John Gibson is a pathetic excuse for organic material. We all know this. However, there are some people out in the real world who don’t really know who John Gibson is to begin with. It seems no one is more concious to this fact than Gibson himself, who seems to make career descisions based on how many people he can piss off. He did it with John Stewart once, which I guess might have raised him up a notch or so in the media’s collective concsiousness. But Gibson likes to think big, and what’s bigger right now than Heath Ledger’s untimely death? Besides Gibson’s ego, that is.

The FOX News employee decided to, like all media outlets responsibly did, make a not of Ledger’s death on his program. Reasonable, decent human beings stop there. Johnny Boy didn’t. Think Progress kept track, though, especially as Gibson joked that Legder committed suicide as a result of the economy:

GIBSON: Maybe he had a serious position in the market.

TOM SULLIVAN: And possibly today, he looked at the window and said…

GIBSON: “Oh my God.”

SULLIVAN: His name’s not Keith Bledger, right?

GIBSON: He was depressed about yesterday’s downturn in the world stock markets.

We also know that a FOX News man isn’t a FOX News man without somehow creating a link between human tragedy and the Democrats, though:

GIBSON: Apparently Heath Ledger was suicidal and his friends saw it coming. I think he watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night. I think he was an Edwards guy, cause he saw his Edwards guy was just completely irrelevant.

Ugh. The saving grace is that, if we know anything about this world, people car about their movie stars. Ahmadinejad or Chavez, not so much. Offend Hollywood, though, and the people will clamor. Heads will be handed to the masses and we can only hope that Gibson, this sorry excuse for a human being who seems to link success to the demeaning of others’ suffering, will be the first sacrifice.

UPDATE: Gibson’s FOX co-worker, O’Reilly, actually aired a segment about the lack of “anything really egregious” as a result of Ledger’s death.

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O’Reilly: ‘I really don’t go’ on the Internet Think Progress

I update Raw Story four days each week. Here is a comment a reader sent in that I thought I should share with the world.

Here’s my favorite from the batch of Raw Story comments I just moderated:

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GOP = Gagging On Penises Good God, America, when is enough, enough? Vote these sick, filthy bastards out of office immediately!

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Two awful tastes that never went great together, Michelle Malkin and The O’Reilly Factor have called it quits. Rather, Malkin broke up with O’Reilly, who has a serious thing going on with Geraldo, who totally hates Malkin…It’s probably the nastiest break up since Charlie Sheen and the chick who made out with Neve Campbell in “Wild Things.”

Inside Cable News received an e-mail from Malkin last Friday confirming her divorce from the Murdoch-owned news outlet:

From: “Michelle Malkin”
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:04:58 -0400
Subject: Re: Michelle no longer on the Factor?
I made the decision to quit appearing on the O’Reilly show in response to the poor handling of the Geraldo Rivera matter (the staged “apology” on The Factor was a complete farce). I won’t go into details, but please know that your support means a lot to me. You can catch me on other Fox News shows and read my daily blog posts and weekly columns at MichelleMalkin.com.

Best,
Michelle

All of this commotion because of a little threat that FOX News host and former journalist (zing) Geraldo Rivera made about Malkin:

Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I’ve ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people. It’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in New York. I’d spit on her if I saw her.

Gasp, folks. Gasp indeed. We’re not shocked by the spitting threat, but rather the fact that Geraldo almost sounds sensible. Or at least more sensible than Malkin, although we admit that doesn’t say very much.

Let’s look back, friends, and take a look back at Malkin versus Geraldo tape from July. There’s no spitting, but you can still see Malkin about to pop a blood vessle:

Take care, Michelle. Just because you’re not on O’Reilly anymore doesn’t mean we don’t need content at CW.

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I’ve written posts for Wonkette every weekday since May, except on the days I’ve overslept and Alex had to write it. In my second week or something, when I was still doing Metro section and something else that I don’t even remember, I had been late a couple times in a row. Then the third day, I wasn’t late, but for whatever reason the email hadn’t gone through. This is the conversation we had when I signed on the next morning:

11:55:36 AM Gregory William Wasserstrom: hey
11:56:53 AM Alex Pareene: mornin
11:56:58 AM Gregory William Wasserstrom: word up
11:57:02 AM Gregory William Wasserstrom: how goes it
12:00:27 PM Alex Pareene: hey, greg, you’re funny, you seem like a nice guy, but basically i have to fire you, as you’re totally irresponsible, so no hard feelings.
12:00:37 PM Gregory William Wasserstrom: wait wait
12:00:53 PM Gregory William Wasserstrom: did you not get the daily breif/
12:00:58 PM Alex Pareene: no?
12:01:00 PM Gregory William Wasserstrom: cause i definitely wrote it and sent it
12:01:03 PM Gregory William Wasserstrom: at 2:48am
12:01:13 PM Gregory William Wasserstrom: i will now copy and paste it

I copied and pasted it.

12:01:40 PM Gregory William Wasserstrom: i will also take a screen shot of it in my sent mail folder.
12:01:51 PM Alex Pareene: ok ok ok if you say so but it’s not in my inbox or my spam folder.

I sent him the screenshot.

12:02:28 PM Alex Pareene: shit, all right, we can try it again tomorrow if you like
12:02:37 PM Gregory William Wasserstrom: haha yes alex i would like that very much.

And then he made me send him a picture of my penis. It was weird but worth it because he didn’t say anything about the 12 million times I’ve overslept since.

Obviously, he will be missed. Good luck at Gawker and stuff, bro.

Drool Fest 2007! Ten military bloggers got a special briefing from the President after his prime-time speech Iraq last week.

In this meeting, Ward Carroll of Military.com said the president seemed more comfortable with his message than on TV. We’re led to believe Bush’s becomes articulate when surrounded by hand-picked pro-Bush and pro-war supporters probably because he can say “Scrabble-ma-jangles” without judgment.

Carrol described the President’s performance in front of the blogger round-table:

“No deer-in-the-headlights stuff here. Truly unwavering and passionate.”

Apparently, the standard for unwavering presidential passion has been boiled down to looking less like a fawn frozen before its slaughter than one usual does.

Facts on the ground notwithstanding, he believes the United States can win the Iraq War. And to be honest, being around him made me believe it at that moment too.”

I would hate for facts to withstand the thrall of the President’s most recent victory pep rally among the loyal.

Source: President Reaches Out to a Friendly Circle in New Media [WaPo]

Oh, Michelle Malkin.

You and your rabid fear mongering about illegal immigration is the only thing that separates you from…well, actually, no other conservative wing nut. In fact, no one really knows who you are, unless they either 1) are a part of the 50 year-old to on-my-death-bed-in-rural-Missisippi-with-my-first-cousin/wife FOX News viewer demographic or 2) they prowl the media for immigrant-hating Filipino media vultures.

Malkin covered the first Spanish-language presidential debates held on Sunday and hosted by Univision, one of two leading Spanish-language networks in the United States. Did she tout the debate as a celebration of multicultural efforts to bridge cultures together in an attempt to promote a basic democratic function and right? Nah. Why do that when you can call it a failure and a joke?

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