Why does Mel Gibson hate Jews?

I see this all as yet another symptom of Gibson's increasing eccentricity.
I fully expect him to go the way of Marlon Brando.
 
When Mel was doing a lot of press for TPOTC, he was on Larry King or something, and he was asked the question about being anti-semitic. He could have just said "no, I'm not," and i would have believed it. But instead he said something to the effect that I'm a Catholic, and the Catholic Church says love thy neighbor blah blah blah, so it's impossible for me to be an anti-semite. I thought, oh no, I happen to know that plenty of believing Catholics hate Jews with a relish. Why not Mel Gibson? He couldn't just say that it ain't so, but instead came up with a convoluted, and implausible, reason for why it can't be. Now confirmed.
 
Hats off to South Park for the foretelling of this tale...

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hgc said:
When Mel was doing a lot of press for TPOTC, he was on Larry King or something, and he was asked the question about being anti-semitic. He could have just said "no, I'm not," and i would have believed it. But instead he said something to the effect that I'm a Catholic, and the Catholic Church says love thy neighbor blah blah blah, so it's impossible for me to be an anti-semite. I thought, oh no, I happen to know that plenty of believing Catholics hate Jews with a relish. Why not Mel Gibson? He couldn't just say that it ain't so, but instead came up with a convoluted, and implausible, reason for why it can't be. Now confirmed.
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Morbo: “Morbo demands an answer to the following question. If you saw delicious candy in the hands of a small child. Would you seize and consume it?"

Richard Nixon: “The question is vague. You don’t say what kind of candy or whether anyone is watching. Anyway I certainly wouldn’t harm the child.”
 
What are the odds this would happen weeks before the opening of Apocalypto? Ka-ching!
 
Dave1001 said:
What are the odds this would happen weeks before the opening of Apocalypto? Ka-ching!
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I don't know if I buy into the "all publicity is good publicity". I know it can't be proven, but one has to wonder if Tom Cruise's high-profile exploits before MI:3 didn't hurt that movies box office performance. Another example, the Benifer split didn't exactly boost the earnings of "Jersey Girl".
 
senorpogo said:
I don't know if I buy into the "all publicity is good publicity". I know it can't be proven, but one has to wonder if Tom Cruise's high-profile exploits before MI:3 didn't hurt that movies box office performance. Another example, the Benifer split didn't exactly boost the earnings of "Jersey Girl".
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I didn't say all publicity is good publicity. But at the very least, I think it's likely that Mel Gibson is fighting last time's publicity war. It worked for him last time very, very well. Let's see if realities have changed, or if he walks away from this with hundreds of millions more lucre in his pocket.
 
Dave1001 said:
I didn't say all publicity is good publicity. But at the very least, I think it's likely that Mel Gibson is fighting last time's publicity war. It worked for him last time very, very well. Let's see if realities have changed, or if he walks away from this with hundreds of millions more lucre in his pocket.
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Fair enough. But this movie doesn't have anything to do with Jews, does it? I haven't seen or head much about it. The question is will his hatred of Jews convince people with similar mindsets to drop X dollars to see whatever movie he's pushing this time. We'll have to see.
 
Ooh...he apologizes

LOS ANGELES Mel Gibson is apologizing for his drunken-driving arrest and says he's been battling alcoholism throughout his life.
In a lengthy statement, the 50-year-old actor-director says he made "despicable" statements when he was arrested early Friday on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California. Gibson says he was "completely out of control" and "disgraced" himself and his family with his behavior.
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"I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable," he said in a statement issued by his publicist.
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I have never been drunk, but I would think alcohol might bring forth the statements one normally represses because of societal pressure.
 
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Lisa Simpson said:
I have never been drunk, but I would think alcohol might bring forth the statements one normally represses because of societal pressure.
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He blew 0.12.

Flirt with your bosses wife? Yes.

Refer to your Johnson by its pet name loudly in mixed company? Maybe.

Go into spontaneous anti-Semitic, prima donna rant and call a girl "sugar tits" even though you really are a good guy at heart? It does not work that way.
 
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senorpogo said:
Exactly, before the Rabbis of Unusual Size.

Andre the Giant note - Wikipedia cites Rob Reiner as claiming "When André was young, he could not fit on a normal school bus and had to be driven to school. As his parents were unable to afford a car of their own, his neighbor, famed playwright Samuel Beckett, drove him every day."

Andre the Giant and Samuel Beckett? Weird world.
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I think the true story is that Andre couldn't fit on the schoolbus but he kept thinking that maybe his neighor would take him to school. Every day, he waited for the neighbor to come and get him, but the neighbor never showed up.

(How's that for a chain of association? From Mel Gibson to theater of the absurd, by way of Andre the Giant.)
 
Lisa Simpson said:
As discussed in this thread.

Didn't his dad make several anti-Semitic remarks?


http://www.tmz.com
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I think there is a difference between basic anti semitism, or anti black, or anti wop (or whatever) and biblical interpretations that label certain peoples.

I suspect that Mel has plenty of Jewish, Gay, Black or Wop friends, being a Hollywood persona.

He just has whacky ideas about what his god has in store for different people. Nothing personal I suspect, just business (of existence).
 
Nice pic of Mel in that link in Lisas post. Stick some brown contacts on him and it looks like it could be Saddam doing one of his in court rants.
 
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