{"id":346588,"date":"2018-02-03T03:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T02:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bbcs-genius-satire-of-piers-morgans-trump-interview-is-an-ass-joke-literally-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T03:36:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T02:36:35","slug":"bbcs-genius-satire-of-piers-morgans-trump-interview-is-an-ass-joke-literally-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bbcs-genius-satire-of-piers-morgans-trump-interview-is-an-ass-joke-literally-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8217;s &#8216;GENIUS&#8217; satire of Piers Morgan&#8217;s Trump interview is an ass joke, literally \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.02\/thumbnail\/5a75034bfc7e93964b8b4567.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        You can pick apart Piers Morgan&#8217;s recent interview with Donald Trump for factual flaws, or mock Trump&#8217;s &#8220;not a feminist&#8221; comment&#8230; or you can simply make anal sex jokes, like BBC Two did.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Both Trump and controversial ITV Breakfast presenter Morgan offered plenty of ammunition for critics during their <em>&#8220;world exclusive interview&#8221;<\/em> on Sunday, January 28: From Trump&#8217;s <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m not a feminist&#8221;<\/em> admission to his ideas of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, RT joined in as well, talking about Trump and Morgan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/416976-trump-piers-davos-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">off-screen links<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/417234-trump-tweeting-bed-stable-genius\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">among<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/417191-trump-not-feminist-interview-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/417047-donald-trump-may-racist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But most of those bullets have now been used up, and BBC Two has now decided to run this:<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Rachel Parris, in a 4-minute segment on the <em>\u201csatirical and surreal news show\u201d<\/em> &#8216;The Mash Report,&#8217; decided to have her own belated go at the controversial interview \u2013 by showing off a sketch of Morgan with his face buried between Trump&#8217;s butt cheeks. GENIUS (that way, in all caps) is how BBC Two&#8217;s official twitter page promptly labeled the crude drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Parris&#8217; point was that the interview was a <em>\u201ccelebrity puff piece,\u201d<\/em> not <em>&#8220;hard-hitting journalism.&#8221;<\/em> The vulgar cartoon, along with the comments drew a predictable peel of laughter from the audience \u2013 and mixed reactions on the network&#8217;s, and Parris&#8217; own Twitter accounts. Some called it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeborahFW\/status\/959399710548209664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brilliant<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BusiLethole\/status\/959526479108493312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spot on<\/a>, others were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EleanorRoth8\/status\/959525633905778688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not<\/a>\u00a0so <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mr_Trussell\/status\/959545650223439872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thrilled<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russian state TV often attacks Russian liberals. Labeling them \u2018agents of America\u2019 etc. But I don\u2019t, personally, recall them being anywhere near as vulgar as British state TV has been towards <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersmorgan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@piersmorgan<\/a> here. This would even raise eyebrows in Moscow. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q9Od3Co1hf\">https:\/\/t.co\/q9Od3Co1hf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/27khv\/status\/959546983286562817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>One tweeter commended Parris for her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StPeteGoodwill\/status\/959500555788922880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;effort on trying to get noticed&#8221;<\/a>, considering she has some 23,000 Twitter followers compared to Morgan&#8217;s 6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan himself retweeted the segment several times, saying he <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersmorgan\/status\/959538157028069377\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;can take it&#8221;<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and wants the world to see <em>&#8220;exactly what the BBC did.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/417756-bbc-trump-morgan-ass-joke\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can pick apart Piers Morgan&#8217;s recent interview with Donald Trump for factual flaws, or mock Trump&#8217;s &#8220;not a feminist&#8221; comment&#8230; or you can simply make anal sex jokes, like BBC Two did. Both Trump and controversial ITV Breakfast presenter Morgan offered plenty of ammunition for critics during their &#8220;world exclusive interview&#8221; on Sunday, January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}