Cricket enthusiast and oppressive tweeter Piers Morgan is losing his ratings juggernaut “Piers Morgan Live,” after CNN confirmed a New York Times report Sunday that it was sacking the program.
During his show’s three-year run, Morgan repeatedly attacked the National Rifle Association and Second Amendment advocates, engaged in nauseating Twitter battles, and even experienced a few instances of pop culture gold. Although Morgan vowed that he’s ‘not done with the NRA yet’ and doubtlessly will continue his media career in another capacity, let’s review some highlights that Red Alert Politics captured across his abbreviated CNN stint.
Maybe it’s time to rewrite the Second Amendment
It’s almost up for grabs as to who despises what more: Piers Morgan on gun rights or Hunter S. Thompson on Nixon. The British national has made the Second Amendment and its defenders his adversaries in recent years.
One of his biggest enemies in this nefarious camp goes by the name “,”.
The comma Morgan references creates the clause: “being necessary to the security of a free State.”
He pointed the evolution of the Second Amendment, saying when written by the Founding Fathers, it meant not the right to bear arms “in their own lives,” but to bear arms as part of a well-regulated militia. But, as the NRA rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s — when “very right-wing people took over” — and President Ronald Reagan took office, the Second Amendment was redefined.
“They redefined it as an individual’s right to bear arms, no longer as part of a well-regulated militia,” Morgan said.
Morgan added during those October 2013 remarks at the National Press Club that it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to revisit the Second Amendment’s wording.
“I think there is quite the argument to have a debate … a debate on whether the wording of the Second Amendment should be rephrased.”
“Your little book”
Given the above, it’s unsurprising that Morgan sneeringly referred to a pocket Constitution as “your little book” during a heated interview with Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro in January 2013.
“You come in here, brandish your little book as if I don’t know what’s in there — I know what’s in your Constitution,” he said.
No guns for young adults
If Morgan can’t get the Constitution changed, then maybe the law can at least ban certain subsets of Americans from purchasing a firearm — for instance, those 25 and under.
Given the young ages of most mass/random shooters in America, I’d make it illegal for anyone under 25 to buy a gun of any kind.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 27, 2014
It’s almost impossible to rent a car under the age of 25 in America – why not regulate guns the same way? Just common sense.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 27, 2014
And if you’re visually impaired, don’t even think about it. Morgan flipped out last September when it was reported that Iowa was granting gun permits to the blind, and he argued on Twitter with Dana Loesch and conservative radio host Ben Ferguson about the issue.
How can I possibly be arguing about the ‘right’ for blind people to use guns? This is INSANE.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 12, 2013
Can’t believe I’ve spent the last two hours seriously debating the rights of blind people to carry/shoot guns. I need some fresh air.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 12, 2013
An idea @Dloesch @benfergusonshow > you guys stand at the end of a range and I’ll get 100 blind people to fire away at targets around you.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 12, 2013
@piersmorgan @DLoesch because that the same as a blind person in their own home when someone is kicking in the door.
— Ben Ferguson Show (@benfergusonshow) September 12, 2013
Man, Bloomberg would’ve been such a great president
In keeping with Morgan’s preference for banning things, he once called former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I-in-name-only) “the greatest President that America never had.” It’s a shame that he lacked the capacity to write in America’s favorite nanny-state mayor on the 2008 or 2012 presidential election ballots.
The idea that banning teeth-rotting, diabetes-inducing supersized soda cups is an ‘assault on liberty’ is utter nonsense. It saves lives.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) March 13, 2013
A Constitutional amendment banning Piers Morgan from tweeting
Perhaps you’re getting the sense that Morgan’s Twitter feed is an insufferable stream that makes you want to slip into unconsciousness. Read this.
Piers Morgan, international sex symbol and renowned cricketer
Morgan has had plenty of lighter, sillier moments in recent years away from his on-air duties. He told The Sun’s ‘TV Magazine’ that he’s “always been a huge sex symbol,” which is hilarious, and in perhaps his greatest hit, he was repeatedly whacked by hard throws (bowling) from Australian cricketer Brett Lee in an ill-fated challenge. Lee took issue with Morgan, an ardent fan of England’s cricket side, for his Twitter trash talk, and invited him to do the American equivalent of standing in the batter’s box and taking 98-mile-per-hour pitches from Steven Strasburg.
Anyone saying he should be deported is crazy.
