Piers Morgan slams JK Rowling after author admits she enjoyed watching him being told to f*** off on TV
PIERS Morgan has slammed JK Rowling on Twitter after the Harry Potter author admitted to enjoying watching him being told to “f*** off” on American TV.
The pair became embroiled in a furious row online after Morgan was sworn at by Australian comedian Jim Jefferies during an appearance on US current affairs show Real Time with Bill Maher.
JK Rowling, like many, took to Twitter to express her delight at the comedian's jibe at the Good Morning host on Friday night.
She wrote: "Yes, watching Piers Morgan being told to f*** off on live TV is *exactly* as satisfying as I'd always imagined."
And it wasn't long before Morgan spotted Rowling's tweet and fired back saying: "This is why I've never read a single word of Harry Potter."
But the sassy author didn't hold back, replying: "Because you had a premonition that one day the author would roar with laughter at seeing you called out for your bulls*** on live TV?."
But Morgan insisted: "Everything I said was factual."
He added: " If you think screaming 'F*** OFF!!!' at me changes that, then you're mistaken."
Rowling then asked Morgan: "Would you like a couple of hours to mock up some pictures of refugees carrying explosives to substantiate your position?"
Morgan wrote: "The superior, dismissive arrogance of rabid Remain/Clinton supporters like @jk_rowling is, of course, precisely why both campaigns lost."
He added: "Would you like me to explain why all your political views keep being defeated at the ballot box?"
Rowling replied: "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."
Morgan then shared Rowling's post and described it as "peak foul-mouthed, minor celebrity anti-Trump hysteria at its most deliciously supercilious".
Last night, while addressing the issue of the ‘Muslim ban’ on the show, Morgan said: “Calm down Bill, there is no Muslim ban.”
He was then loudly interrupted by the other panellists with Jefferies telling him: “Oh f*** off. F*** off. It’s a f***ing Muslim ban,[Trump] said there was a Muslim ban.”
Morgan responded by saying: “This is the kind of hysteria I’m talking about, 85 per cent of the world’s Muslims are [still] allowed into the country.”
The US President’s ban on people from seven majority-Muslim countries entering the USA was left in tatters this week after his government was defeated in the courts.
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The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco on Thursday upheld a ruling made in Washington state a week earlier that declared some elements of Trump’s executive order unconstitutional and effectively suspended the ban.
The ban remains suspended and, while Trump isn’t expected to appeal the decision and take it to the Supreme Court, he has said he could issue a new executive order at the beginning of next week.
Trump's executive order that initially brought the ban into place was signed on 27 January and suspended entry to the USA by citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The restriction was planned to be enforced for 90 days with the US' refugee programme suspended for 120 days and Syrian refugees banned from applying to the scheme indefinitely.
While Trump has been reluctant to call it a 'Muslim ban' in public it was a policy he talked about often during the campaign and .
Speaking on Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, the former Mayor of New York, said: "I'll tell you the whole history of it. So when [Trump] first announced it, he said, 'Muslim ban.' He called me up. He said, 'Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.'"
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