Heath Ledger's Death Brings Out Bigots

Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are planning to picket the funeral of Heath Ledger, simply because he acted the part of a closeted gay man in Brokeback Mountain.

And Fox News' John Gibson thought his death was funny.

Opening his radio show with funeral music yesterday, Fox News host John Gibson callously mocked the death of actor Heath Ledger, calling him a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.”

Playing an audio clip of the iconic quote, “I wish I knew how to quit you” from Ledger’s gay romance movie Brokeback Mountain, Gibson disdainfully quipped, “Well, he found out how to quit you.” Laughing, Gibson then played another clip from Brokeback Mountain in which Ledger said, “We’re dead,” followed by his own, mocking “We’re dead” before playing the clip again.

Bigots and hate-mongers aside, there still is no word on how Ledger died. MTV has a lengthy report on what the authorities and the press know thus far.