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Mel Gibson's Meltdown
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| 07-31-06
| Christopher Hitchens
Posted on 07/31/2006 12:29:38 PM PDT by veronica
Edited on 07/31/2006 1:43:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:29:38 PM PDT
by
veronica
To: veronica
That bad actor and worse director Mel GibsonYes, he is an idiot and has a drinking problem but to call him a bad actor and worse director is, in my opinion, incorrect.
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:32:19 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM: The perpetual insulting of common sense.)
To: veronica
I believe that we now know Mel's true colors, but this piece is a prime example of really awful writing.
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:32:25 PM PDT
by
cspackler
(There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: veronica
There was more than only antiSemitism that Gibson did badly.
To: veronica
While I've often wondered about Hitchens' obvious hatred of Israel (which might explain his rush to attack someone else for this reason--"No, no, there's a REAL anti-Semite!")...he happens to be right. You don't just get drunk and turn into a Jew-hater. Something you're holding in emerges.
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:32:58 PM PDT
by
Darkwolf377
(http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
To: veronica
One can tell from the photo that he included in his article that Hitchens isn't much of a Gibson fan...
To: Darkwolf377
You don't just get drunk and turn into a Jew-hater. Something you're holding in emerges. I think you are correct. If I got all stupid drunk and started spewing trash talk it wouldn't be about the Jews...It would probably be about the Boston Red Sox, liberals or IslamoNazis...
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:35:04 PM PDT
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM: The perpetual insulting of common sense.)
To: veronica
In Mel's defense, he said nothing that Hillary Clinton or the New York Times haven't already said.
To: veronica
Where was the,
"He is sick to his empty core with man-boy love."
... comments about Michael Jackson? I don't seem to remember those.
To: veronica
"Mad Max: Beyond the Blunderdome"
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:36:03 PM PDT
by
Minnesocold
("The public demand to protect our borders will triumph sooner or later." - Tony Blankley)
To: veronica
Pat Buchanan is a Jew-hater, but since he hates Bush just as much, all is good.
To: veronica
"Bad actor and worse director"?? Hitchens needs to get real. Whatever else Gibson might be, these do not apply.
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:36:26 PM PDT
by
GSlob
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: veronica
I hear some whining from somewhere off to the left, I wonder what it is.....
To: Always Right
...and Hillary(!) was sober.
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:37:09 PM PDT
by
Redcloak
(Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
To: Redcloak
To: veronica
He is sick to his empty core with Jew-hatred. Oh, please. I am going to need more evidence than a single drunken tirade to reach that conclusion.
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:38:51 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: cspackler
Hitch probably still PO'ed at the success of "The Passion."
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:39:21 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(A pirate's life for me.)
To: veronica
People who get DUI's don't normall have 8 pages of information largely unrelated to the crime itself transcribed by law enforrcement.
But please, Mel... get help... and realize that that guy you made a movie about was and still is a Jew.
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posted on
07/31/2006 12:40:25 PM PDT
by
Nice50BMG
(3 books to read this year: The Bible (God), Bringing Up Boys (Dobson), Winning the Future (Newt))
To: veronica
Shut up Hitchens. Mel is an a$$hole but so are you. You dislike anyone that believes in God. That's your real beef. The biggest problem with Mel isn't that he expressed some anti-semitic views. His biggest problem is that he is a selfish drunk. Maybe Hitchens doesn't want to focus on that problem because it hits a little too close to home. BTW, I enjoy both Gibson and Hitchens, but they are both a$$holes.
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