... assuming he's been having erotic dreams about straddling Larry King's chair ever since he got fired from the Daily Mirror.

Indeed, The New York Post is reporting that Morgan will take over Larry King's CNN slot in October:

"The former newspaper editor (who was fired from his post. I might have mentioned that before. It's worth mentioning again the American press never make reference to it. It's almost as if Piers has had them hypnotised by swaying Simon Cowell slowly in front of him) has a deal to host an hour-long interview program which will start in the fall four days a week as CNN phases King out. He's also negotiated with NBC to stay on the America's Got Talent judging panel, but is quitting the UK's Britain's Got Talent. One source said, 'Morgan's UK interview shows, including one where former Prime Minister Gordon Brown broke down in tears, impressed CNN bosses. Morgan's show will be prerecorded in New York so he can work 'round his other TV commitments'."

So they're impressed by the blubbing? Suckers. The reason why Piers largely leads his interviewees to tears is merely due his line of questioning; it's so painfully and persistently innocuous at times that they feel they've no other option than to give it up. Otherwise they'd be sat there all day, enduring questions like: "If people ask you what you do, what do you say?" and "I know why I'm here, why are you here?"

And as for making Gordon Brown cry... given what the man's been through, it wouldn't be the hardest reaction to achieve, now would it.