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Since Piers Morgan’s departure, 56, from Good Morning Britain last month, ITV has used regular presenters as substitutes, and this week saw former Labour mp Alastair Campbell take center of attention, coinciding with Mental Health Awareness Week. Looking closely at Campbell and Susanna Reid’s interview with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, he felt he had to respond to some of the comments he found hypocritical.
He does not seem to oppose stereotypical language of intellectual aptitude until other people use it.
Piers Morgan
On Wednesday morning, Blair asked through his own former Downing Street communications leader about the comments he wrote about him in his memoirs, where he called him “crazy. “
Campbell, who suffers from depression, told Blair, “You said there are two types of crazy people, there are crazy people who are just dangerous and there are crazy people who are artistic and give you power and ideas, and that’s Alastair. . ‘”
“Do you settle for it being a bit of stereotypes about intellectual health?” then took it to professionals for their use of language.
Blair jokingly replied, “Yes, but it’s probably better than if I put you in the top category. “
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But Piers noted that Campbell had also called himself “crazy” in an earlier interview with the British-generation’s Plexal company.
He said, “There’s no greater feeling than that power you have when you’re a little crazy and a little manic. “
In his column for Mail Online, the former GMB host had nothing to do with it.
“So it’s only to oppose the stereotypical language of intellectual aptitude when other people use it,” he wrote.
“The same kind of hypocrisy we see all the time of those awake warriors Meghan and Harry who like to pontificate about equality and climate replaces from their California mansion and their personal planes. “
This wasn’t the only thing he criticized about the interview.
Following Campbell’s questions about Blair’s memoirs, the former prime minister admitted that he became involved in what he may or may not say in today’s society.
“I’m afraid of being an age when I’m now terrified if I can communicate on any of those issues, I’ll say everything I say,” the 68-year-old politician told the show.
“It’s a minefield in almost everything. If you’re from a tied generation, you’re not limited to what you can or can’t say. Or if you can make a joke about anything you can’t joke about, then “I leave it at that. “
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Piers shared his disappointment, writing, “I’m probably stunned.
“Here is one of the world leaders best known for 50 years, bowing to the awakened crowd and admitting that he dares not say what he thinks for fear of being cancelled.
“Blair might well have taken any of his knees while he was there and begged for preventive mercy not to say anything in the rest of the interview that might disturb them.
He continued to point to the irony of Blair’s “brilliant” article in New Statesman magazine about the “dangers of the cancellation of culture” in which he suggested liberal leaders confront him and avoid being “supported by unpleasant electoral positions. “problems as transgender.
Piers continued: “Blair’s long article is one of the most productive things I’ve ever read about the cultural risk of cancelling the alarm clock, and even harder coming from a liberal leader who has enjoyed massive electoral success.
“But perhaps the harshest message Tony Blair may have sent about the culture of the cancellation of the revival contained in his own submission abject to good morning Britain today.
“If the one who has ruled a country like Britain for ten years, a position based on freedom of expression and expression, he is now too afraid to even communicate about things like intellectual health, race or sex, for worrying about disturbing the crowd that wakes up, then the crowd war is almost won. “
He added, “Honestly, Mr Blair. “
Good Morning Britain airs Monday through Friday at 6am on ITV.