• Britons sign petition to keep Piers Morgan in the US 'because we don't want him back'
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[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/26/petition-us-piers-morgan-uk[/url] [quote=The Guardian]Following a groundswell of support in America for demands to expel Piers Morgan from the country and deport him back to the UK over his views on US gun controls, it seems that any return home for the chatshow host would not be greeted warmly by everyone. The White House has yet to respond to an online petition calling for the TV presenter to be marched to the nearest American exit, but it has not stopped UK citizens from launching a pre-emptive strike against any such move. The petition to "[url=https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/keep-piers-morgan-usa/cbpHr9R2?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl]Keep Piers Morgan in the USA[/url]" had nearly 600 signatures by Wednesday night, far from the 25,000 signature threshold necessary to prompt a White House response. It was created in response to the petition "Deport British Citizen Piers Morgan for Attacking 2nd Amendment", which had attracted more than 73,000 supporters. "Kurt N" in Austin, Texas, created the petition following Morgan's repeated calls for increased US gun control in the wake of the Newtown shootings. On 14 December, the day of the primary school shooting, Morgan used his nightly broadcast to lambast the pro-gun lobby, shouting down John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, in an angry exchange. In a subsequent blogpost on CNN.com, Morgan wrote: "The senseless killing has to stop," and called for a ban on high-powered assault rifles and high-capacity gun magazines. The former newspaper editor took to Twitter to ridicule the deportation petition as an attack on his first amendment rights in a number of posts over the weekend. On Christmas Day he had a simple message. "Merry Christmas! Even to those who want me deported," he tweeted. But it appears that others of a similar mind believe Morgan should remain in the US. Someone using the name "Janusz J" created the latest petition to keep him on the American side of the Atlantic. The petition is worded less passionately than the one calling for the Briton's deportation, reading: "We want to keep Piers Morgan in the USA. There are two very good reasons for this. Firstly, the first amendment. Second and the more important point. No one in the UK wants him back. Actually there is a third. It will be hilarious to see how loads of angry Americans react." Based loosely on a Downing Street equivalent, the White House petition site has been inundated by requests since its launch, with officials pledging that they will respond to petitions that pass the 25,000 signature threshold. The site does not say that users must be US citizens, meaning that if 25,000 Britons sign the petition to keep Morgan in the US, the White House is obliged to comment. Since the Newtown shootings, campaigns directed at both sides of the gun control debate have appeared on the site. A petition to support the National Rifle Association's National School Shield Program, which aims to have the gun lobby train security personnel in schools, had more than 16,000 signatures on Wednesday.[/quote]
WHY is he still on CNN? I thought they were going to fire him 6 months ago because his ratings were so low.
Oh no you don't Britain. We're giving him back whether you like it or not. :yarr:
im watching him on CNN now. Hes scared of turtles... Pussy. Also he thinks he just got leprosy. Hope he dies.
[QUOTE=>VLN<;38985413]WHY is he still on CNN? I thought they were going to fire him 6 months ago because his ratings were so low.[/QUOTE] You can't replace Larry King, you just can't.
Okay okay, we can compromise. Australia it is.
Let's get an international project going. Build the cheapest, most efficient, habitable-enough rocket ship possible. Place Piers Morgan on it. Send the rocket to Mars. See how it pans out.
[QUOTE=GunFox;38986411]Okay okay, we can compromise. Australia it is.[/QUOTE] I was thinking the moon. [editline]27th December 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;38986474]Let's get an international project going. Build the cheapest, most efficient, habitable-enough rocket ship possible. Place Piers Morgan on it. Send the rocket to Mars. See how it pans out.[/QUOTE] or that but I don't care about the price... or how habitable it is.
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;38986474]Let's get an international project going. Build the cheapest, most efficient, habitable-enough rocket ship possible. Place Piers Morgan on it. Send the rocket to Mars. See how it pans out.[/QUOTE] and the design is chosen by contest for best rocket design, in KSP
Yes, [i]lets deport him because he used his 1st amendment right to express his opinions on the 2nd amendment[/i].
[QUOTE=GunFox;38986411]Okay okay, we can compromise. Australia it is.[/QUOTE] NO GOD PLEASE NO [editline]sd[/editline] Send him to New Zealand instead!
[QUOTE=Primigenes;38986671]Australia should be the dumping ground for Britain's trash. Putting them in America just makes everyone suffer. Australia has all sorts of spiders and shit Get rid of the problem[/QUOTE] It [i]was[/i] a prison island, after all.
[QUOTE=GunFox;38986411]Okay okay, we can compromise. Australia it is.[/QUOTE] Us convicts don't him either! Send him to Canada!
I'm sure Argentina would work well.
How exactly is Piers Morgan bad? I've never heard him speak (I don't watch CNN)
Send him to Libya.
we will pull up at night in northern scotland and throw him to shore bound and gagged if we have to
[QUOTE=Diago21;38986882]Send him to Libya.[/QUOTE] They've suffered enough
Oh, he is going back home... He is going back home even if he is riding third class out of the Low-Orbit Ion Cannon. :v:
[QUOTE=Aide;38986680]Yes, [i]lets deport him because he used his 1st amendment right to express his opinions on the 2nd amendment[/i].[/QUOTE] Nah, let's deport him because he is a pretentious twat that no one likes. Dude, it's a [SUB][SUP][SUB][SUP][SUB]semi[/SUB][/SUP][/SUB][/SUP][/SUB] joke. We don't actually think we can deport him[SUB][SUP][SUB][SUP][SUB], sadly[/SUB][/SUP][/SUB][/SUP][/SUB].
Dump him in Somalia
What if we take Piers Morgan... and PUSH HIM somewhere else!?
Americans sign another petition to deport Piers Morgan, saying "you had him first, you take him"
[quote]Take him to Detroit[/quote] Then we'll see if he's so adamant on anti-firearm legislation
I don't see the problem with him. Sure, he's a twat, but since when has that been a deportable offense? The problem most people have with him is that bus opinions differ from theirs, and instead of trying to find a compromise, he [I]says what he thinks[/I]. Not what he thinks he should say, but what he actually thinks, in his own brainbox.
[QUOTE=evlbzltyr;38987194]The problem most people have with him is that bus opinions differ from theirs, and instead of trying to find a compromise, he [I]says what he thinks[/I]. Not what he thinks he should say, but what he actually thinks, in his own brainbox.[/QUOTE] It doesn't matter how honest you are if you're such an obnoxious twat about everything you say. That and he edited two of the worst gutter press newspapers and allegedly attempt to ridicule and dig up dirt on anyone that makes fun of him - yet he plays it off as 'oh it's only a joke I'm not offended'
Guys, just, put him on the North Pole, let him die with the rest of the Polar bears.
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;38986800]How exactly is Piers Morgan bad? I've never heard him speak (I don't watch CNN)[/QUOTE] imagine getting in an argument with kopimi. nothing but ad hominem and contentless screaming, and that's when he's talking to someone he agrees with.
[QUOTE=Wealth + Taste;38986800]How exactly is Piers Morgan bad? I've never heard him speak (I don't watch CNN)[/QUOTE] he's annoying and his arguments are hardly thought out at all. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOV6_42xe4[/media] keep in mind that i think larry pratt is an idiot in this video and i hardly agree with him. however, he sounds pretty sensible when compared to piers imho
[QUOTE=GunFox;38986411]Okay okay, we can compromise. Australia it is.[/QUOTE] Put him on the moon or something, we sure don't want him.
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