[lady lawyer]

Well, this new movie isn't going to be the sensation that Passion of the Christ was, obviously. Why on earth is he slamming the people who supported him?

[LS]

Sigh. Makes you wonder. I am utterly sick of ALL of these people. I saw where another Hollywood type who had supported the WOT---can't remember who, now---started to backslide with snide comments about Bush.

[iPod Shuffle]

Mel Gibson is a Pitchforker.

[trubluolyguy]

Why on earth is he slamming the people who supported him?

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I thought he was slamming Bush?

Is Bush "people?"

[Chi-townChief]

Sounds like he thinks his bread is buttered on the other side and wants to score some cheap points.

[Sometimes A River]

"Slamming Bush" is slamming you?

[antiRepublicrat]

Why on earth is he slamming the people who supported him?

Religious doesn't necessarily equal Bush-loving.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Well, this new movie isn't going to be the sensation that Passion of the Christ was, obviously. Why on earth is he slamming the people who supported him?

He's not. His primary support came from ultra-rightwing palaeoconservative Roman Catholics who are fanatically anti-Jewish and anti-Israel. The fact that there are more Fundamentalist Protestants than these people, and that the Fundamentalists got all the publicity, doesn't change anything.

[Tribune7]

Why on earth is he slamming the people who supported him?

He doesn't like Bush. He never liked Bush. He thinks he's part of a global conspiracy to usher in a one-world government.

[LibertarianLiz]

He isn't "slamming the people who supported him". On religious matters, Mel Gibson agrees with most Catholics and Christians (or at least those Catholics who are okay with his return to pre-Vatican II mass).

Mel Gibson has never been a supporter of the war in Iraq. The one time I heard him mention it in an interview, he seemed to have bought the "no WMDs found" line, and this bothered him.

Mel Gibson has conservative values regarding family and faith; where his political leanings are I couldn't say.

[LucyJo]

"Why on earth is he slamming the people who supported him?"

Publicity and $$$???

[wmileo]

"Why on earth is he slamming the people who supported him?"

Simple. He does not need us any more. The Passion of the Christ was a religious movie. Hollywood does not like Religious Movies when the Religion is Christianity. Hollywood gave him a hard time as did the MSM. The made it clear the movie would be shunned by the Hollywood powers that be. Gibson needed us for the Passion. To sell this new movie, he needs Hollywood. In order to get back in good graces, he needed to make it seem that the theme of the movie was anti-Bush. Hollywood loves anti-Bush stuff and therefore will help him promote the movie. It has nothing to do with principle and everything to do with money. The only Actor in the past 50 years who was not about money was Charlton Heston. Gibson does not have what it takes to be like Heston. Therefore he will promote this move as having an anti-Bush message and Hollywood and the MSM will eat it up. I am a Gibson fan (Braveheart, The Passion, etc). I will not see this new movie. I don't like movies with Anti-Bush themes. Apocalypto could be the Brokeback Bush movie of 2006. Hooray for Hollywood!!!

[lawdude]

"Why on earth is he slamming the people who supported him?"

I have seen a whole lot of President 'slamming' on FR as of late.