JK Rowlings on war part with Piers Morgan
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J.K. Rowling dragged Piers Morgan via Twitter on Saturday,
mocking the commentator as a “celebrity toady” for his defense of President
Donald Trump.
It all started when the Harry Potter author retweeted video
of Morgan’s appearance on Friday night’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher.
During the show, Morgan was shut down by Australian comedian Jim Jefferies, who
told Morgan to “f— off” for claiming Trump’s controversial immigration order
against seven majority-Muslim countries is not a “Muslim ban.”
“Yes, watching Piers Morgan being told to f— off on live TV
is *exactly* as satisfying as I’d always imagined,” Rowling wrote on Twitter.
That caught the eye of Morgan himself, who quickly engaged in a war of words
with the beloved author.
“This is why I’ve never read a single word of Harry Potter,”
Morgan fired back. To which Rowling replied, “Because you had a premonition
that one day the author would roar with laughter at seeing you called out for
your bullsh– on live TV?
The haymakers continued, with
Rowling asking Morgan if he wanted to create fake photos “of refugees carrying
explosives to substantiate your position?” (Morgan was fired as editor of the
Daily Mirror in 2004 for publishing fabricated photos of British soldiers
torturing an Iraqi prisoner.) After Morgan wrote that the “superior, dismissive
arrogance of rabid Remain/Clinton supporters like [Rowling] is, of course,
precisely why both campaigns lost,” the author shot back: “The fact-free,
amoral, bigotry-apologism of celebrity toady Piers Morgan is, of course, why
it’s so delicious to see him told to f— off.”
Here are some of the Twitts:
This is why I've never read a single word of Harry Potter.twitter.com/jk_rowling/sta…
Because you had a premonition that one day the author would roar with laughter at seeing you called out for your bullshit on live TV?twitter.com/piersmorgan/st…
.@piersmorgan Would you like a couple of hours to mock up some pictures of refugees carrying explosives to substantiate your position? twitter.com/piersmorgan/st…
The superior, dismissive arrogance of rabid Remain/Clinton supporters like @jk_rowling is, of course, precisely why both campaigns lost.
.@piersmorgan If only you'd read Harry Potter, you'd know the downside of sucking up to the biggest bully in school is getting burned alive.
No bigger bullies right now than the shrieking, hysterical anti-Trump celebrity brigade.
You lost, so suck it up Dolores. twitter.com/jk_rowling/sta…
Rowling later retweeted another Twitter user who had found
an entire column Morgan had written in 2015 using Harry Potter references, a
contradiction of his earlier tweet stating he had “never read a single word” of
Rowling’s signature work.
In response to that
tweet, Morgan wrote, “My eldest son’s a Potter addict. I consider this a
serious failure in my parenting skills.”
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