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

91. Well, "Passion" was pretty anti-Semetic ... and any Jew who can speak Hebrew knows it!

Posted at 1:04PM on Aug 1st 2006 by David

92. you wouldn't be making such a big deal of this if mel gibson wasn't a celebrity or if he wasn't the producer of the film Passion of the Christ. i do realize that the jewish community found this film objectionable but it is historically accurate even according to jewish records, and if they don't like to have thier own ugly history they shouldn't be making such a big deal about other events in recent history , such as the terrible treatment the recieved at the hands of the nazis, which the isreali state is so quick to bring to world attention any time isreal does something that might not be such a good thing. i have no problems with the jewish faith but i am real tired of any issue in this country that deals with a religous issue suddenly becoming ACLU fodder and that is what this will become, especially if it can be turned into anti CHRISTIAN sentiment. yes mel gibson needs to face the consequences for his drunk driving just like the rest of us would but to turn this into a race thing is absurd. come on people start livung your own lives will you!!

Posted at 1:06PM on Aug 1st 2006 by sean jackson

93. I think EVERYONE should just let it go!!! This country has bigger fish to fry...TERRORIST...GANGS THAT ARE REALLY HURTING THIS COUNTRY !!!

The man is a human being he made a mistake, Yes he should face the consquences of his DUI like anyone else would, As far as running his mouth that sounds typical of someone drunk, maybe we should start taping every DUI suspect and see how they run their mouths, you'd be suprised at what people say! I know I was married to an alcholic for 22 years!

So instead of judging Mel, Let's all concentrate on what's really important...BRINGING OR MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR FREEDOM (that includes freedom of speach) HOME SAFE AND SOUND!!

Posted at 1:07PM on Aug 1st 2006 by A Fan

94. Dear Anita Clay,

The DaVinci Code was a STORY. It never claimed to be the truth. Only blind naive zealots can't see that.

And guess what? The Bible is a story too.

Sincerely,

Someone Bored with Your Religion

Posted at 1:07PM on Aug 1st 2006 by MyTime

95. Mel's statements about Jews being responsible to all wars is correct. His anti-semetic remarks are NOT needed, although true. We Jews need to hear out those who hate us. We need to embrace those who hate use. Once we do this we will be able to understand why we have been targets of hatred.

Posted at 1:12PM on Aug 1st 2006 by Abraham

96. I am really disappointed that any organization chooses to dismiss the 1st amendment and label anyone based on some comment made under the influence. Suddenly the yellow journalist come out and inflame hatred where possibly none existed prior to tmz's involvement. It appears that tmz's goal is to divide the country on the issue of religion and culture. I can only say shame on them.

Posted at 1:12PM on Aug 1st 2006 by Jim

97. I didn't see my comment yet So I want to say again Let Mel Gibson and his family deal with this Alcohol does strange things to a person Why was his comments while intoxicated even mentioned If he had said wonderful things about people would that have been reported? I think not! Sick of human nature in Orlando Florida

Posted at 1:18PM on Aug 1st 2006 by lucinda whitford

98. Well Mel, things may very well be predetermined. Your stronghold on the Christian community has come to end. I WILL thank GOD for that.

The Truth will always be told, somehow or another, by someone. In your case you!!!! This is absolutely hysterical!!!!! Good job Mel for a job well done at exposing the Anti-Semite that you are.

AMEN and thank you to TMZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 1:19PM on Aug 1st 2006 by gayle

99. What it comes down to is this:

Wouldn't it be nice, if just once, someone who is bigotted actually admitted they were? Like - I think that I'd actually have an ounce of respect for the man if he were to come out and say: "you know what? I've obviously got some bias issues. But I'm going to work on them. And I'm sorry that they came out in this way. But yes. I'm a bigot."

THAT would be an apology that I can accept.

Posted at 1:21PM on Aug 1st 2006 by Mona

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August 1, 2006

Re: Mel Gibson - As a jewish person, who happens to be gay, Mel Gibson has always been kind
to me, to the jewish community, and to the gay/jewish community. He has not been anti-semetic.
I believe that the alcoholic personality was talking, and not Mel Gibson.

As a jewish person, I do not take offense to an otherwise-gentle-and-kind Mel Gibson.


Very Sincerely,

Len Bourret
Poet and Writer


USA Today's Coverage of Mel Gibson...
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-08-01-gibson-abc_x.htm?csp=27...
"I don't take pride in hurting Mr. Gibson," Deputy James Mee told The Associated Press during an interview outside his home.

"What I had hoped out of this is that he would think twice before he gets behind the wheel of a car and was drinking," added Mee, a 17-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department. "That would be my hope that this would accomplish that. I don't want to ruin his career. I don't want to defame him in any way or hurt him."

Mee also said he didn't take any of Gibson's remarks seriously.

