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Mel Gibson's remarks fuel controversy
Thursday, February 4, 2010 9:49 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:Mel Gibson's mouth may have landed the actor in hot water once again. While promoting his new movie, "Edge of Darkness," Gibson is shown on tape making some unsavory comments. In a video that has now gone viral, Gibson let an expletive slip while he was still wearing a microphone and appearing on camera for a segment on Chicago's WGN-TV with reporter Dean Richards. Richards asked Gibson if he felt like he was "a different person, a better person," than he was four or five years ago, noting that the actor has "had a lot of ups and downs" since then. In 2006, Gibson was arrested for driving while under the influence, and allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks to his arresting officers. During the interview with Richards, Gibson responded that the past few years have been "a real roller coaster ride," but said he thinks he's the same person he always was. Richards then asked Gibson if he felt the public would receive him differently, at which point Gibson became visibly agitated. "That's been almost four years, dude," he told Richards. "I've moved on. But I guess you haven't." Richards said he just wondered whether Gibson thought the public had moved on, to which Gibson replied, "Well, I certainly hope so. That was a while back, and I've done all the necessary mea culpas, so ... let's move on, dude." Richards wrapped up the interview with a standard thank-you-for-coming, and Gibson, drinking coffee, gave the reporter a thumbs-up before muttering a loud-and-clear "a--hole" right into his mic before the satellite feed was cut. This comes after an interview with CNN affiliate station KTLA, where entertainment reporter Sam Rubin asked Gibson if his long absence from acting had anything to do with the alleged anti-Semitic remarks. Gibson denied he ever uttered statements of that nature, and then asked Rubin, who is Jewish, "I gather you have a dog in this fight?" Gibson has since apologized to Rubin for the query, Rubin confirmed. Gibson's publicist Alan Nierob said Gibson was not aiming his expletive at WGN's Richards, but rather at Nierob himself, who was "pulling faces" during the interview. On Richards' WGN-TV blog, the reporter shared his side of the story. The interview "was pleasant enough for the first half but as my questions became more challenging, his tone and even physical demeanor changed," Richards wrote. "I didn't brow beat him. I didn't make a judgment on him," the blog read. "Apparently, he thought I'd back off. We don't roll like that in Chicago. ... A star of his caliber, presumably with good PR people, should have been prepared with a simple response." Richards said he was shocked to hear Gibson use the expletive "when he thought he was off camera." In Richards's observation, "famous person or not, the true measure of a person is how they act when they think no one is looking." As of Wednesday, no one from Gibson's team has reached out to Richards.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 9:54 AM
JONGSSTRAW
Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:06 AM
WULFENSTAR
http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg
Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:11 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Your favorite guy Bill O'Reilly played that clip last night and gave Gibson a "pinhead" award. Mel Gibson is really something else. He talks like a 16 year old.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:15 AM
STORYMARK
Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:31 AM
Quote:Mel Gibson is really something else. He talks like a 16 year old.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:53 AM
PIRATENEWS
John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!
Quote:Semite. A member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including ARABS. -Merriam Webster Dictionary; "A 'Semite' is any person living in that area, including Arabs and Christians. It's time we start talking about 'The Other AntiSemitism'. A Semite is not a Jew living in America or Europe." -Ralph Nader, C-SPAN 2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars www.khazaria.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Ashkenazim.html http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=35105
Quote: "Fucking Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world, Sugar Tits!" -Mel Gibson, DUI traffic stop by jew cop (now expunged) "Strictly speaking, a driver can register a BAC of 0.00% and still be convicted of a DUI. The level of BAC does not clear a driver when it is below the 'presumed level of intoxication.'" —Tennessee Driver Handbook and Driver License Study Guide http://piratenews.org/theprohibitiontimes.html "There's a report out tonight that 24-years ago I was apprehended in Kennebunkport, Maine, for a DUI. That's an accurate story. I'm not proud of that. I oftentimes said that years ago I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much and I did on that night. I was pulled over. I admitted to the policeman that I had been drinking. I paid a fine. And I regret that it happened. But it did. I've learned my lesson." —President George W. Bush, CNN Larry King Live, November 2, 2000 http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushdui1.html "Cheney’s first DWI conviction came in November 1962 when he was 21. According to the docket from Cheyenne’s Municipal Court, Cheney was arrested for drunkenness and 'operating motor vehicle while