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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