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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: Purge_WTF on January 23, 2008, 08:43:29 PM
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John Gibson Mocks "Weirdo" Heath Ledger's Death: "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.
Throughout the course of the show, Gibson continued to bring up Ledger's death while discussing current events, jokingly claiming that current events may have caused him to commit suicide.
On yesterday's drop in the stock market:
GIBSON: Maybe he had a serious position in the market.
TOM SULLIVAN: And possibly today, he looked at the window and said?
GIBSON: "Oh my God."
SULLIVAN: His name's not Keith Bledger, right?
GIBSON: He was depressed about yesterday's downturn in the world stock markets.
On the Democratic debate in South Carolina:
GIBSON: Apparently Heath Ledger was suicidal and his friends saw it coming. I think he watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night. I think he was an Edwards guy, cause he saw his Edwards guy was just completely irrelevant.
In reality, New York City Police spokesman Paul J. Browne told the New York Times that there was "no obvious indication of suicide."
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all class ::)
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What a complete scumbag, but then who at fox isn't ::)
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This is something I would expect to hear on some crap internet forum and this was on a national news channel :-\
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And you know it's just a matter of time before Man Coulter gives her two cents too.
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Let's see one of you heartless neotaint bastards defend him.
Come on, you know you want to...
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They're making non news... news. The guy is dead, if anything report the facts and move on. News is now infotainment. We're not exactly in a dry news cycle but it shows how jaded Americans have become from the current state of affairs.
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That's in such ill taste. Howard Stern never crossed that line but "News" has.
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Pretty classless.
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sounds like Gibson is the weirdo :-\
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What a dick
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I watched Gibson's TV show tonight to see if he'd apologize for being such a prick. He did, but it seemed kinda half-assed to me.
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I watched Gibson's TV show tonight to see if he'd apologize for being such a prick. He did, but it seemed kinda half-assed to me.
I agree. It was Durbinish: ~to anyone who was offended by my comments I apologize.
He didn't really apologize for saying what he said.
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That's in such ill taste. Howard Stern never crossed that line but "News" has.
Actually Howard is a bad example to use, he has crossed that line.
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People still watch Fox News, and actually get shocked and outraged by what they see? The only emotion I get by watching Faux News is laughter. I wish this company would go under one day.