Piers Morgan tried to take down Mick Lynch with a Thunderbirds puppet and was owned into next week
As you can’t fail to have noticed by now, rail union boss Mick Lynch has been quietly impressing everyone with his media appearances during the rail strike.
Here he is dismantling Cabinet minister Chris Philp on BBC2’s Newsnight.
Chris Philp just got called a liar some 325 times on #Newsnight by Mick Lynch. pic.twitter.com/6NIlrNpWMr
— Secretary of State for Socially Uncaring Health (@HUncaring) June 20, 2022
And here he is doing something similar to Kay Burley’s line of questioning over on Sky News.
Well done to Mick Lynch for his handling of this line of questioning. He could see what #KayBurley was trying to do. I could see what Kay Burley was trying to do. And he wasn’t having any of it.
Oh, and solidarity to all @RMTunion members on strike today!✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/L0TQBPZ2g9
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 21, 2022
And we mention him again because he did this to Piers Morgan a few days back – highlighted by @aljwhite over on Twitter – and it might be our favourite Mick Lynch moment yet.
Morgan was obviously excited to have spotted that Lynch’s profile picture on Facebook is Thunderbirds baddie The Hood and he ran with it, he really ran with it.
Straight into a brick wall, it turned out.
“Do you think I look like the most evil person in the world, Piers?”
Piers Morgan challenges RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch over his Facebook profile picture showing Thunderbirds baddie The Hood.@piersmorgan | @TalkTV | #piersmorganuncensored pic.twitter.com/hXd2sSEkps
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) June 16, 2022
And here are just some of the many things people were saying about it.
1.
Watching a number of interviewers with daft questions trying get a rise out of RMT boss Mike Lynch, only to have their arse handed to them, has been a rare joy. And doubly so when Piers steps up with the Thunderbirds…pic.twitter.com/QeA88S5oPY
— James Withers (@JamesRWithers) June 21, 2022
2.
some of the most painful minutes of my life pic.twitter.com/5LXBg8fdmm
— Sorcha Ní Nia (@Luiseach) June 22, 2022
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https://twitter.com/Ciara87C/status/1539561604051787776?s=20&t=G-coK665jDiJwUiZTHOaFQ
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Missed this one yesterday. @piersmorgan spends two minutes asking Mick Lynch why his Facebook profile picture is a character from the Thunderbirds (a puppet show from the 1960s).
This is while we face 10% inflation. Just crazy! pic.twitter.com/1nlTnrsRHg
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) June 22, 2022
5.
What on god's green earth is this? pic.twitter.com/v649BQGLS1
— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) June 22, 2022
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https://twitter.com/J_Bloodworth/status/1539576012647825408?s=20&t=CuTWD3zvhIEW424shDZdsA
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It’s no wonder the star of Piers Morgan has crashed to earth in such spectacular fashion – from CNN anchor to host of a trash tabloid news show that literally no one is watching.
This is absolutely execrable “journalism” by anyone’s standards.
— Miffy (@miffythegamer) June 22, 2022
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https://twitter.com/MarinaPurkiss/status/1539588824053030912?s=20&t=G-coK665jDiJwUiZTHOaFQ
9.
The Moron here unlocking whole new previously undiscovered levels of cringe.
Mick Lynch casually demolishing our shite right wing media an unexpected treat for 2022 https://t.co/BZFK9iUXct
— Tom Jamieson (@jamiesont) June 22, 2022
10.
Not only is Talk TV not utterly ashamed of those two minutes, they cut them out and put them on social media as an example of the show. https://t.co/f5oKwFrPJB
— Nev Fountain. (@Nevfountain) June 22, 2022
11.
Jesus Christ Piers!! Get a grip 🤦
— Captain Chats (@CaptainChats) June 16, 2022
12.
This is so cringe, I think I’ve dislocated my jaw.
— Yiannis Baboulias (@YiannisBab) June 22, 2022
13.
It’s all so embarrassing. They can’t wind him up, they can’t beat his points, and he’s one step ahead every time.
— Danny Wallace (@dannywallace) June 22, 2022
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Source Twitter @aljwhite @PiersUncensored