LAist: Mel Gibson Round-up: Cover-up? Sugar Tits? Who Really Owns Malibu?

heartattackandvine

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:03:38 -0800

tony, you're drunk.

Tony Pierce

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:16:32 -0800

heres what i have to keep in check when im buzzed bordering on drunk: kissing fugly girls heres what i have to keep in check when im drunk: walking, barfing, peeing on the rim of the bowl i do not turn into a Yankee fan, i do not start praying to the devil, i do not start loving Coldplay all of a sudden. the "legal" limit was established mostly to determine how many drinks you can have before you cant operate a car. i dont know about you, but ive been buzzed before, ive been drunk before, and ive been around LOTS of drunk people in my time. never have i heard anyone talk about "the jews" or any other group while drunk who didnt already have issues with that group. mel's toast.

David Markland

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:55:38 -0800

I think whether or not anti-Semitism is in Gibson's heart is debatable, but what isn't debatable is that different people react differently when drunk. If, as you indicate, Gibson wasn't really drunk - just technically drunk - and that he had his wole wits about him, I would agree that his actions may be unforgivable. But it sounds like he was a little more trashed than what would constitute as the "legal limit". And even if he has a disdain for Jews in his subconcious, I would argue that most of us, unfortunately, have prejudices withing ourselves that we often have to keep in check. Not so that we're politically correct, but because sometimes you have to work to fight these same false prejudices.

Tony Pierce

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:33:04 -0800

1.3 blood alcohol level is legally drunk but does it make you say crazy things that arent in your heart? 1.3 is like 4-5 drinks. a normal drinking night for most. i dont know about you, but this old man has had scores of "normal drinking nights" and ive never said anything remotely like this. when Gibson reportedly said that he was "fucked" in the back of that sheriff's car, he was right on the money.

David Markland

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:59:49 -0800

"It seems that Mel has the misfortune of choosing the wrong race to be racists against. It's also an industry which has in the past 30 years had approximately 100,000 Arab villains and zero non-animated Arab heroes." Very, very, very true. Hollywood still works with Spike Lee, after all, who in the past has made a number of bigoted comments about whites. Gibsons comments are shameful, but how seriously can anyone take the tirades of a drunken old man?

Barry

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:04:34 -0800

There is no way that Mel Gibson should be boycotted. A confessed alcoholic should not be held to his incoherent ramblings whist in the middle of a bender. Of course, it's embarrassing that he's shown himself to be anti-semetic (when he's drunk!), but he also thought he owned Malibu and called a cop "sugartits." When the first comment is taken in the context of the other two outrageous comments, you have to admit that it's comedy. Clearly, he's delusional (about still being sexy enough to pull an arresting officer with the old "sugartits" line and being King of the Malabuans), and, yes, he may have some personal issues with certain Jews (although to my mind "the Passion" wasn't antisemetic, and the A-DL still tried to prevent everyone from seeing it... Touche!). So, Mel has issues that need to be worked out through 12 steps and reconcilliation not through boycott or blacklisting. The A-DL is trying to nuke him, and I find that a little McCarthyist. Listen up, boys! He's already done the damage; There is no need to pile on. He apologized straight away, and threw himself at the mercy of public opinion. He's a drunk, he's already down, and he shouldn't be kicked.

Franklin

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:12:24 -0800

I agree with Emmanual that there is no room for racism in Hollywood or anywhere else. But it does seem disingenous that an industry which trades on anti-black racism for years, and surely contains many, many anti-black bigots, is not calling for a boycott of someone. It seems that Mel has the misfortune of choosing the wrong race to be racists against. It's also an industry which has in the past 30 years had approximately 100,000 Arab villains and zero non-animated Arab heroes. Again, I am not excusing Mel or saying that people should give him a break or anything like that! But I am saying that like so much else in Hollywood, there is more then a whiff of hypocrisy in calls for a boycott of Mel.

nola

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:04:46 -0800

Tony Pierce should get an award for cramming so many irrelevant cliches into one comment. As if a drunken driving story has anything to do with Bush and WMD. Get over the elections already, loser.

Rob McMillin

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:56:12 -0800

And man, check out that Osama Bin Gibson pic at the bottom.

The Holywriter

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:12:34 -0800

Now now boys, stay on topic. I've tasted many a tit and can't say they've been sugar-like, but always sweet.

David Gentry

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:54:10 -0800

I wouldn't believe the drive by media as Rush Limbaugh calls them as far as I could throw cake under water. They have done nothing in the past forty years or so but lie, mislead, omit, and even go as far as actually fabricate material, just to further their cause, which is in my opinion Anti-American. Why don't we wait until Mel actually tells us himself.

Tony Pierce

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:52:05 -0800

TMZ is owned by Time Warner AOL. thats why not only the local news is running with it, but why every other news source believes it too.

not sure

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:30:58 -0800

Wait a minute, isn't all of this Mel-is-anti-semitic info based solely on one website? Has any reputable source vouched the info? Maybe he is but it sure does seem odd that as soon as some unknown site makes the claim, all the local news run with it.