BULLETIN: Gibson: "I'm Not an Anti-Semite"

256. Burn in hell, Mel.

Posted at 10:19AM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Iseult

257. I totally agree with Mel Gibson's remarks. I have had nothing but bad experiences with Jewish people and personally can't stand a single one. GOOD FOR YOU MEL!!!! YOu have my 100% support. The JEWS are just mad because you are taking their HOLLYWOOD MONEY!!! THUMBS UP!!!!!

Posted at 11:04AM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Cathilog Girl

258. What comes out of anyone's mouth while intoxicated cannot be discounted. Liquor opens the floodgates or our innermost feelings regardlless of how we present ourselves on a daily basis in all that we do. I am glad that he has sought help for his addiction(s) and only hope that he is seriously seeking recovery and not doing this due to the direction of his publicist and or agent.

I have a boyfriend who made a negative remark about gays at a party I had thrown several years ago.....and now when I introduce him to friends, I introduce him as a recovering homophobe. He doesn't appreciate this, but understands that you must admit and accept responsibility for his actions before he can GROW UP!!!!
and seek forgiveness. Talk is cheap. Walk the walk.

Posted at 11:17AM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Leslie Ross

259. Mel Gibson was drunk he said things he didnt mean......so why is it any different from anyone else like down the street?!?! There are much worse things that people do when drunk! So this shouldnt be such a big issue!

Posted at 11:21AM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Allena

260. Hmmm.
Do you people edit any of these posts? I just wondered as I posted twice and cannot find any of my posts.

Look, Mel Gibsons Catholic faith --along with his Dads is not without bigotry. We all live with it daily.

I am a recovering alcoholic and I can understand Mel stating what he says. And , know what the Hollywood police can do to you.
He has apologized--twice and has asked the Jewish hiearchy for a hearing.

Then all this becomes amusing to me. Those that vilify Mel with his anti-semitism comments make anti-free speech comments and then become like the person they are hammering with comments.

I got an idea to satisy all of you Mel haters---give him a B ar Mitzvah.

Eli

Posted at 11:27AM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Eli Grba

261. Give Mel Gibson a break!!!! At least he is facing his alcohol problem and taking full responsibility for it. More than Ted Kennedy did when he allowed a girl to drown a few years back because he was drunk and not man enough to take the blame for it. Doubt if he even got a slap on the wrist. He was not cruisified for it so why should Mel be???? WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

Posted at 11:28AM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Shirl

262. This is not about Mel, not about Jews,or bigotry, or the Passion,the Holocaust, or drunk driving,this is a plan that has been going on since man arrived on the scene.Whether you believe in God or not, man isn't in charge here(isn't that evident with all past history)The Lord's word tells us this before it happens, and its being played out in front of our eyes, including the wars that are going on.This has turned into a platform for everyone else but Mel Gibson.Get out of your pajamas, take a shower, go to work, and try and do something nice for someone you don't know, lets let hate take a vacation for awhile, this is wearing me out.:)
JC in Colorado

Posted at 11:33AM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Joey

263. For every Mel, there are hundreds, if not thousands of people out there who feel imtimidated about expressing their doubts or criticisms of Israeli policies in the middle-east, or Jewish influence in the US.

This fear of being branded an "anti-semite" just for expressing your opinions, causes people to go "underground" with their feelings. Then resentment sets in. Sooner or later, these festering beliefs explode, as in Mel's case.

So what happens next? Mel has to get down on his knees and beg for forgiveness. He has only begun. His knees will get really sore pretty soon. And for what? For expressing his opinion. And who knows, this might end his career. And for what, for expressing (granted, in an obscene way) what many others, including some Jews, might be feeling.

What should we be doing? We should be exploring what lies beneath Mel's comments. We should be exploring why we are so upset. If Mel had said that he believes "All wars are caused by Islam", or "All wars are caused by religion", or "All wars are caused by western white men", how would we have reacted. It wouldn't be as big an issue, I'm sure.

