Piers Morgan slammed Pink Floyd icon Roger Waters for his controversial comments (Image: YouTube)
Piers Morgan has taken a brutal swipe at Pink Floyd icon Roger Waters as he called out his left-wing comments live on air. On Friday night (January 16), the 60-year-old broadcaster welcomed the famed musician on his Channel 5 show, Uncensored, where they discussed the biggest stories hitting the headlines. It didn’t take long for the conversation to turn political, as the presenter called out the 82-year-old rock icon, who previously sparked outrage during his last appearance, after his damning comments about Donald Trump.
The dad-of-three began the discussion by asking Waters why he lives across the pond if he hates the Republican leader so much. He fumed: “You rail a lot about America and about Donald Trump, but you live in America. There’s an inconsistency there. Why live somewhere if you hate it so much or hate the leader so much?
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He added: “Why don’t you act on a point of principle, get off your backside and go live in Iran or Venezuella? Live under one of these regimes that you think aren’t too bad.”
Waters replied: “Piers, do stop. Maybe I will! But to answer your previous question about me being successful in rock and roll, blah, blah, blah, yes I am, very, blah, blah, blah, and all of that. Why do I do all of this? Because I believe – I hope you’re listening – I believe in right and wrong.”
Before Piers could interrupt him, Waters insisted: “Excuse me, let me finish. I have a moral compass that I allow to guide my actions. And also, I read a lot, and I don’t just read the New York Times or the Sunday Telegraph, I get information from everywhere
“I have a lot of friends, I have a network of people all over the world who also, like me, believe in equal human rights for all their brothers and sisters all over the world, irrespective of their religion or their race or their nationality or ethnicity or anything else, and that is a fundamental thing that drives me in what I do.
“That’s why I’m talking to you now today, as much as I adore you, obviously, that is why I am here because I, to some extent, am a voice for the voiceless, and I get told this by the voiceless millions of times every year in response to the activities I do.”
It was at this point that Morgan snapped back that his controversial posts on X – formerly known as Twitter – contradict his comments on the show. He argued: “Nicolás Maduro is not the voiceless, nor are Hamas and nor is the Iranian regime.
“So, although it suits you to say, ‘I only stand up for the voiceless,’ actually, it sounds to me like you like to stand up for terror groups and call them resistance, you like to stand up for dictators and say they’re just massively misunderstood guys.
“You like to stand up for one of the world’s worst regimes in Iran and pretend that the only reason people there are protesting is because of the economy, and that’s because of sanctions put on it by other countries, wrongly, because they don’t prop up any terror groups.
“So, when I look at your worldview, I don’t see a guy – with all due respect, Roger – who’s standing up for the voiceless and powerless. I see somebody trying to prop up terrorists and powerful dictatorships and regimes.”
The musician argued that he is a “voice for the voiceless” (Image: Uncensored)
It didn’t take long for viewers to flock to the comments to share their thoughts on the explosive interview. One user penned: “No thank you very much, we don’t need him in Iran! Keep him for yourself,” as another added: “Roger Waters has become a moron and a hypocrite.”
Meanwhile, others praised Morgan’s direct interview style, with one user writing: “Bravo Piers for teaching us that drugs are really bad for you. OMG what a nut job this guy is” as another echoed: “Now I’m starting to like Piers again after his mistaken take on guns.”
A third added: “It’s disappointing when artists wade into complex political issues they don’t fully grasp, ultimately tarnishing the positive memories and respect many fans once held for them.”
