Piers Morgan issues devastating argument on detention of pro-Hamas migrant Mahmoud Khalil
Criticism against the pending deportation of a pro-Hamas migrant was undone by an argument made by Piers Morgan to justify the actions of the Trump administration.
Mahmoud Khalil was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over his support for anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last year, leading many to accuse the administration of violating free speech rights. The administration has argued that Khalil is a foreign policy threat and violated the terms of his visa application.
"If he said, 'I support a prescribed terror group in the United States,' you're not coming in on a green card."
Morgan argued that if the students targeted by the demonstrations were minorities rather than Jewish students, the administration's critics would have completely accepted a deportation order.
"All right, what if I was a young student at Columbia — there on a green card, British, come in, happy to be here, doing my paperwork, get to Columbia?" said Morgan.
"And I start leading a group which is a bunch of white supremacists, and we start terrorizing black students in the way that they are terrorizing Jewish students. In that circumstance, would we all be as comfortable with this?" he added.
"Or is it the reality — which was exposed by the mobs at Columbia — which is that for some reason, Jews get treated differently to anybody else when it comes to this kind of thing?" Morgan said. "Because if that had been, honestly, white supremacists treating black students like that, they would be out of the country in 10 minutes! In 10 minutes!"
Morgan got loud applause of support from the audience.
Later in the show, Morgan argued more specifically that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was justified in deporting Khalil.
"What if he had said all of this at his green card interview? Would he have got a green card? No," continued Morgan.
"If he said, 'I support a prescribed terror group in the United States,' you're not coming in on a green card," he added. "All Marco Rubio is doing, it seems to me, is taking it back to that scenario and saying, 'Well, if you had been honest, then' — and, by the way, he was dishonest on his green card application about other stuff, which is another part of the equation, which might in itself disqualify him from staying in the country."
"But the idea that he would have said, 'I support Hamas. I support a global intifada. I support the destruction of Western civilization. Now give me a green card to come and live in America' — f**k off!" he said.
There was loud applause from the audience after Morgan's argument.
Video of Morgan's arguments was posted to social media, where they were met with approval from many on the right.
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Jordan Peterson drills down on problems with multiculturalism amid renewed fury over mass rape of British girls
Outrage about the systematic mass rape of British girls by Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs and about politically correct authorities' failure to hold the pedophilic rapists accountable is mounting once again, reignited in part by the leftist Starmer government's rejection of a call for a formal public inquiry into child exploitation in the Greater Manchester town of Oldham and by Elon Musk's efforts to highlight past governmental failures.
Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson and Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon's "War Room," joined Piers Morgan on his show Tuesday to discuss the combined effort by the media and law enforcement to cover up the mass rapes in order to avoid anti-Muslim sentiment.
Morgan, like his guests, vociferously condemned both the Muslim rape gangs and woke authorities' cover-up of their crimes; however, later in the episode, he attempted to argue that multiculturalism was not to blame. His argument was quickly chewed up.
At the outset, Morgan — no fan of Islam critic Tommy Robinson — credited Robinson with "bang[ing] the drum about the rape gang scandal for a very long time" and played a clip of the activist's 2011 interview with former BBC broadcaster Jeremy Paxman, in which he suggested the scandal had been ignored because the impact was largely absorbed by working-class Britons: "Do you know anyone who's been murdered by a Muslim gang? You probably don't. I do. Do you know any 15-year-old girls that ... you've grown up with that have been raped or pimped? You don't — so I don't expect you to understand the issue."
When asked to explain why Britons felt compelled to downplay or ignore the rape of white, predominantly working-class British girls, Peterson broke the issue down into "four bins of complexity" around the issue:
- "The first is the racial divide that typifies the crimes. So it's Pakistani Muslim immigrants and white working-class young girls. So there's a racial, ethnic, and religious divide that is part and parcel of the crime."
- "Then there is a class issue in the U.K. with regards to the victims and also the whistleblowers like Robinson."
- "Then there's the meta-problem of the difference between Islam and Christianity [and] the additional problem that psychopathic sadists use religious justification to camouflage and justify their crimes."
- "Then there's the problem of open borders and immigration and the progressive presumption that all cultures, no matter their difference, are valuable in their diversity and can be integrated peacefully into society at ... an indefinite rate."
