February 1st, 2008
When the Morning show hosts bring up Heath Ledger, Montel gracefully says that he would rather talk about the troops.
Montel had asked the hosts if they knew how many troops fighting in the Iraq war had died since Jan. 1, 2008. The hosts reply with a nonchalant answer of about twenty. Montel retorts back with twenty-eight.
Montel says that he is disgusted with the abundance of media coverage on the “Brokeback Mountain” star’s death,