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July 31, 2006
Mel Gibson Is An Idiot
For the record, I never liked the Lethal Weapon movies. I thought they were paint-by-numbers scripts with dialed-in performances. And frankly, Shrek has a better Scottish accent than Mel Gibson's William Wallace did.
Of course everybody has heard by now of Mel Gibson showing his true colors and true beliefs during his recent DUI arrest in California. Driving 87 in a 45 while having a blood alcohol level of .12, Gibson set off on a tirade that was alternately megalomaniacal and hateful, but consistently pathetic, Gibson proved correct everyone who said "The Passion of the Christ" was anti-Semitic.
He not only got pulled over for DUI at 2:30 a.m. on Friday after driving more than 80 mph, he became belligerent with the arresting officers, tried to flee to his car and had to be handcuffed, then yelled, “I own Malibu!” and “You’re going to regret you ever did this to me!” But his anti-Semitic remarks really set this apart from the usual formulaic Hollywood busts. He allegedly said, “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” and then asked a deputy, “Are you a Jew?”
I suppose it's too much to ask that the Hollywood community drum Gibson's pathetic uber-right wing ass out of the business. Then again, not only would that make him an even bigger hero to the Christian right, but it would make him a martyr among his father's friends (his father has famously called the Holocaust "mostly fiction" and Gibson has famously declined to repudiate his father's beliefs). And, as my brother mentioned in an e-mail this afternoon,
Ironically, if Hollywood does run him out of town for being an anti-Semite, it will seem to prove the existence of the "Elders of Zion" kind of world conspiracy that people like Gibson want so deeply to believe in: the hidden
hand of a cabal of Jewish power brokers who run the world and can make or break anyone as they will.
Sad thing is, he's right. Then again, I don't care. Gibson's an idiot, an anti-Semite, and an extremist, and he has earned pariah status. Hopefully, both Hollywood and the movie-going public reject everything he touches from here on out.
