Thursday, January 24, 2008

'Morning Joe' crew unloads on John Gibson

Yesterday, on his syndicated radio talk show, Fox "News" host John Gibson made fun of the death of Heath Ledger. The comedy bit included, of course, the famous "I wish I knew how to quit you" clip from Brokeback Mountain.

Today, the crew on MSNBC's Morning Joe expressed their horror at Gibson's callousness. [Via Think Progress]



SCARBOROUGH: That entire team was making fun of a tragic death, and anybody that has had a friend or family member that has fought addiction problems, and the demons of that, and this man, this human being, this father who had a two-year old daughter that he dearly loved, and he left behind, it’s unconscionable. I don’t understand that, Mika. You’re right. Calling this guy “a weirdo?” Saying he found a way to “quit us?” Maybe he killed himself because he watched the Clinton/Obama debate? This is about as callous, callous and [untelligible] anything I have ever heard. It is unspeakably… uh, rude.

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I also don’t see how you get away with something like that. I just don’t. I mean, not that… I don’t know. I don’t know how you stay on the air.

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SCARBOROUGH: Did you hear him laughing?

BRZEZINSKI: That makes me nauseous. I’m serious.

SCARBOROUGH: Did you hear him starting to laugh? Is he laughing that Heath Ledger died because he made a movie about two gay men? Is that why this young father dying was a punchline to John Gibson?

WILLIE GEIST: Of course it is. That’s the implication.

SCARBOROUGH: So, if you make a movie… this is now… it’s not that if you are gay, then your death is a punchline, if you make a movie about being gay, that’s a pun… your death becomes a punchline. This is… I don’t know who syndicates this guy, but that is absolutely stunning.

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