Every knows that John Gibson is a smirking douche-bag on the Fake News Channel, but, he is rapidly becoming a blatantly racist smirking douche-bag...
This diary will be very short. I mentioned it in an open-thread, and I was hoping someone more familiar with this ass-hat would have written a diary on it, but, no one has, and the incident ought to be documented on this site.
Media Matters has the video and all the rest.
On the May 31 edition of Fox News' The Big Story, host John Gibson said he was "mesmerized" by what he called "[t]he TB Man story" -- the recent news that American attorney Andrew Speaker traveled by airline while infected with antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis. Gibson stated: "It seems every time a story pops up about somebody who has suddenly contracted some strange or incurable disease, it's somebody who is either from the third world, or was traveling through some godforsaken hellhole, and somehow managed to contract ooga booga fever."
Maybe it isn't a big deal to most people who heard it. I know what he meant, and it is rather offensive. Fake News has to cater to their knuckle-dragging racist base; Orally did it two nights ago when he was interviewing McCain, and I am sure as the immigration issue continues to crack the Republickers in two between the real authentic red-neck racists, and those who are slightly less so, we can expect Fake News to continue with this sort of nonsense.