony-Dupuy/1194612935 Antony Dupuy

Give him some time. He’ll come to hate her just like everyone else there.
TangledThorns

Piers has an open mind, good for him. Need more people like that at CNN before they fold.
skyfet

Mesmerizing in a dumb way, like we should support our North Korean ally, or Africa is a country.
TeaPartyPatriot

It’s not a surprise that leftist “Corrupt B-tards” cnn would hire an immigrant to do a job no self-respecting American citizen would do – namely, appear on their socialist propaganda network.
TrollJuice

Speaking of hiring immigrants…….Sarah Palin has hired someone from England to handle her social media:

“Why is Palin’s political action committee employing a Dutch right-wing journalist named Joshua Livestro, who is known for incendiary rhetoric?

A search of British business records turned up a company called Paideia Limited. Livestro is its sole director and shareholder.

The 40-year-old is not your typical hire for an American political operation. He has worked as a columnist for the Benelux version of Reader’s Digest and the Dutch newspaper De Telegraf. He’s also the founder and editor-in-chief of De Dagelijkse Standaard (or, The Daily Standard), a right-wing political blog that weighs in frequently on Palin. In the 1990s, he worked with England’s Conservative Party; he went on to become an assistant to Frits Bolkestein, then a European Commission member for internal market and financial services.

More recently, he’s been a combative contributor to the website Conservatives4Palin. There he took on Palin’s critics on the left and the right, attacking journalists including Marc Ambinder (then of The Atlantic, now of National Journal), Politico’s Ben Smith, and National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, among many others.”

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/sarah-palin-pac-joshua-livestro
philipjames

The reason Donaldson’s screen box was bigger was because there was a lot of hot air venting from his inflated head and it puffed up his screen view.
philipjames

TrollJuice said:
“Why is Palin’s political action committee employing a Dutch right-wing journalist named Joshua Livestro, who is known for incendiary rhetoric?

I don’t know, is it important? How about a post about all the foreigners working for each of the Democrats? Are they important? I am surprised that you liberal idiots haven’t rooted around in the garbage from the Palin’s house…. ooops, you already have? and haven’t been able to find anything incriminating? Shucks.
Maybe you can re-route the sewage from their house and comb through that to see if there are any clues to something that might be going on that could be used to smear her.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

Piers Morgan, he gets it right. Sensational Sarah is mesmerizing, enchanting, spell-binding, addictive, magical, mysterious, exotic, exquisite. What a lady, what a star!