Mel Gibson Unplugged (Mel Gibson And The Jews Rule The World Agenda Exposed Alert)

Frontpagemag.com ^ | 08/01/06 | Don Feder

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I was one of a number of Jewish conservatives who spoke out in defense of Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of The Christ. (See "More Power To Mel," published in FrontPageMag.com on February 10, 2004.)

For that, I have no regrets. I believed then – and continue to believe – that The Passion is not anti-Semitic. However, based on what followed Gibson’s drunk-driving arrest on Friday, I’m convinced that the actor/director himself is an anti-Semite.

According to various news reports, when he was arrested by a sheriff’s deputy in Malibu for DUI, Gibson was enraged. At one point, he reportedly told Deputy James Mee that "the "F*****g Jews…The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Then, he is said to have demanded of Mee "Are you a Jew?"

On Saturday, Gibson issued the following statement: "I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested (true), and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable. I am deeply ashamed of everything I said."

Forgive me, but this is a typical celebrity apology – "I behaved badly (without actually addressing the conduct/statements in question). I’m sorry. But that’s not really me."

I’m not buying it.

Mel is fond of Latin. (The dialogue in The Passion was in Latin and Aramaic.) The Romans had an expression in vino veritas -- in wine there is truth. By loosening inhibitions, drinking loosens the tongue. It makes us say things we’re thinking but usually have the good sense not to articulate. I believe Gibson believes what he said in a drunken rage – that and worse.

His father, Hutton Gibson, is a classic anti-Semite and Holocaust-denier, claiming – among other absurdities – that during World War II, Polish Jews just "got up and left," and there were more Jews in Europe after the war than before. Gibson has refused to criticize his father. He’s taken the convenient course of essentially saying: Hey, what do you expect me to do? He’s my father.

Well, I loved my father (who passed away 11 years ago). And if he said things that were racist or anti-Catholic, I still would have loved him. But I also would have disavowed his views.

Why does Gibson’s anti-Semitic tirade matter?

People on the right and left tend to have two standards – one for us, another for them. Today, Gibson’s conservative defenders are scrambling to rationalize the actor’s ugliness. ("Well, he apologized, for God’s sake!") This makes us look like hypocrites – for a very good reason; when we adopt this expediency, we are hypocrites.

Of course, there’s enough hypocrisy to go around.

The Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman is having a field day. "Gibson’s apology is unremorseful and inconsistent," Foxman thunders. "We would hope that Hollywood now would realize the bigot in their midst and that they will distance themselves from this anti-Semite."

CNN founder Ted Turner is notoriously anti-Catholic. In 2001, on Ash Wednesday, Turner asked CNN employees who showed up with ashes on their foreheads: "What are you? A bunch of Jesus freaks? You ought to be working for Fox."

In 1999, in a speech to the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, referring to Pope John Paul II, Turner asked his audience: "Ever seen a Polish mine detector?" also that the Pope should "get with it. Welcome the 20th century."

Turner too apologized, when the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights turned up the heat. But, like Gibson’s failure to address his underlying feelings, Turner never admitted that he hates Catholics (because he’s a population-control freak and he loathes the Church’s position on abortion, birth-control and sex outside marriage). He probably believes in a Catholic procreation conspiracy.

Did Foxman demand that the Hollywood crowd distance themselves from this anti-Catholic bigot in their midst?

Speaking of hypocrisy, I’m still waiting for the ADL to even comment on Bill Clinton’s embrace of Louis Farrakhan’s 2005 DC Nuremberg rally (which the perjurer-in-chief did in an interview with The Amsterdam News) Call out an ex-president who’s a liberal icon just because he supports the most notorious anti-Semite in America? Foxman would rather burn his ACLU card.

But there’s a deeper problem with Gibson’s drunken rant – a lot of people on the left, and some on the right, really believe it: That Israel/the Jews are responsible for wars, famine, economic turmoil and all of the other tragedies to plague humanity. (If true, we certainly didn’t do that well for ourselves with the Second World War, unless -- like Hutton Gibson – you believe the Holocaust never happened.)

