Video: Gibson says he doesn’t hate Jews, he just fears them
posted at 6:38 pm on October 13, 2006 by Allahpundit
Not just them, of couse. The whole Middle East situation — the strike and counterstrike, the cycle of violence, the wheel of hatred, the whirling vortex of attack and reprisal that’s eventually going to get us all killed.
Hence his famous exclamation to that cop that “the Middle East” is responsible for all the wars in the world.
He’s also peevish about certain people finding “The Passion” anti-semitic and not being shy about saying so, thereby violating his rights in “many different ways.”
Click the image to watch a brief clip, then read this for a fuller account. Diane Sawyer covered most of her bases question-wise but, as you’ll see, the subject of “sugar tits” went sadly, unforgivably unbroached.










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His comments sound rehearsed to me.
CrimsonFisted on October 13, 2006 at 6:46 PM
Time to quit while you’re behind.
JammieWearingFool on October 13, 2006 at 6:51 PM
I think his comments about the Iraq war were full of crap, I think he’s said a lot of crazy things about the end of the world, and I think his Catholic splinter group church is kinda fishy. But I don’t think he should be chastized for saying that the Middle East situation scares him, I don’t think he should be chastized for his father’s comments about the holocaust, especially when he refuted them years ago already, and I do think that he has every right to be angry about all the knee jerk anti-Semtism accusations leveled at him when The Passion of the Chrisit came out.
Savage on October 13, 2006 at 6:59 PM
Why is this guy even in the news?
DannoJyd on October 13, 2006 at 7:00 PM
Alcohol + testosterone = the “sugar tits” comment.
I mean, what male hasn’t said something vulgar to a female while under the influence? Not that it’s ever OK, it’s just an indication of how smashed he was.
infidel4life on October 13, 2006 at 7:17 PM
MMM
Mad Max Mel
Kini on October 13, 2006 at 7:22 PM
LOL!!!!
The Ugly American on October 13, 2006 at 7:40 PM
I can’t this is the same guy who played William Wallace. I used to really appreciate him for that.
Tony737 on October 13, 2006 at 7:55 PM
Lol, seriously though, sugar tits? What kind of lame saying is that?
RightWinged on October 13, 2006 at 7:59 PM
*big sigh* This is an sign of exactly how bad people are while drunk.
I have babysat more drunks than I care to remember, on and off duty, family and strangers, rich and poor, black and white, asian and hispanic, we all can learn from this example…the question is will we?
tormod on October 13, 2006 at 8:04 PM
Lol, betcha she didn’t volunteer her phone number…
infidel4life on October 13, 2006 at 8:16 PM
Are you kidding? He’s probably already shagged her six ways from Sunday in both their younger days… or at least she was fantasizing about it during this interview. It’s Hollywood man!
SilverStar830 on October 13, 2006 at 8:29 PM
You know the only thing we can say for sure about this? Mel Gibson don’t do coke, because if he did he would be more sure of himself. Give the fucker a break.
B Moe on October 13, 2006 at 8:49 PM
He’s a victim of the “Protocols … of Zion” stuff. It shows in everything he has to say about Israel.
It’s extremely seductive, that rubbish; reading that document and checking off one thing after another, all of it actually happening in the world in front of you, and the Protocols declaring themselves to be the master plan.
I wish the guy could identify this, and deal with it, as such. It’s a particular group of ideas he really needs to debunk in his own mind once and for all. Until he does, it’s going to twist his thinking.
Learned it from his dad? So self evident, he can’t just dismiss it?
He doesn’t seem like a bad guy, and he seems to be trying to get it clear, and he seems to be tripped up over that one damned forgery.
Of course, this is just Mel analysis through binoculars.
Axe on October 14, 2006 at 3:15 AM
It’s just Democracy vs. Tyranny Mel.
…nothing new there!
venmax on October 14, 2006 at 3:54 AM
See, it’s all the fault of the Jews that he said those anti-semitic things. Case closed.
The Kenosha Kid on October 14, 2006 at 11:56 AM
I will say that I’m still waiting for the mobs hunting down Jews and killing them after seeing The Passion of the Christ. Wasn’t something like that supposed to happen?
