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Fox News Demotes Heath Ledger Bashing Bigot John Gibson
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Don't complain that sounds barbaric. We're fighting barbaric:
Fox News Channel, tinkering for the first time in eight years with its popular early evening lineup, is replacing its 5 p.m. news broadcast, “The Big Story,” with an election-theme program for the foreseeable future. The network confirmed this week that “America’s Election HQ,” a program that displaced “The Big Story” temporarily last month, would continue indefinitely. The program’s hosts, Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly, also anchor the network’s mid-morning newscast and are seen as rising stars on the channel. The change was first reported by the blog TVNewser.com. John Gibson, the longtime host of “The Big Story,” will continue to have a role on television, the network said, although it appears that his future for now lies mostly on radio.As Crooks and Liars helpfully reminds us:
Gibby insulted actor Heath Ledger shortly after his death, accused outed CIA operative, Valerie Plame of being part of an anti-Bush cabal within the CIA, introduced the world to the dreaded Oogah Boogah Fever, and finally, who could forget the xenophobic “make more white babies” rant.
Meantime, got to admire the cojones of those Brit cops to go after him like that. All of this trumps any of my other complaints that the Brits weren't making the right noises about fighting terror. They like to go about things a bit more quietly than us. Not my style, but okay, fine — as long as they get the five in the noggin of the right bomber boy. They do that and I'm fine.
So for the moment, alls well. Just catch the four bombers. Five in the noggin is fine. Don't complain that sounds barbaric. We're fighting barbaric.
Of course, bomber boy turned out to be Jean Charles de Menezes, who was not so much a hardened al Qaeda terrorist as a 27-year-old Brazilian national who was trying to go to work. But still, John Gibson -- knowing, mind you, that at the very least the guy didn't have a bomb -- still cheered his fatal shooting.
Ah, John. We'll sure miss you.
Tagged as: gibson, racism, fox news, homophobia, right wing media, ledger
Jeff Fecke is a regular blogger for Shakesville.
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