Pat Buchanan is much smoother than Mel in his cups.

Instead of Jews, Buchanan says "neo-cons." Thus, the neo-cons have hijacked U.S. foreign policy. The neo-cons are whispering in Bush’s ear. The neo-cons are responsible for our disastrous interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The neo-cons are plotting war with Syria and Iran – all to benefit Israel. (Nobody else is threatened by whack-job mullahs with nuclear weapons, you understand.)

Soon, Pat will be warning us that the neo-cons are poisoning wells, spreading the plague and using the blood of paleo-con children to bake their Passover matzah.

Remember Cindy Sheehan, the Left’s shrewish centerfold? Mom Sheehan (Buchanan says she "has authenticity and moral authority") screeches: "My first-born was murdered…he was killed for lies and a PNAC [Project for a New American Century] Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel…My son, my family, this nation and this world were betrayed by George Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11." Even feminist pundit Susan Estrich calls Ma Sheehan "a raging, ignorant anti-Semite."

Michael Moore believes all the evil in the world is attributable to "Israel and the oil companies." (Little wonder Gibson has become chummy with Moore. When they’re out drinking, they probably swap Jewish conspiracy theories.)

His reputed conservatism notwithstanding, Mel is antiwar. He asks rhetorically: "What the hell are we doing in Iraq? No one can explain to me in a reasonable manner that I can accept why we’re there, why we went there, and why we’re still there." The F*****g Jews?

After all, how much of a leap is it from Israel is responsible for all Middle East turmoil and anti-Americanism to "the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world"?

With fighting raging in Lebanon (the latest front in World War III), with the United Nations and European Union excoriating Israel for acts of self-defense, with a Muslim shooting up the Seattle Jewish Center and killing a 58-year-old woman (recall Hezbollah’s promise of a worldwide jihad against Jews and Americans), Gibson’s drunken impersonation of David Duke can’t be dismissed as more celebrity bad-boy stuff.

Gibson has embarrassed those who honestly defended him in 2004, myself included.

Perhaps he should call the next Lethal Weapon installment "Stark Raving Mad Max." In it, he can save Los Angeles from warmongering Jews intent on fomenting a global conflict with the Malibu Sheriff’s Department to advance the PNAC neo-con agenda.

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Is Mel Gibson an anti-Semite? He said the things he said drunk and there's the Latin saying that comes to mind in this connection: in vino veritas. "In wine, there is truth. Mel Gibson has been revealed to believe in the Jews Rule The World agenda - and yes, they start wars everywhere. Just ask Michael Moore, Jihad Cindy and Pat Buchanan for confirmation. What Mel Gibson, despite his reputed conservatism shares with the moonbat Left, along with an antipathy to Jews, is opposition to the war in Iraq. Don Feder's right: Gibson's next Lethal Weapon installment ought to be close to home - the PNAC neo-cons need to be stopped before its too late and we can all imagine how the Jew-hating ingenues on the Left and the Right would receive it. Enthusiastically.

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

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People on the right and left tend to have two standards – one for us, another for them. Today, Gibson’s conservative defenders are scrambling to rationalize the actor’s ugliness. ("Well, he apologized, for God’s sake!") This makes us look like hypocrites – for a very good reason; when we adopt this expediency, we are hypocrites.

We have to stand up for our beliefs, not just stand up for "our side".

Gibson should be shunned just as we shun Ted Turner.

[Just mythoughts]

Could you please pronounce your sentence and be done with it.
You are giving credibility where there was none to begin with.

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Exactly. We're the ones who believe people need to be held accountable for their conduct and we can't go around carving out exceptions for someone on our side who has crossed the line of decency. If we wouldn't tolerate it in Ted Turner, we shouldn't tolerate it in Mel Gibson. Just as we shun an anti-Catholic bigot, its time to do the same to someone who's revealed himself to be an anti-Jewish bigot.

