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August 1, 2006 - How Mel Gibson is just like O'Reilly's granny
Everyone’s talking about Mel Gibson’s wacky night out, so O’Reilly had to weigh in, even
though he’s been a staunch supporter of Gibson and his films (and even though Gibson has
actually optioned the rights for Bill’s dreadful pornographic novel “Those Who Trespass.”)
Unfortunately, Bill didn’t get to the Gibson story until about the last quarter of his show last
night. He first had to make time for that racist Condi Rice/monkey cartoon everyone’s talking
about.
So did our fearless culture warrior rip the far-right Gibson a new one? Let’s just look at the
transcript, shall we?
O'REILLY: "Back of the Book" segment tonight.
As you might know, Mel Gibson was arrested a couple of days ago for DUI in Malibu,
California. And while being taken into custody, he apparently made some anti-Semitic
remarks. Gibson has apologized, saying his remarks were despicable and he's deeply
ashamed.
The key question here is why would a man like Gibson or anybody else even think about
using racial invective when every sane person knows it's offensive to others and
personally damaging to anyone who says these things? Drunk is not an excuse.
SJIHBO: Or anybody else? Already Bill is trying to divert criticism from Gibson by deflecting
responsibility for his vile comments onto society. It’s not about Gibson; it’s about racism in
general. He also treats Gibson’s anti-Semitism like some sort of poisonous cultural fog that
somehow descended on the actor and victimized him. Nice job, Bill. We’d like to order
another gross of “The Spin Stops Here” license plate frames.
Now, imagine if George Clooney had done this. First of all, he wouldn’t have been “George
Clooney.” He would have been “the far-left Hollywood actor George Clooney.” And the key
question would not have been “why would a man like Clooney or anybody else use racial
invective,” it would have been, “when will liberal Hollywood stop supporting George Clooney?”
O’REILLY: With us now, Juan Williams, the author of the brand new book, "Enough," which
analyzes black leadership in the USA, a very good read. Juan has done a nice job on the
book, and we'll get to that after Gibson.
Here's what I don't get. I don't understand the thinking behind the invective, not just for
Gibson, but you know, this is used by Americans of all races, colors and creeds. They
throw these words around and generalizations about religions and ethnic groups around.
I don't know why. Do you?
SJIHBO: This is used by people of all races, colors and creeds? Really? So Gibson is really
no different than anyone else. Apparently, virulent anti-Semitism is just something we all have
to live with, like the flu or gridlock traffic. It happens to all of us, right? Indeed, everyone in your
apartment complex has a script in the back of a drawer somewhere about the duplicity of the
Jewish race. Indeed, we’re currently working on “The Passion of the Christ II: The Jews
Exaggerated the Holocaust So They Could Maintain Control of the Banks and Take Over
Hollywood and the Media.”
JUAN WILLIAMS, AUTHOR, "ENOUGH": Well, I think it's hurtful. I think it's intended to sting the
other person and make them back up and give them reason to think maybe stopping me for
drunk driving was being done to somehow to persecute or hurt me.
And so I think in that moment when he was in crisis, not wanting to admit that he had been
driving while apparently intoxicated, while the police stopped him, and he knows this is going
to be a better situation. He uses this to try to get them to back up. "Are you a Jew," that kind of
question is what he allegedly said. And then could go on with the remarks about wars being
started by—you know—and then, of course, he even made it worse. He went on and then
started getting sexual with one of the—apparently, one of the...
O'REILLY: Well, he made appropriate remarks all the time. He was hammered, and he was
just speaking gibberish.
SJIHBO: Gibberish? No, gibberish is more like, “Where the fuck is Tom Bosley’s house,
Batman? Mmmm, filo pastry. BADGERS!” “The Jews start all the wars in the world” and “what
are you looking at, sugar tits?” is not really gibberish. It’s pretty clear. And we do recall a wise
man once saying, “Drunk is not an excuse.” Wait, that was Bill about four paragraphs ago.
Again, if George Clooney got lit, drove 87 through a 45 zone, and started baiting Jews or,
worse yet, Republicans, it’s unlikely O’Reilly would chalk it up to one too many pinot noirs.
But here's—react to this. I think that people who do this are for two reasons, No. 1, fear.
My grandmother used to say bad things about blacks, and I said to her one time,
"Grandma, you never even met a black person in your life." But she was afraid, all right?
