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Mark Steyn sounds off
on CNN’s Piers Morgan

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor

Original Article

Posted By:sparky86, 12/26/2012 6:30:47 PM

Filling in for Rush Limbaugh on his Wednesday show, National Review columnist Mark Steyn reacted to all the unfolding drama related to CNN’s Piers Morgan and his anti-gun stance including a petition on the White House website wanting to deport the Morgan, saying, “How much longer are Americans going to have to put up with some snooty, hoity-toity foreigner coming on the airwaves and telling them everything that’s wrong with their country?” "Do you know this fellow, Piers Morgan?” Steyn said. “Piers Morgan. He’s one of these, you know, these snotty-voiced foreigners who came to

Comments:
OK, aside from this coming from a Canadian citizen, it´s true that we shouldn´t that have to import anti-American rhetoric

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: tren9, 12/26/2012 6:38:13 PM     (No. 9084862)

Steyn was doing satire.


Reply 2 - Posted by: neanderthal, 12/26/2012 6:40:47 PM     (No. 9084865)

Message to Steyn: Speak less, write more...lots and lots more.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: frenesi1, 12/26/2012 6:51:50 PM     (No. 9084885)

I don´t think there was any satire involved. I think he meant what he said.

I had Joyce Carol Oats on my to read list. Now I can cross her off. What a waste of time that would be.


Reply 4 - Posted by: RoseOfTexas, 12/26/2012 6:54:53 PM     (No. 9084889)

Steyn is my favorite of Rush´s regular subs, & he has his U.S. citizenship now IIRC.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Rafter, 12/26/2012 7:08:12 PM     (No. 9084899)

Pot... meet Kettle.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Italiano, 12/26/2012 7:11:34 PM     (No. 9084904)

It was a combination of truth mixed in with beautiful tongue-in-cheek humor, Steyn-style. If you heard this and didn´t get where Mark was coming from, well...


Reply 7 - Posted by: CentralFLMom, 12/26/2012 7:26:42 PM     (No. 9084917)

Throw Piers out the united states and bar him and anyone related to him from ever setting foot on our sacred soil.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: lizzee1, 12/26/2012 7:27:13 PM     (No. 9084918)

Correct on all counts, #6.


Reply 9 - Posted by: dman, 12/26/2012 7:30:43 PM     (No. 9084925)

Dittos, #1 and #6. Gotta love Steyn.


Reply 10 - Posted by: mercedesops, 12/26/2012 8:23:19 PM     (No. 9084958)

Why does Steyn not have his own show yet?


Reply 11 - Posted by: TnEm, 12/26/2012 9:37:44 PM     (No. 9085033)

Love Steyn. He has more American spirit than an awful lot of native born US citizens.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Fledrmaus, 12/26/2012 9:45:30 PM     (No. 9085038)

I don´t believe Steyn has American citizenship. He has landed immigrant status, so he´s legally permitted to reside and work in the U.S., but he´s still a Canadian citizen.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Charactercounts, 12/26/2012 9:46:19 PM     (No. 9085040)

Steyn was, as usual, brilliant on Rush´s show today.

Stuart Varney, on FOX Business, also criticized Morgan. Varney, another immigrant from England, spoke of wanting to form a society of people who are immigrants and like the US, and don´t want it changed.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Wendybird, 12/26/2012 9:53:35 PM     (No. 9085048)

Are some people too dense to realize that Steyn is aware that he talks exactly like Morgan etc. The difference is, he makes sense and is funny. Did I hear him say that President Obama is going back to Hawaii as soon as he finishes off the "Physical Cliff" discussion, to work on his tan? Or was it my imagination?


Reply 15 - Posted by: Now or Never, 12/26/2012 10:30:58 PM     (No. 9085089)

Mark Steyn = National Treasure


Reply 16 - Posted by: JoElla Bee, 12/26/2012 10:58:24 PM     (No. 9085108)

Yes, #6, and nobody does it better than Steyn.
His wonderful ability to put a humorous spin on some of the bile inducing idiocy that we must increasingly endure from "great thinkers" these days make me kind of sad for those who ´don´t get it´.


Reply 17 - Posted by: steveracer, 12/27/2012 1:01:36 AM     (No. 9085183)

Steyn is the best´est. He has a delicious sense of humor and delivery.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: thelmalou, 12/27/2012 1:31:29 AM     (No. 9085191)

Mark Steyn is a treasure, sure enough. #6 is correct. I love Mr. Steyn.


Reply 19 - Posted by: suedotsue, 12/27/2012 3:44:17 AM     (No. 9085223)

I´d be happy to hear and read Mark Steyn every day. He even takes on millionaire global warming celebrities who falsely claim to be Nobel Prize winners. Occasionally one person can make a difference. Andrew Breitbart was one, Mark Steyn is one.


Reply 20 - Posted by: vwlarry, 12/27/2012 3:44:35 AM     (No. 9085224)

I listened to this monologue from the Great Steyn yesterday, and it was as usual, masterful.

