'Can’t stomach @DLoesch,' Morgan tweeted. | POLITICO Screen grab, Reuters Morgan: Loesch banned from show

CNN’s Piers Morgan vowed to ban conservative radio talker Dana Loesch from his show over her comments on the brutal attack in London on Wednesday.

In response to the news of the attack in southeast London — which left one man dead and appeared likely to be a “terrorist incident,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said — the two media personalities engaged in a Twitter fight that ended with the “Piers Morgan Live” host saying he had decided to ban Loesch from his show.


“I think he was just bored and wanted a fight,” Loesch told POLITICO in an email. “I get along quite well with his absolutely wonderful staff, who invite me on regularly. I believe they are all I will miss. As for whether or not the ban will stay, that depends on how bad Piers drives his ratings, I suppose.”

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Loesch had tweeted, “Was the guy with the machete a member of the NRA? Asking for a friend,” prompting Morgan to respond, “You think the beheading of a soldier is something to be glib about???”

The tiff continued, with Loesch writing, “As opposed to you calling me Nancy Lanza because I stood up for 2A rights? Get real, @piersmorgan.” Morgan replied, “No @DLoesch - there is a time to shut up with stupid political wisecracks, and this is one of those times. Show some bloody respect.”

And the back-and-forth just kept going: “That’s rich coming from you, @piersmorgan . You stood on the graves of children and attacked my family. Get some consistency,” Loesch tweeted, adding later, “Yes, heaven forbid I think soldiers should at all times be able to protect themselves and point out what happens when PC intervenes.”

Morgan, meanwhile, told his Twitter followers he had decided to ban Loesch from his CNN show.

“Can’t stomach @DLoesch goading Brits with her outrageous tweeting re beheaded soldier story. Unfollowed, and banned from my show,” he wrote.

“Classic. @piersmorgan bans me from a show no one watches,” Loesch tweeted. “Even after he danced on the graves of children and said my children would grow up to be murderers, I was respectful to @piersmorgan . … Speaking of ‘goading,’ @piersmorgan falsely implied my comment was otherwise and inadvertently sent a wave of death and rape threats my way.”

Loesch — whose Twitter profile now reads, “Proudly banned from Piers Morgan’s TV show” — also referred to Morgan’s firing from the UK’s Daily Mirror in 2004 after the newspaper published photos of British troops abusing detainees that turned out to be fakes, writing, “Maybe instead of mocking the disarmament ideology that creates victims, I should have Photoshopped soldier pics, right @piersmorgan ?”

“Regarding Piers, what I saw was a man who doesn’t realize when his ideology of disarmament is being mocked,” Loesch told POLITICO. “I had more respect for his intellect until I watched him turn it around and make it about mocking a soldier, which is grotesque, and something I would never in a million years do — much less Photoshop photos of soldiers which the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment said endangered the lives of British troops.”

Morgan has not yet responded to a request for comment. The two media personalities have long had a contentious relationship on Twitter, but did make appearances on each other’s shows this year.