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. [history]
I was just in the middle of writing a long and tedious essay, about how to tell a real anti-Semite from a person who too-loudly rejects the charge of anti-Semitism, when a near-perfect real-life example came to hand. 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.
Call me thin-skinned if you must, but I think that this qualifies. I also think that the difference between the blood-alcohol levels—and indeed the speed limits—that occasioned the booking are insufficient to explain the expletives (as Gibson has since claimed in a typically self-pitying and verbose statement put out by his publicist). One does not abruptly decide, between the first and second vodka, or the ticks of the indicator of velocity, that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are valid after all.
There's a lot to dislike about Gibson. He is given to furious tirades against homosexuals of the sort that make one wonder if he has some kind of subliminal or "unaddressed" problem. His vulgar and nasty movies, which also feature this prejudice, are additionally replete with the cheapest caricatures of the English.
I just figured I'd raise the bar a little bit...
Lay off Hitchens. He was probably drunk when he wrote this :)
then nothing. we will simply know the facts, and everyone can form their opinion.
Good grief. I knew Hithens was a lefty, but I didn't know he was so full of hatred.
Exactly, some freepers also have selective outrage.
Nothing to see here folks, move on!
Not to mention the range of emotions (from A to B) exhibited in Road Warrior...
Alcohol’s a truth serum, blocks inhibitions. We say stupid things, but rarely things we don’t believe on some level. Regarding your drunk, you have issues with communists, but not your neighbors. Mel has issues with Jew, but not the cops.
You’ll rarely find more evidence for something someone wants to hide than that.
An unabashed hit-piece. Hitchens has in his arrogance revealed more about himself than his subject.
Yeah, what with his new movie "Apocalypto" coming out soon enough....
It wasn't 8 pages long it was only 4 pages long. The PDF file is out there. Once the policeman checked the box that the suspect was beligerant he is supposedly to tell how ... including Mel's trying to run away. He did.
Funny, how mug shots are so easy to get. We got Nicky Nolte's (also from Malibu Police Department) ... wonder why we can't get Mel's mug shot.
As a current drunk, I agree with you.
Jeeez Durasell.....I think your batteries need recharging. What the ___ are you talking about?
If my living depended on the public choosing to buy me product I sure wouldn't use slurs in public (especially if that product was based on my own moral convictions.)
While it doesn't excuse Gibson, anyone here think we'd see the same coverage of a TimRobbins/SusanSarandon/BabsStreisand/GeorgeClooney traffic stop, no matter WHAT they said?
MM
It was a joke. Fell a little flat. Sorry.
:)
Minnesocold,
Think snow! ;o)
was the police car equuipped with dash mounted video/audio?
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.
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