I have a "man crush" on Mark Steyn. There. I admitted it. :-D


Reply 21 - Posted by: belwhatter, 12/27/2012 3:57:15 AM     (No. 9085230)

Mark does not speak ´hoity toity´ like Morgan - his accent is one of the world - he has overtones of Aussie, South London, US and Canadian all rolled into one - defiitely not ´hoity toity´. His sense of humor is incomparably witty and perceptive.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Now or Never, 12/27/2012 4:19:33 AM     (No. 9085238)

"I have a "man crush" on Mark Steyn. There. I admitted it. :-D"


Get in line #20, I saw him first !


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: LAW428, 12/27/2012 6:00:53 AM     (No. 9085271)

Contrary to #5, Mark Steyn is a treasure! Piers Morgan is a self-aggrandizing, hateful creature who thinks of himself more highly than he ought. If one cannot discern the difference, then he/she just isn´t paying attention.


Reply 24 - Posted by: pineledger, 12/27/2012 6:22:03 AM     (No. 9085283)

Joyce Carol Oates for Howie Carr´s Dead Pool.


Reply 25 - Posted by: KanCreeper, 12/27/2012 7:41:18 AM     (No. 9085350)

Seems as if Morgan´s ´Piers´ has rotted long before his ship came in.


Reply 26 - Posted by: Bad Dog, 12/27/2012 8:01:08 AM     (No. 9085375)

Steyn was mocking Morgan by mocking himself as a ´foreign-sounding´ fellow coming on American airwaves and complaining about what´s wrong with America. You think he doesn´t hear these same complaints from the lefties who troll conservative outlets?

I think his point was to let Morgan have his say, showing his ignorance himself - not force him out of the country for what he says. It´s not our way. Or are WE now practicing First Amendment for me but not for thee?


Reply 27 - Posted by: Bad Dog, 12/27/2012 8:02:36 AM     (No. 9085378)

P.S. Besides, Britain doesn´t want Morgan back - took them 40 years to get rid of him.

Heh....


Reply 28 - Posted by: truthfetish, 12/27/2012 8:03:23 AM     (No. 9085380)

Can anyone post a link to the monologue for us non-Rush subscribers?


Reply 29 - Posted by: f64, 12/27/2012 8:08:29 AM     (No. 9085394)

I love Mark Steyn, but just as some people have the perfect face for radio, Mark has the perfect voice for writing.


Reply 30 - Posted by: Me?Opinionated?Nah!, 12/27/2012 8:10:53 AM     (No. 9085396)

Steyn is worth listening to because he’s bright and blessed with a sense of humor. Morgan isn’t because he isn’t.


Reply 31 - Posted by: leopardtwo, 12/27/2012 9:16:06 AM     (No. 9085511)

Funniest line from Mr. Steyn: When David Gregory of Meet the Press was told by police in DC not to exhibit the 30-round magazine, he probably said: ´From my cold dead hands!´


Reply 32 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 12/27/2012 9:28:54 AM     (No. 9085547)

I would like to think that PM´s little act would take CNN down. But, these left-leaning weasels just keep coming out of the woodwork like roaches. As usual, good read, Mark Steyn.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Nan, 12/27/2012 9:31:51 AM     (No. 9085555)

Posted on Facebook


Reply 34 - Posted by: tnorling, 12/27/2012 9:33:06 AM     (No. 9085558)

The folks at an ad agency I once worked for thought it would be "classy" - is the word I presume they use - to have a receptionist with an English accent. I thought it was cheesy, just like Piers and his Brit cohorts on t.v. Why oh why do they hire them when there are innumerable competent Americans. Except for Stuart Varney, who I really like, I don´t know that Fox has any Brits... Good for them.


Reply 35 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 12/27/2012 9:38:40 AM     (No. 9085578)

And the audio playback was even better.


Reply 36 - Posted by: fairplay, 12/27/2012 10:04:02 AM     (No. 9085645)

One of my pet peeves is allowing foreigners all over TV ,especially liberal shows, to tell us Americans what we ought to do!

They comment on every aspect of governance.

It´s not their country!!! BBC et al!!!


Reply 37 - Posted by: rc1776, 12/27/2012 10:33:41 AM     (No. 9085708)

Sir Mark I wonder how much the Euroites would charge to capture and preserve sasquatch and the queen De al Qaeda residenial wh bogus curtsying bleached bath house queen Ø´blo the blamer?
Think of the trillions that would benefit America.


Reply 38 - Posted by: sherlock1, 12/27/2012 10:35:25 AM     (No. 9085711)

"Landed Immigrant" is a Canadian immigration status pertaining to non-Canadians who are legally able to live and work in Canada.

The U.S. equivalent status is "Resident Alien", which is what Mr. Steyn would be, unless he has become a U.S. citizen.

Between my wife and I, we have been both... just sayin´.


