Slurring More Than His Words (Meet Mel Gibson, Moron Anti-Semite Alert)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 08/01/06 | Zev Chafets

[goldstategop]

Gibson's Malibu breakdown not only confirmed that he's an anti-Semite, but also that he's a moron. Even rookie anti-Semites know you never use the "J" word. Correct euphemisms include "Zionist," "Likudnik," "Israeli" and, in liberal circles, "neocon." If Gibson had told the cops that Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle were behind all the world's wars, he would have walked away from the incident in Malibu unscathed.

[goldstategop]

Mel Gibson is a moron anti-Semite. No aspiring anti-Semite uses the "J-Word." That went out of fashion after World War II. Every one in the know says "Zionist," "The Elders", "The Lobby," "Neo-cons" or "Moneybags." But never "Jew." Every one still knows who you mean and you still have plausible deniability. You can explain you're a friend of Jews but hate this or that about them. Gibson must have forgotten that even bigots need to be politically correct. There is a genteel bigotry and an insufferable bigotry. Only a moron anti-Semite could be honest to the point of self-immolation.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[Just mythoughts]

Looks more like Mel is 'anti-Mel than anything else.

[mzbzybee]

Enough of Mel already.

[iowamark]

This is an excellent essay. Best I have read on the Mel situation.

[bikerman]

Who cares??????

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Posting a slew of threads on this topic, huh?

[ReleaseTheHounds]

The tip-off came when he denied being an anti-Semite in an interview with Diane Sawyer in the publicity run-up to "The Passion." This is known as the Richard Nixon "I am not a crook" principle: When you get to the point you have to declare your innocence on network television, you are probably guilty.

Why didn't the author call this the Bubba "I didn't have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky" principle? I might have bought his analogy.

[goldstategop]

Good one - if someone swears they didn't do it in front of millions, you can bet its an outright lie.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[elhombrelibre]

Some good points here. One of them is that many Liberals and Lefties have at least the same view that Jews control the world and create the wars, but they choose to say "neo-cons" instead of Jews. Of courese, no one controls the world; it's out of control. Nor should any group. And no one cause or religion explains or causes any war.

[veronica]

Great article. Gallows humor is a specialty of ours. It has to be.

The rewards of fame are many. The downside is that fame can turn to infamy on a dime.

Mel Gibson obviously is a troubled man. In Hollywood the public persona rarely jibes with the private.

[Hildy]

That was a perfect article, wasn't it?????

[Hildy]

Who cares? A lot of people. You might know us as JEWS.

[MEGoody]

Gibson's Malibu breakdown not only confirmed that he's an anti-Semite, but also that he's a moron.

The author is a moron as well, but who is counting?

[Skooz]

This got old three days ago.

[DungeonMaster]

Never liked him, never will.

[MEGoody]

You might know us as JEWS.

I can understand being upset if Mel said the things that are claimed. But I am amazed at the number of Jews who embrace anti-semites like Hillary Clinton. Seems that at least some Jews have some issues of their own to deal with.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I can understand being upset if Mel said the things that are claimed. But I am amazed at the number of Jews who embrace anti-semites like Hillary Clinton.

Politicians aren't saying these things in public. They hide it.

[Hildy]

Yes, I agree with you. There's nothing more hypocritical and ANNOYING than a liberal Jew. And I say that as a Jew.

[Lewite]

Whenever I hear crap like Gibson's rant, I think of the top American anti-semite Hitlery Roddamn Clinton. She sure gets a pass for her hate fill rants. I can not believe my own Hebrew family members that are waiting to vote for that female dog anything Israeli hater.

[Nonstatist]

Very good article. It's true that Foxman has a bug up his a$$ about Gibson, and its also true that Gibson really stepped in it this time. ..

BTW, don't you get the feeling that Gibson isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer? Although he knows how to make money in Hollywood, thats for sure.