Trashy Celebs

Attention, Trashy Celebs readers! Douche alert. I repeat, Douche alert. There is a douchebag in the vicinity. Please remain vigilant. Do not panic, but do not let your guard down. This is not a drill. Douche alert.

We haven’t utilized our “Douche of the Week” category in a little while, but boy do we have a doozy for you this week. John Gibson, a Fox News Host whom I have never heard of, mocked the death of actor Heath Ledger on his radio show, just hours after the actor was found dead in his apartment. An the mockery all seemed to be related to Ledger’s most famous role, as Ennis Del Mar, a closted gay man, in Brokeback Mountain. Listen to the audio below:

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that even adult, educated journalists would still resort to using their time on national airwaves, their time on the microphone when they have the opportunity to inform the world of news, to shape thoughts, to express opinions, to promote discourse, would take that time and waste it, pervert it, with such bullshit as this. What place does this sort of brute insensitivity have in the “news?” How is this enriching anyone, informing anyone, giving us thoughts to agree with or disagree with in an intelligent, civil manner? This is not making fun of a celebrity for doing something stupid in public or saying something dumb or marrying a third or fourth spouse. This is mocking the tragic death of a human being, and all because he played the role of a gay man in a movie.

I don’t care of John Gibson doesn’t like gay people. That’s his business, not mine. I don’t care if he doesn’t like Heath Ledger as an actor. I don’t care if he even saw Brokeback Mountain. I don’t care if he once met Heath Ledger in a grocery store and Ledger grabbed the last gallon of milk from under Gibson’s nose. Whatever Gibson thinks personally is up to him and none of my business. But when he sends these cruel and callous thoughts over the airwaves, with no apparent thought for Ledger’s grieving family and friends, for his little two-year old daughter who no longer has her father, then that just sickens me. And when his words imply “just another dead drug addict, just another dead weirdo, just another dead faggot“, well that not only sickens me, it makes me angry.

I know Ledger’s family is not reading this. But if they were, I would want them to know that most people out there are very saddened by their loss, are feeling this loss themselves, and are very sorry that cruel people like this are making their grief worse. I would want them to know that this cruelty is definitely the minority and that I feel hearts all over the world are going out to them, and especially to little Matilda.

Congratulations, John Gibson. You are a first class, A-one, all-star douche.

And don’t even get me started on Fred Phelps.

Heath Ledger, John Gibson, Brokeback Mountain