Sound of crickets chirping 
from Bushbot "wideawake".
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.
Just because the site is not affiliated with the Democrats does not mean it is not a leftist site.
The site is run by a collective from Portland that has also paid for pro-abortion TV ads.
They are leftists, even if they are not members of America's largest leftist party.
And the president was a little evasive about his arrest, after all.
He was never arrested in the first place. How can you be evasive about an arrest that never happened?
Just as there are those who will believe whatever they choose to believe about a person based upon a short article written by a third party and never having spoken with the person even once.
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I believe that I have blundered and given the wrong impression, at the time that I posted the line you responded to I had forgotten all about Mel Gibson, I have nothing negative to say about the man whatsoever, I have said far too many things under the influence myself. I only meant to comment on the effects of alcohol.
Huh? How can someone not be arrested for DUI. Did he get special treatment or something? I honestly can't remember.
Supposedly isn't proof. I've yet to read they have him on tape ranting anti-semetic slurs. Got a link by any chance?
No problem.
Having had a few too many far more times than I could count, I know the alcohol = truth serum belief is fallacy.
I don't know if there's tape, but the arresting officer took very careful notes...just as they do with all drunken idiots they arrest. Right?
I'm sure this author is unbiased.
I'm still waiting for Mel to show up and explain himself.
Sound of crickets chirping from Bushbot "wideawake".
At that time (before the MADD campaign that made DUI laws much harsher) one could voluntarily go with the officer to the station and sign a form acknowledging you are guilty of the DUI and pay a fine.
I'm sure the officer said something to the effect of: "Look, either I can arrest you and run you in, or you can come down to the station and sign the papers admitting guilt for what you did. I can make this easy or hard. Your choice."
Did he get special treatment or something?
Not at all. That was apparently standard practice in ME and elsewhere back then for first-time offenders.
He paid the standard fine and got the standard penalty - suspension of driving privileges for a mandatory 30 days.
Again, the leftist spin is that Bush was read his rights, handcuffed and thrown into a holding cell and then hauled in front of a judge.
Nope.
Part of the spin is the suggestion that the Bush family somehow had the records associated with this arrest sealed or destroyed.
In reality they were right there in the York County records office for anyone to find - and of course, someone did find them.
There is a TAPE of his statements.
There are people who insist on defnding Gibson and his wackey father til the bitter end.
Very well put. Unfortunately, some of the Jew-haters are lurking on this site!
But it doesn't mean that this particular entry on his blog is incorrect.
See post #'s 344, 384 and 386.
I'll ask again. Do you have a link stating that there's a tape of his statements?
If there was a tape, there's no need for debate.
My bet--there is no tape, or it is not definitive.
Leni
He seems to be a nice guy only concerned about Mel's drinking and driving.
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
Hitchens the hypocrite has a nice ring....
I'm sure the officer said something to the effect of: "Look, either I can arrest you and run you in, or you can come down to the station and sign the papers admitting guilt for what you did. I can make this easy or hard. Your choice."
LOL! If you believe that, Ironangel, I'll can sell you a scenic waterfront lot near the Dismal Swamp here in Virginia. When I was stopped for the same thing back in 1978 and failed a field sobriety test the cop sure didn't tell me that I could "come down to the station and sign the papers admitting guilt". I was put in the back of a cruiser and taken straight to the hoosegow where I was given a breathalizer test. But, then again, if your name is "Bush" or "Kennedy"...
Did he get special treatment or something?
Not at all. That was apparently standard practice in ME and elsewhere back then for first-time offenders.
Wonder how the officer knew he was a "first-time" offender? Again, if your name is ... YOU GET SPECIAL TREATMENT!
I merely asked a question in that post, you paranoid fool!
Get a life.
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