Katie Porter Spanks Piers Morgan For Ridiculous J6 Analogy
Katie Porter took TalkTV host Piers Morgan to task for comparing the expelled Tennessee legislators to the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Janary 6th. During HBO's Real Time Overtime segment this Friday, which is aired live on CNN, host Bill Maher read a question from a viewer who wanted to know what his panel thought about the Tennessee lawmakers who were expelled.
After Maher bemoaned them using a bullhorn inside the well of the legislature, Morgan chimed in with this:
MORGAN: And interrupted the proceedings which, of course, when that happened on January the 6th in a much larger and more violent way, all the people currently cheering on the two Tennessee legislators were the ones who would have been condemning and castigating what happened --
Which Porter rightfully jumped on:
PORTER: You're not actually comparing.
MORGAN: No, no, I'm not.
MAHER: That's a crazy --
PORTER: You actually did just compare.
MORGAN: No, no. Here is what I'm comparing. When you have a mob of protesters and they're going into a legislative chamber, whether it's at the Capitol or whether it's in Tennessee, the principle is the same. And if you don't have the same principle response to both of those things, regardless of scale, the principle --