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S3 E31. Piers Morgan, Israel and Jews: Lee Kern Lets Loose.

Part 2: Oscar nominated, British-Israeli actor, writer, comedian - Lee Kern slams Piers and Uncensored

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Today we bring you the second of our three part series taking a close look at celebrity media host Piers Morgan and his show Uncensored. Viewed by millions daily, Uncensored has focused intensely on the Israel-Hamas war, Israel-Iran war, and really pretty much all things related to Israel. Somewhat unceasingly. In this interview with Lee Kern, we get into his thoughts on why Uncensored is not just unbalanced but does not even qualify as a serious news or political program. Lee’s insights and comments are sharp, incisive and unsparing. He lives the reality of post October 7 life in Israel – based in Tel Aviv – and has strong views on Piers and his show – which are also set out in two long X posts he wrote on June 4. You can read those in the Podcast Notes, as well as Morgan’s cheeky response. The issues raised by Lee Kern are serious. We should all be concerned about what passes for media and the fact that independent media are held to no standards of accountability – just ratings. And yes. That is a problem. A very big problem. Have a listen.

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Podcast Notes

1) Two part post on X, June 4, 2025, by Lee Kern:

The Piers Morgan show has repeatedly asked me on as a guest. Their first request was on November 1st 2023 - three weeks after the muslim terrorists Hamas raped and kidnapped hostages.

I declined and have done ever since. Their most recent request was this April.

The reason why I declined is because of something Piers tweeted in those early days of the war started by Hamas. Whilst we in Israel and the Jewish world were grieving - real grief - because people had been raped, people had been murdered, people had been kidnapped - women, children and babies - whilst we were doing this Piers Morgan was boasting.

He was celebrating.

He was celebrating how well his viewing figures were doing in his episodes talking about the massacre.

“Six million” he bragged in one of his tweets.

At the time I glibly I said to myself, “I’m glad someone’s doing well out of the rape and kidnaps.” But it truly was despicable and it really gets to the heart of the man. He has no real moral code or value system other than attention. He’s an archetypal, soulless media whore. His show is not designed to illuminate. It is to simply create a freak-show of vapid conflict that appeals to people who simply want a verbal fistfight.

Pigs fighting in shit is Piers’ idea of journalism. In truth he knows what he does isn’t journalism.

At best he might think what he does is entertainment. But it isn’t that either. It’s simply shitting excrement into public discourse. And the reasonable and legitimate outrage people feel when shit is pumped into conversations that have real life or death ramifications - Piers - in his misplaced pride - will mistake - or pretend to mistake - for a journalistic job well done.

None the less, when his people first wrote to me i thought maybe i could guide Piers into doing some real journalism that would allow the public to weigh up primary evidence for themselves.

I replied:

“I can’t speak this week. Also I don’t think I should be a priority. I’m very much in favour of letting people directly affected be pushed to the front of the conversation. Yesterday I met a lady in Sderot who is probably the most perfect and energetic guest Piers could ever engage with - and she was directly in the middle of a battle that lasted 36 hours.”

This opportunity to provide viewers with primary evidence and a firsthand account of the massacre didn’t happen.

There was no serious interest in understanding this conflict. I imagine this applies to any other topic that might be covered.

Persistent, his people tried to get me on the show again a few days later.

I replied:

“I know you’re keen to have me. I’m doing something unfashionable that maybe lots of people don’t do anymore: I’ve come here to actually see where the atrocities happened for myself and to speak to survivors so I’m not just some random internet guy mouthing off. Please let me know when you’ve spoken to ——-. I’ve told her you will be in touch. I don’t want to give her false hope because she’s someone who has been part of horrific things and is grieving for her community. Please don’t let me be involved in adding to her roller coaster”

It didn’t happen.

His people wrote to me again a few days later to try and get me on the show. I continued to believe that if the public were to be illuminated, then the testimony of an actual survivor was more important than my opinions. So I replied firmly:

“What happened with ——- appearing on the show? She’s a clear coherent voice who experienced a massacre first hand. Her entire community are now refugees spread across a country. You should be interviewing her.”

His team replied:

“We couldn’t make it work, we’ve lots of guests and little time alas. Keen to have you on.”

I replied:

“Why couldn’t it work? She’s still alive. What’s tangibly preventing you from getting her on this week or next? She’s an eloquent real person who has been in a massacre and continues to be affected by what you want to report on.“

They ignored this.

“Lots of guests and little time?”

Well here I was offering to step back to give them a real story. But they weren’t interested. They wanted me because I say the words “shit” and “fuck” and have a comedy background that allows me to be engagingly garish. I’m self aware. I own what I do. But I still seemed to have more of a journalistic value system than Piers and his team and still seemed to believe education and illumination on this horrible situation was more important than just getting on high octane personalities who would argue so that Piers could get more attention and money.

And yet again, a few weeks later, they requested me on as a guest. And they sent me eight more requests over the following months that I didn’t reply to.

So I’ll wind this up by saying Piers Morgan isn’t going to make or break what happens in this conflict. It won’t end until the Islamic fundamentalists Hamas release the hostages and their jihadist tyranny over the population of Gaza - which has included control over their food supply - ends.

Finally, seeing as Piers Morgan has shown himself to be demonstrably thin skinned and I’ll most likely be blocked by him if he sees this, I may as well finish on the most important point.

This is what society knows. This is what even his viewers know. And it’s worth us stating even though it’s a given:

The most objectionable and off putting thing about any Piers Morgan show is Piers Morgan and the poorly crafted simulation of a personality that he has constructed for himself.

Piers Morgan as a human being is so very clearly, and so very palpably, a bloviating toad.

You couldn’t put together a less charming conglomeration of DNA in the rough approximate shape of a human being.

He is a slimy bog creature.

A toadstool dwelling peasant, high on the methane emitted from his own arsehole.

More prolapsed rectum than a man, his anus of a mouth emits half digested ideas like loose excremental sludge.

He is a sloshing barrel of smugness and pus.

Every pore in his bloated face oozes misplaced arrogance. Misplaced because nothing about his presentation or content merits any kind of pride.

In short, ladies and gentlemen, Piers Morgan is a man who can only be described as the Manchester United of cunts.

  1. Piers Morgan’s riposte to Lee Kern’s post.

  2. Profile of Lee Kern published on May 24, 2025, on ynetnews.com

  1. Lee Kern’s Substack - check it out. leekern.substack.com

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