Piers Morgan unloaded on Fox News host Mark Levin during a lengthy 5-minute tirade on Thursday, calling him a “colossal hypocrite” who’s “wrong about pretty much everything.”
“Mark Levin is a little-known American broadcaster with a Sunday night graveyard slot on cable news,” Morgan started his segment. “Very few people watched Mark Levin before the Iran war began. Very few people knew Mark Levin at all. He first came to my attention because of his extraordinary social media outburst about many of the people I happened to be interviewing.”
Morgan’s feud with Levin appears to have stemmed from an interview with Iran war critic Megyn Kelly earlier this week when she and the British media personality slammed Levin’s support of President Donald Trump’s military operations in the Middle East.
Levin fired back at Morgan on Tuesday by calling him “a vile as*hole.”
“As for the specific allegation that I am a ‘vile asshole,’ I suppose I’ll have to reflect on that calmly and carefully because, let’s be honest, Mark Levin, of all people, is a world expert in vile assholes,” Morgan said Thursday.
Although Morgan told viewers he “didn’t feel any real need to acknowledge” Levin, he cited how unpopular Trump’s war is, especially among far-right influencers.
With that shift in support from many MAGA personalities, Levin “has carved out a new role as the president’s Sunday night armchair attack dog, barking fury at anyone who criticizes the president,” according to Morgan.
Trump has boosted Levin and his show on Truth Social in the past couple of months, calling the Fox News host “a truly Great American Patriot.”
“All of a sudden, supporting Mark Levin is the prize of admission to the MAGA movement,” Morgan said. “The neoconservative war hawk who once vowed ‘Never Trump’ is now, according to Trump, the embodiment of Trumpism.”
However, according to Morgan, “the problem is he’s also a colossal hypocrite and wrong about pretty much everything.”
Morgan claimed that Levin, who condemned “unhinged liberals who compare Trump and Republicans to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis,” while attacking those criticizing the war, has adopted “every single tactic of the original woke movement, right down to advocating cancellation and censorship.”
“Mark Levin is a big advocate for free speech so long as you agree with him,” Morgan continued.
Levin wrote a lengthy response after Morgan’s segment aired and called the British journalist a “WASHED UP PODCASTER CLOWN” who is “ridiculed in his home country because he humiliated himself as a tabloid thug for years.”
“I understand Morgan’s frustrated. Life is passing him by. Time is running out. He has nothing to show for his decades of insults, blather, and self-aggrandizement,” Levin wrote in part. “He’s emotionally unraveling, lashing out in every direction, like a petulant child, panicking and scratching feverishly for more attention. Whatever it takes.”