On the bright side, at least he didn’t refer to the reporter as “sugartits”.
Meh, if the reporter was an asshole, then they deserved each other.
If any celebrity deserves to be called out on his bullshit, it’s Mel Gibson. Not even four years have gone by since he mouthed off about the Jews, and he thinks he’s past all the blame and that everyone loves him. He’s a better Catholic than anyone, unless you count the fact that he knocked up his girlfriend before he even got divorced. He’s an antisemitic nutjob, and as far as I’m concerned, the only difference between him in his dad is that he hides it a bit better, at least when he’s not driving drunk off his ass.
And he looks worse than awful. He looks whacked out of his skull. He reminds me of Michelle Bachmann. Not a bad body, but one look at the eyes, and you know you’re dealing with someone whose car fell off the jack a long, long time ago.
Fuck him.
Heard Dean Richards on the radio explaining what happened. Mel’s people asked him several times for an interview and each time they told him that his drinking and other issues were off limits. Surprisingly, since Dean’s about as hard-hitting an interviewer as Diane Sawyer, each time he said no. Finally, they relented, maybe figuring Dean would lob his usual softballs, but I guess they didn’t warn Mel.
I’m a card-carrying member of Da Jooz and even I have to say I see where Gibson was coming from. I would have done the same thing. The interviewer was being an asshole and it was nice to see Gibson stand up for himself instead of taking the loaded question at face value and issuing some groveling apology.
Yeah, but when you get right down to it, the star of *Maverick *called the guy who stands on the opposite side of the anchor desk from the weather man an asshole. Stop the fucking presses.
BINGO—His holier-than-thou hypocrisy has made him a target, and he deserves a lot more scorn than what he has ever faced.
If he wasn’t so fucking self righteous about his “faith” (seemingly on issues he can pick and choose) most people would forget about his bullshit and be happy to let him continue to make vital, inspirational cinematic masterworks like “Lethal Weapon 6—The Blessed Virgin’s Revenge” to his Jew-hating hearts content.
I’m genuinely curious: How was the reporter being an asshole?
He was interviewing someon who was last in the public eye for loutish behavior and anti-Semitic comments. He talked with Gibson about the latest project and then asked a very general question about his past problems. I’m not seeing the problem in that.
He may well be able to get the official DUI charges off his record, but he’s still a hypocritical, adulterous, Jew-hating, drunk-driving asshole. We, the public, need not forget these things.
His “creative break” wasn’t - he needed to lie low because he was/is a hypocritical, drunk-driving, Jew-hating, adulterating asshole.
He didn’t stop at one question. He kept asking variations of the same question after Gibson answered him, apparently thinking that Gibson wasn’t groveling enough.
You realize, of course, this means war.
Guys, Mel’s “new” movie was made in 2007. I’m sure he’s totally forgotten anything related to it.
I tried to find a video to post, but no luck. Anyway, here are the lyrics to “Mad Max Got Pulled Over By a Hebrew” —
http://spaff.com/poesy/madmax.html
Mel’s a jerk, but in a way I feel bad for him. He’s never going to live this down. Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) 20 years later is still that guy who jerked off in the adult cinema, Vanessa Williams, arguably the most successful former Miss America ever, 26 years later is still the one who lost her crown because of a photograph scandal. I’ve never seen any story about her that doesn’t mention it, even if it is a one line blurb (“Former Nude Photo scandal Miss America Vanessa Williams newest album when platinum this week.”). At some point, people should be able to live down their mistakes, especially if they’ve gone on to accomplish more in their lives.
Yeah, hypocritical Jew-hating drunk drivers just can’t seem to catch a decent break these days.
In other words, while I agree with you that Reubens and Williams should be allowed to live their comparatively minor peccadillos down if they can’t do it, then neither can Mel. Guys like Mel should be made to feel uncomfortable every time they open their traps. They *should *have asshole reporters throwing them questions about why they’re such idiots. If he wants to live stuff down, maybe he should try shutting up and acting really sorry for what he did.
I still say this is conclusive proof that we Jews really do run Hollywood. 
Is he hypocritical? He seems fairly open about his dislikes. Reading his bio on Wiki, looks like he’s always been pretty straightforward with his assholism.
Mel Gibson is a jackass and I couldn’t care less about his films, but I’d really like to see someone fool him into playing Tod in another The Day of the Locust movie.
I thought this whole thing was strange. It looked like the interviewer asked some reasonable questions. It looked like Mel had handled the questions just fine. Everything was hunky dory. Then out of nowhere he calls the guy an asshole.
I’m entirely willing to let bygones be bygones on his little drunken rant from years ago, but you can’t really expect that questions about it aren’t reasonable. It might be a bit awkward to answer the questions, but he’s an actor. He just needs to deliver boilerplate discussion and get the discussion to move on.
I’m not saying I personally like Mel, but he has made some decent movies. I really enjoyed Apocalypto, but I think it was completely destroyed by his stupidity. The guy needs to just shut up and make good movies for a while. Nobody ever has to like him.
Note my post, #23.
It doesn’t make it less strange though. Those questions were softballs. It looked like he was letting the guy go, but asking some basic questions because he knows people are interested. Mel was squeaky clean in that interview until he decided to drop the A-bomb. It wasn’t warranted.
I don’t care what he thought he agreed to, he did just fine and anybody should have known it. Then he went all haywire. Sometimes any publicity really isn’t good publicity.