[Guenevere]

veronica....You were serious, weren't you.

You're going to drag in every article written about Mel (concerning this incident)...

..and paste on FR threads.

I just shake my head in pity.

[steve-b]

One telling point that I hadn't noticed previously:

And the Muslim world allowed [The Passion of the Christ] to be screened widely, though from Ben-Hur to King of Kings it had prohibited the physical representation of any "prophet" mentioned, as Jesus is, in the Quran. (Don't ask yourself why this was, unless you want to feel stupid.)

[blake6900]

Hitchens is an athiest so he has no use for anyone with religious beliefs. What I found interesting is the MSM still can't get over the success of The Passion of the Christ. They tried everything to discredit it and it's director. Now it seems this is simply Round Two.

The fact is some Jews--not all but some--were responsible for the death of Jesus. Some Romans--not all but some--were too. Those are facts and sometimes some members of the Jewish religion are too quick to change facts in order to proclaim anti-Semitism. Not Gibson, nor very many others for that matter, have claimed all Jews were responsible for what befell Jesus yet those words and those thoughts have been attributed nonetheless.

In my view, that's no different than Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton controlling the definition of racism. Their belief that, "If one questions it, one is it" doesn't hold water in my book and to accept such a notion is pure cowardice.

[Graymatter]

I've only seen 2 MG flicks: The Passion, and Ransom. Didn't care for them. (He's no Orson Welles. He's no Glenn Ford either.)
Nevertheless, his detractors can't match his accomplishments and so they're delighted by this expose of Gibson's feet of clay.
Not to excuse him, but something must have set him off and he has acknowledged his behavior was despicable. Whereas the ugliness of his enemies...
Good fortune has a way of bringing out the devils---including one's own. Gibson has much to be thankful for, and much to be bitter about.
And there are worse things than disgrace, that could have happened to him that night. By the grace of God, he was stopped before someone in his path died.

[soccer_maniac]

bad actor and worse director Mel Gibson

Oops . . . Braveheart is one of my all-time favorite movies

[Rocky]

While I don't agree with the tone of this column, I must admit my estimation of Gibson has dropped several notches. Driving drunk and making anti-Semitic remarks do not endear him to me.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but did you see where FREE REPUBLIC is mentioned on page 27 of today's "Daily Variety?"

"...reaction in the popular conservative online forum FreeRepublic.com..."

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

A BBC article on the topic .

[Nachum]

I was just interviewed for ABC channel 7 here in Los Angeles as I was near a local supermarket. I told the interviewer that there was an old saying, "When the alchohol goes in, the truth comes out".

[mountainlyons]

I will not judge Gibson but leave it to the great authority. I will not judge his Religion. But I do have a hard time not judging Muslim terrorists and other murders.

[Radix]

I have to wonder if Mel Gibson was under the influence of something other than alcohol.

What I read of this episode demonstrates rather bizarre behavior on his part. I would not suppose that it is just alcohol.

Perhaps he puled the old "Do you know who I am trick?" and the police officer then provoked him on the Passion film or something such as that.

It seems a way over the top tirade. Then again, I ain't no cop, so I ain't seen all that they do.

[LibWrangler]

You are certainly keeping your promise to post as many threads as it takes to wear people down and convince them that Mel Gibson is a raving Jew-hater.

I admire your determination, if nothing else. (Not the least of which you are not a good thread host!)

Christopher Hitchens concluded in 2004 that Mel Gibson was antisemite and Jew-hating, so this is no revealation two years later.

[Continental Soldier]

What everybody needs to remember about Mel Gibson is that he is an ACTOR, and, thus, is a total jerk and incapable of intelligent decisions about politics or anything else!

[veronica]

Removed editorial comment from poster at beginning of article.

For the record - the editorial comment I supposedly added was the subtitle of the article.

Mel Gibson's Meltdown

He is sick to his empty core with Jew-hatred.

By Christopher Hitchens

Further, the article is a long one..COMPLETE ARTICLE

[TXnMA]

That bad actor and worse director Mel Gibson, pulled over for the alleged offense of speeding and the further alleged offense of speeding under the influence, decided that he needed to demand of the arresting officer whether he was or was not Jewish and that he furthermore needed to impart the information that all the world's wars are begun by those of Semitic extraction.

Hey, GHitchens: where is your "further alleged" re the hearsay evidence re Gibson's statements?

[tioga]

The Passion was a brilliant movie. He is a great director in that. I may not like his drunken driving or his tirade, but I can't deny how moving The Passion was.

[jaime1959]

A fine hatchet job by Chris Hitchens, everyone's favorite Marxist drunk and the author of Hell's Angel (Mother Theresa).

[libravoter]

Why did admin moderator delete the headline of this article? As you can see if you follow the link to the article, the full title of Slate's article is, in fact, "Mel Gibson's Meltdown
He is sick to his empty core with Jew-hatred." That second part wasn't the poster's editorial -- it was Christopher Hitchen's sub-title.

[GVnana]

His vulgar and nasty movies, which also feature this prejudice, are additionally replete with the cheapest caricatures of the English. Braveheart and The Patriot are two of the most laughable historical films ever made.

I'm a Hitchens fan, but he's lost me here. Neither Braveheart nor The Patriot are "laughable" when it comes to Hollywood history.

They are different because they don't give the usual "Dickens Treatment" to the English. It must be a shock to see the likes of Edward Longshanks and Tarleton portrayed on screen, when it's so much more conventional to just portray the English as arbiters of sensibility and Americans as the ruthless and vile.

Gibson did the world a favor by making these films.

[MinuteGal]

Hitchens is Jewish on his mother's side, an atheist and a regular contributor over the years to left-wing publications such as The Nation and somewhat less regularly to conservative publications such as National Review.

He has been eminently successful in pulling off the remarkable feat of being slobbered over politically by adherents of both the Left and the Right.

He's a drinker himself, anti-Christian, and a rather lapsed socialist, having enjoyed the bountiful fruits of the heartless capitalistic system in America where he's been embedded for years.

Leni