Kerry Picket @ Big Journalism:
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:
Americans. It took us 40 years to get rid of Piers Morgan. Pleasse don’t send him back.
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) December 24, 2012
The Top Gear host also tweeted:
Americans. Was the second amendment not introduced to protect you from the tyranny of the British? Piers Morgan in other words.
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) December 24, 2012
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.”