Get Rid of Piers Morgan, Please Don’t Send Him Back’

BBC’s ‘Top Gear’ Host to America: ‘It Took Us 40 Years to Get Rid of Piers Morgan, Please Don’t Send Him Back’

Jeremy Clarkson, a British television personality who hosts the popular BBC program Top Gear, weighed in on the controversy surrounding fellow Brit CNN’s Piers Morgan. Clarkson tweeted on Monday:

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Americans. It took us 40 years to get rid of Piers Morgan. Pleasse don’t send him back.

The Top Gear host also tweeted:

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Americans. Was the second amendment not introduced to protect you from the tyranny of the British? Piers Morgan in other words.

Following the deadly shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, Morgan insulted second amendment advocates on Twitter and called a guest on his CNN show, Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners for America, an “idiot,” “dangerous” and an “unbelievably stupid man.”

An individual by the name Kurt N. started a petition at WhiteHouse.gov demanding Morgan be deported back to Britain. Thousands have already signed the petition.

Referencing a recent fatal shooting in New York, Morgan tweeted: “I don’t care about a petition to deport me. I do care about poor NY firefighters murdered/injured with an assault weapon today. #GunControlNow.”