Gibson says controversial tirade was ‘a gift’
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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because it's more interesting william....that's why.