And she wasn't well educated.
SJIHBO: So Gibson is just like O’Reilly’s grammy. Awww. He’s a-scared of the Jews. You
know, just like snakes or scorpions or Christ-killing Zionist devils. Now, that may be because
his father keeps telling him that Vatican II was a Jewish plot to destroy the Catholic Church
and the UN is a Jewish plot to take over the world, but that’s just a guess.
OK. The second thing is, anger. For Gibson, there's something there, I think. He's angry. He's
angry, but I don't know what he's angry about. He's a smart guy, and I don't understand this at
all.
Again, it’s just this unfortunate glitch in Gibson’s worldview. Not that serious. Bill says this like
a parent who’s just found out his 8-year-old son got caught stealing a Snickers bar from
Target.
WILLIAMS: I think he's a real successful guy. But remember, his father is a Holocaust denier.
SJIHBO: Duh.
WILLIAMS: …So there's some family issue. And effectively, when it came to "Passion of the
Christ," his movie, which was a success, he nonetheless felt that the Jewish community was
out against this movie and felt that he had somehow portrayed Jews as the cause of Christ's
death.
O'REILLY: Do you think that might have keyed in this?
WILLIAMS: There's a lot of pent-up stuff in Mel Gibson. Now I'm not here—I'm not a
psychologist, but I can say that I think that you're a person who has been dealing with this
privately. He hasn't been able to speak out against it, and he's got a lot of anger and issues
about it.
O'REILLY: Well, I think that's probably right. He's got a lot of anger about Jewish people,
and again, we're not qualified to say why.
SJIHBO: Boy, we haven’t seen such dizzying intellects since Ryan Seacrest asked Ashlee
Simpson about her new boyfriend during their E! interview. Are these two knuckleheads really
suggesting that Gibson has been harboring a grudge against the Jews because they didn’t
like his movie? That’s like saying Hitler developed a hatred for the Jews because of “Triumph
of the Will’s” disappointing box office in Jewish areas. Ya think maybe the anti-Semitism may
have preceded the film, rather than the other way around? Hello! Gibson resurrected the
centuries-old, incredibly destructive, and historically farcical canard that the Jews killed
Jesus. This isn’t really a chicken-and-egg question. It’s all egg, dumbasses.
O’REILLY: Last question and we'll get to your book. He has asked for forgiveness, Gibson.
WILLIAMS: Right.
O'REILLY: Should we give it to him?
SJIHBO: Not to belabor the point, but do you think he’d be this solicitous toward Clooney or
Tim Robbins?
WILLIAMS: Well, you know what's going to forgive him? Money. Mel Gibson is still a superstar
at the box office.
O'REILLY: Are you going to forgive him? Should Jewish people forgive him?
WILLIAMS: It's not my role to forgive him. I think that what you're going to see here is the real
business decision being made, Bill. I mean, you're going to see—already people in
Hollywood are calling for other Hollywood people, and there a lot of Jewish people in the top
ranks of Hollywood, who are going to say shun this man. Don't allow Mel Gibson to continue
to work in our community, given all the tensions in the world. We should take a stand against
this kind of bigotry.
O'REILLY: Even if he comes out and say, "I'm sorry. I'm going to rethink my position," and
he throws himself on the mercy of the court, should you forgive him?
WILLIAMS: Personally, I have that kind of Christian forgiveness in me. But I also am not a
person who, if you burn me, forgets. But I could forgive. But I must say, already Abe Foxman
and others in the Jewish community are saying ABC shouldn't deal with him when it comes to
this new miniseries that he's producing about guess what, Bill O'Reilly, the Holocaust. So
would you want to watch a Mel Gibson piece on the Holocaust after this?
O'REILLY: I think I might, to see what he does. He's certainly going to have to make
penance.
SJIHBO: Yeah, penance. Bill, he didn’t have impure thoughts about a classmate. He
endangered the lives of innocents and attributed all the world’s wars to a single race—one
that his father just happens to believe has sinister designs on world conquest. And
considering that you’ve boycotted everything under the sun from Perrier to Pepsi because you
have a problem with rappers’ naughty lyrics and other governments’ political disagreements,
your eagerness to see Gibson’s Holocaust miniseries (working title: “The Greatest Story Ever
Told II: The Disciples Strike Back”) is a little sick.
