This second apology does appear to have at last started to make some sort of sense - not least, to my mind, that he has taken all doubt he made anti-semetic remarks at the time of his arrest away.
This is finally an apology, said Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Were glad that he owned up that what he said was not only offensive, but bigoted. When hes finished with alcohol rehabilitation, we will be ready and willing to meet with him and to help him get rid of his other addiction, which is prejudice.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/a...&en=2070e0fe65d5a1d1&ei=5094&partner=homepage
(anyone not able to see this article at the link may like to try Bug Me Not if they don't want to register for the New York Times: http://www.bugmenot.com/ )
a vitriolic commentary appears in my next link, which takes Mr Gibson (and his father) apart for the writer's perceived view of anti-semetism; not only during the arrest, but also for the film The Passion of the Christ.
Let this be the last we hear from Mel Gibson
At the time when The Passion of the Christ was being released, many nervous evangelical Christians tried to get the more horrifying bits of anti-Semitic incitement toned down. (The crazy scene where the rabbis demand the blood of Jesus on their own heads was taken out of subtitles, for example, but left as it was in Aramaic.) Many conservative Jews, from David Horowitz to rabbi Daniel Lapin, stuck up for Gibson as a man who defended family values against secular nihilism.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,19985849-5006003,00.html
i don't align myself with the author's views in the above article: however, i post it to show how many may view Mel Gibson at present. and why i believe there is no way back for the artist.
this is not a run of the mill celebrity arrest for DUI. it will follow Mel Gibson to the end of his days, IMO.
This is finally an apology, said Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League. Were glad that he owned up that what he said was not only offensive, but bigoted. When hes finished with alcohol rehabilitation, we will be ready and willing to meet with him and to help him get rid of his other addiction, which is prejudice.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/a...&en=2070e0fe65d5a1d1&ei=5094&partner=homepage
(anyone not able to see this article at the link may like to try Bug Me Not if they don't want to register for the New York Times: http://www.bugmenot.com/ )
a vitriolic commentary appears in my next link, which takes Mr Gibson (and his father) apart for the writer's perceived view of anti-semetism; not only during the arrest, but also for the film The Passion of the Christ.
Let this be the last we hear from Mel Gibson
At the time when The Passion of the Christ was being released, many nervous evangelical Christians tried to get the more horrifying bits of anti-Semitic incitement toned down. (The crazy scene where the rabbis demand the blood of Jesus on their own heads was taken out of subtitles, for example, but left as it was in Aramaic.) Many conservative Jews, from David Horowitz to rabbi Daniel Lapin, stuck up for Gibson as a man who defended family values against secular nihilism.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,19985849-5006003,00.html
i don't align myself with the author's views in the above article: however, i post it to show how many may view Mel Gibson at present. and why i believe there is no way back for the artist.
this is not a run of the mill celebrity arrest for DUI. it will follow Mel Gibson to the end of his days, IMO.
) is from British rag, The Sun. it shows Mel at Moonshadows restaurant in Malibu before he got in his car.
