Piers Morgan Shuts Down White Guest After He Drops N-Word On Air and Then Protests It Was Censored

Zachary LeemanMay 21st, 2025, 3:45 pm
 

Piers Morgan sparred with right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder after complaints he was censored on Morgan’s show when he used the N-word.

“Hey, [Piers Morgan], I thought your show was called Uncensored. Care to explain why you felt the need to literally censor my words? See if you can catch it,” Crowder wrote on X after an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored where the pair discussed offensive language and Crowder at one point referred to the N-word to make a point about Ye’s new song, “Heil Hitler.”

“Yes, sure. You said the N-word and we don’t allow that on our show. It’s not about censorship but about respect for black people,” Morgan wrote in response to Crowder.

“And you’re a disgusting little racist, so we both have our cross to bear,” Morgan said to another user reacting to Crowder’s clip and calling Morgan a “fraud.”

The clip in question is censored on YouTube and in some X clips, but others do not censor Crowder’s language.

Crowder went on to invite Morgan onto his show to “hash out” their differences.

On Piers Morgan Uncensored on Tuesday, Crowder argued self-censorship has led to certain words carrying too much power while discussing the difference between using the N-word in a song and Ye literally dropping a tune with a chorus that repeats “heil Hitler.” That song has been removed from various social media platforms, but it has continued popping up on X.

Crowder said on the show:

When we’re talking about this new song, and as a comedian and as a linguist, I’m going to say the word here so that everybody knows and that’s what you’re going to clip. We’re looking at words that are offensive, a song that is offensive, but one is a boogeyman word. We have one noun, a verb and a noun. Okay? We have a noun by itself, contextually, n***a. That’s bad, shouldn’t say it, but it’s not imbued with any power outside of historical context. The last noun, Hitler, is imbue with the power of the verb that precedes it. Heil, to praise, to venerate. That’ll get clipped even though I’m condemning the song as anti-Semitic and not one person here who would be the victim of a more severe call to action is going to say it’s antisemitic. I think we’re in a silly point in this country when we’re pulling this clip to condemn the antisemitism here at the studio and people going, hey, can I get a second cut of that, um, N-word, heil Hitler. That’s the point.

Morgan asked Crowder if he would have used the N-word in the same context if he were joined by a Black guest. Crowder immediately made reference to a recent explosive episode of Morgan’s show where former CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill lost it after Morgan tried encouraging a guest to use the N-word. The guest said she used the word “frequently” and Hill acknowledged Morgan did not have bad intentions, but he pressed him to stop egging his guest on. Hill later joined the episode with Morgan and Crowder.

Morgan explained about his “ill-advised” moment with his previous guest:

I think both you and Markle Monhill missed the point of what I was doing there. There was no preconceived idea of mine to do that. I just felt that she was being very cowardly. I felt she was saying, of course I would say it, but I very much doubted she would actually say it. In other words, I thought a lot of it was performative racism. She’s an unashamed racist, openly admitted it, but I didn’t think she would go through and say it in the way she claimed she would say.

Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored.

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Zachary Leeman covered pop culture and politics at outlets such as Breitbart, LifeZette, BizPac Review, HollywoodinToto, and others. He is the author of the novel Nigh. He joined Mediaite in 2022.