# What is your take on the Mel Gibson story? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 30, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627 "2006-07-30T23:32:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/61 "2006-08-01T19:10:34Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] I think Mel just needs to embrace Xenu. [/QUOTE] I used to think he just needed to embrace _me_, but this incident has rendered him unfuckable. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/62 "2006-08-01T19:57:48Z")
Didn’t Mel piss off the Gay community a few years back? Did he ever even apologize? He seemed to glide his way out of that with no problems. > [@](#): > > [In the original interview](http://www.qrd.org/qrd/media/people/1995/mel.gibson.antigay.history-wockner-06.02.95), in the Dec. 1 issue of the El Pais Sunday magazine, Gibson was directly asked his opinion of > homosexuals. He responded, “They take it up the ass.” > > According to El Pais, he laughed, got up, bent over, pointed to his butt, and continued, “This is only for taking a shit.” > > (“Que les den por el culo.” Gibson se rie, se levanta, pone el trasero en pompa y se lo senala. “Esto es solo para hacer caca.”) > > The interviewer recalled that Gibson previously had expressed fear people would think he is gay because he’s an actor. He responded: "With this look, who’s going to think I’m gay. > > “I don’t lend myself to that type of confusion. Do I sound like a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?” > > (“?Quien va a pensar que con esta pinta soy gay? Yo no me presto a ese tipo de confusiones. ?Sueno como un homosexual? ?Hablo como ellos? ?Me muevo como ellos?”) Now he insults Jews and apologizes TWICE and apparently it’s not enough. I’m preparing to be offended that it’s okay to insult Gays and not apologize, but God forbid you get drunk and insult JEWS. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/63 "2006-08-01T20:14:21Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] > [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > I think Mel just needs to embrace Xenu.[/end quote]I used to think he just needed to embrace _me_, but this incident has rendered him unfuckable. Interesting you say that. Personally I thought he passed that point a long time ago. I’ve long since found him rendered that and unwatchable, having chosen not to support his box office. The two occurrences coincided for me. With respect to his apology, yes, it was better than the weaselly “I’m sorry if anyone was offended” type of apology, but it does not change the substance of the wrong, nor does it change the substance of his underlying beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/64 "2006-08-01T20:31:46Z")
I think most Hollywood actors are much more appealing when they keep their mouths shut. Personally I’m amazed that Mel turned out as well as he has given his upbringing. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/65 "2006-08-01T21:10:43Z")
[QUOTE=PastAllReason] [QUOTE=Kalhoun] Interesting you say that. Personally I thought he passed that point a long time ago. I’ve long since found him rendered that and unwatchable, having chosen not to support his box office. The two occurrences coincided for me. With respect to his apology, yes, it was better than the weaselly “I’m sorry if anyone was offended” type of apology, but it does not change the substance of the wrong, nor does it change the substance of his underlying beliefs. [/QUOTE] I never heard about the gay bashing he did. I started wondering about him when the Passion stuff was happening, but I don’t remember seeing anything about him directly (more about his father), so I was reserving judgement. I’ve always enjoyed his movies, but now that all of this has come to light, well, that changes everything. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/66 "2006-08-01T21:13:28Z")
The really weird thing is that BAC .12 isn’t really drunk enough to expect that kind of behavior. I mean, it’s drunk, but relatively speaking it’s not _that_ drunk. Driving impairment, slurred speech, delayed reaction time and all that, but you usually don’t see a full-on screaming obscenities and racial slurs at the police shit-fit at that level of intoxication, that’s more like what you’d expect at .17 or .18. Strange. ---
**Author:** ![Gene\_Frenkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gene\_Frenkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gene_Frenkle)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/67 "2006-08-01T21:33:27Z")
I think it is damn lucky for him he had been drinking. He would have probably spewed the same shit if he was pulled over for speeding and wasn’t drunk. The alochol gives him a piss poor excuse, but any excuse is better than none. Without the 0.12, what would he have said caused the outburst? Sleepiness? Stress? Reaction to prescription medication? And I agree with above, a 0.12 is definitely not enough alochol to make you not know what’s coming out of your piehole. I also wonder how the reaction would differ if he had railed on blacks instead of Jews. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/68 "2006-08-01T23:21:10Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] I’m preparing to be offended that it’s okay to insult Gays and not apologize, but God forbid you get drunk and insult JEWS. [/QUOTE] Here’s a Jew (sorta) who agrees with you. I already knew he was a homophobic sonofabitch; it’s hardly surprising that he’s a Jew-hater, too. Anyone up for blacks? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/69 "2006-08-02T00:00:36Z")
