Your Moral Guardians At Work

Bill Maher lost his job at ABC because of 'insensitive' comments made after September 11th. Don Imus lost his job at MSNBC for comments considered racist, though he rebounded quicker than any decent human being would've hoped. So let's see what, if anything, happens to the resident Aryan Brother of the Fox News Channel, John Gibson, in light of his mocking and nauseatingly hateful radio attack on Heath Ledger even before the young actors corpse had cooled. Don't hold your breath for anything significant to happen at all of course, because in the world of right-wing radio hatred is not only next to godliness, it's considered an acceptable substitute for God himself. Hate is the central motivating factor behind these societal jihadists. If there is no hate, there is no existence for them. I'm not going to repeat a word of Gibson's descent into nihilistic pathology, but suffice to say Roger Ailes is as happy as a 500lb blob of vomit-inducing sewage can be at all the free publicity FNC will be getting. These are the same ultra right-wing stormtroopers who lament the liberal 'culture of death', mourn our vanishing morals, castigate and condemn all non-fanatics for our secularism, and lay at our feet the blame for every ill imaginable. Will we hear any of them come out against Gibson's staggering contempt for human life in this instance? Please. Being a right-winger means never having to obey the standards by which you mercilessly judge others. Sure, there was the obligatory 'Hey, I'm sorry if you were offended by what I said' non-apology Gibson offered up on his Thursday TV show (while sitting next to vapid and soulless Stepford Host Heather Nauert), but then Maher and Imus both gave the same PR-dictated pleasantries as well. It didn't do them any good and hopefully it won't in this case either, but talk radio and Fox News are not known for their concern for public decency. They appeal to the rabid fringe of American life, the losers who think that being a white, Republican, born again male is a ordination to rule by decree. They are concerned with one thing and one thing alone - maintaining their own power over the minds of the mindless. By all accounts, Gibson's hatred for Ledger was motivated by a single role in the actors career - Brokeback Mountain - which Gibson slammed in 2005 as a 'gay-agenda movie'. Sound clips from that film were played while Gibson callously snickered about his death. One can only imagine how Gibson would have responded if Ledger had actually been gay. The good Christian folks who follow the honorable Fred Phelps see little distinction either. They've already announced their intention to protest and picket his funeral, holding up their infamous 'God Hates Fags' signs. And while John Gibson may not be there in person, he will certainly be with them in spirit. A very dead and heartless spirit.