Mel Gibson's remarks fuel controversy
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I once enjoyed Mel Gibson as an "actor" (tho' I use the term loosely at best). Then he started opening his mouth. Now I won't even go to his movies. And I see he's opening his mouth once again. Not an important story, just made me smile and shake my head. These people get so carried away with themselves... (I could say something about Tom Cruise and Kevin Costner and others, but I'll refrain 
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Mel Gibson's mouth may have landed the actor in hot water once again.
While promoting his new movie, "Edge of Darkness," Gibson is shown on tape making some unsavory comments.
In a video that has now gone viral, Gibson let an expletive slip while he was still wearing a microphone and appearing on camera for a segment on Chicago's WGN-TV with reporter Dean Richards.
Richards asked Gibson if he felt like he was "a different person, a better person," than he was four or five years ago, noting that the actor has "had a lot of ups and downs" since then.
In 2006, Gibson was arrested for driving while under the influence, and allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks to his arresting officers.
During the interview with Richards, Gibson responded that the past few years have been "a real roller coaster ride," but said he thinks he's the same person he always was.
Richards then asked Gibson if he felt the public would receive him differently, at which point Gibson became visibly agitated.
"That's been almost four years, dude," he told Richards. "I've moved on. But I guess you haven't." Richards said he just wondered whether Gibson thought the public had moved on, to which Gibson replied, "Well, I certainly hope so. That was a while back, and I've done all the necessary mea culpas, so ... let's move on, dude."
Richards wrapped up the interview with a standard thank-you-for-coming, and Gibson, drinking coffee, gave the reporter a thumbs-up before muttering a loud-and-clear "a--hole" right into his mic before the satellite feed was cut.
This comes after an interview with CNN affiliate station KTLA, where entertainment reporter Sam Rubin asked Gibson if his long absence from acting had anything to do with the alleged anti-Semitic remarks. Gibson denied he ever uttered statements of that nature, and then asked Rubin, who is Jewish, "I gather you have a dog in this fight?"
Gibson has since apologized to Rubin for the query, Rubin confirmed.
Gibson's publicist Alan Nierob said Gibson was not aiming his expletive at WGN's Richards, but rather at Nierob himself, who was "pulling faces" during the interview.
On Richards' WGN-TV blog, the reporter shared his side of the story.
The interview "was pleasant enough for the first half but as my questions became more challenging, his tone and even physical demeanor changed," Richards wrote.
"I didn't brow beat him. I didn't make a judgment on him," the blog read. "Apparently, he thought I'd back off. We don't roll like that in Chicago. ... A star of his caliber, presumably with good PR people, should have been prepared with a simple response."
Richards said he was shocked to hear Gibson use the expletive "when he thought he was off camera."
In Richards's observation, "famous person or not, the true measure of a person is how they act when they think no one is looking."
As of Wednesday, no one from Gibson's team has reached out to Richards.
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Your favorite guy Bill O'Reilly played that clip last night and gave Gibson a "pinhead" award. Mel Gibson is really something else. He talks like a 16 year old.
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"asshole..." = AWESOME!
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Your favorite guy Bill O'Reilly played that clip last night and gave Gibson a "pinhead" award. Mel Gibson is really something else. He talks like a 16 year old.
Between Gibson and Glover, who'd win in a crazy off ?
*And speaking of 16 yr olds, is Mel still buying beer for his latest g/f ?
The T.Rex they call JANE!
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Personally, I don't really care. I've no interest in celebrities, or their personalities. Many talented and creative people are total assholes. All I care about is their work, and I like most of Gibson's stuff.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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That's about it; and for me, it's colored my appreciation of him as an actor...uh, "celebrity". Never thought he could act in the first place, but some so-called "actors" are quite acceptable within their realm...like Hugh Grant, who I don't think considers himself any real talent, but has found a niche where he's enjoyable.
Mel Gibson is really something else. He talks like a 16 year old.
The ones who get carried away and think they're something special usually turn me off. Gibson is major among them.
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Billionaire Mel is THE MAN! Mel Gibson for President!
