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On Thursday night, BBC2 program The Mash Report dissected Piers Morgan’s recent interview with President Donald Trump … and broadcast a cartoon image of Morgan with his face quite literally buried in Trump’s butt. Morgan, unsurprisingly, was not pleased about the illustration — and on Friday, he proceeded to play himself by repeatedly posting it on Twitter.
The BBC thinks this is OK to broadcast. But if it depicted high profile women, there would be outrage.
Why the double standard? pic.twitter.com/xcdxpEJD3E — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 2, 2018
During the segment, comedian Rachel Parris took a look at the “staging” of Morgan’s interview with Trump. She used an illustration of the legendary Frost/Nixon interview to demonstrate the positioning of a “typical robust political interview,” and contrasted it with an illustration of Morgan’s face in Trump’s butt like a human centipede. Parris then asked: “Can you see the different style of interrogation there?”
Morgan, in turn, posted the image multiple times, alongside comments like, “The BBC thinks this is OK to broadcast. But if it depicted high profile women, there would be outrage. Why the double standard?” and “If the BBC broadcast an image like this after a female journalist interviewed @theresa_may - all hell would break loose & people would be fired.”
If the BBC broadcast an image like this after a female journalist interviewed @theresa_may - all hell would break loose & people would be fired. Gender equality shouldn't just apply to pay - should it? pic.twitter.com/9xNqGPjZl9 — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 2, 2018
So we can't have #gridgirls or #walkongirls because the imagery is 'demeaning'.
But the publicly-funded BBC can broadcast this about 2 men?
Any comment, @Ofcom? pic.twitter.com/ErOtK8Lvh6 — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 2, 2018
Morgan also proceeded to retweet several other people’s posts about the image, further playing himself by ensuring that every single person on the internet now has the ass-eating illustration forever etched on their brain. And of course, Twitter was loving it:
i think its nice to do nice things for your friends pic.twitter.com/x3R9fT3rHv — Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) February 2, 2018
TIRED: tom brady kissing his son
WIRED: piers morgan eating trump’s ass — aleksander chan (@aleksnotalex) February 2, 2018
I’m selling these t-shirts to raise awareness about how offensive and horrible this image is. This is totally unacceptable and the people who buy this shirt will help me spread that message. Whoever did this has a lot of growing up to do! @piersmorgan pic.twitter.com/q6TIvUERUR — handsome mike mulloy (@fakemikemulloy) February 2, 2018
that is the most offensive airplane safety card i have ever seen — noah kulwin (@nkulw) February 2, 2018
Stop it. His name is Piers.https://t.co/DctN5Hlkt2 — Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) September 13, 2017
wikiHow to eat ass — Jess Bergman (@jesslbergman) February 2, 2018
textbook galaxy brain is tweeting a pic of yourself eating the president’s ass three times — brian feldman (Michael Clayton is on Netflix) (@bafeldman) February 2, 2018
We can’t wait for Trump to tweet the image as well.