Getting popped for DUI is bad. It’s unpleasant and irresponsible to drive drunk. But if you pay the penalty and deal with your shit and don’t do it again, that’s good.
Being racially abusive is really bad too, drunk or not. But there are some people who say and do things drunk they don’t believe sober. And when they apologize (and stop getting drunk), it’s only fair to take them at their word.
But if someone is taken in for DUI, and in the process blasts out a tirade of anti-Semitic slurs and threats at the officers, and that someone is a prominent filmmaker whose father is a Holocaust-denying anti-Semite, and that person has not repudiated his father’s views, and that person is a member and supporter of his father’s crazy church, and that person has made a passion play film of just the kind used to launch pogroms and massacres, it’s time for more than just a public apology.
Hey Mel? It’s time for a complete turnaround. Stop drinking, stop being racist, repudiate your bigoted family and friends, and spend a decade or so making amends. Or just toss the citizenship and leave, because you’re not wanted.
Be My Blog 
Wasn’t “Mad Max” Jewish?
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! What a Putz!
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E! Weekly sez:
“Ooooh yes! He’d look so hot in a hair shirt!”
Seriously, it appears to be universally true that, while we all claim to deplore hatred, in truth we only deplore certain kinds of hate at any given time.
… And that is the one thing about which I am completely intolerant.
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Wow, thanks for the heads-up. (I generally don’t track celeb gossip, much.)
Am I the only one who sees this eerie similarity?
Fnord.
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I think that was the first thing I said! Wow, glad I’m not the only one.
Osama Bin Gibson! Mel Bin Laden! Whoodathunk?
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Saint Francis of Dec
He is the new <a href=
“http://www.ubu.com/sound/dec.html”
>Francis E. Dec.
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I saw this yesterday.
His BAC was .12 and, while this definitely qualifies as drunk, it is unlikely that this amount causes radical change in ones views.
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Well, this officially destroyed my faith. And on a Sunday no less. What a way to start the day…
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