In William Wyler's The Little Foxes, one of the greatest moments is when an evil Bette Davis says to her sick husband, "I hope you die. I hope you die soon. I'll be waiting for you to die."

I find myself screaming this every time I watch FOX News, which I only watch when I want to have my blood pressure raised to the level of a shell shocked Vietnam veteran in the middle of a fireworks display. Just the way they report a simple story shows bias run amok. They might as well be saying, "Former President Bill Clinton is recovering from open heart surgery. The serial rapist and perpetual liar is resting comfortably at his home in Chappaqua, New York, purchased solely so that his evil wife can run for the Senate and thus assume her nefarious rise to the position of Queen Of The Damned. Coming up next: Terri Schiavo is still dead, but the fight to save her goes on."

John Gibson has proven himself time and again to be perhaps the most odious of all FOX personalities, and that's an accomplishment on par with being the skankiest whore in Vegas. This sagging pile of flesh who resembles an internet predator offends every time he says anything but "We'll be right back." Gibson is to broadcasting what Amy Winehouse is to feminine hygiene. On his radio show he mocked Heath Ledger's death before the body was even cold, playing Brokeback Mountain clips including "I wish I knew how to quit you," saying, "Well, he found out how to quit you." Haw, haw, chortle, guffaw.

Trying for more ribald wit, Gibson opined that maybe Ledger killed himself because he had "a serious position in the market" or perhaps "watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night." Applause break, anyone?

Don't get me wrong. It's perfectly OK to joke about death. When Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh die, I plan to devote an entire Comedy Central special to it. When Gibson dies, I'll just take a cue from him and say, "Maybe he watched some of his own programs." But these people have earned it because they have built an entire career based on smearing their ideological opponents, usually without factual basis, in a competition to see who can make the nastiest comments and get the most attention. They make the National Enquirer seem like Tolstoy. It's like a bunch of serial killers competing for who can pile the most bodies into the crawlspace.

All Heath Ledger ever did was give us a bunch of great film performances. There's no telling what he would have accomplished. We've seen what Gibson has accomplished, and it's nothing but a steaming pile of tabloid horseshit, the pathetic rantings of yet another paranoid white guy.

His "apology" wasn't even an apology--it passed the buck. "I'm sorry that some took my comments as anti-gay and insensitive." Oh, so it's the listener's fault! He also said that "There's no point in passing up a good joke," momentarily confusing himself with Woody Allen. Then he wrapped it up with "But I'm also sorry that Heath Ledger is no longer alive and with us." No you're not, Johnny. You're just sorry you got caught. Your initial comments told us all we need to know about you. No one issues an apology on the air unless they want to save their career, whether it's a worthless career or not.

Gibson is one of those white boy country club bozos, like Glenn Beck and Michael Savage, who think that they can get away with mocking minorities on the air just like they're in the steam room with the fellas. Gibson is the one who urged white people to make more babies because there are too many Hispanics in the US and Muslims in Europe. Journalism, rest in peace.

And these idiots have never gotten over Brokeback, never passing up an opportunity to snigger away at it, as if the world is just as reactionary as they are and will agree with anything they say. Not only are gay lives worthless, now even someone who portrays a gay life is worthless. Ledger's work in Brokeback is right up there with Brando, Dean or Clift, yet Gibson sees just another Hollywood "weirdo" who deserves to die.

Bette Davis, have a word with John Gibson for me.