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John Gibson
Born	1946 California, U.S.
Occupation	Commentator, Author, Journalist, television and talk radio personality
Website	[11]

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Prior to joining Fox News, Gibson hosted news talk programs on MSNBC and covered the Lewinsky scandal at length. He began his career in the late 1960's as a staff reporter for the entertainment industry magazine, the Hollywood Reporter, and was a reporter and weekend anchorman at KCRA, the NBC affiliate in Sacramento, during the 1980's. He later joined NBC News as a correspondent before moving to MSNBC. For the news website, see msnbc. ... The Monica Lewinsky scandal was a political-sex scandal emerging from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a then 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. ... The Hollywood Reporter is one of two major trade papers of the film industry in the United States, the other being Variety. ... KCRA is a television station in Sacramento, California owned by Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. ... This article is about the television network. ... Sacramento redirects here. ... NBC News endcap, used from 2002 to present. ...

Gibson has also worked in the music industry.

Criticism

Gibson has drawn criticism in response to many controversial statements he has made on his TV and radio shows.

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• When London was chosen to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, Gibson said that he regretted that Paris had not been chosen because it would have forced France to confront the threat of terrorism. ^[1] He also has stated that no one would care if France was a victim of a terrorist attack. ^[2]

• On the January 19, 2006 edition of The Big Story, after the release of a tape by militant Osama Bin Laden, Gibson stated, "(Bin Laden) is talking to America's far left and saying, 'You know what. We're on the same side. So why don't you work on that hardhead George W. Bush? Bin Laden told us Thursday that our far left has been working for him. It's their poll results he quotes.'" ^[3]

• Following the positive HIV test of porn star Darren James on April 13, 2004, a new HIV scare led to a search for all potentially infected partners of the actor, as well as a two-month shut down of adult movie production in Los Angeles. Commenting on this on April 29, 2004, Gibson said that the actors "should not be surprised, considering what they do" and noted that "this was bound to happen to them sooner or later". ^[4]

• In his defense of Ambassador John Bolton and repudiation of the United Nations and the Third World, referring to the Third World, "That latter group includes a huge number of so-called nations, little more than spots on the map that would get invaded, taken over, subsumed, eliminated, except no-one wants to get stuck with their problems of poverty, disease and corruption."^[5]

• On the May 10, 2006, edition of The Big Story, after the release of a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to U.S. President George W. Bush, Gibson compared the letter from the Iranian President to talking points and positions by Democrats. Gibson said, "Terry McAuliffe and the other Democrats should pay close attention to their talking points these days. That nut job running Iran, President — let's see if I can pronounce it — Ahmadinejad, sent President Bush a letter, and if it weren't postmarked Tehran, it might have been mistaken for a crank letter from an angry leftist in L.A. or Boulder or Cambridge, Massachusetts. Christians are not acting like Christians, says the Iranian president. Democrat talking point. WMD lies, says the Iranian president. Democrat talking point. Human-rights abuses in Gitmo. Another Democrat talking point. The gap between haves and have-nots. The Iranian president and the Dems in lockstep on that one, too." ^[6]

• On the May 11, 2006 broadcast of The Big Story, Gibson called attention to the birthrates in the United States, asserting that persons of Hispanic descent would become a "majority" within twenty-five years. He urged Americans of other racial groups and specifically those of European ancestry, to have more children, so that the US population would grow. Gibson said that this was a necessity of civilization, and called arguments for zero population growth misleading.^[7][8] The progressive media research group Media Matters for America claimed these comments were a specific directive to white Americans to reproduce.^[9][10]

• On the October 10, 2007 broadcast he blamed Hip Hop culture for a school shooting at Success Tech Academy High School in Cleveland, OH. Gibson remarked that this was "another example of Hip Hop culture bringing murder and mayhem into the rest of our society." ^[11] The school is a predominately black high school, and the shooter was white. Referring to the shooter's suicide, and that he was a fan of Marilyn Manson and the Gothic subculture, Gibson remarked "I know the shooter was white, I knew it as soon as he shot himself,". "Hip-hoppers don't do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again."^[12] He later reminded callers that African-Americans are dying in America due to apathy: "I know there's a few of you who want to call me racist. But when you do, remind -- let me remind you, African-Americans are dying in major cities because people won't face this problem."^[13]

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Gibson vs. the BBC

An outspoken critic of the BBC, Gibson claims that the British Broadcasting Corporation is anti-American, accusing the BBC of having "a frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest"^[14][15]. 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". ^[16] For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Anti-American sentiment is a hostility towards or disapproval of the government, culture, history, and/or people of the United States of America. ... Andrew Paul Gilligan (born 22 November 1968, Teddington, London, England) is a journalist best known for his 2003 report about a British government briefing paper on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction (the September Dossier) while working for BBC Radio 4s The Today Programme as its defence and diplomatic... For other uses of the term, see Iraq war (disambiguation) The 2003 invasion of Iraq (also called the 2nd or 3rd Persian Gulf War) began on March 20, 2003, when forces belonging primarily to the United States and the United Kingdom invaded Iraq without the explicit backing of the United... old Radio 4 logo BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Baghdad (Arabic: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ...

Gibson's criticisms were rejected by Ofcom when it investigated viewer complaints of Gibson's item. ^[17] It was found that the words he attributed to Gilligan were false, and "the manner in which John Gibson delivered these lines and the fact that he indicated that Gilligan said it "on-air" gave the distinct impression that he was quoting Gilligan directly. It did not appear that he was summarizing Gilligan’s reporting. Ofcom is a regulator for communication industries in the United Kingdom. ...

Books

Cover of John Gibson's The War on Christmas

• Gibson, John. The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought. (Sentinel, 2005). ISBN 1-59523-016-5.
• Gibson, John (2004). Hating America: The New World Sport. (ReganBooks, 2004) ISBN 0-06-058010-0.

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Footnotes

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External links

• John Gibson's official website
• Fox News biography