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BBC's 'Top Gear' Host to America: 'It took us 40 years to get rid of Piers Morgan, Pleasse don't
Breitbart ^ | 12/25/12 | Kerry Picket

Posted on 12/25/2012 8:57:10 PM PST by Nachum

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:

Jeremy Clarkson

@JeremyClarkson

Americans. It took us 40 years to get rid of Piers Morgan. Pleasse don't send him back. 24 Dec 12

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The Top Gear host also tweeted:

Jeremy Clarkson

@JeremyClarkson

Americans. Was the second amendment not introduced to protect you from the tyranny of the British? Piers Morgan in other words. 24 Dec 12

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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."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: banglist; bbc; gear; morgan; piersmorgan; thedailymail; top; topgear; twitbrit; unitedkingdom
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To: Nachum

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21 posted on 12/25/2012 11:35:30 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0Bama man can :-)
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To: Nachum

So who is really Stig nowadays?

I love the show and Clarkson can drive a bit himself


22 posted on 12/26/2012 12:08:33 AM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: wardaddy
I love the show and Clarkson can drive a bit himself

Drivung a Skoda Yeti, he beat the Stig driving a Ferrari 308 GTS in a one lap race around Donington Park Racing Circuit

23 posted on 12/26/2012 12:36:09 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - Rene "Popeye" Descartes)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Let’s hand New Zealand an ultimatum: Either they let us base American nuclear-powered ships there, or they take Piers Morgan. Either way, we win

Just drop him by parachute.

New Zealand disbanded their "air combat wing" some years ago.

24 posted on 12/26/2012 2:03:47 AM PST by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: spokeshave
Just drop him by parachute.

Revised plan approved.

25 posted on 12/26/2012 2:16:28 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Stosh
"Morgan admits he was hit three times, ‘two to the right temple and one to the forehead’ and was left with a scar above his eyebrow."

I'd like to see a video of that.

26 posted on 12/26/2012 2:25:37 AM PST by Godebert (No Person Except a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!)
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To: owlpellets

The British version is hilarious. They’ve clearly got a huge budget and get away with things that would put the American crew into eco prison for life. Its a pretty conservative greenie bashing show where they incorporate guns whenever possible.

Clarkson insults everybody kind of like a British Don Rickles but was truly in awe of Jay Leno’s car collection.


27 posted on 12/26/2012 3:08:00 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Cyman
Boris Jonson Interview and lap - Top Gear - BBC

Top Gear : Jay Leno interview and lap - Top Gear - BBC
28 posted on 12/26/2012 3:17:49 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: sbMKE
Piers Morgan feud

From 2000 to 2006, Clarkson had a public feud with Piers Morgan, which began when Morgan published pictures of Clarkson kissing his BBC producer, Elaine Bedell.

On the final Concorde flight, Clarkson threw a glass of water over Morgan during an argument. In March 2004 at the British Press Awards, he swore at Morgan and punched him before being restrained by security; Morgan says it has left him with a scar above his left eyebrow. In 2006 Morgan revealed that the feud was over, saying "There should always be a moment when you finally down cudgels, kiss and make up." Clarkson also mentioned that despite not getting on with Morgan, he can at least be in the same room as him.

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29 posted on 12/26/2012 3:24:18 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: cripplecreek

Top Gear UK is our family’s favorite show.

I watched about 5 minutes of the U.S. version; changed channels, never watched it again. It’s rubbish.


30 posted on 12/26/2012 3:24:40 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: Nachum
I say we cut our friends in the "British Resistance" a break and deport morgan to the Falkland Islands instead. It's a two-fer, they don't have to deal with him directly and the Argentinians can decide if they really want the islands with him as part of the deal.

OTOH, could the Argies even afford enough gas to power a dingy there?!?

31 posted on 12/26/2012 3:30:53 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

You’re thinking of a multiple trade thing. Ship Morgan and Moore off to the Falklands. They can give up the islands and we’ll send a carrier group to help keep Morgan and Moore on the islands.


32 posted on 12/26/2012 3:35:05 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Peter W. Kessler
I watched about 5 minutes of the U.S. version; changed channels, never watched it again. It’s rubbish.

NO. That's actually the selling point of the UK version.


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US version: Not Even Rubbish.

33 posted on 12/26/2012 3:39:56 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (I think, therefore I am what I yam, and that's all I yam - Rene "Popeye" Descartes)
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To: Nachum

Excuse me if I am wrong, but isn’t Piers Morgan wanted in Britain for wire-tapping?
Perhaps he could find asylum in Cuba or Venezuela.


34 posted on 12/26/2012 4:05:21 AM PST by Malesherbes (- Sauve qui peut)
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To: Nachum

RIGHT ON!I’ll DRINK TO THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


35 posted on 12/26/2012 4:31:00 AM PST by bandleader
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To: Sporke

I’ll second that! That show is in a Class all by itself. The Crossing the Kalahari Desert in Clunkers episode, The Three Wise Men, Vietnam, The Bolivian Rainforest, The Cars of the Cold War episode, the Race to the Magnetic North Pole, and all of those other crazy “Races” are simply Masterpieces, imo.


36 posted on 12/26/2012 4:56:19 AM PST by OkiMusashi (Beware the fury of a patient man. --- John Dryden)
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To: Sporke

Their “Journey to Bethlehem” episode was a scream. Even my wife was laughing.


37 posted on 12/26/2012 5:00:47 AM PST by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: max americana

I think you are being a bit thin-skinned. Jeremy Clarkson has a go at many people and things - he regularly insults the french, the germans, the australians, vauxhall, environuts, the UK government and many other targets.


38 posted on 12/26/2012 5:34:02 AM PST by Vanders9
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To: Nachum
Look Jeremy, if we have to keep Piers, than at least be a sport and take Michael Moore.... and we'll call it even.

I think you have to trade in the same weightclass. To unload Moore, we'd have to take back Madonna too.

39 posted on 12/26/2012 7:00:04 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: utax

He insults everyone.

Thats his TV persona, his ‘schtick’.


40 posted on 12/26/2012 7:37:05 AM PST by the scotsman (i)
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