On the subject of Mel Gibson

First off, thanks to BuzzFeed. com for sharing these. Best thing since Kanye Gate, I'd say.

Secondly, a friend of mine posted this to his Facebook last night:
Chris O Biddle Is grossed out by the media feeding frenzy around Mel Gibson's marital problems. This is not news.

True. It isn't. This produced a lot of commentary from his friends. Which led to this follow up.

First of all, none of the dumb, hateful shit that the man said is illegal. So, there's that. Second, who recorded him and released the tapes to destroy his career? That's entrapment. Third, the ONLY reason why it's news is because that guy made some movies a few years ago. He. Made. Some. Movies. Didn't negotiate peace between two warring countries... See More. Didn't cure virulent diseases. Didn't hold political office and write laws that govern the rest of us. He pretended to pull a buddy off of an exploding toilet. THIS is why the news is devouring him, like a pack of piranhas.

Yes, the man is an awful racist. Sounds like he's also terrible to be married to. But in a world where we're currently entangled in two wars in two different countries, a major ecological disaster is still ongoing, we're in the middle of a financial disaster AND there might be the first major advance in the cure for AIDS... who has the air-time to waste on a "Mel Gibson has Anger Issues" segment.

Somebody should bury the national news media right in the rose garden. Those bunch of c@nts...*

Sincerely,
An Angry Old Man

*That final line and the expletive are direct quotes taken from the Mel Gibson rant. But then you know that, because you've heard it over and over and over, these last three days.

Agreed. Regardless of the crazed BS supposedly coming out of Gibson's mouth on these recordings, we only know half of the story,as the morning show I listened to on the way to work pointed out...repeatedly. Not to say anyone should be threatened in such a way, but if a man could talk to me like this and had hit me in the past, there is no way I would still be with him. That's ridiculous. Especially if he, as she claims, hit me while I was holding our child. Don't record him. Get the hell out of dodge and protect your kid if you think he's a monster!

I'm not saying he's in the right. I'm not saying she deserved it. But I am saying this is complete and utter shit and we should not be focused on it half as much as we are. Fact of the matter is, a lot of your favorite films star and were made by some fucked up human beings. Because, we are all, in fact, fucked up animals who are selfish, manipulative, raunchy, and even abusive. We can be just as terrible as we can be good.

Does that make it right? No.
Does that mean I can and will continue to watch Forever Young with great love for its cheesy, cinematic drivel? Yes. Yes, it does.

Now...how 'bout that oil in the Gulf, eh?