Leave Piers Morgan alone
I know that it is a tiny number of people who have signed the thing, compared to the actual population of the United States, but it’s a little distressing that even a tiny number of Americans don’t know that in this country, we don’t use the law to punish people for speaking their minds.
I once had some very nice young members of the Chinese Communist Party earnestly explain, in tones that indicated they expected to clear up some puzzling misunderstanding, that Nobel-prizewinner Liu Xiaobo was quite properly being incarcerated by his government. “He broke the law” one of them said, rather passionately. “Any country would put him in jail for that.”
“The law”, in this case, was of course a proscription on criticizing the constitution, and its enshrinement of one-party rule by the Communists. One is tempted to suggest that the signers of the petition “self deport” to China, where they might feel a bit more in tune with the general approach to civil liberties.
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Why leave him alone?
He is a dipstick that registers no oil in the engine.
Soon he will seize up solid and have nothing to say.
Get the fun poking going before that happens.
ajacksonian on December 27, 2012 at 8:24 PM
I swear… Journalist have to be the most thin skinned people in America.
brewcrew67 on December 27, 2012 at 8:26 PM
I’ll leave him alone when he leaves me alone.
Mark1971 on December 27, 2012 at 8:27 PM
Many more Americans agree with the petition but didn’t sign it, like myself. Pierced Morgan is a GUEST in this nation. If he can’t help but pee on the carpet then he is not welcome. He has a nationality and a home. Let him go there, where he is not a guest but a subject. He prefers to be a subject, anyway.
Of course, Miss McArdle, you’re too stupid to understand this simple logic. Typical. I don’t know why anyone would bother reading your drivel. This is a first time – and last – for me. Sure, it’s just typical leftist retard babble, but that doesn’t make any of it less annoying and intellectually insulting. I am horrified that I have to share a nation with you. I want a national divorce from you and yours.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 27, 2012 at 8:29 PM
The Man Without a Country.
OldEnglish on December 27, 2012 at 8:30 PM
No, I believe that “honor” belongs to our fearless president.
hopeful on December 27, 2012 at 8:32 PM
so if this media clown non citizen becomes treasonous we can’t do nothing? megan you’re as stupid as the mccain. the “educated” idiots multiply in outing themselves by the day.
newrouter on December 27, 2012 at 8:37 PM
Where’s Chris Crocker when you need
himher?Myron Falwell on December 27, 2012 at 8:39 PM
The media types are circling their paranoid wagons…
We need a National Registry of all legacy media members so that we can keep up with their whereabouts and contact information. These people are no longer mere Americans, they are above reproach. Leave them alone!
d1carter on December 27, 2012 at 8:40 PM
The Man without a Brain. Or Talent. Or Originality.
His lacks are numerous.
As are his lackeys.
ajacksonian on December 27, 2012 at 8:41 PM
Leave, Piers Morgan! Alone!
See? All it needed was a little punctuation.
platypus on December 27, 2012 at 8:41 PM
No one is going to seriously consider deporting Piers Morgan Megan, stfu….even the people that signed the petition know that, it’s merely a way of voicing our disapproval with a looney leftist vomit inducing hack host on a run down cable channel watched by no one but stranded flyers and devout socialists..
Tim Zank on December 27, 2012 at 8:41 PM
That’s why this is so much fun and doubly more so when you see them whine about “rights” considering what started all this.
So many emperors with so little clothing.
kim roy on December 27, 2012 at 8:42 PM
What a bunch of thumb-sucking leftist cowardice…and how unexpected coming from a spoiled doofus like you. The law not only CAN but SHOULD be able to step in and say “ok, that’s it, you’ve abused the heck out of the 1st Amendment, your ‘free speech’ has just plain crossed too many lines.”
When it can’t, we get such lovely things like unabashed treason from public officials, the Westboro Church, and groups of barbarians getting to parade down Main Street holding signs about how they’d like to burn Rome.
MelonCollie on December 27, 2012 at 8:46 PM
Well done!
22044 on December 27, 2012 at 8:47 PM
LOL Reminds me of Eats Shoots and Leaves.
Fallon on December 27, 2012 at 8:50 PM
I’m not punishing for speaking his mind… such as it is…
I’m making fun of him because he is a dipstick!
Proves that every time he opines on any topic of note.
ajacksonian on December 27, 2012 at 8:51 PM
He is pushing policies that will effect the freedom of ALL Americans but we’re supposed to leave him alone? No one is attempting to limit his freedoms. Shuddup.
29Victor on December 27, 2012 at 8:53 PM
Gee, why did he leave the UK? Did something happen at The Daily Mirror? Is that in effect what established his bona fides to work for CNN? Is that why we should leave him alone?
Kenosha Kid on December 27, 2012 at 8:57 PM
Leave Piers Morgan
aloneFIFY
ProfShadow on December 27, 2012 at 9:01 PM
He is advocating taking away our 2nd amendment rights. Then, when we exorcise our 1st amendment rights by voicing our opinion we get told we shouldn’t be allowed to use our 1st amendment rights, What kind of oppressive people are you? What other rights are you trying to take away from us? Pretty soon you won’t let us exorcize our 10th amendment rights either – Oh wait – bad example.
Corsair on December 27, 2012 at 9:01 PM
Careful, Megan … the next White House petition could be yours!
ProfShadow on December 27, 2012 at 9:02 PM
Let’s talk about Innocence of Muslims and ObamaCare and the Stimulus bills, because you’re full of shit.
Xavier on December 27, 2012 at 9:07 PM
We just throw filmmakers in jail for violating their parole, or something.
John the Libertarian on December 27, 2012 at 9:08 PM
No.
If he wanted to be left alone, he shouldn’t have disparaged the 2nd amendment, or called for Biblical “amendments.”
Stoic Patriot on December 27, 2012 at 9:19 PM
A fitting response would be a White House petition to self-deport McAddled.
Christien on December 27, 2012 at 9:24 PM
The author of the article apparently did not think this through very well. Piers Morgan, not being an American Citizen, is not protected by the 1st Amendment. The petition says Piers Morgan attacked the U.S. Constitution on American Soil. The oath of office is to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Tripwhipper on December 27, 2012 at 10:28 PM
Careful, Megan … the next White House petition could be yours!
ProfShadow on December 27, 2012 at 9:02 PM
Heh
Deport Megan McArdle
or it should be
Deport Megan McArdleDeport Meghan McCain22044 on December 28, 2012 at 8:50 AM