Fox News host John Gibson mocks Heath Ledger

01.25.08 - Posted by AsiansVote

Fox News host John Gibson enters the Hall of Shame for his reprehensible mocking of Heath Ledger's death. Here's the summary from ThinkProgress.org:

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.

Why should you care if you're a non-gay Asian American of the more moderate persuasion? Well, there's that basic human decency thing. And there's the likelihood that the people who make these kinds of cracks about gay people will eventually come for the rest of us. Gibson's own history is telling. In 2006, he called on his presumably white listeners to "make babies" in response to the United States' growing Latino population, then defended himself by pointing to the birth rates of Muslims in Europe.

Check out GLAAD's call for action and feel free to politely but firmly let the Fox executives in their contact list know how you feel about Gibson's remarks.

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01.25.08 | Gay & Lesbian , Hall of Shame , Issues