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  • want to be really clear about this.

  • I've never had to phone Welcome to watch Mojo.

  • And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 reasons why people hate Pierce Morgan.

  • That's pretty good tracking.

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  • I've been sick.

  • Sorry, because you wore those deliberately so people would notice, right?

  • We'll never accepted their fate for this list.

  • We're looking at the biggest ways this English provocateur has gotten on people's nerves.

  • What does Pierce Morgan said that most peed you off?

  • Let us know in the comments.

  • Number 10, His campaign against Megan Markle, along with the tabloids he used to write for and run Morgan has been relentless in his attacks of Duchess Megan Markle.

  • Discussing his animosity, he's bitterly recounted that he and Marco had a few drinks at a pub one night but that she ghosted him after meeting Prince Harry.

  • This vendetta came to a head when Marco told Oprah that she'd had thoughts about taking her own life and had experienced racism, he won't be given security.

  • It's not going to be given a title and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born.

  • Morgan's response on Good Morning Britain was that Markle was making it all up.

  • I don't believe a word she says.

  • Meghan Markle.

  • I wouldn't believe it if you read the weather report.

  • He offered no real reasons and later stormed off set when he got called out by a colleague.

  • She's entitled to cut you off if she wants to.

  • Has she said anything about you since she cut you off?

  • I don't think she has, But yet you continue to trash her under pressure.

  • Morgan left the program citing quote, freedom of speech in a tweet, which is funny because he once banned Hugh Grant from his shows for speaking against tabloids attractive.

  • I think Sorry causes Number nine his dismissive remarks about Olympians While watching the 2016 Rio Olympics, Pierce was disappointed in how poorly he felt Team Great Britain was doing so.

  • He took to Twitter to express his feelings, saying quote, gold is all that matters.

  • Always remember, if you ain't first.

  • Your last tweet was not well received online, especially by Olympians who accused him of being dismissive of the talent and determination it takes to qualify in the Olympics.

  • let alone take home a bronze or silver medal.

  • Putting his world class trolling skills on display, Morgan tried to discredit the respondents by firing back that none of them had ever won gold.

  • You can be second, you can be 3rd, 4th Hell, you can even be fifth number eight.

  • The Janet Mock interview.

  • In 2014, Morgan had transgender activist Janet Mock on his CNN show to talk about her memoir, Redefining Real Nous.

  • Tell me how you felt when you when you Actually we're approaching the operation.

  • Well, that was That was a big step in a long journey.

  • However, to publicize the interview, he made an extremely inappropriate and insensitive tweet.

  • Mock took issue with this responding quote.

  • I was not formerly a man.

  • Please stop sensationalizing my life and Miss Jen Doring Trans women.

  • Her followers also criticized Morgan.

  • In response, Morgan apologized and just getting he laid into mock, calling her disgraceful and portraying himself as a victim.

  • The tweets last night ignited a firestorm of abuse and vilification my way because you said I had sensationalized your story.

  • To his credit, he did bring her back on for another interview, asking what he did wrong, but insisted all the way that he'd been horribly wronged.

  • People magazine who worked as an intern.

  • I understand that.

  • Sensationalizing our story, advertising Isis people to look in number seven.

  • His comments on Trump's travel ban.

  • Mr President, Great to see you.

  • Good to see how it Morgan has had a long running relationship with Donald Trump, even winning the top spot in the 2000 and eight season of Celebrity Apprentice.

  • I'll pay 1000 8.

  • You're fantastic, man.

  • Thank you very much.

  • Despite Trump describing him as quote, ruthless, arrogant, evil and obnoxious, there's really something special.

  • During Trump's presidency, Morgan alternated between praise and criticism, ultimately deeming him quote mentally unfit, However, he did express sympathy with Trump's controversial travel ban, again playing Devil's Advocate here while running for office, Trump had called for a quote complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States and his executive order, 13769 restricted travel from seven countries.

  • There is no Muslim ban.

  • If there was 80.

  • Sorry, hearing Morgan's reasoning.

  • Australia's Jim Jeffries had a visceral reaction, as did many at home.

  • Okay, Morgan would come under fire again in 2018 for an interview with Trump that viewers perceived as weak and sycophantic.

  • You like being president.

  • I do.

  • I'm really in just by all the aggro that gets poured on you.

  • Well, some of which I have to say as someone who likes, you know, in a long time.

  • Number six, he despises Harry Potter.

  • Piers Morgan's comments on the Muslim ban attracted criticism online, notably from Harry Potter author JK Rowling.

  • Morgan retorted that that was why he'd never read the Harry Potter books.

