Mel Gibson--In Vino Veritas?

Uh-oh. If he'd said Mormons, I'd have laughed.

Doesn't Mel Gibson have a RIGHT to be anti-Jew, if he wants to be?

Not when he claims he is not anti-Jew and that his film "The Mashin' of the Christ" was not meant to be anti-Semitic when it obviously is and it's why the Catholic church discourage passion plays over the past several decades. He's an arrogant hypocrit with nothing to really back it up. Passion wasn't a director's movie. It was a cinematographer's, film music composer and costumer's movie. The acting was just this side of ham and cheese.

Yes.

But, because of the rights of (hopefully) lots of people who reject that type of sentiment, he may wish he hadn't exercised that right.

And, as LW said, he's caught in a lie.

Maybe he should become a politician.

Lie? But, how could he have lied, when he was drunk and totally unaware of what he was saying.

If sane( and sober ), would he have called the woman Cop, "Sugar Tits" as all the news stations are now reporting?

I guess if David Duke can win an election...

He had a 1.2 reading. Not exactly so drunk that he didn't know what he was saying. He was drunk enough that he let his guard down and spoke what he felt.

The man has the right to his predjudices, but we have an equal right to reject him and his movies.

Oh, gawd, don't encourage him to run for office. We've already got groppin' Ahnold as the governator.

The other aspect of this is he is fearlessly stupid for driving that stretch of the PCH -- it's a speed and DUI trap. Maybe he wanted to get caught?

Of course he has a right to be anti-Semetic. Of course he has the right of free speech and the right to express his views in public.

Of course, other people have a right to object to anti-Semitism and vulgar sexism and drunken driving and boasting of connections that put him above the CA motor vehicle code.

He has a right to say anything he wants to say, but if he's caught distorting reality and playing the public for damn fools.....

No one poured the drink down his throat. No one pushed him behind the wheel of the car. No one twisted his arm to inspire him to drunken blathering.

He did it all himself--as is his right.

Sow the wind and you reap the whirlwind. This is a fertile time for tornados and hurricanes.

Can you imagine what his next confession will sound like.

The lie - or hypocratic behavior - wasn't what he said while drunk; it was what he apparently said on some other occasion while sober, re not being antisemitic, and/or his film not being so. I don't know what he said in that regard, not having closely followed the matter.

Good one, xingu.

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I shouldn't have said what I said. Now, what can I do for damage control?

I'm not a Christian, but I've known many good Christians. Living up to one's principles isn't easy--and blaming the bottle is an easy copout.

Hypocratic, eek, I think I misused that word. I meant behavior containing hypocrisy.

Actually I think the bottle made him more honest. It allowed him to express what he thought.

He became unihibited and expressed himself to the cops of LA.