Tel-Chai Nation

Mel Gibson gave a long interview to Deadline (via The Daily Caller), but once more, comes off very unsatisfyingly, and makes an awfully absurd statement:

DEADLINE’S ALLISON HOPE WEINER: Were people angry at you about what you said on tapes?
GIBSON: I was angry at me. But, no one expressed any anger at me. They may have felt it.

Earth to Gibson: if I'm any suggestion, there are people who're angry at you, even for what you said to your former girlfriend. In Hollywood, unfortunately, most fools in the business probably wouldn't be. And it doesn't matter if she was trying to lure you into the open deliberately; those vulgar cracks you made were still unacceptable.

WEINER: People didn’t understand how you could say the things you did on these tapes. They wondered, what kind of person says those things. Right now, many people think you’re a racist and that you hate women from listening to those tapes.
GIBSON: I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality -- period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.

Stuff it, Gibson, it's just not helping. You already set a bad example with your questionable take on the history of Jesus that Dennis Prager saw for what it was, and have all the earmarks of a flake.

I guess the following is something to be impressed by though:

WEINER: Are you worried that audiences will hold what happened against you, and you won’t be able to act anymore?
MEL GIBSON: I don’t care if I don’t act anymore.

WEINER: Really? Is that true?
GIBSON: It really is true.

Well let's hope it is. I suggest he go and live like a hermit for all I care. But sadly, he'll probably try and get into politics, which is unsuitable for people like him.

Labels: anti-semitism, misogyny, racism, showbiz, United States