Posted on 07/28/2006 10:12:47 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Where in the world did that come from? I have been saying he was drinking, driving while drinking and speeding. I don't have a hard time believing celebs can do no wrong. I'm not the one defending a .12 blood alcohol level.
I'm saying IF this is true, he has a problem.
Yes, I agree........and even IF some of it's wrong, it's out there.
>>>>The stuff reported here doesn't sound like a drunken man to me. More like somebody coming down from something stronger."<<<<<
This makes much more sense for that kind of behavior than .12 BAC
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I wanted to go see that movie, but, if he had Bush and American politics in mind when he made it...he can kiss my ticket money good bye.
TMZ appears to be a gossip rag. Sort of like the supermarket tabloids.
This story falls along the same lines as Aliens from Outer Space have taken over the White House... and so on.
The textbook method of propaganda is to start with a truth, warm up the masses with a half-truth, and then hit them over the head with an outright lie.
1. Truth: Mel Gibson earned a DUI today, and his father is an anti-semitic nutter.
2. Half-truth: Mel Gibson probably got taught some oddball stuff growing up.
3. The Outright Lie: Mel Gibson went on a violent, drunken anti-semitic tirade.
Methinks many here on this thread are passively or actively part of a propaganda campaign against Mel Gibson.....
I've NEVER been a Mel Gibson fan, but he's been okay in a few movies. But recently, he appears to have gone completely out of his mind. His last movie is just tooooooooooooo weird by 1/2!
So they're videotaping this, but then suddenly, when Mel was supposedly making the anti-semitic comments, they stopped? So none of the bad stuff he said can be corroborated? How fortuitous...for them.
Methinks many here on this thread are passively or actively part of a propaganda campaign against Mel Gibson.....
Are you his public relations manager?
MEL GIBSON: I would get addicted to anything, anything at all, okay.
DIANE SAWYER: Was it alcohol?
MEL GIBSON: Yeah, yeah, mostly, it was, yeah. Look, don't I look like a rummy? No? (Laughs)
DIANE SAWYER: Drugs?
MEL GIBSON: Drugs, booze, anything, you name it. Coffee, cigarettes, anything. I'm just one of these guys who is like that, that's my flaw.
DIANE SAWYER: But you talked about the fact that you went on benders, got into fights, was hell to live with. They said five pints before work.
MEL GIBSON: Five pints of oil, yeah.
DIANE SAWYER: Beer?
MEL GIBSON: No, it was just, you know, to keep the throat lubricated, you know. Sometimes I used to drive inebriated. This is the height of careless stupidity and when you think about that kind of insanity and that you … I look back at that now and I go, "What was I thinking?" I was a wild boy and we grew up in the '60s and '70s, you know, wild times.
DIANE SAWYER: Just all kinds of carrying on.
MEL GIBSON: What flaws shall I expose to the world here? Yeah, it's, you know, done a lot of things I'm not proud of. Like to hear another one?
DIANE SAWYER: You got my attention.
MEL GIBSON: Yeah, tell me another one. True confessions on national television. Okay, gosh, let me see, oh, here's a beauty. No, I don't want to do this, this is horrible, this is awful. I'm really a good guy. I mean, the real medal goes to my wife, who's a wonderful woman, you know.
DIANE SAWYER: What did she do?
MEL GIBSON: What did she do? She hoped. For years.
DIANE SAWYER: Robyn, his wife of 24 years and mother to his seven children.
MEL GIBSON: She's the best friend I have ever had. She's just great and would be there completely, 100 percent, 110 percent. And to put up with me, that's already a tall order so, hey, I'll spend the rest of my life giving her medals, more precious than jewels.
DIANE SAWYER: But Gibson says several times he had tried to turn his life around but kept failing and was brought to the brink of suicidal despair.
MEL GIBSON: I checked into a few places and, you know, sorted myself out. I didn't make a big noise about it.
DIANE SAWYER: You thought of jumping out a window?
MEL GIBSON: I really did, yeah. I was looking down thinking, man, this is just easier this way. I don't know … you have to be mad, you have to be insane to despair in that way. But that is the height of spiritual bankruptcy. There's nothing left. But it's … that wow, what a waste, and people do that is so sad. Whenever I hear of suicides, I just want to die, you know, I want to cry and it's … because there's something better if they can just hang on a little longer, you know. It's awful. So, anyway. Oop, is this the crying segment? Wait a minute.
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I don't condone racial or ethnic or anti-semitic slurs...but I think comparing them to murder is over the top.
What was the title of his last movie? I'm not really up on them. The Passion of Christ?
I hear hubby coming down the hall. Good night, nopardons.
People differ in their sensitivity to booze. For some, it is like the proverbial brick wall falling.
I didn't see THE PASSION OF CHRIST and never shall do. Never saw MAD MAX either. I've seen him in a couple of pieces of fluff, THE PATRIOT ( which was revisionist crap ), the one ab out William Wallace ( even MORE revisionist crap ), and that's it.
Good night, pleasant dreams!
"3. The Outright Lie: Mel Gibson went on a violent, drunken anti-semitic tirade."
So you were there?
No one said it was violent. Mel is one crazy nut! He has tried to take himself out(suicide) and has terrible addictions and the worst of all of his addictions is his addiction to his warped religious viewpoint. He actually doesn't think his wife will be saved. The man has ISSUES.
SouthPark did a great episode of this nut-job.
And the passion of the christ was anti-semetic! Just the way he depicted the Jewish faces in certain scenes, making them to be devils and grotesque. WHATEVER!
Methinks someone is in love with Mel.
Nope. Read my earlier posts.
You have a grudge against Mel Gibson? You sure seem ready to accept a gossip website like TMZ as Gospel truth!
Logical, experienced conservatives know that people aren't perfect, but also to factor in the nature of the source when it comes to explosive news stories.
Did he and the wife get hitched before he got the idea she wasn't going to heaven? If it was afterwards, why in the world did he say I do.
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