Saturday, July 09, 2005

Horrid Remarks

Fox News host John Gibson stated on the day before the horrid terrorist bombings in London on the radio program The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, which Gibson guest-hosted:

GIBSON: "By the way, just wanted to tell you people, we missed -- the International Olympic Committee missed a golden opportunity today. If they had picked France, if they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn't worry about terrorism. They'd blow up Paris, and who cares?"

How can a man with these views be allowed to host a major cable news program?

Not only did he not retract his callous and vicious words he expanded on them on July 7 after learning about the attacks on London:

GIBSON: "The bombings in London: This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics -- let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while."

I believe a firing is mandatory when comments of this nature are stated.