January 24, 2008 6:15 AM

Ignorant, highly offensive...and built to stay that way.

John Gibson Mocks ‚Äö√Ñ√≤Weirdo’ Heath Ledger’s Death: ‚Äö√Ñ√≤He Found Out How To Quit You’

Opening his radio show with funeral music yesterday, Fox News host John Gibson callously mocked the death of actor Heath Ledger, calling him a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.” Playing an audio clip of the iconic quote, “I wish I knew how to quit you” from Ledger’s gay romance movie Brokeback Mountain, Gibson disdainfully quipped, “Well, he found out how to quit you.” Laughing, Gibson then played another clip from Brokeback Mountain in which Ledger said, “We’re dead,” followed by his own, mocking “We’re dead” before playing the clip again.

Perhaps John Gibson was channelling Fred Phelps. Perhaps he was transifixed by his own self-perceived brilliance. Or perhaps he’s just an unreconstructed, unrepentant DUMB@$$. How else do you explain a moron like Gibson rhetorically tap-dancing on Heath Ledger’s grave? Only Fox News Channel would tolerate one of it’s talking heads being so callous and aggressively hurtful as Gibson was. Tasteless, insensitive, mean-spirited…none of these adjectives fully and adequately describe the depth of my disdain for Gibson’s willingness to pour salt in the wounds of Ledger’s family and friends.

I’ve always tried to live my life following one very simple rule: DON’T BE A DICK. It’s too bad that John Gibson couldn’t be bothered to learn the value of that very simple rule. After all, how hard is it to treat others in the manner in which you hope others would treat you? The fact that an individual may live, believe, and/or create art in a manner that conflicts with your beliefs doesn’t grant you the right to treat his passing with such callous disrespect and disregard. What is so hard about displaying some simple human decency and respecting the grief of those who are mourning the passing of a talented young man?

Then again, no one has ever accused Gibson of possessing more than the merest shred of decency. What a ignorant, insensitive (&^%$#@ DUMB@$$.

If I’m still alive after Gibson dies, I think I’ll piss on his grave….

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