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The much hyped debate tonight between CNN’s Piers Morgan and radio host Alex Jones, one of the men behind the White House petition to deport the British host, wasn’t much of a debate but lived up to its billing as riveting television of the trainwreck variety. Morgan could barely ask a question over Jones who came armed with statistics and blew up two minutes into the interview, pointing his finger at Morgan. “I’m here to tell you — 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms! It doesn’t matter how many lemmings you have out there on the street begging for them to have their guns taken. We will not relinquish them. Do you understand?” Jones later went on a personal attack against Morgan and his alleged involvement in the Britain’s phone hacking scandal. “Why don’t you get back and face the charges for the hacking scandal? Why did you get fired from the Daily Mirror for putting out fake stories? You’re a hatchet man of the New World Order. You’re a hatchet man!” It is worth noting that the official CNN video cuts right before Jones’ comments about Morgan. A non-edited YouTube version of the first part of the interview is at the bottom of the post.
After realizing that there was a zero chance for debate, Morgan changed tactics, prompting Jones to air his controversial conspiracy theory believes that the U.S. government is giving citizens “suicide mass murder pills” and that the military industrial complex was behind the 9/11 attack. “He perfectly exemplifies the problem,” Morgan said of Jones later on the show.
As for the petition, which has garnered 104,000 signatures to date, it was addressed today by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. “The White House responds to all petitions that cross the threshold and we will respond to this one,” he said. “In the meantime, it is worth remembering that the freedom of expression is a bedrock principle in our democracy.”
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you’ve got to be kidding me.
This is entertainment. Only problem is Piers doesn’t know how to handle this guy.
Piers handled this fool perfectly – he let him rant and rave and showed the world what a launtic he truly is! This is the man who has a problem with gun control, Please – hes an idiot!
The guy sounds unhinged. Which makes me think he definitely doesn’t need a gun.
That guy may not die from a gun… but he should be wary of a heart attack.
This screams SNL !
Absolutely!!!
This guy seems like a very angry pet store owner.
About time that P O crapola Morgan gets an earful.Notice Piers is pretty civil when it’s someone bigger then him who could pummel him into next week.
That’s the beauty of it, though.
Nothing Piers said could have made this guy look like any more of a fool than he did. Just give him the rope and he’ll hang himself (or if you can come up with a gun related metaphor that might fit better, feel free!).
Sure, keep drinking the kool-aid loser.
I agree Morgan looked weak and scared. When Jones brought up phone hacking scandal Morgan looked like he was going to throw up.
You’re absolutely right. Because whoever shouts the loudest in an argument is automatically declared the winner.
Get a life and get lost.
Piers cannot even express his opinion, because he is dealing with a rightwing nutcase. This idiot cannot answer the simple question about the gun murders in Britain-even with all his so-called researched data. This is scary on every level, because this moron truly believes what he is preaching.
lol, you scared bro? more of him where that came from.
Yes, I am disturbed by the mentally unstable Alex Jones carrying around a gun ( or guns), and I do know their are other rightwing imbeciles that support him. The poor guy looks like he is about to have a heart attack, but he brought it on himself.
Classic meathead, dead-from-the-neck-up mentality. “I’ll totally disprove your articulate point of view, bro, by threatening physical violence! I’m bigger and badder, bro, and my ignorance will kick your intelligence’s ass! huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh”
Not scared, just very sad about this whole thing. I have lost family members to this sort of paranoid insanity- people that won’t leave their house because they’re too terrified of “chem trails”, people that have lost their income and livelihood because of their ocd stockpiling of weapons and foods in preparation for the “impending” UN death camps and/or race riots, people that have lost their friends and family connections because anyone that doesn’t share their delusions must be part of the larger “conspiracy.” It’s really just sad and pathetic. And unfortunately we have a large portion of the media and an entire political party that is willing to enable and encourage this type of mental illness for fun and profit. Very sad for everyone this effects. Responsible conservatives and Republicans need to stand up and do something about this before more families are torn apart and more lives are destroyed.
AS OF TODAY MY FAMILY AND I WILL NOT BE WATCHING CNN ON ANY TELEVISION IN MY HOME ! I AGREE DEPORT THE STUPID A– BACK TO HIS COUNTRY IF ITS SO MUCH BETTER ! GO ALEX !WHERE IS THE HELP FROM THE NRA ? TAKE ALL THE GOOD PEOPLES GUNS AWAY ,AND THE DRUG DEALERS WILL RULE THE STREETS. I WILL MISS CNN BUT ITS FOR A GOOD CAUSE .
Apparently you’ve never watched Morgan argue with someone he didn’t like. He uses the same tactics this guy pulled. Sucks when the shoe is on the other foot, huh “bro?”
And damn it, alex jones is right! Look it up, no nation in world history had tighter gun control than nazi Germany!
