[Pharmboy]

After hearing this from several sources today, I can believe he let loose with obscenities, and even anti-semitic statements. His dad, after all, is a Holocaust denier, and he grew up around that stuff.

Ahhhh...I see you have finally come to embrace reality. TMZ (Time-Warner/AOL) obviously has a friend inside the LAPD; aside from that, they would never make up a story as radioactive as this one.

At first, the cops tried to sanitize the circumstances of the arrest, but the arresting PO was evidently PO'd enough to write everything down very carefully. In my opinion, it went down as the officer wrote it. And, IMO, this episode has tainted the movie that his fans always denied had any Jew-hatred in it. Harder to defend now, eh?

[Yaelle]

To this very minute, all the radio newscasts still say that he was brought in without incident, and that an investigation is pending.

[sinkspur]

Harder to defend now, eh?

I went through holy hell two years ago here because I was hypercritical of Gibson. I didn't see The Passion until this past year, and I thought it was gratuitously bloody and went overboard with all the satan fantasies, taken from the "visions" of Catherine Emmerich.

My knee-jerk defense of him last night was, I'll admit, due to not believing he would rant about Jews in public.

This convinces me that he is just as weird as I thought he was. Worse, he appears to have absorbed his dad's anti-semitism like a sponge.

[DJ MacWoW]

obviously has a friend inside the LAPD

Just a small point. It wasn't LAPD but LA Sheriffs. Don't know as that makes a differece.

[irishjuggler]

And, IMO, this episode has tainted the movie that his fans always denied had any Jew-hatred in it. Harder to defend now, eh?

Not at all. Mel's movies stand or fall on their own merits. Many great filmmakers have been horrible people with abhorrent views about many things. Even if Mel falls into that category (and I'm not saying that he does), it doesn't "taint" what he's already done.