Put aside the fact that they both don't know what they are talking about, this is still an amazing exchange.

Jillette accurately points out that there is a word for Catholics like Piers Morgan, i.e., we call them Protestants.

Another entry for the "Poverty of Public Discourse" File.

There's nothing like a grudge-match to bring out an audience.

Tomorrow night, Jonah Goldberg, author of The Tyranny of Cliches, will be appearing on Piers Morgan’s CNN show tomorrow night for a rematch of last week’s bloodbath, in which Morgan refused to ask Goldberg about his book, clearly hadn’t read it, and then didn’t let Goldberg give answers to his questions.

Right now, Goldberg and Morgan are engaged in a furious Twitter battle, with Morgan firing:

Looking forward to our re-match tomorrow night @JonahNRO - hope you bring your self-fabled A-game this time.... #CNN

Goldberg quipped:

Not sure why @piersmorgan is so eager for my "A" game when he had so much trouble with my C-game.

Game on.

The ironic thing - which Morgan would know if he had been listening to Goldberg - is that the thesis of Goldberg's book is that liberals pretend to be neutral while having an ideological agenda. Hence, Goldberg twitters:

Jonah Goldberg
@JonahNRO .@piersmorgan Ah Piers. That's part of your problem. You claim to be unbiased, but you considered the interview a "match."

in response to Morgan's fatuous:

Piers Morgan
✔@piersmorgan We Brits are a nation of warriors @JonahNRO - everything's a match. But I promise a fair fight tomorrow, and it will be about your book.

Hugh Hewitt observes:

C-SPAN's Brian Lamb set the standard for author interviews. No one can match him, but everyone can try, and when a writer as skilled as, say, Del Wilber, whose "Rawhide Down" hasn't had a negative review yet from anyone who read it, says an interview was the best he has had, well then, that's a compliment worth receiving.

Which is why Piers Morgan's non-interview of Jonah Goldberg last week ought to have been an embarrassment to Morgan and his network, CNN. Morgan had quite obviously not read Jonah's wonderful "Tyranny of Cliches," and seemed almost afraid to let Jonah speak a complete sentence, for fear that the Los Angeles Times columnist and NationalReview.com contributor might have wielded his well-known wit against his host.

So Morgan launched a fusillade of bizarre questions, few of which had anything to do with the book and none of which genuinely sought or allowed an answer. Goldberg kept his cool and repaid gracelessness with graciousness, but should he have done so? Hitchens would never have put up with such behavior by someone so obviously unprepared and also so churlish, but the American way is to smile and look quizzically at the boorish host.

CNN's ratings are in the tank, and it is because the network increasingly allows new and unprepared hosts to displace pros like Wolf Blitzer, Candy Crowley and John King, or CNN burdens a good interviewer like Anderson Cooper with an inane slogan like "Keeping Them Honest" and obliges him to repeat it in an exercise designed to discredit whatever follows.

Another liberal who is palpably unable to engage in a discussion, but retreats to non-discursive tactics.

There's something to the theory.

"Piers Morgan's Childish, Hostile, Cliché-Ridden Interview Of Jonah Goldberg"...

...and it was just plain weird.

Particularly when Morgan is insistent on having Goldberg defend his proposition that Romney is a "stiff" but maybe not a "nerd."

No one wonder CNN is dying.

Check out this Big Journalism post.

And here is the video.