John Gibson Did Not Compare Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum (UPDATED)

UPDATE: The Huffington Post has learned that the below video has been doctored. We regret the error and apologize to Mr. Gibson. John Gibson never compared Eric Holder to a monkey with a bright blue scrotum.

Rather, as seen in the unedited video below, Gibson played audio of Holder saying "nation of cowards" -- so his full, unedited remarks were:

"We were talking about Eric Holder today on the radio and his comment that this is a nation of cowards."

The video was doctored to include Trace Gallagher's voice saying, "bright blue scrotum" where Gibson played Holder's "nation of cowards" remark. The Huffington Post does not know the source of the video's doctoring — it was picked up off TVNewser.

See the unedited video below:

The Huffington Post regrets the error. -- Alex Leo and Danny Shea

Original (inaccurate) item below: At the end of a long and pointless conversation between two Fox News reporters covering a zoo escape, John Gibson compared Attorney General Eric Holder to a monkey.

A monkey escaped from the Woodland park Zoo in Seattle and despite the fact that authorities are "taking this very seriously," Julie Banderas and Harris Faulkner were not, cracking jokes about the monkeys' bright blue scrotum.

At 2:48, they toss to John Gibson who complains that he can't get away with saying "bright blue scrotum" on the radio then follows that up by saying, "We were talking about Eric Holder today on the radio and his bright blue scrotum."



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Comments

[nicole473]

And you are surprised? They are Republicans, after all. Haters. Delusional. Ignorant. Need I say more?

[swanie]

Yea - bigots and racists !
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[memphisdem]

Gibson is an expert on scrotums?

[LogicNow]

Shouldn't surprise you!! LOL!!

[FessorFrink]

He's actually Conan O'Brien's mastur bat ing bear. So he knows about ba lls and anima ls. LOL.

[lthuedk 1]

So all the fascists received simultaneous talking points ? From whom?

[lurkmode]

John who?

[lovable]

this is not surprising john gibson is a bigot and has never denied it. he has made many racist rants over the years. nothing will happen . it will get worse !!!!!for 8 years . the n word is comming soon from fox/limbaugh/ hannity/ coulter and other conservatives and the black tokens will forgive them like steele / chrisrte/ jesse lee peterson .

by the way i am an american who is black!!!!!!!!

[Indie2008]

I agree with you. I am white, and have been proud of our racial progress, but I think the 2008 Republican campaign has given license to an increase in outbursts of bigotry. Like bad manners, racist tinged rhetoric is usually only expressed in this day and time when it's tolerated by society.

[Lemmy]

E-mail your apology to John directly please.