Well, as we all know, Mel Gibson not long ago enjoyed the visceral fury of his very own hate rant. He expressed a lot of anti-Semitic crud, and, it was rather shocking. If you aren’t familiar with this story, I’d like to know on which planet you’re currently residing. : )

At any rate, the Mel Gibson and Michael Richards comparisons are inevitable, and, they’re flying around the blogosphere. Now, some of you know that Katie and I both used to seriously abuse alcohol, and, we’ve participated in twelve step programs and the like. That allows for a bit greater compassion towards Gibson, because, as we all know, he was drunk when he self-destructed in his sickening anti-Semitic hate rant.

As for me, I consider Gibson to be a misguided man… You know where my intolerance is… I hate haters! Now, I know that I’m not phrasing that with great sophistication, but, I think to myself it’s 2006 damn it… should this crap still be going on! And, just what’s the matter with these angry celebrities?

Now, Katie is more religiously inclined than I, and, she’s always talking about Jesus, love, forgiveness, and compassion. Well, I believe in those things too! But, some of these celebrity nutjobs … they just need to keep their thoughts to themselves.

Anyway, it appears that Mel Gibson has added his two cents to the Michael Richards spectacle.
Mr. Gibson says,

I feel really badly for the guy. He was obviously in a state of stress. You don’t need to be inebriated to be bent out of shape. But my heart went out to the guy.

Now, since when does a “state of stress” make it permissible to yell “There’s a nigger!” repeatedly and reference our legacy of brutality inappropriately to African American people. Um, Mr. Gibson, could you answer me that? Or, were you hitting the Jose Cuervo before your interview session? Really, now! Am I fucking dreaming?

I assure you, Mr. Gibson, both Katie and myself and countless other Americans (who actually work for a living) are under extraordinary amounts of stress. Really, Gibson! You want to talk about stress?

Okay, let’s talk about stress!

We’ve got Americans who can’t feed their kids. We’ve got Americans who have loved ones who have either gotten killed or been maimed in the Middle East. We’ve got Americans who are dying in hospitals from various ailments.

By your reasoning, everybody in those hospital beds should be yelling racial epithets.

Really, Gibson, it became apparent that you weren’t the pointiest nail in the box when you recently got confused and thought you were playing Adolph Hitler in some sort of, no-doubt, revisionist Hollywood blockbuster. You got confused. That’s understandable. And, when you were telling the police that “the fucking Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” yes, you were just practicing because you thought you were getting the Hitler role in the latest Hollywood trash motion picture… I hate your sick Hollywood culture! You celebrities think you’re so special and you can buy your way out of anything… right? WRONG! Yeah, my Irish is getting up all right!

What we need to have happen is the following: Mel Gibson and Michael Richards need to never be hired to work again. Period.

And, the other thing I can’t help but wonder… Richards has his over-priced spin doctor plugging away, and, really… what does he think about Mel Gibson coming to the rescue. Oh, man! This is just getting weirder and weirder.

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