Anyway, Mel knows he screwed up and is just trying to make up to lefty Hollywood at this point.
Benaiah on October 14, 2006 at 1:59 PM
Mel’s Hollywood Goose is cooked, to a fine glaze, with a touch of mint jelly around the edges. Who does he think he’s fooling? Let’s turn this around for a moment shall we? But instead of “Jews cause all the wars, etc” lets make it a little black and white, for all of you who believe that Mel should be “forgiven’. The question is not whether he should be forgiven but if he will be. To the latter I say, “natch, ixnay, no chance-ay and when Hell supports snowmen-ay.”
If a white guy grows up in a KKK household with a father who is a, ooh I don’t know, say a “Grand Kleagle”, like Robbie Byrd and who insists that Blacks were NEVER ENSLAVED or SEGREGATED. It’s all been a big lie, right? Kid grows up with dad preaching, ” Niggers ain’t this”, and “Niggers ain’t that”, whatever, you know the drill. Kid makes good in Hollywood, big box office megastar, the whole deal. Kid makes movie wherein it can be argued that blacks are blamed for something big, like oh, KILLING the earthly manifestation of GOD! Fairly or unfairly, even though their participation of said “killing” is foretold in scripture and they’re only playing out their part in the Prophecy of the Messiah, hurt feelings abound. THEN, the kid gets busted on a DUI. During the bust he asks the offficer, who is now a light skinned black person, “Are you a nigger”? He goes on to expound, “Because Niggers are Responsible for all the bad shit in the world”, etc. Now let’s pretend that in our new bizarro universe, Black people are in charge at EVERY MAJOR FILM STUDIO IN THE FUCKING WORLD. You do the math, mate. ‘Cause I wouldn’t hire his racist ass, or work with him and I’m pretty sure they won’t either.
I am Black. But I had the benefit of having an I.Q so high that it broke records in some places. Consquentially, I was taken out of my “hood” and placed in government “training” programs, etc. No I wasn’t building lasers. Just smart kids from all walks of life, blah blah blah. One of my best friends growing up was Jimmy Goldberg and we were inseparable. Our families insisted that this type of interaction was a positive (thank God) and arranged for each of us to spend alternate weekends at the others’ home! What a great education. I wish Mel had one half as good. My love and respect for Jewish people would only deepen years later when I met Ben. I had moved into an apartment in Beverly Hills, yeah I know, anyway, they had a pro style pool table in the rec room and there was an old guy who was always in there playing, but who would never speak to anyone. Most people left him alone, somehow he and I would end up playing pool together and yes, I took it easy on him. He was almost eighty and I had actually supplemented my income by playing pool, so I gave him a break! All of this was done in virtual silence. It took a long time for us to go anywhere other than, “nice shot” etc. Eventually, (months later) I learned that Ben was a Holocaust survivor, complete with serial numbers on his forearm. When he showed me the numbers that they BRANDED him with, I brokedown and cried, weeping like a baby. I don’t know why I was so moved by this, I think I cried in rebellion to this world, I cried to God, I cried for Ben most of all. Tears are forming in my eyes now as I remember all of this. I couldn’t believe that someone could actually do this to this kind and gentle man. I couldn’t believe that someone could have treated this human being like an animal, so all I could do was cry.
How dare Mel Gibson’s father entertain a belief that it didn’t happen. My father was a member of an all black unit during WWII who helped “liberate” some of those camps. Even though my dad would denigrate his own participation with phrases like, “I was just a medic, all the fighting was done time I got there”, he still saw the HORRORS. The aftermath, the remnants that used to be human beings, thrown away like trash. Incinerated in places that will NEVER LOSE THE STENCH of the horrific tortures visited upon God’s people. Mel Gibson says his anti-semitism had Nothing to do with his Father’s views? His father in my eyes is no better than the Nazis who perpetrated this apocalypse on an entire class of people, in fact, he’s even worse. He had the benefit of an overview and overwhelming evidence of the outrages, he simply refused to see it, preferring instead to assert that the problem is the “Jews”. In doing so he pays tribute to his “god” the devil, because this was EXACTLY what Hitler did to them all those many years ago. He set up a culture of blame, wherein all of Germany’s problems lay at the feet of “those Jews”.