Adding right-left politics atop the mix, Peterson noted "that's an absolute bloody rats' nest."
While recognizing the complexity of the issue, Peterson offered an apparent critique of multiculturalism, suggesting that sexual misbehavior and other undesirable social traits are everywhere default traits that have been uniquely rejected by the historically anomalous West.
"Like the default position for an unguarded woman worldwide and throughout history has been 'rape target,'" said Peterson. "That's the norm, not the civilized conduct that generally obtains between men and women even in public on the streets in the West."
'Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate.'
"40 out of 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world are authoritarian hellholes, and only three of them are democracies," Peterson noted later in the interview. "There are certainly doctrines in Islam that are very, very difficult to square with free, liberal, Western, Christian democracies, and those differences aren't just apparent — they're deep."
Peterson also pointed out that "100% of Protestant- or Catholic-majority countries outside of Africa are highly functional democracies. 100%. 6% of Muslim-majority countries are democracies, and they're not in the highly functional category."
After Peterson intimated that the multicultural project in the West has meant the admission and tolerance of populations for which sexual misbehavior and other barbaric practices are the norm, he indicated that the cover-up of the scandal was the result, in part, of fear of leftist political backlash and Islamic violence; of the elite's decision to "sacrifice the children of working-class Brits to the moral grandstanding of their progressive elitism"; and to the woke establishment's expertise in "identifying individuals and bringing reputation-savaging to bear on them in an extremely effective way."
Morgan, apparently still convinced that "multiculturalism has been very successful" in the U.K., asked Natalie Winters late in the episode, "Why should we blame multiculturalism in totality for [the Pakistani rape gang scandal]?"
"I don't really think that tolerance should be the paramount virtue if the disparate cultures that you're importing into said country are cultures that, frankly, I think are conducive to gang-raping of young girls," said Winters, adding that pedophilia was codified in the Quran.
"Our leaders will say that assimilation is racist, it's neocolonial, it's not appropriate to say that cultures that have different values and standards than us need to adopt the shared culture of the country that they're immigrating to," continued Winters.
Elements of the British government have in recent years issued similar critiques of multiculturalism.
Blaze News previously reported that former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman told an audience in Washington, D.C., in September 2023, "Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate."
"[Multiculturalism] has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it," continued Braverman. "And in extreme cases, they could pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of our society. We are living with the consequences of that failure today."
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Should Taylor Lorenz and BLM leader be silenced for celebrating violence?
Standing up for the First Amendment is easy when you agree with the speech that’s being threatened. However, it’s standing up for free speech when you hate the words being spoken that really counts.
That’s the difficult position Glenn Beck is taking when it comes to the vile things uttered by ex-Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz and BLM co-founder Hawk Newsome. While he loathes the violence both have celebrated in the wake of recent events, he nonetheless supports their First Amendment rights.
Taylor Lorenz has come under fire for her comments following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
While speaking to Piers Morgan, Lorenz said that she felt “joy” when she got the news of Thompson’s death.
When Piers pressed her on this heinous sentiment, she somewhat recanted it and replaced “joy” with the word “celebratory” — as if that was any better. She then justified her statement by claiming that “greedy health insurance executives like [Thompson] push policies of denying care to the most vulnerable people” and thus his death should be seen as “justice in the system.”
Newsome, angered by the acquittal of Daniel Penny, told a crowd, “We need some black vigilantes. People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?”
While Glenn is revolted by these two statements that unabashedly condone violence, he knows that they fall under speech that is protected by the Constitution.
He reads from a 1969 court case in which it was determined that speech must be evaluated according to a “two-prong” test: “Speech can be prohibited if it is directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action,” and it must be “likely to incite or produce such action.”
“Two standards — both of them have to be met,” says Glenn.
Neither statement meets both of these criteria, meaning that while they are reprehensible, they’re technically not illegal and therefore should be protected.
“I hate what these people have said,” Glenn admits, calling the statements from both Lorenz and Newsome “evil,” but “because I'm an American constitutionalist, I defend their right to say it.”
To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the clip above.
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'Why the f*** are you laughing?' Piers Morgan unloads on Taylor Lorenz after she expresses 'joy' over CEO's execution
Former Washington Post writer Taylor Lorenz frequently concern-mongers about theoretical harms, such as those supposedly generated by unmasked Americans "raw dogging the air." It appears that Lorenz's compassion runs dry in the face of real harm and tragedy.
