When Piers Morgan was with CNN, he was one of the staunches Obama defenders in media. He was known for bashing conservatives, attacking the Constitution, especially the Second Amendment, and generally playing the typical Leftist media role of Obama apologist and sycophant.
He was let go from the network after three years back in February and has recently been named Editor-at-Large covering the U.S. by the UK Daily Mail. It is in this publication that Morgan wrote the op-ed that is surprisingly more than just highly critical of Obama. It excoriates him.
Morgan begins by saying there’s a theory in politics that once you have fired 50 or more people from your administration, you’re done. Obama, he said, has done even worse than that. He threw 200,000 people who work in Intelligence under the bus when he put the finger of blame on ISIS on them.
During an interview on 60 Minutes discussing the rise of ISIS, Obama, who had previously referred to ISIS as a JV team, said that they, meaning Intelligence, underestimated ISIS. The better word to use would have been ‘we.’ After all, the leader should never absolve themselves from responsibility.
"The truth is that Obama is the one who underestimated ISIS, plunging his head ostrich-like into the sand and hoping they would go away without having to do anything to actually make them go away.
There were clear, unambiguous public warnings made nearly a year ago in front of the Foreign Affairs Committee that ISIS was on the march in Syria and Iraq.
But perhaps Obama missed them.
Hardly surprising when we discover yesterday that he has only attended 42.1 percent of his Presidential Daily intelligence briefings."
Ouch. Did those words really come from Piers Morgan? It gets better, or if you’re Obama, worse.
After stating that Obama has made the greatest military in the world look weak to the point where “Jihadist thugs think they can behead American citizens with impunity in glossy snuff movies,” Morgan said that Obama’s actions undoubtedly emboldened ISIS and that is dangerous for America.
"Imagine how emboldened they must have felt when Obama made his ‘heartfelt’ speech about journalist James Foley’s execution, and was then seen laughing and joking on the golf course SEVEN MINUTES later.
Obama has so far played golf 192 times since becoming President.
Even Rory McIlroy would struggle to match such enthusiasm for the game.
But Rory isn’t the Leader of the Free World, and with such a title comes huge responsibility.
The kind of responsibility that Obama seems so keen to shirk.
It’s time he got off the damn golf course, got up to speed with his intelligence briefings and focused on wiping out ISIS.
Before they wipe out more of the people he serves."
******************* “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.” ¯ Richard P. Feynman