Keith, having gotten all of the bad jokes out, I'm with you in averting my gaze.
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > As reprehensible as this latest outburst of Gibson's is if true, I don't > want to know about it. The voyeuristic, leering nature of our society is > increasingly bothering me. Yeah, he's a celebrity, so his life is under the > microscope. Yeah, he obviously has an inner core of racism and misogyny, so > people are on the lookout for stuff like this. And yeah, being a celebrity > who's a known racist misogynist with a "short fuse", he's an idiot for > leaving a record of something this awful. > But at the end of the day, it's a private affair between him and his > girlfriend, and I don't want to know about it. I mean, what if some of the > stuff any of us said in private, on the phone, or in a nasty e-mail to > another person were to be made public? > So Imma try to avert my "eyes" to this latest example of what a messed-up > person Gibson is... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "brent wodehouse" <brent_wodeho...@thefence.us> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 11:33:39 PM > Subject: [scifinoir2] [Fairly Well OT] Mel Gibson and the N-Word > > > > > http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2010/07/mel-gibsons-outrageous-new-rant-is-it-time-for-anger-management.html > > Mel Gibson's outrageous new rant: Is it time for more anger management? > > July 1, 2010 > > We all know that Mel Gibson is a very, very angry guy, something that > seems to surface at the most inopportune times, as when the WGN-TV > reporter Dean Richards had the temerity to ask the actor, on camera, about > the fallout from his 2006 drunk driving arrest and Gibson called him a > profane name that we can't repeat here. After that incident, Gibson > acknowledged that "I have a short fuse. I'm trying to work on it." > > But judging from this explosive new story that just broke at > RadarOnline.com, Gibson needs to put a little more time into anger > management. Maybe a lot more time. Radar reporters say they have heard a > tape made by Oksana Grigorieva, Gibson's ex-girlfriend and mother of his > baby daughter, Lucia, who have been battling in court over custody issues. > > In an e-mail to The Times, Gibson representative Alan Nierob said that he > had not yet confirmed the report's accuracy "due to legal matters." > > According to Radar, Gibson is heard yelling insults at Grigorieva, > including a nasty racial epithet known in polite society as the N-word. In > one of his rants, Gibson reportedly says, "You look like a ... pig in > heat, and if you get raped by a pack of ..., it will be your fault." > > In addition to a string of derogatory words referring to Grigorieva's > womanhood, Gibson also is said to have threatened her, saying "I am going > to come and burn the ... house down," adding, "but you will [perform oral > sex on] me first." > > There's much, much more, but I'll spare you the gory details. You'll > undoubtedly hear all about them in the media uproar that is sure to > follow. If Gibson has an explanation for his racial epithets, which of > course echo the vile anti-Semitic remarks he made after his DUI arrest, it > is sure to be a doozy. So far, according to Radar, Gibson has not denied > having a confrontation with Grigorieva but has simply described it, > through his lawyer, as a loud argument. > > It's way too early to start talking about the career fallout from his > latest tirade, except to say that if these tapes are authentic, Gibson > should be figuring out not whether to make an apology, but when and where. > It's a sad thing to realize that the actor who was so gifted at playing > bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a > store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche. It sounds > to me as if it's time for Gibson's friends to get this man some help. Fast. > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
