Hey, Look! Touré And Piers Morgan Are Fighting On Twitter Again

Someone call the CNN bookers. It looks like Piers Morgan and Touré are back at their favorite method of scheduling TV appointments; yelling at each other. Just a few weeks after Morgan and Touré turned a previous row on Twitter into a fascinating (and heated) debate on the Trayvon Martin case, the two are fighting again.

This time, the debate appears to have been started by Morgan who linked to a Big Journalism article that uses Touré tweets from 2009 to accuse him of being a 9/11 Truther. This soon turned into phone hacking references and journalism school insults.

Wow. I’m sure you can explain this, right @Toure ? bit.ly/HHUkjK

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2012

@Toure facts aren’t your strong point, are they mate? That’s what I meant when I said you’re not a proper journalist. Maybe try a course?

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2012

@Toure facts aren’t your strong point, are they mate? That’s what I meant when I said you’re not a proper journalist. Maybe try a course?

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2012

Seriously @Toure – give them a call. Want to help you, mate. journalism.columbia.edu

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2012

.@piersmorgan At Columbia J School do they teach people to hack phones & manipulate newspapers in order to steal money—as you’ve done?

— Touré (@Toure) April 18, 2012

Note: I’ve repeatedly said “@piersmorgan manipulated the newspaper he edited to steal money” & never once did he say “I did not.” Bc he did.

— Touré (@Toure) April 18, 2012

@Toure In answer to your questions: 1) No, I did not. 2) No, I did not. Can I ask you one now? Q. Ever considered anger management classes?

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2012

Ok, I think I have the chronology here down. The only part of this I don’t understand is why Big Journalism was posting an article this morning about three year old tweets. I feel bad for whomever had to keep pressing “Load more tweets.”

If anyone ever does that to me, may I apologise now about the hateful things I said about Transformers 2. They were cruel and unnecessary.

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