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John David Gibson (born July 25, 1946) is an American radio talk show host. As of September 2008, he hosts the syndicated radio program The John Gibson Show. Gibson was formerly the co-host of the weekday edition of The Big Story on the Fox News TV channel.

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Gibson vs. the BBC

In 2004 Gibson said that the British Broadcasting Corporation was anti-American, accusing the BBC of having "a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest". He also claimed that reporter Andrew Gilligan, who was covering the 2003 Iraq War for BBC Radio 4 in Baghdad, had, "insisted on air that the Iraqi Army was heroically repulsing an incompetent American military".

Gibson's criticisms were rejected by UK regulator Ofcom when it investigated viewer complaints about his item. Ofcom also found that Gibson's broadcast was in violation of several UK television regulations, concluding that Gibson's commentary did not display a "respect for truth", failed to offer the BBC a chance to respond to the allegations, and was based on "false evidence."

Public comments

Gibson as a commentator often attracts criticism.

Following the 2007 SuccessTech Academy shooting in Cleveland, Ohio, on his radio show Gibson commented "I knew the shooter was white. I knew he would have shot himself. Hip-hoppers don't do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again. And I could tell right away because he killed himself. Hip hoppers shooters don't do that. They shoot and move on."

In a 2008 edition of his radio show, Gibson commented on actor Heath Ledger's death the day before. He opened the segment with funeral music and played a clip of Jake Gyllenhaal's famous line "I wish I knew how to quit you" from Ledger's film Brokeback Mountain; and then said "Well, I guess he found out how to quit you." Among other remarks, Gibson called Ledger a "weirdo" with "a serious drug problem". The next day, he addressed outcry over his remarks by saying that they were in the context of jokes he had been making for months about Brokeback Mountain, and that "There's no point in passing up a good joke." Gibson later apologized on his television and radio shows.

In February 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder had given a speech to Justice Department employees as a part of the observance of Black History Month during which he described the United States as being a "nation of cowards" in its reluctance to discuss racial relations. Gibson criticized Holder's remarks as inappropriate. John Sanders, who at the time was technology reporter for WBAL-TV in Baltimore, then intentionally edited Gibson's remarks which had followed news reports of a monkey who had escaped from a Seattle zoo, making it appear that Gibson had compared Holder to a monkey "with a bright blue scrotum" on Fox. Sanders then posted the altered video on YouTube without a disclaimer that it was a joke. Because of this, the video was widely publicized on news websites, including The Huffington Post, as if it were authentic. Sanders was fired over the video, and Gibson said that the spread of the fake video has had a "personal" impact upon him.

Books

• Gibson, John. How the Left Swiftboated America: The Liberal Media Conspiracy to Make You Think George Bush Was the Worst President in History. (HarperCollins, 2009). ISBN 978-0-06-179289-2.
• Gibson, John. The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought. (Sentinel HC, 2005). ISBN 1-59523-016-5.
• Gibson, John. Hating America: The New World Sport. (ReganBooks, 2004) ISBN 0-06-058010-0.

Footnotes

1. "Ofcom criticises Fox News Channel". 14 June 2004.
2. Liar, liar. Editorial by John Gibson., published on FOXNews.com on January 29, 2004.
3. Ofcom Programme complaints bulletin: Standards & Fairness and Privacy number 11 (pdf), June 14, 2004.
4. "Gibson defended his comments about race of school shooter, attacked 'Soros-backed' Media Matters", Media Matters for America, October 12, 2007
5. Countdown with Keith Olbermann, NBC News, October 11, 2007: transcript
6. McNamara, Mary. "John Gibson should lose his platform" Los Angeles Times. January 26, 2008.
7. Morning Joe, MSNBC, January 23, 2010
8. The John Gibson Show, October 10, 2007
9. "Fox Host John Gibson Mocks Heath Ledger's Death" Huffington Post. January 23, 2008.
10. The John Gibson Show, Fox News Radio, January 25, 2008.
11. The Big Story, Fox News, January 24, 2008
12. The John Gibson Show, Fox News Radio, January 24, 2008
13. ^ Kurtz, Howard (February 25, 2009). "Reporter Loses Job Over Altered Video of Fox's Gibson". Washington Post. p. C1.

External links

• John Gibson's official website
• Fox News biography
• Appearances on C-SPAN

• American talk radio hosts
• American television reporters and correspondents
• American television news anchors
• American broadcast news analysts
• American political writers
• American male non-fiction writers
• Television anchors from Los Angeles
• 1946 births
• Living people
• Fox News people
• American political commentators