After making mean comments about ex-American Pie co-star Tara Reid's body and bragging about just how comfortable he felt about drafting in a prostitute to have a threesome with him and his wife, we were beginning to think that Jason Biggs was a lot like his nauseously annoying Orange Is The New Black character, Larry Bloom. And now we've had absolute confirmation that he is that much of a tool as the cardigan-ed wannabe writer – his 'joke' about the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crash.
After news emerged that the flight, from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, had crashed close to the Russian border in Ukraine Thursday afternoon, killing all 298 people on board, he thought it would be lol to say: 'Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles?'
With this, he wasn't only making reference to the most recent crash, which it's emerging is likely to be an act of Russian-backed rebels, but the disappearance of Malaysian Airways flight MH370, which was carrying 277 passengers when it went missing in March this year.
When Jason's followers pointed out how insensitive he had been, he tweeted back calling them 'losers' who have 'issues' and 'anger'. But finally, after even more opprobrium, he deleted his tweets and apologised:
Well… No duh! It's a shame that what took him to realise his comments were off was a bunch of people telling him not to be such a prick. Surely 'not being a prick' should be a default setting for humans?
As for flight MH17, its shooting down via alleged missile has been referred to as a 'terrorist act' by Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president. 'This was not an "incident", this was not a "catastrophe", this was a terrorist act,' he said.
The plane crash, which has killed 154 Dutch people, 43 Malaysians and 27 Australians, as well as nine Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos, one Canadian and 41 people with unverified nationalities, has caused international concern and fury – and prompted the White House to urge Russian president Vladimir Putin to take 'concrete steps' to ease the country's tensions, reports The Guardian. (Just a bit of context in case you've missed it, there have been huge tensions between both Russia and Ukraine and Russia and the US after the Russians invaded part of Ukraine earlier this year.)
Putin, who was holding a meeting on the Russian economy yesterday, led it with a minute's silence, but blamed Ukraine for the plane's crash: 'There is no doubt that the nation over whose airspace this happened bears responsibility for the terrible tragedy.'
US president Barack Obama, who spoke to Putin shortly after news of the plane's crash emerged, said it looked like 'a terrible tragedy', with his vice-president Joe Biden saying it looked like the plane had been 'blown out of the sky'. Our own Prime Minister, David Cameron, tweeted: 'I'm shocked and saddened by the Malaysian air disaster. Officials from across Whitehall are meeting to establish the facts.'
Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State for the US, could be a lot bolder in her comments, though, saying that the US needs to 'put [Vladimir] Putin on notice that he has gone too far and we are not going to stand idly by.' Fierce.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.