He didn’t mean it in a particularly complimentary manner, I don’t think:
Lt. Steve Smith, in charge of the detective bureau for the Malibu/Lost Hills station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, confirmed to me just now that “the contents seem to be similar” between the official reports and the four pages posted by TMZ.com on the Internet alleging Mel Gibson “blurted out a barrage of anti-Semitic remarks” — “fucking Jews” and “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” and asking the arresting deputy “Are you a Jew?” — during his DUI arrest early Friday morning. Smith denied TMZ.com’s charge that the sheriff’s department was involved in a “cover-up” of Gibson’s alleged anti-Semitic tirade detailed in deputy Jim Mee’s first arrest report.
Gibson’s father is a notorious anti-Semite, and it seems as though Mel himself isn’t sure that the Holocaust happened. Nevertheless, a lot of us didn’t want to believe that the Lethal Weapon star hated Jews. It turns out that we were wrong. I know he was drunk, and I know he was upset when he said those things. That’s not an excuse.
Pity, that. I was looking forward to seeing Apocalypto. I don’t think I will now.
Previous discussions on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and anti-Semitism can be found here, here, here, and here.
How to end a successful film career in fifteen seconds or less. I would like to point out that his blood alcohol was 0.12% which is over the state limit in California, but not to the point that you are “out of control.” It always seems that the ones who publicly hold Christ in such esteem always seem to be the ones who don’t pay much attention to his teachings.
I was looking forward to Apocalypto, too. Somehow I don’t think we will get to see it in a U.S. theater.
Actually Morgan, we should take the same stance on Mel Gibson that we are to take with Hezbollah. They are right in hating the joos, and are just being bullied by a disproportionate big bully Israel. So, we should support Mel Gibson’s movie’s, and they should be played in all theaters.
You have changed my mind. We should give Gibson an Oscar and a Nobel Peace prize even before Apocalypto comes out.
Just…just stop it.
Are you kidding me? All that ruckus with only a 0.12? Maybe he’s just gone ’round the looney bend.
Talk about not holding your liquor. What a puss!