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

[carumba]

We would hope that Hollywood now would realize the bigot in their midst and that they will distance themselves from this anti-Semite.

Mel hasn't worked for some time now. The distancing started before the drunken rage.

[djf]

He certainly seems to have overestimated the number of Jews involved in the battles at Falkirk.

Yet there is no denying that he fought the power brokers in Hollywood over "The Passion".

The simple fact is that no matter how many Papal bulls are issued, there will probably always be a conflict.
Better to admit it and find common goals than sound hypocritical.

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Yes, Abe Foxman, the ADL and the Left are hypocrites even in addressing anti-semitism. That's why conservatives need to be principled. We can't go around enabling Gibson without undermining everything we hold dear. There is such a thing as consequences in life.

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

[Dov in Houston]

No story here


Yadah yadhe

Gibson's an anti semite idiot

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Gibson is history

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[metesky]

Feder left out one of the big ones, the once and future president:

"You F'JB!" - Hillary Clinton

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You can say for Gibson, he said what he really thought. The rest of the conspiratorial crowd is just more careful to dress up their sentiments but there is no mistaking the subjects of their fury. Oh and if the Jews really ran the world, all these people and the media would neither be seen nor heard from. That's usually the problem with conspiracies: they fall apart when exposed to reality. Oh and Gibson's over the top performance in Conspiracy Theory is a Hollywood counterpart to his ranting about the Jews starting all the world's wars. Life does imitate art.

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

[DB]

Well I'm not willing to go that far.

I've seen drunk people say all kinds of things. Much of which had no basis in truth nor did it represented their "true feelings".

I'm not going to pass final judgement on this man based on this one event.

[Brit1]

Too much power too much money too much mouth ..not enough brain.

[djf]

No one runs the world.
Everybody has an agenda.
At the top of everybodies agenda is themselves.

There are exceptions, but very, very damn few, and I doubt I am one.

[opinionator]

Gibson should be shunned

In Hollywood the term is 'blacklisting'. I thought that they were against that?

[carumba]

If Woody Allen, PeeWee Herman, Tom Cruise, etc. can come back then so can this guy. Mel, I rebuke the foul statements you made in your drunken tirade. You ask foregiveness? Granted completely, without any reservation or conditions.

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And yet he refuses to disavow his father's views. The child is truly son to the father. If he disagreed with his father's anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial views, he would have been on record as saying so. If someone in a drunken rage can say the things they do, one wonders what they think when they are in control of themselves. And right now, no decent person can bring himself to excuse Gibson's behavior. Its crossed a line none of us would accept - and it doesn't matter his choice of targets where Jews. He would have been finished in polite society if his targets had been black Americans.

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

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Why do we do anything? Mel is an actor; believe me he will be punished by Hollywood. He is a great actor and director who is imperfect. My Grandmother was a fine woman in most ways, but she believed in a Jewish conspiracy-such nonsense! It turned out she was Jewish-go figure. Her parents went to Wisconsin from Germany and changed their religion-tired of the prejudice I guess. Her Grandparents disowned them. Just before the second war, an attempt was made to get the family out of Germany. But it was unsucessful, and the whole family was killed by the Nazis. You would think my Grandmother would have changed her way of thinking, but she never did. I feel sorry for Mel; he has truly blown it and will have to live with what he said. I feel no desire to punish him.

[nyconse]

I absolutely agree with you!

[Global2010]

I LOVE JLO...does that make me give a hoot that she is a "loose" woman.

No, she entertains and I enjoy dancing to her tunes.

now if I thought about her and P Diddly and all the men who well you know I would wonder does she have vaginal warts and she is Jenny all over the block..
No..that is her dumb personal choices and wish she would listen to her Mama.

But I have all her CD's and I enjoy her music.

[Global2010]

He is not history if he gets a good movie role IMO

We still laugh at the parody of his movie where the magazine cards pile up while the "Mel" like actor was combing through zines.

Classic in dumb comedy.