Reply 39 - Posted by: Lawsy0, 12/27/2012 10:41:53 AM     (No. 9085720)

Steyn subbed for Limbaugh yesterday; his tongue was so firmly planted in his cheek that he could hardly speak without laughing (but he pulled it off). Steyn is the only ´´Mark´´ I can abide as substitute for Rush.


Reply 40 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 12/27/2012 10:41:58 AM     (No. 9085721)

#6 is right - it was tongue-in-cheek humor, although loaded with truth as it is his trademark.
#13 I´m a big fan of Stuart Varney. I hope he can start a loyal-immigrants society.
It wou8ld be great to have a Steyn and Stuart show. I know it´s mixing a last name with a first name but it´s catchy. They both make more sense than most American-born politicians. When you think about it, they are a great deal like the Colonial Patriots leading up to 1776.


Reply 41 - Posted by: DoktorFranken, 12/27/2012 10:59:53 AM     (No. 9085770)

Mark Steyn is the BEST at writing AND hosting. His words regarding PM (and the Left) point out, metaphorically speaking, that they are sans "equipment".

That´s right. I said it!!!


Reply 42 - Posted by: RancherJack, 12/27/2012 11:14:45 AM     (No. 9085809)

#6 - let us remember England banned Michael Savage for telling truth that Prime Minister Cameron labeled dangerous to Britain´s internal security.

This, right after publishing Liberalism is a Mental Disease.

If they can do that to a man who exposes the truth, I agree with you. Why can´t we do it to a loathsome liar and revisionist?


Reply 43 - Posted by: pineledger, 12/27/2012 11:15:03 AM     (No. 9085812)

Funniest of all was his self-deprecating humor about people with snotty toffee-nosed British accents!


Reply 44 - Posted by: jimmyfoxhound, 12/27/2012 11:53:37 AM     (No. 9085920)

No one does it better than Mark, I love it when he subs for Rush and I can never get enough of his humor and wit. Anyone who knows his style would know he was half serious and half tongue-in-cheek with his statements about Piers. Mark is wonderful.


Reply 45 - Posted by: snakeoil, 12/27/2012 11:57:08 AM     (No. 9085925)

Send Piers Morgan to Antarctica. We need daily reports on the progress of Global Luke Warming.


Reply 46 - Posted by: catfur27, 12/27/2012 12:15:57 PM     (No. 9085970)

A fiercely angry Piers responded: "...´toffee-nosed´, you say ??!! ... why old chap, I say if I weren´t an English gentleman such harsh words would tempt me to consider thrashing you a good one to jolly well teach you some bloody manners."


Reply 47 - Posted by: school em, 12/27/2012 1:46:27 PM     (No. 9086121)

Mark Steyn...he´s my boyfriend.


Reply 48 - Posted by: thelmalou, 12/27/2012 2:08:29 PM     (No. 9086156)

Them´s fightin´ words, #47. Back off, lest you get hurt. ;)


Reply 49 - Posted by: Billyc, 12/27/2012 3:21:41 PM     (No. 9086292)

Welsh born and a US citizen . I get along with most Americans , I get an occasional remark like you got a funny accent.Nothing wrong with Mark , I listen to him when he subs for Rush. Stuart he thinks before he speaks and mannerisms are excellent for us viewers.Now from a fellow UK transplant Piers tends to come across with a chip on his shoulder and the UK rag ( newspaper)he managed I would not personally give it time of day. It´s on a par with the left wing Guardian. I was surprised that comments did not address Amendment 2 of the US Constitution . A well regulated Militia, being necesaary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.One of the main reasons our forefathers wrote in Amendment 2 was to insure that the Government did not usurp their authority by subjugating it´s citizens.


Reply 50 - Posted by: Adam, 12/27/2012 4:00:09 PM     (No. 9086341)

#6 got it right. liberals have no sense of subtly and no sense of humor. or would that be humour?



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“We´ve had a tough go of it this last year,” Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey said Tuesday morning. “The facts are indisputable regarding the impact certain things have had on ad dollars." Dickey told analysts on the earnings call that his radio empire’s revenue was down $5.6 million in the first quarter of 2013 on top of a boatload of debt. Why? Parse the weasel words (“the impact of certain things”) and you’ll see that Dickey is blaming one man for the precipitous decline of right-wing talk radio’s profitability: Rush Limbaugh. El Rushbo is still a giant in the industry,

Fox Analyst Shreds ‘Cowardly,
Duplicitous’ Admin Over Benghazi:
‘Sacrificed American Lives For Politics’

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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar    Original Article
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Ahead of the Benghazi hearings in which three witnesses are set to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade invited Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters to discuss the issue. Peters was unflinching in his criticism of the “cowardly” Obama administration — and the “establishment media” that aids it. “Is this a national security coverup?” Kilmeade asking, explaining that the witness testimony is expected to say the administration was deceitful in its handling of the situation. “The administration, facing the election, went into panic mode, wanted to contain it,”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
implies a right to health care, education

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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst    Original Article
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not

Mark Sanford wins South
Carolina special election

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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner    Original Article
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Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.


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