Apparently, Mel Gibson Hates Jews

I'm actually going to start of with a little bit of a defense of Mel Gibson. We don't know how long he was ranting at the deputies, he could have been going on and on about cops and don't you know who I am and all kinds of other acceptable drunken rantiness, with only a tiny bit of anti-semitism mixed in, and that's the only part we read about.

Recently, a kid in New York was convicted of smacking another kid in the head with a baseball bat. The jury found that he used racial slurs while doing it, so it was considered a "hate crime." So he gets a longer sentence, or sent to a special wing of the prison or something. I wonder, if and when Mel is sentenced for drunk driving, will he get the "hate crime" bonus?

The big question, of course, is does Mel really believe what he said about the Jews. I think that on one hand, he really doesn't want to believe it. Because it's not rational, and mostly, because saying it out loud can get him in an ass-load of trouble. Unfortunately, he also really does want to believe it. Because he wants to believe that his dad is a good guy. And in order to believe that his dad is a good guy, he has to rationalize like crazy all of his dad's jew-hating ranting. Nobody wants to believe he's the son of a lunatic so you adjust, you allow, you equivocate and you let some of it live in the back of your brain just so you can make it through Thanksgiving dinner without hurling. And it stays there and sneaks out at the most inopportune times. So that's my unqualified psychoanalysis of the Road Warrior.

I remain conflicted about whether I can still enjoy the "Lethal Weapon" movies. I read somewhere that Danny Glover loves the Jews, so I guess it's a wash.

Another question: What was it that sent Mel out on a bender in the first place? Is there more to the story? Is there something else that brought Mel's well hidden Jew-hating to the surface? Is he maybe having problems with his new movie about the Mayans? Maybe, despite the success of his last movie, he needs more money to finish it? Are the studios, or maybe an executive who's last name ends in "stein" or "witz" giving grief instead of extra editing time? Imagine you're Mel Gibson. Your last movie grossed about half a billion dollars, so you feel you've got carte blanche to do whatever you want in your next movie. So you make another subtitled epic that doesn't really look like a crowd pleaser on paper. It's got subtitles. There are no movie stars in it. The hero is tortured and killed at the end. (I don't know this for a fact, but consider his other movies. It's kind of his thing.) And you're filming in the jungle so it's costing a lot more than you expected.

So you need more money. And those Jew bastards at the studio won't give it to you. So you go out, fall off the wagon, get plastered, get in your car and head toward your unfortunate encounter with the sheriff. And you know your screwed. A drunk driving arrest is never good, especially when your trying to get financing. And whose fault is it? But of course.

Maybe that's what happened. And it's totally understandable.

And Mel has apologized. Profusely. Should we believe him? Does it matter? I think his apology is actually sincere, up to a point. Mel Gibson doesn't hate the Jews for starting all the world's wars. He doesn't hate the Jews for killing Christ. He doesn't hate the Jews for controlling the media and ruining his jungle movie. Mel Gibson is a Christian. So he Forgives the Jews for starting the wars; he Forgives them for being such tightwads, and most of all, he Forgives them for betraying Jesus. It was all part of God's plan, after all.