I’m guessing that the process of becoming unadored is going to be exceedingly painful for him. Instead of everyone looking at him, he’s going to have to start looking at himself. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/70 "2006-08-02T00:15:21Z")
I believe the guy, and I doubt he actually hates Jewish people. People getting arrested can say some mean, crazy shit, especially when drunk. I knew a guy who got arrested for a DUI and he later told me he just went crazy and became the biggest asshole in the world, calling the policewoman a fuckin’ dyke along with tons of other demeaning anti-gay crap and insults. This is a guy who actually doesn’t hate gay people at all. He just happened to hate one gay person at the time (his boss), who the policewoman happened to strongly resemble. I will never believe he actually secretly hates gay people. Therefore I do not believe that Mel Gibson hates jews based on statements he made in a drunken rage while getting arrested. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/71 "2006-08-02T00:41:38Z")
I’m astonished by the amount of anti-Semitism on the IMDb forums for Gibson. Almost everyone there seems to be a Nazi or affiliated with some kind of anti-Semitic or racist ideology, all spewing rhetoric about Jew-controlled Hollywood and the Zionists. A notable exception is gonzo pop-culture commentator Mike Passion, who sometimes posts on the IMDb forums. Here’s what he had to say about the incident: > [@](#): > > I was an onlooker and viewed the whole bloody thing, believe me. Mel was using his Fhoard Falchion, the last V-8 interceptor on the planet earth. When he reared down Muhammad drive, he hit the oscillation over-thruster on his car which accosted him to reach about 567,000 PRM’s down the causeway. Once he hit 5672,000 MPR’s, the police force seen this, and they pulled over his micro-machine. That’s when I seen this guys looks. This man is wretched, old and blue, with weird wrinkles, wharfs, green skin tone, and deep abrasions above his eyes, hilts, lips, and has husks about his face. Bent with boils, he stepped from his car with lesions about his face and crusts. Haunched and defeated, Merl had a long, unkempt spinach which was wisp and weak about his chint. His hair was a forelock and horn rims with moss forming around his hairline. From his nose, boogerts and past participles hung grotesquely, signifying the fact that he neglects his buddy. He was wearing his old Wrigley custom-fit red leather jacket complete with epaulets, strap, and stirrups. He had this outfit since he was with the coalition force with his best friend, Dim Goose, who got blown in the outback and became a green, eggplant man betwixt two burnt weenies. When Melt got out from the car, the police sucked his breath with a leather windpipe, and made him chew and spit double-mint to relieve his tension. His breathe revealed 167% toxicification. They pit him in the squad car for safe keeping until the ambulate arrived, but that’s when Mel transfigured between the cushions of the cruiser. He had the temperament of a deacon. He turned blood red and swelled with evil bicarbonate forces, screaming like a banshee, spurting milk and oatmeal, and raving whilst shunting in his pant and yelling into the cushions. That’s went he looked like a daemon. He clambered out from the pleasure cruiser and proclaimed his haltered for Jews which his dad, Worth Gibson, taught him. “They ruined my life, they did this,” said Bumbaud. He said his god would destroy the east, and crush the Jews in Howard, Jersey, and where ever. He said his raiment changed green and he had the look of a blue devil with fangs. He ran, shrinking to five feet tall and began biting the tires of his trans-am. He cried like a child and threw a fit, decreasing in size to about four foot. Because of this, the force apprehended him easily and locked him within the Halls of Justice in Sacramento. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627/72 "2006-08-02T18:51:55Z")
[Gibson asks to meet with Jewish Leaders](http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/4087848.html) Who are the Jewish leaders? I’m guessing that Hal Linden and Abe Vigoda are two, but are there others? He admits he made the comments but says he’s not an anti-Semite and states that “I am in the process of understanding where those vicious words came from during that drunken display”. I can help him with that: you’re a nutcase and a drunk and a total horse’s ass when you drink. That will be $189 please; please know we don’t file for Blue Cross, cash only. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-take-on-the-mel-gibson-story/366627.md?page=3)