Boy, we hope you got a bundle for those movie rights, Bill.
though he’s been a staunch supporter of Gibson and his films (and even though Gibson has
actually optioned the rights for Bill’s dreadful pornographic novel “Those Who Trespass.”)
Unfortunately, Bill didn’t get to the Gibson story until about the last quarter of his show last
night. He first had to make time for that racist Condi Rice/monkey cartoon everyone’s talking
about.
So did our fearless culture warrior rip the far-right Gibson a new one? Let’s just look at the
transcript, shall we?
O'REILLY: "Back of the Book" segment tonight.
As you might know, Mel Gibson was arrested a couple of days ago for DUI in Malibu,
California. And while being taken into custody, he apparently made some anti-Semitic
remarks. Gibson has apologized, saying his remarks were despicable and he's deeply
ashamed.
The key question here is why would a man like Gibson or anybody else even think about
using racial invective when every sane person knows it's offensive to others and
personally damaging to anyone who says these things? Drunk is not an excuse.
SJIHBO: Or anybody else? Already Bill is trying to divert criticism from Gibson by deflecting
responsibility for his vile comments onto society. It’s not about Gibson; it’s about racism in
general. He also treats Gibson’s anti-Semitism like some sort of poisonous cultural fog that
somehow descended on the actor and victimized him. Nice job, Bill. We’d like to order
another gross of “The Spin Stops Here” license plate frames.
Now, imagine if George Clooney had done this. First of all, he wouldn’t have been “George
Clooney.” He would have been “the far-left Hollywood actor George Clooney.” And the key
question would not have been “why would a man like Clooney or anybody else use racial
invective,” it would have been, “when will liberal Hollywood stop supporting George Clooney?”
O’REILLY: With us now, Juan Williams, the author of the brand new book, "Enough," which
analyzes black leadership in the USA, a very good read. Juan has done a nice job on the
book, and we'll get to that after Gibson.
Here's what I don't get. I don't understand the thinking behind the invective, not just for
Gibson, but you know, this is used by Americans of all races, colors and creeds. They
throw these words around and generalizations about religions and ethnic groups around.
I don't know why. Do you?
SJIHBO: This is used by people of all races, colors and creeds? Really? So Gibson is really
no different than anyone else. Apparently, virulent anti-Semitism is just something we all have
to live with, like the flu or gridlock traffic. It happens to all of us, right? Indeed, everyone in your
apartment complex has a script in the back of a drawer somewhere about the duplicity of the
Jewish race. Indeed, we’re currently working on “The Passion of the Christ II: The Jews
Exaggerated the Holocaust So They Could Maintain Control of the Banks and Take Over
Hollywood and the Media.”
JUAN WILLIAMS, AUTHOR, "ENOUGH": Well, I think it's hurtful. I think it's intended to sting the
other person and make them back up and give them reason to think maybe stopping me for
drunk driving was being done to somehow to persecute or hurt me.
And so I think in that moment when he was in crisis, not wanting to admit that he had been
driving while apparently intoxicated, while the police stopped him, and he knows this is going
to be a better situation. He uses this to try to get them to back up. "Are you a Jew," that kind of
question is what he allegedly said. And then could go on with the remarks about wars being
started by—you know—and then, of course, he even made it worse. He went on and then
started getting sexual with one of the—apparently, one of the...
O'REILLY: Well, he made appropriate remarks all the time. He was hammered, and he was
just speaking gibberish.
SJIHBO: Gibberish? No, gibberish is more like, “Where the fuck is Tom Bosley’s house,
Batman? Mmmm, filo pastry. BADGERS!” “The Jews start all the wars in the world” and “what
are you looking at, sugar tits?” is not really gibberish. It’s pretty clear. And we do recall a wise
man once saying, “Drunk is not an excuse.” Wait, that was Bill about four paragraphs ago.
Again, if George Clooney got lit, drove 87 through a 45 zone, and started baiting Jews or,
worse yet, Republicans, it’s unlikely O’Reilly would chalk it up to one too many pinot noirs.
But here's—react to this. I think that people who do this are for two reasons, No. 1, fear.
My grandmother used to say bad things about blacks, and I said to her one time,
"Grandma, you never even met a black person in your life." But she was afraid, all right?
And she wasn't well educated.
