When Bush the First ran the Willie Horton ad, he ran it once. For the next ten years the Democrats kept pointing this ad out as racism, even though their once upon a time almost president ran the same ad against Michael Dukakis. Now who is making the fuss, the actor who says it once or the critics who never shut up. Who is, rather who are the de facto racists.
Gibson expressed poor taste, bad judgment and worst morals; however, he did not commit a crime. Give some a little power and they are quick to forget a drunken driver but willing to give the maximum possible punishment to someone who expressed biased remarks while drunk.
Someone should remind Hitchens that Lysenko and Trotsky were friends. Hitchens wants a government sanctioned Lysenkoism to finally root out all speech crimes. Maybe not now but just watch.
Just for everyones reminder He was picked up for a DUI wich IMO is the real crime here Lets not lose site of that
Chris Hitchens is another jack-ass that trashes Gibson's talent just because Gibson's personal life, politics, beliefs, and prejudices are screwed up. Patriot and Braveheart were excellent movies.
(Just donned Nomex and Kevlar.)
This Gibson really screwed up, because now every liberal group in existence is going to do everything in their power to completely destroy him for the next 20 zillion years. He completely opened pandoras box. None of them will accept the fact that maybe Mel was in a complete self destructive mood when pulled over, judging by how he first said "My life is f***ed". I mean what is the worst thing he could have said to destroy his career? But it`s too late now. Sorry Mel, but you are not Hillary. Only Hillary gets to go on anti-Jew tirades, not to mention 99% of liberals in Hollywood who have yet to curse out one single solitary terror group instead of Israel. "Jews are the cause of all the wars in the world" Mel says that which is exactly what liberals say every single day.
The piece's righteous rage would have been more convincing were Christopher Hitchens not sick to his empty core with Catholic-hatred.
In a statement, Gibson says, "I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable."The arresting officer was just doing his job and I feel fortunate that I was apprehended before I caused injury to any other person.
"I disgraced myself and my family with my behavior and for that I am truly sorry.
"I have battled with the disease of alcoholism for all of my adult life and profoundly regret my horrific relapse."
While Gibson does not elaborate on the "despicable" comments he made, entertainment website TMZ.com have obtained a police incident report, which alleges the Hollywood star made anti-Semitic comments towards arresting officers."
Christopher Hitchens says the statement is verbose and this other writer says he does not elaborate. I guess you can't please everybody.
I wonder what a Hitchens statement of remorse, apology and personal accountability for something awful that he's done would look like.
Cordially,
Me thinks that both talented men have a kinship in alcohol abuse.
It seems that Hitchens may be ashamed of Gibson's alcohol affected personality in place of his own.
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That's not what Mel said. Had he said that, he would have been closer to the truth. Hint: think of a certain religion founded by a certain Semite whose followers bow down to a chunk of meteorite...
This is not just proved by his twistedly homoerotic spank-movie The Passion of the Christ, even though that ghastly production did focus obsessively on the one passage in the one of the four Gospels that tries to convict the Jewish people en masse of the hysterical charge of Christ-killing or "deicide." It is validated by his fealty to his earthly father, a crackpot who belongs to a Catholic splinter group of which our Mel is a member. This group more or less lives off the stench of medieval anti-Semitism.
At the time when The Passion of the Christ was being released, many nervous evangelical Christians tried to get the more horrifying bits of anti-Semitic incitement toned down. (The crazy scene where the rabbis demand the blood of Jesus on their own heads was taken out of subtitles, for example, but left as it was in Aramaic.)
Looks to me like some people are hoping to continue to create a division within FR by keeping these type of threads going.
Starting to get real tired of seeing these Mel Gibson threads.
I think that stupid comments from a drunken Australian is far from the Jews' biggest problem right now. This kind of crap barely deserves press coverage.
It has nothing to do with whether you are or are not a racist at a given moment - it has to do with what you do with those attitudes/feelings/emotions.
Mel may have just had a bad day -drunk, of course - Nonetheless a bad day.
We can either chastise and move on - Or we can crucify him; which is it?
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"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone... Go And Sin No More"
And if ya' do sin again - then repent...
It's all over with people... Move along... Keep it moving... Nothing to see here...
I can only imagine what Hitchens says when he's drunk. Oh wait he even says it when he's sober.