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By Hailey Gomez
British journalist Piers Morgan ripped into guest Marc Lamont-Hill after he defended Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on his podcast Monday, with Morgan saying she was voted in by a large portion of residents due to her race.
Since the Los Angeles County fires broke out Jan. 7 in the Southern California coastal town of Pacific Palisades, state and local officials have come under immense criticism for their past policy advocacies and leadership during the crisis. On “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” Morgan said Bass is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hire. He asked how she was elected the city’s mayor.
“I’ve got to say Karen Bass, though, is a different matter. She smacks to me of a DEI appointment in the sense of how the hell did someone like that — ” Morgan said before Hill quickly interrupted.
“She was democratically elected. How does a democratically elected mayor [become] a DEI hire?” Hill asked.
Following the fire’s outbreak, Bass was slammed for cutting the Los Angeles Fire Department’s (LAFD’s) budget by $17.6 million for fiscal year 2024 to 2025, according to Fox News. Bass later said none of the budget cuts “would have impacted the situation that we were dealing with over the last couple of days.” The LAFD fire chief, however, pushed back and said “Any budget cut would negatively impact our ability to carry out our mission.”
Morgan went on to explain to Hill what he said was the Los Angeles “political dynamic” and called the city “woke central.”
“Let me tell you how that happens in Los Angeles because until this fire actually, and this may change everything for the political dynamic of Los Angeles,” Morgan said. “If you live in LA as much as I have in the last 20 years, you are living in woke central. You’re living in a place where a large number of the electorate literally would vote for people because of their skin color and because of their gender.”
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“We’ve already just from that thing I read out established she’s an absolute liar when it comes to what she promised in her campaigning and what she then did as mayor,” Morgan said. “In terms of getting on the first plane that came along to Ghana when she said she wouldn’t leave America. So to me the DEI thing runs endemically through some of these places. LA has become a woke — ”
Hill interrupted Morgan again and asked him what makes a “DEI” hire, leading to the two talking over one another…
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