Does anyone doubt that FOX’s O’Reilly wannabe John Gibson would have mocked Heath Ledger’s death if Ledger hadn’t been in a movie that dared to say that gay people are actually people? Didn’t think so.

In case you missed it, upon hearing of Ledger’s overdose, Gibson decided to single himself out as the World’s Biggest Asshole (and Worst Person in the World) on his January 22 radio show by making fun of Ledger’s death. The entire audio is attached, but here are some excerpts:

JAKE GYLLENHAAL [audio clip from ‘Brokeback Mountain’]: I wish I knew how to quit you.

GIBSON: Well, he found out how to quit you. -snip-

GIBSON: Listen, November '07, he was talking about -- and this is a 28-year-old guy -- saying, "Well, you know, it's a whole -- give me a whole different thought about death." What? You're 28 years old, and you're thinking about death? Give me a break.

CHRISTINE: Maybe he was a deep thinker.

GIBSON: Maybe he was a weirdo.

ANGRY RICH: I'm thinking about it right now.

GIBSON: OK, anyway, Heath Ledger died, and I'm sure people will be upset. All you Brokeback Mountain fans, you want to give Christine a call, she'll be happy to talk to you.

HEATH LEDGER [audio clip]: We're dead.

GIBSON: "We're dead." -snip-

GIBSON: Maybe he had a serious position in the market.

TOM SULLIVAN: And possibly today, he looked at the window and said…

GIBSON: “Oh my God.”

SULLIVAN: His name’s not Keith Bledger, right?

GIBSON: He was depressed about yesterday’s downturn in the world stock markets. -snip-

GIBSON: Apparently Heath Ledger was suicidal and his friends saw it coming. I think he watched the Clinton-Obama debate last night. I think he was an Edwards guy, cause he saw his Edwards guy was just completely irrelevant.

There’s more of that conservative/Ann Coulter humor. And thinking about death as a 28-year-old makes you a “weirdo”? Since when? Also, notice how Gibson used Ledger’s death to imitate his hero, O’Reilly, and take an irrational swipe at John Edwards? I forgot to mention that Gibson went on to repeatedly claim that illegal drugs were involved in Ledger’s death, despite the fact that no one (including the police) had found any illegal drugs in Ledger’s apartment and no autopsy had been performed. But when you’re on FOX, the truth is an inconvenience if it gets in the way of smearing someone who had the audacity to play a gay character in a movie.

On Gibson’s show the following day, he refused to apologize.