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John Gibson mocks Heath Ledger’s death

Published on January 24, 2008 at 8:00 AM

I missed this story yesterday but I can’t let it slide by. Fox News host John Gibson opening his radio show with funeral music Tuesday, callously mocking the death of actor Heath Ledger, calling him a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.”

Here’s a summary of what happened:

“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.”

Gibson called Ledger a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem” and suggested that Ledger killed himself because he had “a serious position in the (stock) market” or perhaps “watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night. I think he was an Edwards guy, cause he saw his Edwards guy was just completely irrelevant.”

Click here to listen to the audio of John Gibson’s distasteful handling of Heath Ledger’s death.

Feel free to email john.gibson@foxnews.com and let him directly know your thoughts!

You can also email his show at myword@foxnews.com and the network at yourcomments@foxnews.com.

And, if you wanna email the CEO of Fox News, his info is roger.ailes@foxnews.com.

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