And honestly...

A lot of (rich or middle-class) black people think that "other" (read: "poor" or "ghetto") black people are lazy.

I've heard my Jewish friends joke about how Jews love money.

I have Latino friends who make jokes about Latinos having too many babies.

Gay friends who make wisecracks about queens.

And I haven't heard any of my Asian friends talking about driving habits; but I have heard lively conversations about "Yellow Fever," whatever.

Not one of us here is so enlightened that we don't carry some whacked-out stereotype rattling around in our brains.

All this to say, there will not be a return to Nazi Germany because of Mel's drunken tirade. Jews will not be killed over this. Blacks will not be made to pick cotton in the fields again... breathe deeply. Our rights are still intact. You're in a safe place.

I first saw the movie "Million Dollar Hotel" concurrent to some of the controversy that surrounded the production of Mr. Gibson's passion play and I was always disturbed by a similar comment that occured in the Wim Wenders film where Mr. Gibson is sharing a ride with someone and a comment is made about a certain group of people controlling what the rest of the people read everyday in the papers. I think that it was the person that Gibson's character was sharing the ride with who said it but I remember wondering why that line was there as it did nothing to advance the story and whose idea it was to include it. Related or unrelated, who knows, but it does seem the odd coincidence.

A long time ago I learned that people who say, 'Some of my best friends are Jewish (or black or latino)' simply use that as an excuse to hate the rest of them.

It's okay to hate an entire race/nation/people, but hey, some of my best friends are...

What a load!

I think many people going too far for condemning Gibson out of poltical correctness.

I am not Gibson's fan. I say this out of fairness.

Regardless of his movie star status, Gibson is only a regular guy who said something, which could and obviously hurt himself, when he was drunk.

So what, he has a little bit bias or for some people he has a huge bias. Who doesn't have? You don't have?

I really think so many people condemn Gibson so severely out of political correctness. Gibson becomes a convenient tool for many people to show how unbiased and tolerant they are. In truth, these fellows are all hypocrites.

If it is not because we have this noisy media business compounded by our noisy blog field, this Gibson moment should have been moved on right there when it was happening. If we want to have some reactions, we can simply laugh at Gibson and knowing that people are inclined to do stupid things.

As long as people don't hurt anybody, it is their privacy to hold any type of thoughts in their own minds, even though we may not agree with them.

It is unfair for Gibson to carry such a huge blame for his misbehavior, when we all have our own private ugly moments.

Plus, I suspected that because Gibson's Passion of Christ did so well, many people are simply jealous of him and finally they found the opportunity, created by Gibson himself.

'Who cares about Gibson?', you ask. Perhaps you didn't notice, but this is an article about Mel Gibson. If you got here by mistake, that's okay, but no need for you to stay.

The Romper Room page is somewhere else.

We cross posted. I wasn't referring to your post, but to previous ones.

Is anyone surprised by this? At all? After all we know about his "faith" and his fahter, and that movie about Jesus, does this shock anyone? This article goes a little too far in blowing this out proportion and connecting Mel's drunken tirade with every other right-wing mouth-breather in this country. Too make this moron's garden-variety, whiskey drenched, bigotry seem like a matter of national import, is to grant a level of status and power not fitting such mundane idiocy. The correct response to this kind of behavior, is not to grant Mr. Gibson's most fevered wishes, by making him a martyr again, but to mercilessly ridicule him and others like him. A better article would make fun of the likes of Michael Medved, David Horowitz, and other conservative jews that rushed to the defense of St. Mel when "some" accused his movie of being "anti-semetic." The silence from them is ear-drum shattering, although if they do get around to it, they'll probably say the vicious and unhinged secular left TURNED him anti-semetic with all of their unfair attacks on his wonderful snuff film. How about a comment from William Donahue of the Catholic League? (You know the one who talks about how Hollywood is run by harlots and secular jew who like anal sex? at least he's right about one thing.)

Another thing, has anyone else noticed that Mel gets tortured in literally every single movie he's in? Like all deeply religious folks, and especially Catholics, he's clearly obsessed with pain, suffering, punishment of the body, and redemption through torture. Let's run down the list shall we? Mad Max: family is killed, his arm is run over by several choppers (good but not great) Road Warrior: he get's fucked up pretty bad in that, but still not really torture, Lethal Weapon I: electro-shock treatment in shower, Lethal Weapon II: I'm pretty sure he get's tortured in that too, ditto III and IV Conspiracy Theory: Patrick Stewart definitely waterboards him in that one, Braveheart: when he directs the movie, the gore gets ramped up a notch, we've all seen the end of that one, Payback: his feet are pounded with a meat hammer, The Patriot: family members killed, and he is not tortured, but there is explicit mention of his character torturing POWs in French-Indian war.

Obviously this list is incomplete, but methinks a theme emerges in the Mel Gibson canon. I can't wait for the Holocaust miniseries he's doing for ABC, I hear that it has a happy ending because most of the jews escape to Australia. No big downer ending like all those other jewish hollywood versions.