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#58059
Napoleon the Clown
Jesus was a Jew, Mel.
8/1/2006 7:05:15 AM
#58064
Hadanelith
Napoleon: That about sums it up, doesn't it?
8/1/2006 7:09:07 AM
#58068
Natgel
How on EARTH did he get anywhere in this business?!
Also? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
8/1/2006 7:28:23 AM
#58072
Prager
Didn't he make a movie about some really famous Jewish guy?
8/1/2006 7:32:56 AM
#58075
b. beau brinker
From what I heard, Mel's dad, Hutton Gibson, has been known to spew anti-Semitic diatribes that make Mel's outbursts sound like B'nai B'rith speeches.
8/1/2006 7:36:27 AM
#58076
Donald Keyballs
Keep in mind that the guy has been fighting alcoholism for years and had a relapse.
8/1/2006 7:40:15 AM
#58078
Julian
Keep in mind this guy has a relapse twice a fucking week.
8/1/2006 7:48:33 AM
#58094
ryan
This quote is fine for FSTDT. However elswhere in the media people are acting like the anti-semitic comments are the worst thing in the world. I'm not one to talk shit about the Jews, but I can't believe that making offensive remarks about Jews is considerd worse then endangering people's lives by drunk driving.
I guess DUI's are par for the course in Hollywood.
8/1/2006 8:26:58 AM
#58111
ryan
This quote is fine for FSTDT. However elswhere in the media people are acting like the anti-semitic comments are the worst thing in the world. I'm not one to talk shit about the Jews, but I can't believe that making offensive remarks about Jews is considerd worse then endangering people's lives by drunk driving.
I guess DUI's are par for the course in Hollywood.
8/1/2006 9:17:47 AM
#58112
Zipperback
Then you should start a website where people submit links to articles about DWI arrests.
In the vein of Winston Churchill, tomorrow Mel will be sober, but religious intolerance will still be ugly.
Also drug and alchohol scandals are done to death on page 6. Here's something with a twist.
8/1/2006 9:58:06 AM
#58116
kkkron
NtC: That doesn't disprove his hypothesis. All those Crusades, remember?
8/1/2006 10:28:11 AM
#58124
JadedRevenge
No... god starts all the wars, and alhtough Jesus was a Jew, he is now considered Christian for some odd reason...
8/1/2006 11:43:20 AM
#58133
Jacob Syne
I think this is funny, really, like a drunk ranting on about the aphids and little green men from Mars.
8/1/2006 1:06:54 PM
#58141
Sandman
My father used to have a serious problem with alcoholism. He would try and try to get it under control and would relapse over and over again. Finally, with the help of a log of good people and a residential rehab clinic, he took control of it and has been sober for almost 6 years now.
He would go on massive, verbally aggressive, drunken rants daily when he was in the grip of his disease, but he never once started screaming about the jews. Or the blacks, or the asians, or the purple moon-men for that matter, because although my father was a drunken mess, he was not a racist.
I really feel for Gibson and his family. Dealing with alcoholism is a terrible, terrible burden. According to my father, you are always an alcoholic, you just manage to not drink for periods of time, and the trick is to achieve a long period of sobriety that takes you to the end of your life. But the compulsion is always there. I hope that he has the courage to seek the help he needs, and I hope he wins in his fight against alcoholism.
But that said, he would not have said those things drunk if they were not kicking around in his head before. It seems from everything I've read that this may be his father's old influence coming out when he was drunk, and he does not truly hold those opinions. I hope so. But this is a disaster for Gibson, coming on the heels of his great \"Christian epic\" film and its (probably unintentional) baggage of percieved anti-semitism, not to mention the publicity the film brought to his father's rather...extreme views that had previously been out of the public view.
This is going to require massive damage control by Gibson, and there are segments of our society that will never forgive or forget. To them this is merely confirmation of what they had already believed. Mel may not truly be anti-semitic, but he's never going to be able to convince a large number of people of that now.
8/1/2006 1:31:46 PM
#58151
Dr. Major
The Road Warrior knows a thing or two about wars, he was around in the before time
8/1/2006 1:55:16 PM
#58155
McCulloch
in vino veritas
8/1/2006 2:08:08 PM
#58167
ZadokofPavis
This is obviously what Gibson believes, the booze just rendered him unable to keep his racist mouth shut.
BTW ryan, drunk-driving may be bad but it was thinking like Gibson's that led to the Holocaust and all the other death's in Europe during WWII - FORTY MILLION all told. Drunk drivers have a way to go yet before they equal that score.
8/1/2006 2:35:43 PM
#58173
Wolf O'Donnell (SWHQ)
I don't really think this is worse than his drunk-driving, but it does kinda prove that the Jewish community were right when they said his movie about Christ was anti-semitic.
8/1/2006 2:45:01 PM
#58176
Papabear
ryan -- Absolutely.
8/1/2006 3:09:57 PM
#58186
Blurb
Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about Mel Gibson and what he thinks/says/does???
8/1/2006 4:06:47 PM
#58213
offput
It's true that you're less inhibited because you're drunk, but that doesn't mean you're speaking what you truly believe when you're drunk. Maybe because he was drunk (and grew up in an anti-semitic home as seen by his father's holocaust denial) and was angry because he was arrested for drinking said things he doesn't really mean.
Just because you call your girlfriend a bitch or a slut during a fight doesn't mean you believe it; you're not necessarily a nice person, but you also don't necessarily mean it. Additionally, Mel Gibson has been quoted as saying that anti-semitism is against being Christian.
Mel Gibson might be a fundie, but it seems to me that he took the fundamental message of christianity (peace, good will, cheek turning, et al.) to heart.
8/1/2006 5:14:43 PM
#58217
Austin
This coming from the guy who wrote Passion of the Christ!?
8/1/2006 5:21:38 PM
#58218
**Kablamo**
Mel Gibson is a fundie in its purest form - drunk or not!
8/1/2006 5:22:05 PM
#58231
the_ignored
From ZadokofPavis:
This is obviously what Gibson believes, the booze just rendered him unable to keep his racist mouth shut.
BTW ryan, drunk-driving may be bad but it was thinking like Gibson's that led to the Holocaust and all the other death's in Europe during WWII - FORTY MILLION all told. Drunk drivers have a way to go yet before they equal that score.
Anyone remember the accusations of \"The Passion\" being anti-semitic? Is it possible that this in context puts some strenth into that accusation's accuracy?
8/1/2006 5:44:51 PM
#58293
Jodie
Gibson is a misogynistic, homophobic racist hack whos time has come to pay the fucking piper.
I applaude Sandman on his description of alcoholism as a disease though.
8/1/2006 7:41:16 PM
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