Piers Morgan: This IRS Thing is ‘Vaguely Tyrannical Behavior by the Government’

by Warner Todd Huston | May 20, 2013 5:42 pm

CNN’s chief anti-gun zealot Piers Morgan may have been loathe to admit it, but this IRS scandal seems to validate some of his detractor’s distrust of government.

During his evening show on May 16, Morgan’s guest was magician Penn Jillette and the discussion turned to the admission by the Internal Revenue Service that it had misused its offices to intimidate President Obama’s opponents. Morgan seemed to ruefully come to understand that this abuse of power lends credence to those that say the government cannot be trusted.

“I’ve had some of the gun, pro-gun lobbyists on here, saying to me, ‘Well, the reason we need to be armed is because of tyranny from our own government,’ and I’ve always laughed at them. And I’ve always said ‘don’t be so ridiculous, your own government won’t turn itself on you.’ But, actually, when you look at this–this has nothing to do with guns–but actually this is vaguely tyrannical behavior by the American government. I think what the IRS did is bordering on tyrannical behavior, I think what the Department of Justice has done, actually, to the AP, is bordering on tyrannical behavior.”

We might recall that Piers Morgan was skeptical of Breitbart’s own Ben Shapiro for making just that point earlier this year[1].

During Shapiro’s CNN appearance, Morgan was bemused by his guest’s suggestion that the founders meant the Second Amendment to be “about resistance to government tyranny.”

But now Morgan seems to understand just what Ben Shapiro meant and this admission must have pained CNN’s British import to admit.

Endnotes:
  1. earlier this year: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/01/10/In-Debate-with-Breitbart-s-Shapiro-CNN-s-Piers-Morgan-Calls-the-Constitution-Your-Little-Book

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