Letters to the Editor
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What an idiotic article
What an idiotic article. If this is an attempt at sarcasm Cary, I think maybe you should go back to giving advice to the sexually confused and the perpetually depressed...
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This explains a lot
I often wonder how people can be so easily mislead by right wing nutjobs in this country, then I read the letters column here and see an astonishing lack of humor. Not just a lack of humor, but also the apparent lack of intelligence necessary to appreciate that the article might be intended as humor. You don't have to get it, you don't have to like it, but for the love of Pete, recognize a joke for what it is! Understand that humorous articles have a place in magazines, on-line or otherwise. Then again, when the Righties try to make jokes, they're usually poorly attempted they likely don't realize when they see it being done well.
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Mel got drunk, drove, and blamed the Jews for it
It's funny, it doesn't matter how many of you say it's not, it is. Cary's article was also funny.
Besides being funny though, driving drunk was incredibly wrong, and it was a lot more wrong than his anti-semitic rant. Mel's anti-semitism isn't going to kill anyone. His drunk driving could have.
Mel deserves to be chastised for his anti-semitism, but it's stupid to focus in on that and have angels on the head of a pin arguments about just how anti-semitic he is, or he isn't, when what people should really be upset about is that he was driving drunk. Cary's article maybe was a little on the cute side, but if you read it carefully, you will get the deeper message; anti-semitism, bad, drunken driving, worse.
I say this as a staunch defender of Israel, and a long time critic of anti-semites. Read some of my other letters. To say I don't like anti-semites is really understating the case.
have you ever been arrested for drunken driving by a Jewish sheriff?
The humorless letter writers who've responded so far really should lighten up.
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end it
It's long past boring. Who really gives a shit what this drunken actor said?
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Hey Sparky the Wonder Pony...
Why don't you try living as a Palestinian for a change?
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Cups of Tea and Cucumber Sandwiches
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New Respect (And at least it's good tequila)
Well Cazadores is excellent tequila, so he's also got that going for him. Most enjoyable CT article in years, I have new respect.
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I still want to know what he said about women
Why aren't any of the 3+ articles on Salon saying what he said about women??
hellooooo anyone out there???
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Re: Bad Aftertaste
Jesus Christ, Sparky, are you really that dense?
(Oops, I just used a Christian expletive, I must be anti-semetic.)
What part of Cary's humorous account of a drunk Mel Gibson addresses Jewish "hyper-sensitivity"? The only evidence we have of that is your letter.
Guess what? Jews aren't the only people who reacted "strongly" to Gibson's remarks. I've read, and agreed with, tons of news stories and commentaries about it, and I'm not Jewish. Gibson is obviously a raving bigoted lunatic. Has anyone argued otherwise? Apropos your letter, did Cary imply otherwise?
I can appreciate the difficulties that Jews (and other minorities) face, and yet STILL enjoy someone making fun of a drunken bigot. In fact, the humor is there to *undermine* the bigotry. You see, making fun of something is the *opposite* of supporting it. See how that works?
And to take your "test": I can't speak for Cary, but I would feel exactly the same about this situation if Mel had used the N-word. Why should the object of his bigotry matter? A bigot is a bigot is a bigot.
Why don't you take your own test: Mel used the N-word, and Cary wrote the exact same article. Do you still write your letter?
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Yoo-hoo, Cosmic Mojo!
I posted this the last time you asked:
He called the officer's partner "Sugartits"
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Nigh on redemption for CT
Yes, this highly entertaining piece nearly redeems CT for all those flaccid advice collumns.
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Mel is no lightweight drinker
The fact that Gibson behaved in such a deranged manner on a relatively low level of intoxication is yet further evidence of a serious problem. In third-stage alcoholism, the liver loses its ability to process alcohol and the alcoholic can be extremely drunk on very little alcohol.
I'm surprised at Tenis' somewhat mocking tone and attempt to 'sissify' somebody who is probably desparately ill and perhaps dying from alcoholism.
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Finally!
So far, this is the ONLY thing that Cary Tennis has every written that I've enjoyed. Not just enjoyed, but actually laughed out loud and snarfed coffee out my nose upon reading. Awesome. Thank you. Seriously, if he just wrote things like this instead of stream-of-consciousness-disguised-as-advice-column schlock, my life would actually be better.
Now that I've enjoyed it, can you guys plase stop showing me those ads that ask if I like distinctive writers like Cary Tennis? The answer is, yes, when he's distinctive. Like this. But the picture of him with no eyebrows is really kind of freaky.
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simply hilarious!
I've always been a fan of Cary, but nothing he's written has ever made me laugh so hard. Fantastic!
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Yay Cary
I have to disagree with anyone who dislikes the article because they think Cary is being unsensitive. The guy has more empathy than you can handle. I think he managed to fully cut M.G. down to size without being, well, mean.
Some may think all this attention to a drunken movie star is sensationalist, but I think that millions of people condemning someone for being an anti-semite is a good thing. That is sick. His alcoholism is also sick, and sad. But the reason that it could be considered relatively acceptable to lampoon such a self-glorifying asshole is his hypocrisy.
This isn't just your average playboy Hollywood story. Mel Gibson has a lot of power--cultural power. I don't know about you, but it's been what, 3 years?, and I still get invitations to see "The Passion" at my nearest fill-in-the-blank Christian church in my mailbox. It was hugely popular, and it's popularity gave the Christian mainstream some kind of intense entitlement issues.
Now he's trying to rewrite Mayan history. He was apparently trying to rewrite the Holocaust, as well. And you still say Mel Gibson doesn't matter?