{"id":23357,"date":"2014-02-25T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=23357"},"modified":"2014-02-25T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:22:28","slug":"why-cnn-sacked-piers-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/why-cnn-sacked-piers-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why CNN  Sacked  Piers Morgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Everyone knew his daily chat show on the US television network CNN wasn\u2019t working. You would be hard pressed even to argue that he has had a good run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\nArguably, Morgan did himself in over a year ago using his show relentlessly to hammer the supporters of gun rights in America, particularly the National Rifle Association (NRA), in the wake of the Newtown school massacre in Connecticut that killed 27 people, including 20 small children.<\/p>\n<p>On one occasion he called the head of Gun Owners of America, Larry Pratt, \u201cdangerous\u201d, \u201cstupid\u201d and an \u201cidiot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>His brashness on the topic provoked sufficient anger that a<a title=\"More than 100,000 sign US petition to deport Piers Morgan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/more-than-100000-sign-us-petition-to-deport-piers-morgan-8436651.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0petition was sent to the White House<\/a>, signed by 109,000 people, demanding that he be shipped back to London as punishment for attacking the Second Amendment to the Constitution. 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