Gibson is just a jerk who is also now into bashing Pres. Bush. I want him to just shut up. I don't know why his wife puts up with him.
Yep, when Gibson started bashing Bush and the Iraq war, he became no different in my eyes than Whoopi Goldberg or any other lefty Hollywood idiot.
I agree he's acted like more than a jerk of late. A number of his films have contained better and more uplifting themes than most of the garbage Hollywood puts out. For that reason, I hope he comes to his senses.
But I'll say it again--there is a whole wing of the Democrat left that routinely says essentially the same thing Gibson said while in a drunk stupor. They are the Jew-blamers. And most Americans, including the media and even quite a few conservatives, aren't in a rage over THEIR ANTI-SEMITISM. The media, for one, aids it with slanted articles hiding the groups behind rallies, cropping photos with viciously bigoted messages, etc. etc.
And as for the UN and the rest of the world? Their record from the middle ages up to this very day is filled with hatred and blame for Jews. This nowadays while they make more and more accomodation to immigrant Muslims who are anti-semitic and despise the Western culture of their host nations.
Not nearly enough rage about this. And more: there are plenty of self-loathing Jews who might as well be anti-semites. Their willingness to see captialist Western culture--which owes much to Jewish thought, intellectual and economic initiative--as evil. That's a form of self hatred. Their opposition to nationhood for Jews, represented by Israel, the only sure way that Jews can have the powers of State to protect and defend their existence, is a form of self-loathing.
So, by all means, as conservatives, let's condemn Gibson's remarks. Together with his diatribes about Bush, he sounds like a pretty typical far left nutcase. Hope he comes to his senses and stops drinking political swill running like a river in Hollywood.
But let's reserve some of of our condemnation for these others. And let's see how fast fast they apologize for their Jew-blaming anti-semitism.