UNITED KINGDOM – British broadcaster also suggested that the contest is a ‘rigged farce’ and suggested Ukraine would have won regardless of their act. Piers Morgan has claimed that Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest on a “sympathy vote.”
“Nobody who voted for Ukraine thought it was the best song because it obviously wasn’t anywhere near the best. Even Ukrainians don’t think it was the best song,” the 57-year-old broadcaster wrote in a Twitter post. “They got the sympathy vote, which is fine as long as we drop the word ‘contest’ from Eurovision.”
No, I don’t. But nobody who voted for Ukraine thought it was the best song because it obviously wasn’t anywhere near the best. Even Ukrainians don’t think it was the best song..
They got the sympathy vote, which is fine so long as we drop the word ‘contest’ from Eurovision. https://t.co/ZpmJTwOHpB— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 15, 2022
Morgan also suggested that the contest is a “rigged farce” and suggested Ukraine would have won regardless of their act.
He added in a separate tweet:
“The world’s most absurd, pointless, politically-motivated ‘contest’ excels itself. Ukraine could have sent one of its heroic bomb-sniffing dogs to bark the national anthem and still won. Happy for them, but please let’s stop calling #Eurovision a contest… it’s a rigged farce.”
The world’s most absurd, pointless, politically-motivated ‘contest’ excels itself. Ukraine could have sent one of its heroic bomb-sniffing dogs to bark the national anthem and still won. Happy for them, but please let’s stop calling #Eurovision a contest… it’s a rigged farce. https://t.co/spefapUQBt
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 15, 2022
Morgan continued:
“The result of an international singing ‘contest’ shouldn’t be determined by which countries are suffering most at the time of the ‘contest’ shouldn’t be determined by which countries most at the time of the ‘contest’ or there is no point having a contest.”
Kalush Orchestra frontman Oleh Psiuk thinks that the song, which pays tribute to his mother, has been re-purposed as a rallying cry for Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia.
“After it all started with the war and the hostilities, it took on additional meaning, and many people started seeing it as their mother, Ukraine, in the meaning of the country,” he said. “It has become really close to the hearts of so many people in Ukraine.”
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