Mee, who is Jewish, would not comment specifically on what Gibson said.

"That stuff is booze talking," the deputy said.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-07-31-gibson-tmz_x.htm...

TMZ's antics don't sit well with everyone. Publicist Ken Sunshine, who represents Ben Affleck and Leonardo DiCaprio, applauds the site's "ability to break stories that the traditional media is either too lazy or too incompetent to break. But I hate that they have anything to do with trying to put celebrities into the worst light possible and that they play the 'gotcha' game."
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-08-01-gibson-statement_x.htm?csp=27...

"The tenets of what I profess to believe necessitate that I exercise charity and tolerance as a way of life. Every human being is God's child, and if I wish to honor my God I have to honor his children. But please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot. Hatred of any kind goes against my faith.

I'm not just asking for forgiveness. I would like to take it one step further, and meet with leaders in the Jewish community, with whom I can have a one on one discussion to discern the appropriate path for healing.

I have begun an ongoing program of recovery and what I am now realizing is that I cannot do it alone. I am in the process of understanding where those vicious words came from during that drunken display, and I am asking the Jewish community, whom I have personally offended, to help me on my journey through recovery. Again, I am reaching out to the Jewish community for its help. I know there will be many in that community who will want nothing to do with me, and that would be understandable. But I pray that that door is not forever closed." - Mel Gibson's media statement

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Posted at 1:22PM on Aug 1st 2006 by Len Bourret - Poet and Writer

101. Even in his day, William Shakespeare understood how men's actions were remembered by society: "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. " - From Julius Caesar (III, ii)

Mel Gibson, playing Hamlet, once uttered prophetically:

To be or not to be, --that is the question:--
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?" -- From Hamlet (III, i, 56-61)

Good luck, Mr. Gibson, as you've dug yourself into quite a hole to crawl out. But men have been messing up their lives ever since Adam let Eve talk him into eating that apple. "To err is human."

Posted at 1:23PM on Aug 1st 2006 by Maurice Graham

102. People make mistakes, and if you claim to have never done so, you then are deceiving yourself as well as others. We are taught to forgive! That is what we must do. We wonder why there are so many problems in this world we live in, well maybe if so many people didn't dwell and would actually forgive we would be in alot better place. I am a huge fan of him and all of the heart and soul it took to make a film such as The Passion and he has been under fire ever since the start of the making of the film, now there was a mini-series in the works about the Holocost and it just so happens that it coinisides with a DUI arrest (which by the way is the same as a DWI, they have just changed the language) in which all these statements where made. The Passion was unsuccessfully stopped, which had alot of people fuming, but this mini-series, it has now been canceled, it kinda makes you wonder???? Mel has been a man and apologized from the heart what more can a person do, there is nothing that can be done that would please everyone, it's just one more thing for people to gripe about, get over yourselves, maybe try taking in mass!!

Posted at 1:23PM on Aug 1st 2006 by Sarah

103. For all those big-hearted souls who are so willing to forgive Mr. Gibson his recent behavior, I'd like to ask the following: if he had used the word "Jesus" instead of "Jew" in his tirade, would you remain so complacent? If a famous Hollywood Jew (how about Steven Spielberg, for example) were arrested for drunken driving, during which he shouted "Jesus is responsible for all the wars in the world" or "Fucking Christians" or some similar anti-Christian venom, what would you want that celebrity's future to look like? Might there be a double standard evident here?

[ By the way, Mr. Spielberg's name is used here merely to make a point. I am quite sure that he would never in a million years harbor any anti-Christian sentiment whatsoever.]

Posted at 1:27PM on Aug 1st 2006 by Mo

104. The focus should be on the drunk DRIVING - drunks always say stupid, rambling, inane, hurtful things. I see there was an anti-female comment too, but it hasn't gotten the press because the headlines are all about religion these days - this should be about getting drunks off the road - they'll continue to say stupid things, but I hope they are walking when they do. Drunk drivers kill ALL religions indiscriminately !!

Posted at 1:27PM on Aug 1st 2006 by DJ

105.
Why kick a guy when he is down? Obviously he has "issues" and he was upfront about them -- alcohol being one of them to Diane Sawyer on national television -- then lets look at ourselves in the mirror and stop acting so self righteous. Anger and bitterness isn't going to help this situation. Its not helping around the world.. Fear, anger and bitterness is what you see erupting around the world needless to say in the middle east. We say with one hand... lets live in peace-- but how quickly we turn into the "ANGRY MOB".

I support Israel and I support Healing. Healing is always needed...for Mel and for all of us. As for that BBC article I just read...where is this "FBI" concrete proof of those allegations of Mel funneling money into Palestine?.. Just because its in print, doesn't mean its true. BBC "Big Bad Communication"

Posted at 1:28PM on Aug 1st 2006 by mve