Piers Morgan admits he was 'wrong' for vaccine bullying
Talk show host Piers Morgan told Tucker Carlson last week he is “ashamed” of the harsh stance he took against those who refused the experimental mRNA shots during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Where I was completely wrong was — you mentioned COVID,” Morgan told Carlson during a rooftop discussion in Saudi Arabia. “And it was interesting, it really changed my thinking about these things. In COVID I got very overly emotionally engaged because I knew people who were dying of COVID. It was awful. And in Britain, we handled it very badly. But I got led down a line which I wish I hadn’t been led down.
“I’ll give an example: when the scientists said if you have the vaccine you can't transmit the virus, I believed them and I became wrongly censorious, really badly censorious . . . and it turned out to be completely wrong. They later said, months and months later, ‘Actually, there’s no difference whether you have the vaccine or not in terms of transmitting the virus.’ And at that point, I realized I’d been misled completely.”
“Next time around with any of these things, I'm going to be a lot more skeptical, as a journalist should be,” Morgan added. “I'm pretty ashamed of not being that to start with."
Morgan tweeted on Thursday that he still believes the vaccine saved his life from COVID-19.
‘Selfish pr*cks’ and ‘spineless p***ies’
In July 2021, Morgan called the unvaccinated “selfish pr*cks.”
“I’ve got no problem with those refusing to have the covid vaccines, so long as they have no problem with history recording them as selfish pr*cks who only cared about themselves in a global pandemic,” he tweeted.
That same month, he urged British authorities to deny healthcare to those who refused the shots.
“Those who refuse to be vaccinated, with no medical reason not to, should be refused NHS care if they then catch covid. I’m hearing of anti-vaxxers using up ICU beds in London at vast expense to the taxpayer. Let them pay for their own stupidity & selfishness.”
The remarks came after Morgan suggested those who declined the injections should be “thrown in a cave” and denied work.
By July 2021, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had already publicly admitted the vaccines did not prevent transmission. However, that didn’t stop Morgan from attacking those who remained unvaccinated.
“Imagine being scared of having a safe, well-regulated, 4-second vaccine shot, when previous generations braved gun shots for years on end to save us all from tyranny? Anti-vaxxers really are a bunch of spineless p***ies,” tweeted Morgan in November 2021.
In September 2021, Morgan publicly blasted superstar rapper Nicki Minaj for questioning the vaccine and suggesting that getting injected should be a personal choice, saying, “She’s peddling lies that will cost lives.”
In December 2021, the former Good Morning Britain presenter told his nearly 8 million followers that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was “unfathomably dumb” for refusing to get the experimental injections. He also attacked Trump supporters as “anti-vaxxers” and “vaccine sceptics”.
In January 2022, Morgan supported Australia’s decision to bar world champion tennis player Novak Djokovic from entering the country to play in the Australian Open due to his injection status.
