AS PEREZ Hilton notes: Ledger’s Death Is A Laughing Matter”. Adding “This is reprehensible!”

Hilton goes on: “Fox News Talk Network host John Gibson announced the sad and tragic death of actor Heath Ledger on Tuesday by mocking him and making light of his untimely passing.”

This he says is “Disgusting!”

The show:

“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.”

Gibson called Ledger a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem” and suggested that Ledger killed himself because he had “a serious position in the (stock) market” or perhaps “watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night. I think he was an Edwards guy, cause he saw his Edwards guy was just completely irrelevant.”

That enough? You want more. OK: “Click here to listen to the audio of John Gibson’s shameful handling of Heath Ledger’s death.”

Hilton concludes: “Say you’re sorry, John Gibson, or you’re no different than hatemonger Fred Phelps.” (See Phelps here.)

Indeed, this is the same Hilton who in response to Britney Spears’ meltdown told us: “You guys really care about Britney Spears - a lot! Friday was the busiest day we’ve ever had on Perez Hilton.com. Over the course of 24 hours, we had over 10 million page views. 10,089,428 to be exact. That’s insane! Thanks, Britney.”

Let’s just pray Ledger’s self-destruction proves just as popular to the righteous Perez Hilton…

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Posted: 24th, January 2008 | In: Celebrities, Perez Hilton. Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0