After a masked man walked up and fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Wednesday, Lorenz posted on the liberal X knockoff Bluesky an apparent justification for the killing of the father of two. Despite significant backlash, Lorenz then followed up with more controversial commentary, underscoring in a blog post titled "Why 'we' want insurance executives dead" that "it's normal" to wish death on executives in the health insurance sector.
Lorenz — a blogger who has peddled plenty of fake news, doxxed Libs of Tiktok in 2022, and called President Joe Biden a war criminal for supporting Israel's war on Hamas terrorists — doubled down on her comments Monday, telling Piers Morgan of "Piers Morgan Uncensored" that she "felt, along with so many other Americans, joy" upon learning of Thompson's slaying.
"Joy? Seriously?" said Morgan. "Joy at a man's execution?"
'It feels like justice in this system.'
Lorenz suggested that if not joy, then the feeling was "certainly not empathy."
"We're watching the footage. How can this make you joyful? This guy is a husband. He is a father," said Morgan. "And he has been gunned down in the middle of Manhattan."
Lorenz tried justifying her schadenfreude by accusing the deceased of committing mass murder, then broadening her smear by suggesting that tens of thousands of Americans "died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push policies of denying care."
"So should they all be killed, then?" responded Morgan, taking his guest's argument down the rails. "Would that make you even more joyful?"
Laughing, Lorenz said that the extermination of health insurance executives would not make her more joyful. The blogger suggested that the execution of the unarmed executive was, however, useful, stating, "It is a good thing that this murder has led to ... the media elites and politicians in this country paying attention to this issue for the first time."
Toward the end of the segment, Lorenz interrupted to clarify that she was not joyful about the slaughter but "celebratory."
"I take that back. 'Joyful' is the wrong word, Piers," said Lorenz. "Vindicated, celebratory — because it feels like justice in this system when somebody responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans suffers the same fate as those tens of thousands of Americans who he murdered."
'We should not necessarily go around shooting people in the street.'
Another guest on the show, conservative commentator Tomi Lahren, suggested that to "celebrate the murder of a husband and a father simply because you disagree with his position at a company, or you disagree with the company, or you disagree with the system of health care that we have in the U.S., is, quite frankly, sick, twisted, and disgusting."
"It also goes to show that the left and many on the left have a tendency to believe that violence like this, political violence, is necessary, it's a means to an end," continued Lahren.
A poll conducted by Scott Rasmussen's RMG Research for the Napolitan News Service in September highlighted this politically charged bloodlust on the left.
The survey asked, "While it is always difficult to wish ill of another human being, would America be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend?" While 69% of respondents said no, a staggering 28% of Democrats answered "yes."
Lorenz appeared to chuckle while Lahren spoke, prompting a response from Morgan: "Taylor, I don't mean to be rude, but why the f*** are you laughing all the time? I don't get it. Sorry, apologies for my language, but honestly, I find it unbelievable."
The leftist blogger suggested that she found Lahren's characterization amusing, then noted, "I agree we should not necessarily go around shooting people in the street."
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Piers Morgan: Legacy media is on its way to the grave
The days of the legacy media are numbered, and Piers Morgan is here for it.
“Generally speaking, people no longer perceive CNN as the voice that people go to for utterly impartial news coverage, and that is a shame for the brand,” Morgan tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report.”
“They’ve got an identity struggle, which is ironic given how much they bang on about identities,” he adds.
“Do you think it matters anymore in a certain respect whether CNN or anything from the mainstream media survives?” Rubin asks. “I know we’re all going off into our own little corridor, and there’s some danger there, but does it really matter whether the New York Times or Washington Post or CNN survive this thing?”
Morgan doesn’t believe it matters in the slightest.
“It’ll be like every jungle, survival of the fittest,” he tells Rubin, adding that none of his sons — who are 31, 27, and 23 — watch legacy media.
“None of them watch linear television. If they do, they do it through the YouTube app. I read the other day that 10% of American television watchers who have a TV set, a smart TV, they watch television through the YouTube app. And only 23% watch network television on their smart TV,” Morgan explains.
“In five years' time, YouTube is highly likely to be the number one thing that people use as an app on their smart TV,” he adds.
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