CNN host Piers Morgan has settled on something he likes to milk for attention even more than a mass shooting: the White House petition to have him deported. Not that he’s paying any attention to it, mind you.
It’s worth noting that the White House’s “We the People” petition site is a guarantee of nothing, although 25,000 signatures is supposedly your assurance that your issue will be brought to the president’s attention — his laser-like focus takes over from there. The Piers Morgan deportation petition has really taken off, though, closing in on 100,000 signatures. Blame it on the good old American “blood-bonding of lynching.” So, how does one explain those hundreds of millions who haven’t signed?
@piersmorgan or 310,910,000 who don't know/care who you are.
— Andrew Little (@zeus_87) December 28, 2012
@piersmorgan that's 90,000 who want to deport you and 310,910,000 who have never heard of you #harshbuttrue
— Alan Murphy (@murphy7467) December 28, 2012
Most don't give a damn what you do/who you are MT @piersmorgan: Only 90K have signed petition 2 deport me. 310 mil presumably want me 2 stay
— Jena Marie (@JenaArtMuse) December 28, 2012
@piersmorgan there are also 62,641,000 people here in the UK who want you to stay in America
— Stayin’ Alert (@donmac77) December 28, 2012
Just so there’s no confusion, one American has launched a counter-petition to keep Morgan in the States. It currently stands at 7,847 signatures, so we’ll just have to assume that means 310,992,153 Americans want him on a plane back to the U.K. Only one thing is certain: he’s never going to want to leave now that someone’s paying attention.
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