Richards is a jew name.
95% of jews are not Semites, so it's impossible to be "anti-semitic" to a non--semite.
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Semite.
A member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including ARABS.
-Merriam Webster Dictionary;
"A 'Semite' is any person living in that area, including Arabs and Christians. It's time we start talking about 'The Other AntiSemitism'. A Semite is not a Jew living in America or Europe."
-Ralph Nader, C-SPAN 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars
www.khazaria.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Ashkenazim.html
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=35105
Jews hate it when their goyim slaves git uppity. Especially during unconstitutional traffic stops, under the kosher Communist Manifesto.
Mel better watch his back tho, or the jews will kill him, like the Rothschilds assassinated their jew "friend" Aaron Russo, producer of Trading Places and America Freedom to Fascism.
www.freedomtofascism.com
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"Fucking Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world, Sugar Tits!"
-Mel Gibson, DUI traffic stop by jew cop (now expunged)
"Strictly speaking, a driver can register a BAC of 0.00% and still be convicted of a DUI. The level of BAC does not clear a driver when it is below the 'presumed level of intoxication.'"
—Tennessee Driver Handbook and Driver License Study Guide
http://piratenews.org/theprohibitiontimes.html
"There's a report out tonight that 24-years ago I was apprehended in Kennebunkport, Maine, for a DUI. That's an accurate story. I'm not proud of that. I oftentimes said that years ago I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much and I did on that night. I was pulled over. I admitted to the policeman that I had been drinking. I paid a fine. And I regret that it happened. But it did. I've learned my lesson."
—President George W. Bush, CNN Larry King Live, November 2, 2000
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushdui1.html
"Cheney’s first DWI conviction came in November 1962 when he was 21. According to the docket from Cheyenne’s Municipal Court, Cheney was arrested for drunkenness and 'operating motor vehicle while intoxicated.' A Cheyenne Police Judge found Cheney guilty of the two charges and hit him with a 30-day suspension of his driver’s license. Cheney also had to forfeit a $150 bond posted at the time of his arrest. Further information about the case - such as the defendant’s blood alcohol content or whether Cheney was jailed following the arrest - is unavailable since other court records from that period have been destroyed, according to Wyoming officials. Details of Cheney’s second Wyoming arrest in July 1963, have also fallen victim to time and records destruction practices at the local Municipal Court. But a police arrest card maintained by the Rock Springs Police Department shows that Cheney was fined $100 for his second DWI conviction. The card lists the charge against Cheney, who was then working as a groundman laying power lines, as '11-44,' the criminal code classification for drunken driving, according to Police Chief Neil Kourbelas. At the time of the Rock Springs arrest, Kourbelas said that local cops and judges would not have known that young Cheney was a repeat offender. The police department, Kourbelas said, 'wouldn’t have had the ability to automatically check with other jurisdictions to find out if anyone had prior arrests or convictions. We could have arrested Jack the Ripper back then and had no idea what he had done.'”
-Allen Trapp, GaDUIblog.com, Top 50 DUI Arrests of All-Time, February 16, 2007
http://gaduiblog.com/category/dui-arrests-that-made-the-news/top-50-du
i-arrests-of-all-time/
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cheney_doc.html
"Shit's gettin way too complicated for me. There are white folks, and then there are ignorant mutherfuckers like you! You can put lipstick on a pig. Sorry ass mutherfucNOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
What names AREN'T Jewish ?
The T.Rex they call JANE!
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Your favorite guy Bill O'Reilly played that clip last night and gave Gibson a "pinhead" award. Mel Gibson is really something else. He talks like a 16 year old.
Between Gibson and Glover, who'd win in a crazy off ?
*And speaking of 16 yr olds, is Mel still buying beer for his latest g/f ?
The T.Rex they call JANE!
As nuts as Mel is, Danny takes that award.
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I remember watching the "Lethal Weapon" series growing up... thought they were sooo cool...
Then I grew up and realized how full of propaganda those movies were.
Kind of made me sick to my stomach.
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