Mel Gibson disgraces himself again (Jake Tapper/Winona Ryder/Twitter)

[Mike 03]

Link to tweet

Text: Jake Tapper: Winona Ryder: Mel Gibson “said to my friend, who’s gay, ‘Oh wait, am I gonna get AIDS?’ And then something came up about Jews, and he said, ‘You’re not an oven dodger, are you?'”

Uggggg "Oven dodger"???

[OnDoutside]

1. In honour of Ms Ryder ....

[Mike 03]

4. Nice

She has done some amazing work. Girl, Interrupted is one of the best films of the '90s IMO.

[OnDoutside]

11. Well said.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Gibson is a whack job.

[Hortensis]

3. Googled and hope he said this, because it's all over. The planet. nt

[Mike 03]

5. It's sad and pathetic.

I'm thinking back to the innocent days of The Road Warrior and Lethal Weapon II, before it was common knowledge he was a vicious anti semite and clueless homophobe.

[blueinredohio]

6. Why do they keep giving this guy a pass?

Exclude him from all things Hollywood.

[frogmarch]

7. What a creep!

And there's this:

“Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” Mel Gibson, drunk and angry, muttered to a police officer on the evening of July 28, 2006. It was a comment that would make the famous man, for several years, infamous, but it was by no means the only evidence that darkness might lurk behind that wide Gibsonian grin. The actor and Oscar-winning director has also been recorded making disparaging remarks about Latinos and African Americans (guess which words he used for each?) and about gay men. He fumed, after the journalist Frank Rich criticized his film The Passion of the Christ, that “I want to kill him … I want his intestines on a stick … I want to kill his dog.” Gibson called a female police officer “sugar tits.” He referred to an ex-girlfriend as a “pig in heat.” He hit her. And then he told her, “You fucking deserved it.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/mel-gibson-is-not-sorry/506225/

[Aristus]

8. Gibson's friends (even the liberal ones) coming out to defend him as a 'wonderful guy,

a sweet man' in 3...2...1...

[Mike 03]

10. Yup. Jodie Foster to the rescue...

The irony is, if George Miller hadn't cast Mel Gibson in the original Mad Max, I think Gibson would have become an obscure Australian farmer nobody ever heard of.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. I must have bad eyes.

I don’t remember ever thinking someone looked Jewish. Maybe I don’t know what to look for.

Or maybe I just don’t care.

[zipplewrath]

14. With a bag over his head

My jewish spouse is always amazed that I can't spot an "obvious" jew. She frequently says, "oh, yeah he's jewish with a bag over his head". Apparently there are obvious jews, but not all jews are obvious. I suspect it is basically some eastern european appearance.

[Laelth]

12. I didn't know she was Jewish. Interesting.

But I want to add a fictional conversation, here, between Gibson and his agent that immediately followed this interview:

Agent: Mel, this is Agent. I just saw you on Jake Tapper’s show.
Mel: Yeah? What did you think?
Agent: I think you’re an absolute, friggin’ moron who just made my job ten times harder. That’s what I think.
Mel: Now, wait a minute. You work for me.
Agent: That’s right. I actually WORK FOR YOU. I got you that appearance so that you could get some public exposure, look good, and remind everyone out there that you are still available for acting gigs. And you screw it all up by accusing Winona Ryder of being an “oven dodger.” An “oven dodger?” How am I supposed to work with that?
Mel: I was just joking.
Agent: Oh, I know. Hardy har har. Look, moron, that shit ain’t funny, and nobody is gonna care that you were “just joking.” You said it. People heard it, and now I am stuck with it. It’s gonna be MUCH harder for me to get you acting roles again.
Mel: I don’t have to listen to this shit. You work for me.
Agent: At this point, I will be lucky if I can get you a commercial gig peddling depends underwear, but I’ll try.
Mel: I can fire your ass, you know.
Agent: Go ahead! I doubt you could find another respectable agent at this point.
...
Mel thinks about it.
...
Mel: Fine. I’m going out for a drink. I’ll talk to you in the morning.
Agent: You do that. Just keep your mouth shut when you’re out in public, OK? That will be best for all concerned.
CLICK

-Laelth

[still_one]

13. Some years back Gibson said how said his then wife would be going to hell because she wasn't the

right kind of Christian. She was Protestant, not Catholic

https://www.today.com/popculture/mel-gibson-says-his-wife-could-be-going-hell-wbna4224452

Gibson is a bigot, anti-Semite, anti-gay, etc etc etc

[Archae]

15. Like Father, like son.

Gibson's Dad was a vicious neo-Nazi.

[still_one]

16. Yup, and it is pretty obvious he can't be rehabilitated