intoxicated.' A Cheyenne Police Judge found Cheney guilty of the two charges and hit him with a 30-day suspension of his driver’s license. Cheney also had to forfeit a $150 bond posted at the time of his arrest. Further information about the case - such as the defendant’s blood alcohol content or whether Cheney was jailed following the arrest - is unavailable since other court records from that period have been destroyed, according to Wyoming officials. Details of Cheney’s second Wyoming arrest in July 1963, have also fallen victim to time and records destruction practices at the local Municipal Court. But a police arrest card maintained by the Rock Springs Police Department shows that Cheney was fined $100 for his second DWI conviction. The card lists the charge against Cheney, who was then working as a groundman laying power lines, as '11-44,' the criminal code classification for drunken driving, according to Police Chief Neil Kourbelas. At the time of the Rock Springs arrest, Kourbelas said that local cops and judges would not have known that young Cheney was a repeat offender. The police department, Kourbelas said, 'wouldn’t have had the ability to automatically check with other jurisdictions to find out if anyone had prior arrests or convictions. We could have arrested Jack the Ripper back then and had no idea what he had done.'” -Allen Trapp, GaDUIblog.com, Top 50 DUI Arrests of All-Time, February 16, 2007 http://gaduiblog.com/category/dui-arrests-that-made-the-news/top-50-dui-arrests-of-all-time/ http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cheney_doc.html "Shit's gettin way too complicated for me. There are white folks, and then there are ignorant mutherfuckers like you! You can put lipstick on a pig. Sorry ass mutherfucker's got nuttin on me. I inhaled frequently - that was the point. Pot helped, and booze. A little blow when you could afford it. Junkie, pothead. That's where I'd been headed. You ain't my bitch nigger, git your own damn fries!" -Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro, Dreams From My Father http://www.archive.org/details/ObamaInauguralMashup/ "Don't get a DUI. When a cop pulls you over..... shoot him!" (crowd cheered wildly) -Christopher Scum, The Dirty Works, Rebel Scum movie premier, Knoxville Tennessee, January 2010 http://www.myspace.com/rebelscumthemovie
Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:59 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Your favorite guy Bill O'Reilly played that clip last night and gave Gibson a "pinhead" award. Mel Gibson is really something else. He talks like a 16 year old. Between Gibson and Glover, who'd win in a crazy off ? *And speaking of 16 yr olds, is Mel still buying beer for his latest g/f ? The T.Rex they call JANE!
Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:22 AM
Thursday, February 4, 2010 12:04 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Wulfenstar: I remember watching the "Lethal Weapon" series growing up... thought they were sooo cool... Then I grew up and realized how full of propaganda those movies were. Kind of made me sick to my stomach.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 12:35 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Your favorite guy Bill O'Reilly played that clip last night and gave Gibson a "pinhead" award. Mel Gibson is really something else. He talks like a 16 year old. Between Gibson and Glover, who'd win in a crazy off ? *And speaking of 16 yr olds, is Mel still buying beer for his latest g/f ? The T.Rex they call JANE! As nuts as Mel is, Danny takes that award.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 12:48 PM
BYTEMITE
Thursday, February 4, 2010 1:04 PM
Thursday, February 4, 2010 4:20 PM
Quote:Mel: Bye bye. Asshole! [loud cheers] Kevin: I for one think Mr Gibson actually showed remarkable restraint in that interview. People are giving him a rough time, but I think he did a good job. Olivia: Agreed, agreed. http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/aroundthenet/69871/Around-the-Net-020410.html
Thursday, February 4, 2010 4:27 PM
Thursday, February 4, 2010 4:29 PM
Thursday, February 4, 2010 4:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: So much for staying on topic, eh?
Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:18 PM
Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:55 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Bytemite: Speaking as the resident human chastity belt, those guys are somehow way hotter than they should be in those outfits. But perhaps that's because of some ready comparisons I have locked away in the WMD portion of my memories.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Olivia is such a naughty little vixen.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 7:05 PM
Quote:Originally posted by piratenews: Quote:Originally posted by Bytemite: Speaking as the resident human chastity belt, those guys are somehow way hotter than they should be in those outfits. But perhaps that's because of some ready comparisons I have locked away in the WMD portion of my memories. Now that's what I call a Capt Tightpants. Is it hot when 2 trannies kiss? Or not.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 7:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by piratenews: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Olivia is such a naughty little vixen. Spankable. Bang, marry or kill?
Thursday, February 4, 2010 8:37 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Bang, marry or kill. Why do you assume those are your only choices?
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