In an interview with POLITICO, Piers Morgan embodies the old adage, “isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black,” critics might say.

Here’s what critics of the primetime talk show anchor have to say about him and what he has to say about The Dish’s Andrew Sullivan.

But the approach grates on Morgan’s critics, who think he generates controversy for the sake of self-promotion. Larry King, who previously occupied Morgan’s chair at CNN, recently said the show was as much about Morgan as about his guests. Michael Moynihan, a columnist at The Daily Beast, likened Morgan’s booking of pro-gun “crazies” to Mike Tyson’s post-prison boxing matches, where weak opponents were sought out merely to bolster the former champion’s image. The blogger Andrew Sullivan, who has had it in for Morgan for years, accuses the host of broadcasting “a rolling freak-show designed entirely for ratings.”

Morgan, who describes himself as “deliberately provocative” and knows he has “a unique ability to rub certain people the wrong way,” doesn’t really care — or, in his native tongue, doesn’t give “a monkey’s cuss.”

“Andrew Sullivan is a dick,” Morgan told POLITICO. “He’s an extremely bitchy, deeply unpleasant, rather confused individual who for whatever reason despises the very spittle I put on the floor. Well, good luck to you, mate. But I couldn’t give a toss.”

You can read the full interview.

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