Hollywood Friends Defend Mel Gibson
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James Joyner @ Gone Hollywood | Friday, August 4, 2006 |
It took them a few days to speak out, but Mel Gibson’s friends are coming out and saying that he’s not the man he revealed himself to be in a drunken rant last week.
Several of Mel Gibson’s friends say he’s a “different person” when he’s drinking, but they do not believe he’s anti-Semitic.
Movie producer Dean Devlin said he and his wife are Jewish, and he considers Gibson — who unleashed an anti-Jewish tirade when arrested for drunken driving July 28 — one of his best friends in Hollywood. “If Mel is an anti-Semite, then he spends a lot of time with us, which makes no sense,” Devlin told the Los Angeles Times. He met Gibson while co-producing “The Patriot,” in which Gibson starred. “But he is an alcoholic, and while that makes no excuse for what he said, because there is no excuse, I believe it was the disease speaking, not the man.”
Jodie Foster said she does not believe that drunkenness excuses hurtful remarks, but doubts claims that Gibson is prejudiced against Jews. “Is he an anti-Semite? Absolutely not,” Foster told the newspaper for a story in Friday’s editions. “But it’s no secret that he has always fought a terrible battle with alcoholism.”
Though it was widely believed that Gibson has been sober since the early ’90s, some people close to him say he has been on and off the wagon for years. “I have been with Mel when he has fallen off, and he becomes a completely different person,” Devlin said. “It is pretty horrifying.”
Regardless of how drunk one might be, one doesn’t simply start spouting conspiracy theories that one makes up on the spot. Still, people have all sorts of stupid thoughts that flash through their head when they’re angry, frightened, or hurt that they don’t actually mean. And drunks have very little inhibition about spewing forth with those things.
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I find that if I get really pissed off, vocabulary that I don’t use–and in fact haven’t heard since I was 8 or 10–comes to mind. The censor unit catches it before it leaves my mouth, luckily.
Being drunk, however, tends to disengage that censor unit, which is one of the reasons why I don’t get drunk.
Gibson is the anti-Semite. No questions about that. Most Germans during Hitler time also had their Jewish “freinds”. It did not stop these Germans from killing the ones that were not part of their circle just for being Jewish.
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So just because a couple of Jewish people come out and say “no, really, Mel’s okay”, that makes it right?
I have several black friends. Does that make it all right for me to make racist jokes? (I don’t, but…)