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Piers Morgan: Thousands Want Him Deported

If he came back to Britain he would probably be arrested for phone hacking.

Extraordinary that anyone would sign such a petition after the tragedy in Newtown.

green granite

I couldn't give a damn, frankly.
I thought this was going to be a thread about things that jut out into the sea at coastal resorts.

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Who would name their son after a piece of coastal architecture?

Lizz

I don't get the whole hating Piers Morgan thing, but each to their own.

What's he's said is correct, anyone who thinks a gun can solve a problem is stupid.

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Over 31,000 people in the USA do care apparently. Enough to sign such a petition, even after such a tragedy.

A A Gruntpuddock

Even when the problem is that someone is trying to kill you?

Octopussy2

I can think of a hundred reasons to want to deport Piers; ironically, this wouldn't be one of them.

So, ahem, well done Piers. [Gosh, that hurts].

ZH875

Millions in the UK want Abu Qatada out,but like Piers Morgan in this instance, it ain't gonna happen anytime soon.

sitigeltfel

He is welcome back.............but only on the next Concorde out of JFK.

airship

Although he didn't apparently call Mr. Pratt a prat?!

Whatever, Mr. Morgan, "confidently following in the wake of even President Obama himself", hoped to make waves whilst ignoring certain self-evident and basic truths concerning Americans and their Constitution:

N°1, was thinking that any repercussions would be of the same order as experienced in his last job as an editor of an unimportant UK newspaper and faced with a few disgruntled folk signing themselves off as "disgusted from Tunbridge Wells" or equivalent.

N°2, was forgetting that President Obama has the US Secret Service to protect him from all the wackos.

N°3, and perhaps most importantly, ignoring that he was actually insulting millions of US gun-owners (together with Mr. Pratt). And defying the law of averages. It's maybe not the 31,000 of legal gun-carrying Americans who've signed the petition who're any direct threat. It's all the millions of others, who didn't sign it, that should worry him. Who can really say just how many of these individuals have already decided their own personal and final solution to the problem?

One suggestion to CNN (until the situation in USA calms down): appoint Piers Morgan as CNN's special full-time Syrian correspondent based in Damascus. He should be safe (from US wackos and prosecution by UK authorities) for awhile...

Sprogget

Which means considerably more than 310 million Americans are happy for him to stay & I am content for them to have him, the oleaginous, unctuous tw@t.

Gertrude the Wombat

I think he's made it quite clear that all those millions of nutters with guns do indeed worry him.

G-AWZK

Further proof that irony is not understood in the US.

Octopussy2

G-AWZK

Matari

Octopussy said:

There was no irony in that statement.

G-AWZK said:

Yet Octopussy responds with:

Now here is the real irony: Octopussy uses ironically incorrectly, while applauding someone who says that irony is not understood in the US.

Octopussy2

I'm happy to step up and take the title of PPRuNe's very own "Alanis".

Merry Christmas, all. Even you, Matari

Lon More

Only 29999 plus Matari?
That's not even all the Klansmen.

vulcanised

I think America deserves him.

Matari

Only if you keep Madonna.

jumpseater

On behalf of the UK I accept.

Only because when Piers' career submarines, when he's prancing around stage with a cone shaped bra on, (coz thats what it'll come to Piers), he'll be doing it on your side of the pond ...