Via @Yousefzadeh comes this admittedly silly, yet perversely entertaining, wuss-slap of Piers Morgan (whose opinion on gun control I did not in point of fact ask for):
Petition to Deport Piers Morgan Hits 31,400 thebea.st/10aJmiJ #cheatsheet
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 24, 2012
Somebody thought of this point before I did, but I endorse it entirely: can we stop this stupid White House petition thing, already? Nobody takes it seriously – except, I think, maybe the potheads. I didn’t sign the dang thing, myself – but I will cheerfully note that if Morgan takes from this the thought that “foreigners have less leeway to criticize our country than Americans do,” well, good. Honestly, he got this much of a pass from being a member of the Anglosphere.
If it weren’t for his accent, people would pay less attention to Morgan than they do Ed Schultz, and that’s saying something.
RT @moelane: #rsrh The Deport Piers Morgan petition drive now requires an official White House response.: http://t.co/s0OrCDLk
RT @moelane: #rsrh The Deport Piers Morgan petition drive now requires an official White House response.: http://t.co/s0OrCDLk
RT @moelane: #rsrh The Deport Piers Morgan petition drive now requires an official White House response.: http://t.co/s0OrCDLk
Dear White House.
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All I want for Christmas is a new President, but as that doesn’t appear likely, I’ll settle for kicking this limey git in the cranberries.
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Mew
p.s. – What’s *interesting* is, as usual, the dog that didn’t bark.
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That is, how have none of the U.S. “serious” news outfits nor the “newslebrities” (Ed Shultz) done *any* hit pieces on Morgan?
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Piers was involved in spying on private citizens, for crying out loud. That ought to have resulted in his career being *over* if not jail time…
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Mew
Piers Morgan has proven he’s not a journalist… he violated Rule # 3. “Do not become part of the story”.
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Mew
I signed it. I have never signed one of these petitions until this one came up. I know nothing will happen, but this one felt …good…
Gee, this is a tough choice: kicking old Piers in the cranberries or following the Constitutional prohibition on Bills of Attainder?
How long does the WH have to respond? Long enough by the time they do, people will have forgotten. Anything they say wouldn’t be worth the initial ink it was printed with
RT @moelane: #rsrh The Deport Piers Morgan petition drive now requires an official White House response.: http://t.co/s0OrCDLk