MSNBC's Scarborough, Brzezinski don't buy Gibson's apology and I don't either

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's Morning Joe continue to be one of the few media outlets addressing Fox's The Big Show's host John Gibson's homophobic comments about Heath Ledger. As Scarborough and Brzezinski pointed out this morning, Gibson's apology was a classic non-apology apology. Said Gibson yesterday:

I have received comments regarding remarks I made on my radio show the other night after the shocking death of Heath Ledger. I'm sorry that some took my comments as anti-gay and insensitive.

Notice he's not sorry he said them and realizes how awful they were. He says he's sorry if you were clueless enough to take them as anti-gay and insensitive. He also goes on to claim he's not anti-gay. Yeah, I'm not buying that bridge he's selling. And neither are Scarborough and Brzezinski:

Brzezinski: What the heck was that?

Scarborough: It's one of those apologies where you don't just say, 'I'm sorry.'' What he said was, 'I'm sorry if you were offended that I mocked the death of a young man.'"

David Shuster: I'm sorry that John Gibson appears to have lost his mind.

Scarborough then goes on to add that what's going on is that Gibson got caught in an anti-gay tirade and he and Brzezinski continue to marvel over the insensitivity of the man. Rawstory.com has all the footage.

Now I'm not a Scarborough fan as he is definitely to the right of me politically, but I do appreciate the way he and Brzezinski aren't letting Gibson get away with this. Frankly, why does MSNBC have the only journalists even talking about this? Everyone else is either asleep at the wheel or indifferent. It's nice to see that things have changed enough that there at least a few straight journalists out there willing to call out bigotry when they see it.

And as I said yesterday, imagine if it were Mel Gibson who had died while possibly driving drunk and Keith Olbermann had cracked a joke. There would be hell to pay and every media outlet in the country would be all over it.

BTW, it'll never happen, but Fox needs to fire Gibson ASAP and not just because of this. As I write in my BEST.GAY.WEEK.EVER! column, Gibson has a history of trashing minorities and has proven he's incapable of changing his stripes. But I guess this is the image Fox wants to project.