Mel Gibson needs to have his head examined and repent of his sins, be baptized in Jesus’ name, instead of that junk they “sprinkled” him with, wait until Jesus changes his language and ACTUALLY be saved. Instead of playing around in a fake church that is diametrically OPPOSED to every single thing in the Bible regarding salvation.
Soothsayer on October 14, 2006 at 4:33 PM
All this reminds me of a few years back, when Marlon Brando said that Jews controlled Hollywood. It lead to a joke on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update. I think it was Tina Fey or possibly Amy Poehler reading the story.
The gist of it was – “Marlon Brando has publicly apologized for having said that Jews control Hollywood. The Anti-Defamation League said that they accept his apology, and that he is now free to work in Hollywood again.” You gotta admit that’s funny, no matter what your ethnicity. That it was said on SNL is the only reason I feel safe realting the joke. Why is that?
Mel Gibson may as well accept that the PC police will never, ever let up on him. It’s the classic “claiming the moral high ground” from which liberals love to look down upon all outside their camp who dare to question the staus quo.
He may as well embrace his infamy. He should produce the most politically incorrect movies possible. He should become the white Spike Lee. There’s a lot us that are way sick and tired of the double standards. So many are SO worried about offending everyone but white people (hear me out, put that knee down).
The Passion of the Christ benefitted enormously from all the pre-publicity. Gibson could make a ground breaking movie about racism against whites, and reap the profits of all the perfunctory cries of protest that would result. Oooooo, don’t go there.
Why not? How about a movie where an all black Washington D.C. jury refuses to find guilty a black man accused of raping a white woman, in spite of overwhelming evidence?
Kind of a reverse “To Kill A Mockingbird.” Too far fetched? It actually happened.
How about a movie about a bunch of white kids growing up in a midwestern city, in an all white, working class neighborhood, in which three massive public housing projects are built? Many whites flee, but those unable to, because of poverty, remain and endure two years of mindless violence at the hands of their black tormentors. Too mean spirited? It happened to my friends and I in the 70s.
People of all races would flock to such movies, if well made. It would be refreshing to many after so many decades of “white man bad, everyone else virtuous” preachy themes.
OF COURSE two wrongs don’t make a right. That’s not the point. My heritage is southern. I love my family as do all normal people. I don’t appreciate how few see anything wrong with trashing white southeners. It’s nearly Halloween, and one can buy their “Billy Bob” teeth – false teeth that appear to be severely rotted. Funny stuff, but where can I buy some big, fake “Jamal Lips?” Or maybe a big, fake “Schlomo Nose?”
I know, for the most part, I’m preaching to the choir here, as most that come to this site are objective enough to have long ago realized the one way street of PC. Thing is, I like ethnic humor, and if it’s funny, I’ll admit it, even if I’m the butt of the joke. But, will there ever again be a time at which I can speak my mind as a white man in America without being terrified of the uber-overreaction of all the self-righteous hypocrites pointing my way and hissing a la “Invasion of the Body Snatchers?”
I don’t see it happening any time soon. Let me be clear though, when I say racism against whites, I don’t mean to compare it to the real and awful struggles that blacks and others have endured in decades past. Their’s was racism not only accepted by the majority at one time, but institutionalized by government mandate. I know the difference, lest anyone lecture to me.
If I get bumped from this site for my comments (I don’t know, I’m pretty new to Hot Air), then so be it. Hope not. Especially because it would only serve to prove my point.
Indy Mark on October 14, 2006 at 11:06 PM
Well said Mark.
Soothsayer on October 15, 2006 at 1:55 AM
Not likely. But I dare you to say something negative about KP :)
(I kid. I mostly kid.)
Axe on October 15, 2006 at 2:24 AM
After watching the Good Morning interview, does anyone really doubt what an anti-semite this fool is?
atbay on October 15, 2006 at 11:08 PM
Nothing more pathetic than the self pity of white men. Hey: look at the 3 branches of government, look at the CEOs of the Fortune 500, look at the wage differential between men and women. And you’re a little put out because of political correctness? Too fucking bad. Jesus I hate whiners.
honora on October 16, 2006 at 11:49 AM