I’m not really sure how many times Mel Gibson will be thrown under the bus. What he said was boneheaded, vile, racist, and the Jewish component of the entertainment industry wants blood. No apology is enough, and forgiveness is out of the question when you are considered an anti-Semite.

When I worked in Hollywood, Jewish people I knew would lose their minds at any inference that the joint was run by them. Unfortunately, impressions are best made by what one sees, not believes.

A lot of the people working at almost every level in Hollywood, from TV shows to movies are Jewish. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT?

Using that illogic, one would be considered a racist if they were to say that the National Basketball Association is run by blacks, when at any given time on a basketball court you may see ten black players running up and down the court. Blacks DO dominate the NBA. Is THAT a bad thing?

But here’s the hypocrisy.

Should certain people say certain things about certain other groups, might as well just kill ‘em as “forgive and forget” is out of the question. But those rules are suspended for others. If Mel Gibson went off on Christians, would there be this much uproar?

It all depends on who’s talking….

Who is this “Emily List? She’s supportin’ all these people. She’s supportin’ Senator Dianne Feinstein. She’s supported Senator Barbara Boxer… She supported everybody. Why won’t she support me?”
Hillary Clinton, in her best black accent mocking San Francisco mayor Willie Brown

“Some junior high nigger kicked Steve’s ass while he was trying to help his brothers out; junior high or sophomore in high school. Whatever it was, Steve had the nigger down. However it was, it was Steve’s fault. He had the nigger down, he let him up. The nigger blindsided him.”
Roger Clinton, the President’s brother on audiotape

“You’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.”
Senator Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)

“Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey’s cars?”
Song from the show of left-wing radio host Neil Rogers

Blacks and Hispanics are “too busy eating watermelons and tacos” to learn how to read and write.”
Mike Wallace, CBS News

“In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and (there) were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master… exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell’s committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.”
Harry Belafonte

“Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They’d rather take pictures with black children than feed them.”
Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s Campaign Manager for the 2000 election

“A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom.”
Spike Lee on Clarence Thomas

“He’s married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn’t want to be black.”
California State Senator Diane Watson’s on Ward Connerly’s interracial marriage

“Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
Former Klansman and senior US Senator Robert Byrd, the “conscience of the Senate”

Before I continue, remember, some of these people are still working today….

“You fucking Jew bastard.”
Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray. This was revealed in “State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton” and has been verified by Paul Fray and three witnesses.

“The Jews don’t like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that’s a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes.”
Louis Farrakhan (1984) who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002

“Hymies.”
“Hymietown.”
Jesse Jackson’s description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail.

“Jews — that’s J-E-W-S.”
Democrat state representative Bill McKinney on why his daughter Cynthia lost in 2002

“I want to go up to the closest white person and say: ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.”
Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a reparations rally, 2002

“Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.”
Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

“I will not let the white boys win in this election.”
Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s Campaign Manager on the 2000 election

“The old white boys got taken fair and square.”
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after winning an election

“There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time.”
Senator Robert Byrd, on a Fox News Sunday interview in March of 2001

“The Medicaid system must have been developed by a white male slave owner. It pays for you to be pregnant and have a baby, but it won’t pay for much family planning.”
Former Clinton Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders

“There’s no great, white bigot; there’s just about 200 million little white bigots out there.”
Columnist Julienne Malveaux

“White folks was in caves while we was building empires… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
Rev. Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College

“Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of — of people who are suffering. Because they’ve exploited — we have seen the — we have seen the nigger and greaseball, we’ve seen the chink, we’ve seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we’ve seen everything but we never saw the kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around.“
Marlon Brando on CNN’s Larry King Live

The problem is that Mel Gibson hasn’t bought any kneepads.

If he spends the next few weeks on his hands and knees begging forgiveness, and basically allow himself to be humiliated, some may cut him a wee bit of slack.

But there are bigots everywhere. There are bigots in every community, amongst every ethnic group, and if you think your group is special, you’re a dope.

Mel’s got lot of money. He could give the middle finger to Hollywood Jews and live comfortably for the rest of his life. He didn’t have to apologize, over and over and over.

Hollywood is all about power, and if making someone grovel is what it takes to make some feel powerful, that’s sad, malicious, and all involved had better watch what comes out of their mouths in the future. Those not willing to forgive may not be easily forgiven either.
And at that point, the anit-Semitism line won’t work either.

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