Gibson says controversial tirade was ‘a gift’

SuzannePjam

Gibson says controversial tirade was ‘a gift’
By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 3:15 a.m. CT Dec 19, 2006
Some in Hollywood thought that Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic tirade would be a career-killer, but the controversial “Apocalyto” director says it was “a gift.”
The experience was “a gift to me because it’s made me really sort of scratch my head and focus on a couple of things that I needed to,” Gibson told DarkHorizons.com. “It’s working out real positive, and hopefully in other lives that I’ll touch.”
The “Mad Max” star also blames the media for hyping the negative. “Unfortunately I think it’s become more of a trend,” he said. “After all, it sells more newspapers to actually focus on and identify someone and sometimes it gets out of hand. I think the balance is way off, but that’s the way it is and you can’t change that. ... Everybody goofs, everybody screws up and I tell ya, if you ask everybody in the world to raise their hand if they never said something vicious, something that they regretted or something stupid, there wouldn’t be many people that wouldn’t be able to raise their hands.”


--People do say stupid things at times, but not everyone makes anti-semitic movies and blames the world's problems on the Jews. I hope he's "scratching his head and focusing on a couple of things" with a therapist.

darthvedder81

SuzannePjam wrote:

Gibson says controversial tirade was ‘a gift’
By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 3:15 a.m. CT Dec 19, 2006
Some in Hollywood thought that Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic tirade would be a career-killer, but the controversial “Apocalyto” director says it was “a gift.”
The experience was “a gift to me because it’s made me really sort of scratch my head and focus on a couple of things that I needed to,” Gibson told DarkHorizons.com. “It’s working out real positive, and hopefully in other lives that I’ll touch.”
The “Mad Max” star also blames the media for hyping the negative. “Unfortunately I think it’s become more of a trend,” he said. “After all, it sells more newspapers to actually focus on and identify someone and sometimes it gets out of hand. I think the balance is way off, but that’s the way it is and you can’t change that. ... Everybody goofs, everybody screws up and I tell ya, if you ask everybody in the world to raise their hand if they never said something vicious, something that they regretted or something stupid, there wouldn’t be many people that wouldn’t be able to raise their hands.”


--People do say stupid things at times, but not everyone makes anti-semitic movies and blames the world's problems on the Jews. I hope he's "scratching his head and focusing on a couple of things" with a therapist.

I'm confused. What "anti-semetic" movies has Mel Gibson made? "The Passion" in which a Jewish carpenter is worshipped reverently? Help me out here.

qtegirl

I agree that we've all said something at some point that we regret. But the stuff that he said doesn't just come from nowhere. He had to have had those feeling already for them to surface the way they did.

RavennaSeattle1911

im white and the world blames whites 24 hours a day for the worlds problems or at least the psycho left wing does, and they never regret hating me

qtegirl

RavennaSeattle1911 wrote:

im white and the world blames whites 24 hours a day for the worlds problems or at least the psycho left wing does, and they never regret hating me

Wow, you must be a really important person for the whole psycho left wing to hate you!

RavennaSeattle1911

like im part american indian and i know indians were mean to indians as well as whites were mean but the left wing schools and ward churchill ignore that

churchill is crazy

your avoiding the issues

Cosmo

RavennaSeattle1911 wrote:

like im part american indian and i know indians were mean to indians as well as whites were mean but the left wing schools and ward churchill ignore that

churchill is crazy

your avoiding the issues

...
Wait... I thought you were white. But, you're part Indian, too?
So, does that mean that the entire world blames half-breeds for all the world's problems, now? Because, that's news to me.

TheVoiceInside

Gibson is nuts, if you dont believe me go see Apocalypto. that guy has serious issues.

exhausted

RavennaSeattle1911 wrote:

like im part american indian and i know indians were mean to indians as well as whites were mean but the left wing schools and ward churchill ignore that

churchill is crazy

your avoiding the issues

just say no to drugs, kids.

Pacomc79

It'd be a really fun media retort if they asked Mel Gibson why he chose to "focus on the negative" for passion of the Christ....:D

because it's more interesting william....that's why.