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Politics aside, Muhammad Ali was a beloved American icon and his death Friday at the age of 74 was met with a wave of tributes to the former world heavyweight champion boxer.
Then Piers Morgan entered the picture.
The former CNN host took to social media on Sunday to politicize Ali’s death by comparing some of the radical things the late boxer said over the years about white people to comments the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has made about Muslims.
Muhammad Ali said far more inflammatory/racist things about white people than Donald Trump ever has about Muslims. #fact
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
Suffice it to say the internet was not please and Morgan was hit with a sea of outrage, but the obnoxious anti-gun liberal, not know when to say when, pressed his argument:
Trump was in New York on 9/11 & knew people who died.
Does that count? https://t.co/eF7Lg76Ye7— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
Why would stating that Muhammad Ali made a lot of inflammatory, race-charged statements in his life be remotely controversial? He did.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
I’m sorry for ‘saying inflammatory things for attention’.
That’s the last thing Muhammad Ali would have condoned.— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
Actually, Ali did want a ban on mixed-race marriage. https://t.co/Zx8yImfV99
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
And if that were not enough, Morgan then went to the tale of the tape, posting a video of Ali talking about the differences between blacks and whites:
Watch this #Ali interview & imagine if it had been #Trump saying all this.
Then you may understand my point. https://t.co/goZbedGz9N— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
Having sufficiently stirred the hornet’s nest — and gotten the attention he sought — Morgan then shoved a stick into it:
FYI:
The more the howling PC-bonkers Twitter mob bark at me to rescind an entirely accurate comment, the less likely it is to ever happen.— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2016
Just a small sample of the fury as all hell broke loose on Twitter:
@piersmorgan PS Would you have been brave enough to write such bollocks while Muhammad Ali was still alive? Again, doubt it tosser!
— Nick Kenney (@nixken) June 5, 2016
@piersmorgan Why do you write such a good column about the life of Muhammad Ali one day, then insult his memory with such a lousy tweet?
— Nick Kenney (@nixken) June 5, 2016
@piersmorgan The difference being, Ali was fighting injustice for a whole demographic. Trump just dividing people for his own ends.
— Alex Hall (@LLHallJ) June 5, 2016
@LLHallJ so how Trump saying temporary ban on Muslims is racist?(Muslims are not even race btw)
— ryan rusty (@ryanrusty3) June 5, 2016
@piersmorgan is clueless. Has no comprehension of black history. Unbelievable ignorance.
— Steve Brookstein (@stevebrookstein) June 5, 2016
@piersmorgan u trying to be relevant now
— IG: lulamamevana (@LulamaFCB) June 5, 2016
@piersmorgan oh Piers. Your poor attempts at starting a fight are really getting desperate.
— Rahul Puri (@rahulpuri) June 5, 2016
@ogechukwuosih @piersmorgan Would you say Trump’s statements are okay then? His are influenced by events in the US.
— Christopher Page (@BasedTemp) June 5, 2016
. @piersmorgan pic.twitter.com/EtvxInPgXe
— Pardon My Take (@PardonMyTake) June 5, 2016
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The longest-tenured writer at BizPac Review, Tom grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills.
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