Media Mel Gibson Blames Israel
posted by on October 13 at 10:17 AM
During Part 2 of Diane Sawyer’s interview with Mel Gibson, the actor says his anti-Semitic remarks (“The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world”) were sparked by the conflict between Israel and Lebanon, which were “going at it” the day he was pulled over for drunk driving. After perambulating around the issue for a while, Gibson turned and faced the camera. “Let me be real clear here, in sobriety, sitting here, in front of you, national television, that I don’t believe that Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”
Glad we cleared that up.
Then, tepid mea culpa accomplished, Gibson went on to blame critics for his outburst, saying that those who accused him of using anti-Semitic imagery in his movie The Passion of the Christ had pushed him over the edge.
For an entire year, I was subjected to a pretty brutal sort of public beating. During the course of that, I think I probably had my rights violated in many different ways as an American. You know. As an artist. As a Christian. Just as a human being, you know. … The other thing I never heard was one single word of apology.
Hmm. So, basically, Israel and critics are to blame for Gibson’s anti-Semitic remarks (made, apropos of nothing, during Gibson’s drunk-driving arrest), and Gibson deserves an apology from critics who violated his rights “as a Christian.” (I wasn’t aware that the Constitution granted special rights specifically to Christians, but whatever.)
Incidentally, for those who’ve forgotten, Gibson’s “Passion” portrays the Pharisees (those evil Jews who, you know, killed Jesus) as standard-issue conniving, boorish Evil Movie Jews with enormous hooked or bulbous noses who morph into horned devils as they screech maniacally for Jesus’s blood. And Gibson’s father—the guy who raised him—has very publicly called the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust “mostly fiction,” and reports about the genocide “overly hyped.”
Yeah. No way is that guy anti-Semitic.
I think Mel Gibson deserves one of those lifetime acheivement I can get away with anything passes. Mad Max, Lethal Weapon and Air America earned him that.
God forbid that anyone, star or not, should make any comments on how they feel which are counter to the masses PC agenda.
He's not anti-semitic, he's just anti-anti-anti-semitic.
He has the right to be as much an anti-semitic asshole as he wants - and the rest of us have the right to call him an asshole for it all we like. It's called free speech. It isn't just the right of the dickhead, it's also the right of the rest of us to call a shitbird a shitbird.
It seems like everyone is ok with freedom of speech until someone says something that offends them. There is a huge problem with education in this country. Who gives a shit what mel gibson says? Anyone who has half a brain will realize that people standing for their opinion, no matter how fucked up it is, is actually a good thing and the educated people of the world should be able to know better and do better. I'm a Jew and I am SO NOT offended by Gibson's anti-semitism. He is a total fucktard. But seriously, who really gives a shit?
The real question is, was Mel Gibson driving a fuel efficient car when we was pulled over for DUI. Maybe he was just trying to pour liquor in the gas tank and help save the earth.
Then the next question is, was Mel Gibson carpooling and drivig through a vibrant dense urban neighboorhood? Or was he driving on suburban roads, thereby creating congestion, thereby creating a higher demand for roads to be built.
He has the right to be an asshat. Since he is also a public figure, the media has the right to do stories on him being an asshat. The rest of us have a right to comment on his utter asshattery.
Ain't free speech a great thing?
All right, Mel. "We're very very very sorry for violating your Christian American rights."
Oh yeah...and fuck you.
Well, I come down on the same side as others here. You can say what you want, believe what you want. The fact that people are run up the flagpole for it assumes that the audience members like myself are somehow immediately overwritten by someone else's opinion. Drunk driving is the only legal issue. If he's a douche in my book for what he said, well, Mel Gibson: fuck you, you fucking douche. I don't give a shit about Mel Gibson, and I'm not going to make him into some huge inflato-villan. I won't spend my dough his way, which would be the only possible way we'd ever interact. So there, take that.
And Tom: eat the placenta, man.
I love how he's made like $3 trillion dollars in the US, and he still has a right wing Christian persecution complex. That alone makes him an asshole in my book.
Doink,
He was driving a Lexus LS sedan north on PCH on the way to Malibu. Actually, quite a sensible car for Mad Max.
And by the way, Mel's only crying those crocodile tears for Diane Sawyer for the same reason an Aurora Blvd hooker goes down: cold, hard cash. This incident disrupted his current and possibly future business deals.
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