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Piers Morgan: First Amendment 'Shouldn't Protect Vile Bigots' Like Phil Robertson
Big Journalism ^ | 12/19/2013 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 12/20/2013 2:29:41 AM PST by markomalley

At 9:30 a.m. on December 19th, CNN's Piers Morgan tweeted that the First Amendment "shouldn't protect vile bigots" like Phil Robertson.

And while making this claim, Morgan also reiterated his position that the Second Amendment "shouldn't protect assault rifle devotees." 

Twitchy.com posted Morgan's tweet, as well as one he sent six minutes earlier in he which typed, "Phil Robertson is not a 'victim of political correctness.' He's a victim of his own repulsively racist, homophobic bigotry." 

When defenders of Robertson's right to speak his mind took to Twitter to tell Morgan how the First Amendment works, Morgan hedged himself in by tweeting, "Calm down everybody. I'm merely exercising my own 1st Amendment freedom of speech rights to say Phil Robertson's a racist bigot." 

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: deportpiersmorgan; duckdynasty; gaystapo; homosexualagenda; philrobertson; piersmorgan
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— this is the level of punitive PC, utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist, OK, that my liberal colleagues in the Democratic Party and on college campuses have supported and promoted over the last several decades. This is the whole legacy of free speech 1960’s that have been lost by my own party.”

- Camille Paglia


1 posted on 12/20/2013 2:29:41 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Why does this Limey pillow biter keep trying to tell Americans what our Bill of Rights should and should not protect?


2 posted on 12/20/2013 2:38:32 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: markomalley

What the left says no longer surprises me, I just can not believe how shallow this man’s thinking is.

If what he wants were to happen (restriction on speech you do not like) at some point when the wheel turns, his right to free speech will be restricted.

Piers should be looking behind him often, as the wheel is turning and the American people are getting fed up with the tyranny of the minorities.


3 posted on 12/20/2013 2:38:55 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
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To: markomalley

“I didn’t say what I said”

Said every lefty ever called out on their statements, ever.


4 posted on 12/20/2013 2:38:56 AM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: markomalley
This sounds so much like stuff in the USSR constitution.
Citizens of the USSR are guaranteed freedom of conscience, that is, the right to profess or not to profess any religion, and to conduct religious worship or atheistic propaganda. Incitement of hostility or hatred on religious grounds is prohibited.

In the USSR, the church is separated from the state, and the school from the church.

— 1977 “Brezhnev Constitution”, Article 52
Take note that there is no prohibition for incitement of hatred or hostility on atheistic grounds or any other non-religious grounds. Also, the freedom to preach “atheistic propaganda” is given precedence over religious preaching (and only “religious worship” without preaching to any unconverted is not mentioned as allowed).
5 posted on 12/20/2013 2:40:27 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: markomalley

Right back atcha, idiot Piers.


6 posted on 12/20/2013 2:40:29 AM PST by gattaca ("If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain)
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7 posted on 12/20/2013 2:40:49 AM PST by OwenKellogg (Fundamental transformation sucks.)
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To: markomalley

So, anyone who believes in the Bible is a vile, racist bigot.

Got it.


8 posted on 12/20/2013 2:41:23 AM PST by BlessedBeGod (Democrats are Cruz'n for a Bruisin' in 2016. / Obama=Unspeakable Audacity)
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To: markomalley

I don’t understand why the sunufabitch doesn’t just go back to England.

Actually, I don’t understand why he came here in the first place.

However what I DO understand is why Jeremy Clarkson punched this twerp in the face.


9 posted on 12/20/2013 2:42:04 AM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: jospehm20

Nothing more than a moron with a good vocabulary.


10 posted on 12/20/2013 2:42:35 AM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: markomalley

What else can one expect from a pathetic Commie twerp on the Communist News Network?
They are overplaying their hand now, and true Americans now see them for what they are....filthy Marxist/Leninist, along with their dear leader.


11 posted on 12/20/2013 2:43:57 AM PST by AlexW
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Go home, Piers, to that place whence you came, where your upper middle class British accent isn’t confused for refinement, where there is no first amendment, nor second amendment, to blame for British gun crime, nor ethnic problems, nor sexual immorality, where Jeremy Clarkson awaits with another fist for your sore head, where your phone-hacking is known and reviled. Go home, Piers.


12 posted on 12/20/2013 2:44:03 AM PST by OldNewYork (I have voted against free ice cream. And I will do it again.)
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To Piers,

Thanks Englishman — go back to little Arabia - the true colonials here don’t want nor care for you!


13 posted on 12/20/2013 2:48:18 AM PST by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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To Piers,

Thanks Englishman — go back to little Arabia - the true colonials here don’t want nor care for you!


14 posted on 12/20/2013 2:49:20 AM PST by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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To: Nik Naym
I don’t understand why the sunufabitch doesn’t just go back to England. Actually, I don’t understand why he came here in the first place. However what I DO understand is why Jeremy Clarkson punched this twerp in the face.

Well there's your answer: he's scared Clarkson will beat him up again.

15 posted on 12/20/2013 2:50:07 AM PST by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: markomalley

Morgan was born in the English town of Dorking.

Somehow, that seems appropriate.


16 posted on 12/20/2013 2:50:28 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: markomalley

Projection. Robertson never espoused hatred of gays.

Hey where is the outrage from alcoholics and promiscuous people since Robertson linked their behavior to being a ????


17 posted on 12/20/2013 2:50:45 AM PST by RginTN
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To: RginTN

oops! The last word is sin!


18 posted on 12/20/2013 2:52:55 AM PST by RginTN
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To: markomalley

FU piers... I swear son you had better hope that we never come face to face. I will not be polite and hospitable like Uncle Ted was with your fat foreign alien ass. GTFO of my Republic... you have head chopping demons of mo to defend in your own country. Go back and help evil to destroy your once great country and leave mine alone!


19 posted on 12/20/2013 2:53:53 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: markomalley
Is Piers Morgan a citizen of the United States of America? How does that play with his "...exercising my own 1st Amendment freedom of speech..." (emphasis mine) remark?
20 posted on 12/20/2013 2:56:40 AM PST by Moose Burger
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