  • Just try to make sense of that.

  • Morgan hasn't read a series of books that started in 1997 because the author criticized him on Twitter in 2017.

  • This escalated into a Twitter feud in which Morgan claimed his published diary, The Insider was better written.

  • Rolling arguably won the debate when she posted praise that Morgan had written about her, which he didn't seem to initially recognized as his own words.

  • But as if to rub salt in the wound, Morgan's son responded by tweeting out his love of Harry Potter.

  • Oh my goodness, explain yourselves, both of you.

  • Number five.

  • His response to black lives matter.

  • Pierce Morgan has been a vocal critic of black lives matter and frequently inserted himself into the conversation.

  • In 2015, when activist Marc Lamont Hill tweeted that quote all black lives matter, Morgan insisted that actually quote all lives matter and accused the hashtag of being divisive.

  • Later that year, he also rushed in to make room for quote whiteness.

  • When activist DeRay McKesson expressed his love for blackness, you could practically hear Twitter users rolling their eyes at Morgan's desire to be included.

  • The following year, Morgan penned a column condemning black lives matter as quote, a well intentioned idea that's gone bad.

  • Finally, enough, though in 2020 when Black Lives Matter gained greater support.

  • He struck out against critics of the movement, offering his own breakdown of the slogan Number four, The Iraq War Photo Scandal.

  • Pierce Morgan's time as editor of The Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2000 and four saw the tabloid dive headfirst into a number of scandals.

  • The one that got him fired came when he decided to run alleged photos of British army soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners.

  • The photos turned out to be fabricated, and the paper was accused of endangering British troops for nothing.

  • Well, I've never accepted.

  • They were fake.

  • Despite this, Morgan refused to apologize, arguing that quote.

  • If nobody knows the provenance of these photographs, why should we apologize?

  • Which, of course, begs the question.

  • Why publish the photos without knowing their provenance?

  • Much assertive limitations on wrongful dismissal for years?

  • I don't think it was wrongfully dismissed.

  • I think the mirror are perfectly entitled to do what they did.

  • Number three.

  • His men's March idea.

  • Troubled by what he saw as quote rabid feminists organizing a World wide women's march the day after President Trump's inauguration, Pierce Morgan mulled the idea of organizing a men's march.

  • He ended the tweet asking quote, Who's with me?

  • Unfortunately, four piers.

  • There weren't many takers, just people like Patton Oswalt waiting to troll him in a string of hilarious tweets.

  • After the backlash he received online, Morgan backed off his poorly thought out idea.

  • But that didn't stop him from finding negative things to say about the more successful women's march Number two.

  • His sexist remarks.

  • The women's march wasn't the only time that Pierce Morgan has put his foot in his mouth when discussing women I love hot close right I love it because you can't wear something.

  • He seems especially preoccupied with how women dress his more uncomfortable moments on Good Morning Britain include fixations on Weather Girl Laura Tobin's pants.

  • You wore those deliberately so people would notice right and presenter Charlotte Hawkins dress.

  • It's just address me address, is it?

  • Yes, it is.

  • That's not a dress that's just address.

  • But his attention has mostly been critical.

  • He's attacked celebrities like Susan Sarandon for what they choose to wear and called Jennifer Aniston a hypocrite for complaining about women being judged for their looks while appearing in photo shoots is actually sexist for the company to say to you, We'd like you to look fantastic as well and to look glamorous and to wear heels and really set a kind of whoa.

  • Morgan has also defended the right of workplaces to require women to wear high heels on the job, although he walked that statement back after trying on heels himself.

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  • Number one.

  • The phone hacking controversy There's a reason that tabloids are also known as rags.

  • But even given their reputation for inaccuracy, harassment and underhanded tactics, the phone hacking scandal that embroiled Rupert Murdoch's British papers in the two thousands ignited outrage.

  • When investigations revealed that the papers had been hacking phones to get scoops, Morgan's Daily Mirror was exposed as one of the culprits.

  • This is a complete nonevent.

  • As far as I knew nothing about this, it was never going to be a huge story than there are.

  • In response, Morgan has said that he never had to phone himself or told reporters to, but one of his own articles for The Daily Mail relied on information obtained from a private voicemail.

  • There's also a clip of him from 2000 and three explaining how the practice works.

  • This celebrity hadn't changed their pin code.

  • Yeah, you can access the voice.

  • You can access the voice.

  • As a result, if you have been convinced by his denials, story never appeared, but yet you paid him £100 without him even asking for it several weeks later.

  • And your point?

  • I ask the questions.

  • Mr.

  • Morgan, do you agree with our picks?

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