What's the world coming to when a millionaire filmstar can't whizz about in his car while hammered, threaten a police officer with anal sex and then blame the Jews for every single piece of violence in all of history? It's political correctness gone mad.
But that isn't stopping Mel Gibson from feeling horrified about falling off the wagon, driving about until he got arrested and then telling the police all kinds of crazy crap ranging from how much he dislikes the Jews to how much he likes tits that are made of sugar. Mel Gibson's already sort of apologised once, and entered himself into rehab, but that's not enough. Now Mel Gibson has very specifically apologised to all the Jews for his words. The next step will be for Mel Gibson to drag a backbreaking crucifix to the top of a hill at which point he'll be nailed to it for his sins. It's thought that he got this idea from a film he made, probably Chicken Run.
Looking back, it's fair to say that Mel Gibson has probably had better weeks. His arrest for drink driving has spiralled out of all proportion after he decided to confidentially inform the arresting police officer that the fucking Jews were responsible for all the wars in the world. Add to that a public admission of alcoholism, a lengthy public debate about the future of Mel Gibson's career and the title Sugar Tits entering the public lexicon and Mel Gibson's week becomes knotty to say the least.
That's not to say that Mel Gibson is trying to untangle himself from it all, though – he apologised for the Jew slagging once and has entered rehab, but that isn't stopping everything Mel Gibson-related heading southwards. The Holocaust TV show he was making for ABC has reportedly been axed, and the eight or nine people around the world who were actually looking forward to Apocalypto have probably been put off a bit. More seriously, a British entertainment blog has been running a Mel Gibson Haiku competition all week. This means that it's time for Mel Gibson to pull out the big guns – the direct apology to all the Jews. In a statement, Mel Gibson yesterday said:
“There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologise specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a D.U.I. charge. I am a public person, and when I say something, either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena.”
Not only that, but Mel Gibson has offered to meet up with Jewish leaders for a one-on-one discussion about exactly why telling a policeman out of the blue that the fucking Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world probably isn't the best idea. And the sincerity of Mel Gibson's apology has pleased Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, who responded:
“This is finally an apology. We’re glad that he owned up that what he said was not only offensive, but bigoted. When he’s finished with alcohol rehabilitation, we will be ready and willing to meet with him and to help him get rid of his other addiction, which is prejudice.”
On the surface it looks like Mel Gibson's apology to the Jews is starting to restore some amount of equilibrium to proceedings again, but we're not so sure. Forget the Jews for a minute, where is Mel Gibson's apology to all the sugar-titted women in the world? The already under-represented swathe of Sugar Tits in the community are said to be fuming that the Jews have got all the attention in this furore, and are thought to be planning a mass protest on a scale not seen since Michael Douglas called a waitress 'Custard Minge' in the mid-to-late 1980s.
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Mel Gibson Seeks Forgiveness From Jews – New York Times
[story by Stuart Heritage]