In case you're just returning home from a delightful Christmas vacation on the Moon, perhaps the most reprehensible MSM interview in recent years took place a few days ago when CNN's loathsome Piers Morgan repeatedly vilified Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, on prime time TV.
Pratt: Your [Great Britain] violent crime rate is higher than ours as is the violent crime rate in Australia. America is not the Wild West that you are depicting. We only have the problem in our cities, and unhappily, in our schools where people like you have been able to get laws put on the books that keep people from being able to defend themselves. I honestly don't understand why you would rather have people be victims of a crime than be able to defend themselves. It's incomprehensible.
Morgan: You're an unbelievably stupid man, aren't you?
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Pratt: The Second Amendment means what it says, and meanwhile, you want to continue laws against self-defense. Laws that prohibit self-defense. Laws that prohibit teachers and other faculty, other members of the administration in schools from being able to defend themselves if they have a concealed carry permit. The laws prohibit them right now. We have been lobbying against those laws since they were put on. We will continue to do so, pointing out that this is where the problem is. And for you to support them means that you're really blind to the role that that plays in enabling murderers to operate with impunity.
Morgan: Yes, I know -- I know why sales of these weapons have been soaring in the last few days. It's down to idiots like you.
It should come as no surprise that certain people didn't especially take to this.
Thousands Sign Petition to Deport Piers Morgan
Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for British CNN host Piers Morgan to be deported from the U.S. over his gun control views.
Make that 'outright attack on the Second Amendment', to be precise.
More fun and games below the fold, including a link to the petition. We're currently at the 82K mark.
Forward!
And the fun continues:
Petition to Deport Piers Morgan Achieves Target for White House Response
The petition to deport Piers Morgan over his repeated attacks against the second amendment has surpassed the number of signatures required to mandate a White House response, as the CNN host labeled the originator of the petition Alex Jones a “goon” for calling for Morgan to be kicked out of the country.
Obama May Be Forced to Respond to "Deport Piers Morgan"
UPDATE: The White House petition is nearing 50,000 signatures, and President Obama is expected to respond.
A very thorough article on Mr. Morgan's derangement is here:
The Stupefying Erudition of Piers Morgan
In the aftermath of Sandy Hook mass murder, the left's solution appears to be to disarm as many law abiding people as possible, and anyone who doesn't follow the logic of that prescription will be severely reprimanded by the superior wit and intellect of such as Mr. Morgan.
At one point, Maggie's fave James Taranto jumped into the fray:
Wall Street Journal Columnist Explains On Twitter How To Deport Piers Morgan
“Ironic U.S. gun rights campaign to deport me for ‘attacking 2nd Amendment rights’ – is my opinion not protected under 1st Amendment rights?,” Morgan tweeted.
“Your opinion is protected, your presence in the U.S. is not. See Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972),” Taranto replied to Morgan.
Taranto linked to transcripts from a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the U.S. Attorney General’s refusal to allow a foreign journalist into the United States did not violate the First Amendment. The case resulted from Nixon administration attorney general Richard Kleindienst’s refusal to grant a temporary nonimmigrant visa to Marxist Belgian journalist Ernest Mandel.
The link to the petition is here. The hitch is that you have to sign on to 'whitehouse.gov' first, which raises a question all on its own.
When the latest lefty "Stop Big Oil NOW!" petition goes up and receives 20,000 signatures in the first three hours, it's because they're eager to 'join the club' by signing on to whitehouse.gov. Conservatives, however, might be much more reluctant to do so.
So, how many signatures would this thing have ended up with if it was on a non-subscription site like PollDaddy?
It should also be noted that this is merely symbolic. On the other hand, even though Morgan will laugh it off in public, there's still going to be some tiny part of his brain reminding him that a hundred thousand people would like to see his sorry ass kicked right out of the country — and that's just the online portion of the people who feel that way. It's one thing when some opponent derides you in his latest column; quite another when hundreds of thousands of people actually want you physically removed.
By force, if necessary.
Brits Petition Government: We Don’t Want Piers Morgan Back
Brits have responded to the petition calling on the White House to deport Piers Morgan for his anti-second amendment stance by lodging a petition of their own with UK Home Secretary Theresa May entitled ‘Stop Piers Morgan from being deported back to the UK from America’.
Just remember, Piers, as the old saying goes; it doesn't matter what the news says about you, as long as they spell your name right.
We'll make sure they do.
