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Piers Morgan Defends Himself Via Twitter After He’s Accused Of Hacking In Murdoch Hearing

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CNN’s Piers Morgan took to Twitter this afternoon, defending himself after a British member of Parliament suggested during the question of James and Rupert Murdoch that Morgan had admitted to phone hacking. “That MP just claimed I boasted in my book of using phone-hacking for a scoop,” Morgan tweeted to his 974,000 followers. “Complete nonsense. Just read the book.” Morgan’s memoir, The Insider: Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade, discusses his time as a British tabloid editor–including working as editor of Murdoch’s now-closed News of the World–and has been singled out by a UK blogger for a reference to the ease of phone hacking. Morgan says he never described actually doing so. “I’ve never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, or published any stories based on the hacking of a phone.”

Morgan addressed his time working for Murdoch in a comment at the beginning of his CNN show, Piers Morgan Tonight, on Monday. It was the first time he had used his program to address the hacking scandal and his own connection to the News of the World. “I worked as editor of News of the World sixteen years ago, from 1994 to 1995…for the record, I do not believe that any story we published…was ever gained in an unlawful manner.”

Morgan has continued to defend Murdoch against claims he knew anything about the illegal activity at the News of the World. “Love him or hate him, does anyone genuinely think he’s a crook or condoned crime? Because I don’t.”

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  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Uh OH! He just defended Murdoch, look to see the leftists throw him under the bus on the blogs.

    Oh Piers, you do not get the lefties out there. If you do not believe exactly as they do, you are toast.

    Best start looking for another gig. They will begin the witch hunt in 3…2….1.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think anyone on the left ever had an ounce of respect for piers “windbag” morgan. What’s going to be more interesting is to see conservatives calling him a crook but then quoting his passage about murdoch not having done anything wrong.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Well, Murdoch has done nothing wrong, as far as I can tell from all of the media coverage or any of the internet coverage.

    Accusations do not make for convictions. Unless of course you are in some totalitarian country.

    Hmmmm, so I wonder if the UK will force Murdoch to break up his companies if found not guilty of any charges? Hmmmm, it seems like that is the call already by the leftists in the UK parliament.

    I wonder when the same will be said in the US? I can assume that is just around the corner. I can see maybe Schumer to call for it maybe, or maybe someone else? Too bad Weiner is gone, this would be a PERFECT FIT for him. I mean he was sooooooo accurate with his whole Gold vendetta.

    I am sure glad he convinced all the lefties not to buy any gold. It left more for us righties!

  • Anonymous

    I felt like she was taking the mick bringing him like that. 

  • Anonymous

    Oh Please, Your dirty morgan just like the rest of the scum tabloids.

  • Anonymous

    hahahahah @ u wingnuts defending ya daddy who doesnt give a damn about you or his employees…Murdoch just threw 54,000 employees under the bus to save his own lying ass and you fools are still defending him….im right when i say you republicans are the American Taliban…..suicidal to the racist ass core…say bye bye to FIXED NEWS…..Murdoch wont hesitate to shut down that chop shop too to keep his miserable old ass from dying in jail

  • Anonymous

    uh oh….President Obama is about to disrupt coverage of of the hearing with another Presidential Smackdown of you dumbasses

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Was that you that Mrs Murdoch biotch slapped?

  • LibelFreeZone

    Morgan claims, “I’ve never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, or published any stories based on the hacking of a phone.”

    I have no proof, of course, but I think Morgan’s lying.  Morgan has done some pretty shady things in his “career” as an editor and/or reporter at not one but three disreputable tabloid “newspapers,” including doctoring photos of British soldiers when he worked for The Daily Mirror.

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

    Why CNN hired this dirty, slimy tabloid hack is a complete mystery, but I think it will emerge that Morgan, too, used whatever means necessary, legal or illegal, to get a story.  If that happens, will CNN have the ethical stones to fire him?  If not, I’ll never watch CNN again.

  • Anonymous

    Have you always been bat$shit crazy or just since Obama was elected? How exactly do you think this has anything to do with FOX other than in your delusional little mind?

  • Anonymous

    Hey Joyella, why aren’t you pointing out that the allegations against Morgan were for activities during his time at a Murdoch competitor:  The Daily Mirror?  Your article is seemingly intentionally vague on that very salient point. 

  • Anonymous

    we’ll see, All I can say is that he should’ve handled this better and run his company more effectively. Judging him by the people around, which was the republican standard for obama btw, I can say he is either an awful judge of character or he endorses unethical behavior. Either way it makes his company look bad.

  • Dik Gozinya

    News Corp. / ticker symbol: NWS / up 7%

    Sorry-A@@ Media Matter, left-wing, DemoKKKrat-types, Wall Street (aka ‘Friends of OBAMA) sees a big move for freedom of speech! LMFAO! heheheheheheheheheheheheheheh

  • Anonymous

    But can he defend that atrocious show of his.

  • Anonymous

    Barry is the one who is losing.

    He hasn’t offered one thing and even the Dims voted against his proposed 2012 budget.

    I guess the Dims were racists, eh?

  • Anonymous

    Not so- Mediaite pumped up his first weeks shows , intimating Morgan was going to surpass Hannity in viewers.

    But alas, another broken lib dream.

  • http://aimeslee.blogspot.com/ Scrapette Jones

    Oh, too bad that CONTEXT is a lonely truthteller, cuz at the exact same time that Piers was getting grilled and ousted over publishing photos of British soldiers torturing Iraqui prisoners that he thought were genuine, our American soldier boys were having a little similar go of it at Abu Graib..REMEMBER????? But…totally random coincidence, right? Give me a break…

  • SusanD

    He needs to go back and join his criminal Murdoch gang.

  • http://twitter.com/Wallycrawler Wally Crawler

    It’s Over Piers… It’s Over!

  • Anonymous

    That wasn’t his tweet.  Murdoch hacked into his Twitter account.

  • SaveTheJusticeSystem

    The truth about Piers Morgan will now come out and the US viewers will see him as he really is…a failed sleazy scumbag. You can dress sh!t up in a smart suit, but it’s still sh!t.

  • http://twitter.com/Kevin_Lately Kevin Lately

     Remember Larry King was arrested once…. Piers Morgan can turn in his Pinstripes for Prison strips.   

  • rajeev

    http://youtu.be/8dw0NGrGVHw
    Cenk Uygur mock Vicky Ward

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