We reported, like everyone else, that Entertainment Tonight and the Insider had paid a rumored $200,000 for a grainy video of Heath Ledger at a “drug” party at the Chateau Marmont following the 2006 SAG awards.

The news of the tape quickly spread, despite the naïveté required to believe that Heath Ledger was somehow special being a guy who sometimes smoked pot in Hollywood. He may even have been in a room where cocaine was ingested.

Basically, he was like everyone else, ever, that didn’t live their entire life in Provo, Utah.

Maybe because public opinion is going south, or maybe because Australia’s Channel 9 will air the footage, but for some stupid reason, ET and The Insider have decided not to air the tape.

The ETOnline statement simply says:
Out of respect for HEATH LEDGER’s family, “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider” have decided not to run the Heath Ledger video which has been circulating in the world media.

In real world words, that means one of a few things*:

1) Now that everyone seems to know that Heath isn’t actually doing drugs on the tape, it isn’t of value to us.

2) Now that other people are going to air it, it isn’t of value to us.

3) Other people will air it, the public already knows what happens, we might as well pretend we care about Heath Ledger’s family despite spending all Wednesday trying to legally threaten people who had the video.

Either way, we know what part of ET’s gastrointestinal anatomy the Insider is inside.

*the answer is 3.