I mean, I'd be surprised if he got canned, because after all he was careful enough not to use actual slurs, and that goes a long way. It's also true that -- consider gay marriage -- it's possible to mock and demean gays in ways that are not deemed anymore acceptable for, say, blacks.

So I think he's home free.


(Now, Keith Olbermann would totally get canned if he gloated and cracked jokes on the air for, I don't know, Rush Limbaugh's or Bill O'Reilly's death; but then one does not want to be, of all things, "shrill")

His job is to pander to people who were making jokes ten times more offensive and less witty (if that's possible) in their own lives. No chance he gets fired.

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Considering whom he works for, no he won't get fired. O'reilly didn't get fired over the falafel episode, so why start now? Thing is, their viewers actually agree with them, so they aren't hurting themselves by keeping him on. The dude is a fucktard tho.

I remember way back when Gibson worked for a local station in Sacramento, CA. I thought he was a fucktard back then.

It's humor, so I give it a pass, and this street runs in both directions. Some of Colbert's and Stewart's humor cuts just as deep when a conservative victim is involved, not to mention Family Guy and other toons that cut far deeper in both directions.

Olbermann may get canned in a similar situation, but that is more because of his employer's image, something about which Fox News need not worry.

Gibson is indeed a fucktard, but I'm having a hard time getting my liberal dudgeons in a twist over this. (After all....)

Compared to "nappy-headed hos", say, it barely registers. Actors are remembered for their characters and their famous lines.

Some of Colbert's and Stewart's humor cuts just as deep when a conservative victim is involved

Really? Tell me exactly when Colbert or Stewart have ever repeatedly mocked a young man after his death. Name one instance. Name one.

I don't watch either show regularly, I only listen when my son is over and watching it, but I remember more than a few instances of one or the other doing jokes about someone who was dead. Death humor is hardly anything new.

It's only humor if it's funny. Gibson is a juvenile asshole, one who hopefully chokes to death on his own shit in a bizarre fondue accident.

Death humor is hardly anything new.

This is not at all the point. Gibson viciously and repeatedly mocked a young man apparently based solely on Gibson's distaste of his choice of a movie role. "Slandering the dead" and "making jokes about death" are vastly different things, and conflating the two by saying "oh, Colbert and Stewart have done the same" is factually incorrect.

"Some of Colbert's and Stewart's humor cuts just as deep when a conservative victim is involved"

"but I remember more than a few instances of one or the other doing jokes about someone who was dead."

So some pointers to at least one example Ardiril?