And Germany now has some of the tightest gun control regulations in the world. Your point?
I think he was being sarcastic…
Nazi Germany was big about deporting, too.
Alex Jones is speaking truth to power!
You mean speaking utter nonsense to a nobody.
Jack, Alex Jones believes 9/11 is a Government plot. You are a total fool
exactly, so do almost half of americans,do your own real research!
No Katherine, Jack’s right – YOU do YOUR research, rather than repeating massaged nonsensical ‘statistics’ that conspiracy nuts would just love folk to believe. Who’s the real sheeple here? YOU, my dear, you. Because your mind cannot be changed even when confronted by reality and fact. Sad.
As George Carlin used to say, “you know how stupid the average person is, right? Well, half the people are dumber than him.”
I am a pretty liberal guy but actually agreed with Jones’s point about keeping the 2nd amendment in tact. It’s too bad he blew his cool and couldn’t stop once he said was finished around 2:28.
Just answer the question!!!!!!!! He doesn’t have any statistics to back him up!!
Piers couldn’t speak because he knows Alex Jones is right. About time someone shut the moron up.
Now Piers knows what it’s like to be a guest on his show – they can never get a word in either.
spoken like a true red lunatic from right wingnut american Tea Party that is also against homosexuality, puplic education funding, they reject science, subjegates women, is passionate about nationalism, for the death penalty, believes in the Jewish Banking Conspiracy and opposes strong universal social welfare programs, just like the Taliban and the Nazis – WAY TO GO ALE JONES
After listening to Alex Jones brilliant and cogent remarks, I am officially switching my voter registration to the GOP. Makes so much sense, and was very rational and thoughtful in his approach.
hahahahaha. Wait a second as I read your response again.
Hahahahaha.
LOL.
Is Alex Jones related to Robert Blake?
Dershowitz hit the nail right on the head it’s us Americans that don’t know this alex don’t give a crap about him… Check his mental state… Sounds like he wants to start his own army!! He is recruting at phycofatguys.com
No
You right-wing, gun-toting, extremists are what’s wrong with this country!
Currently America averages 11,000 gun related murders in one year. Versus places like Japan, Australia, and Britain, who average under 500 between all THREE of those countries.
Your knee-jerk demonizing of half the country is what’s wrong with this country. You remind me of the brown shirts in Hitler’s Germany who were also useful idiots, first dulled into stupidity thanks to their cult-like love and obedience to their Dear Leader and then whipped into a frenzy of envy and hate and violence by Dear Leader’s rhetoric.
The issue isn’t guns but the fact that there is barely any child left in this country that isn’t pumped full of drugs many of which admit in their commercials that the side effects include thoughts of suicide and irrational thoughts etc. Quit Stepfordizing kids. One thing all these mass shootings had in common is that the killers were all on anti-depressant drugs.
Someone should get these sad gun nuts some male enlargement pumps. They’re cheaper, safer, and accomplish the same goal.
Guessing it woulld sound like a pretty good idea to you to round up all of the people supporting gun control and put them in work camps. So THATS why you need your bushmasters!
I, for one, found him a refreshing change from all the calm, rational gun advocates we hear far too much of lately
Ok, that was a little slice of genius right there. I doff my chapeau at thee.
That man owns a gun? Scary beyond words.
My guess is people here haven’t heard of Jones. He is a conspiracy nut who goes way back, this whole thing is his schtick (he has ridden it to a successful cult following).
Obviously Morgan invited Jones on because this is what Jones does and Morgan thought it would make him look good (unlike debating the issue with someone level headed). It’s cartoon entertainment for idiots to laugh at, let’s see a raise of hands for people who were satisfied to listen to this clown show and conclude this means they’re right about everything.
Bingo! We got a winner here! That’s exactly why he brought him on and what this was – entertainment pure and simple to get viewers. It was not a “debate” as Piers would like his viewers to think.
There should be a petition to deport Alex Jones. He’s an embarrassment to the American people. What a jackass.
People like you are. Get out.
Too bad he can’t control himself and sound sane because… he’s right. Everything he said was true. He’s just a bad messenger.
Yeah, he was making some pretty good points until he lost his cool around 2:28.
How can anyone watch this interview and not think Alex Jones is off his rocker? The only things he understands are fear, hatred, and intimidation (although he doesn’t have the nerve to answer a few simple, calmly phrased questions). What a buffoon. The terrifying part, though, is how quickly other screaming lunatics come running to his defense, variously shouting about Nazi Germany, a New World Order, suicide pills, and revolution. You’re the same kind of crazy mob that used to burn witches and lynch blacks, not so many years ago…
Because everything he said was right, even if he said it in a really bad manner?
Piers was fired, and he did run from what turned out to be a vicious scandal without ever being made to explain or be held accountable for his part in it.
There are people in this world with room to talk… Piers Morgan is NOT one of them.