SJIHBO: So Gibson is just like O’Reilly’s grammy. Awww. He’s a-scared of the Jews. You
know, just like snakes or scorpions or Christ-killing Zionist devils. Now, that may be because
his father keeps telling him that Vatican II was a Jewish plot to destroy the Catholic Church
and the UN is a Jewish plot to take over the world, but that’s just a guess.
OK. The second thing is, anger. For Gibson, there's something there, I think. He's angry. He's
angry, but I don't know what he's angry about. He's a smart guy, and I don't understand this at
all.
Again, it’s just this unfortunate glitch in Gibson’s worldview. Not that serious. Bill says this like
a parent who’s just found out his 8-year-old son got caught stealing a Snickers bar from
Target.
WILLIAMS: I think he's a real successful guy. But remember, his father is a Holocaust denier.
SJIHBO: Duh.
WILLIAMS: …So there's some family issue. And effectively, when it came to "Passion of the
Christ," his movie, which was a success, he nonetheless felt that the Jewish community was
out against this movie and felt that he had somehow portrayed Jews as the cause of Christ's
death.
O'REILLY: Do you think that might have keyed in this?
WILLIAMS: There's a lot of pent-up stuff in Mel Gibson. Now I'm not here—I'm not a
psychologist, but I can say that I think that you're a person who has been dealing with this
privately. He hasn't been able to speak out against it, and he's got a lot of anger and issues
about it.
O'REILLY: Well, I think that's probably right. He's got a lot of anger about Jewish people,
and again, we're not qualified to say why.
SJIHBO: Boy, we haven’t seen such dizzying intellects since Ryan Seacrest asked Ashlee
Simpson about her new boyfriend during their E! interview. Are these two knuckleheads really
suggesting that Gibson has been harboring a grudge against the Jews because they didn’t
like his movie? That’s like saying Hitler developed a hatred for the Jews because of “Triumph
of the Will’s” disappointing box office in Jewish areas. Ya think maybe the anti-Semitism may
have preceded the film, rather than the other way around? Hello! Gibson resurrected the
centuries-old, incredibly destructive, and historically farcical canard that the Jews killed
Jesus. This isn’t really a chicken-and-egg question. It’s all egg, dumbasses.
O’REILLY: Last question and we'll get to your book. He has asked for forgiveness, Gibson.
WILLIAMS: Right.
O'REILLY: Should we give it to him?
SJIHBO: Not to belabor the point, but do you think he’d be this solicitous toward Clooney or
Tim Robbins?
WILLIAMS: Well, you know what's going to forgive him? Money. Mel Gibson is still a superstar
at the box office.
O'REILLY: Are you going to forgive him? Should Jewish people forgive him?
WILLIAMS: It's not my role to forgive him. I think that what you're going to see here is the real
business decision being made, Bill. I mean, you're going to see—already people in
Hollywood are calling for other Hollywood people, and there a lot of Jewish people in the top
ranks of Hollywood, who are going to say shun this man. Don't allow Mel Gibson to continue
to work in our community, given all the tensions in the world. We should take a stand against
this kind of bigotry.
O'REILLY: Even if he comes out and say, "I'm sorry. I'm going to rethink my position," and
he throws himself on the mercy of the court, should you forgive him?
WILLIAMS: Personally, I have that kind of Christian forgiveness in me. But I also am not a
person who, if you burn me, forgets. But I could forgive. But I must say, already Abe Foxman
and others in the Jewish community are saying ABC shouldn't deal with him when it comes to
this new miniseries that he's producing about guess what, Bill O'Reilly, the Holocaust. So
would you want to watch a Mel Gibson piece on the Holocaust after this?
O'REILLY: I think I might, to see what he does. He's certainly going to have to make
penance.
SJIHBO: Yeah, penance. Bill, he didn’t have impure thoughts about a classmate. He
endangered the lives of innocents and attributed all the world’s wars to a single race—one
that his father just happens to believe has sinister designs on world conquest. And
considering that you’ve boycotted everything under the sun from Perrier to Pepsi because you
have a problem with rappers’ naughty lyrics and other governments’ political disagreements,
your eagerness to see Gibson’s Holocaust miniseries (working title: “The Greatest Story Ever
Told II: The Disciples Strike Back”) is a little sick.
Boy, we hope you got a bundle for those movie rights, Bill.
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