Why is it that only comments against Israel or Jews cause such an outrage?We don't need Mel's apology. We need an explanation. Because Mel is not alone. There needs to be an open discussion about these issues, without the fear of being called an anti-semite, or being called a "self-hating Jew", or being black-balled from Hollywood or politics, or wherever.

We can learn from Mel's experience. We can learn that we shouldn't suppress critical opinions of us just because we have the power to.

Now, I invite you all to criticise me.

Posted at 3:16PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Amre Amer

264. Cut the man some slack. He did a stupid thing, he knows it and is trying to apologize. At least he's remorseful unlike many others...

Posted at 3:24PM on Aug 3rd 2006 by e

265. I have'nt met a Jewish person yet who does not want our money! They are demanding, arrogant and condescending. They are not better than us. They, for the most part, are buttholes!!!! They are living in our country because it is free. They send money back to their country and our loyal to them, not us. In it for their country. I say, Go back there !!

Posted at 10:07PM on Aug 3rd 2006 by Bud

266. come on.. the jewish community has been upset with mel since he pointed out CORRECTLY that history shows the jews helped crucify jesus! they are all for freedom of speech as long as whos talking is saying what they want. leave mel alone..only in hollywood can you get maligned for drinking! geez.. oh and btw.. which of the dirty cops let what was said out of the bag??? hummm??? i thought those POLICE REPORTS WERE PRIVATE!!!

Posted at 10:41PM on Aug 3rd 2006 by anita barringer

267. He's disgusting. He hides his ugly nature behind those baby blues, but he's a bigot. Ya'all can deal with it any way you chose...but I've seen my last Gibson movie...

Posted at 12:14AM on Aug 4th 2006 by Trish

268. Sadly, Jesus said it best: "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." Alcohol does not turn us into someone we are not. It reveals what's going on internally. One is in denial if you think otherwise.

I have always wondered if Mel was a for real believer. I have wanted to believe in him, and that he is. However, I am now very doubtful.

How can you be a devotee of Jesus, who was a Jew, who loved Jews and the Jewish scriptures, and make anti-semitic remarks? There is clearly an anti-semitic history in the Catholic church, and it is evil. As a Christian I want to tell every Jew and gentile, We gentile Christians are not anti-semitic. We are thankful for the Jewish people. We have great respect for their perseverance, as a people and as a nation.

Didn't Jesus go the cross for anyone's sins? Read the Bible Isaih 53, Romans 1-3. If Mel had read the New Testament and took it to heart, he'd have to choose between Jesus and anti-semitism. In true form, they are incompatible.

Forgiveness is right, if true repentence is obvious. But Mel, you better be honest with the world first before you apologize.

Lori Scharfenkamp -Michigan

Posted at 10:51AM on Aug 5th 2006 by Laura Scharfenkamp

269. I think people should leave Mel Gibson alone, the man apologized for what he said twice, he's suffered enough. Michael Moore made anti-semetic comments, why the hell wasn't he punished for it? I see a double standered. I see the hypocrisy, Howard Stern says the word n*gger, fag on his show constantly, he makes fun of people dying in plane crashes and car accidents, where's the outrage? It's funny the same people bashing Mel Gibson support Howard Stern, and Howard makes all kinds of racist remarks on his show. Did Barbra Walters apologize for calling a black womens kids little creatures? What is somebody called a little Jewish kids little creatures? They would've gotten tha chair? I'm sure, half the people in Hollywood and the people in the media bashing Mel get drunk and make simular comments. I think what Mel Gibson said was wrong, but if you go after Mel Gibson go after Michael Moore and these other celebrities who make simulare comments about minorites.

Posted at 11:03AM on Aug 5th 2006 by Bill Price

270. I think that anti-semitic is too harsh and specific. A person's judgement loosens up so much, drunk. They become more EVERYTHING; period. What a drunk person says is based upon the circumstances, and momentary perceptions. Were the circumstance involving a ballarina and candy corn, those items would have been passionately addressed, in drunken fashion.

"I love you, man!!" Duh...?!??!!

Huh...!!! ( Let him who has never said something they don't really mean cast the first stone. )

~ k

Posted at 10:22AM on Aug 6th 2006 by Karen Frank