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Over the weekend, the actual audio tape of Mel Gibson’s notorious nightmare rant in which he told the mother of his child that she looked “like a fucking bitch in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of niggers, it will be your fault,” was leaked to the public. Oh boy. It really is terrible to listen to. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I found the transcript of what he said THOROUGHLY CONVINCING. I didn’t really need the incontrovertible proof. “Maybe the way he said ‘pack of niggers’ was, like, sarcastic, and you could tell he was joking. A lot of times on the Internet you don’t get a sense of TONE.” Nope. No. Not joking, turns out. The only nice thing about this story is that it does seem like Mel Gibson is going to actually suffer the consequences of a lifetime of hateful behavior, and the reason I say that is nice is not because it’s enjoyable to watch other people’s lives fall apart, which is always unfortunate, but because it sort of makes the world momentarily feel like it’s spinning on an axis that makes sense. You know, as opposed to an upside-downy goofball axis where someone with a blood-alcohol level of 1000% can go on an anti-Semitic sugar tits rant and be back at their Malibu dream house by dinnertime, making plans with their agent for the next 10 million dollars to be wired into their account for playing make believe. This way is better.
And how happy are Christian Bale and Alec Baldwin this week? “Our angry meltdowns are terrifying incarnations of overblown ego run amok, but at least they are racial-epithet FREE!” Answer: very happy, as always. They’re self-satisfied millionaires! Terrible Mel Gibson audio that you should not listen to but you can listen to if you want because you’re an adult, after the jump:
I liked it better last week when the first thing we came back to after the weekend was Double Rainbow. And this does not help. (Audio via HuffingtonPost.)
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Werttrew, you nail it so very often.
Fuck you, Mel Gibson.
“Fuck you, Godsauce…unless you’re a white male.” — Mel Gibson
I wish I hadn’t listened to that. I really hope he gets what’s coming to him.
(Do you know the deal with this guy, that he was actually Italian? Everything is so complicated!)
And that the “Keep America Beautiful” campaign that this commercial was a part of, was actually one of the first examples of corporate greenwashing – which is an attempt to divert responsibility from industries that rely on disposable and planned obsolescence products, and put the responsibility onto the consumer that improperly disposes of them? It was paid for by Phillip Morris (cigarette butts) and I think the Aluminum Can Corporation of America (cans, duh) among others.
Complicated, table for 6 billion please?
Someone has seen “The Story of Stuff”
Seriously though it’s extremely depressing.
yay! story of stuff!
I’m really on the fence about listening. On one hand, I’m super curious; on the other hand, I don’t feel like starting my day off rage-puking on my laptop.
don’t listen
ok, i wont
by*. I’m sorry, I’m new to this whole “typing on the internet” thing.
If rage-puking means you get so angry you actually vomit, i think you should watch it and film a reaction video.
Another reason to hate Mondays. This guy knows what I’m talking about:
I think I had this on a t-shirt nightgown purchased at the Jersey Shore.
I am glad that there will be some career repercussions over this. I was thinking to myself over the weekend that its a shame that Roman Polanski didn’t suffer the same backlash for what I consider to be an even worse crime. But I think it boils down to two differences. 1. The Polanski thing happened in the 70s, so the story wasn’t everywhere in 24 hours. 2. While Polanski has always been more about making films for fans of film (who have an annoying habit of allowing the work to vindicate the individual), Mel Gibson has taken great pains to make movies for “the common man”. And thankfully, the common man has a more concrete sense of justice.
Not to sound like a liberal elitist asshole, but doesn’t Glenn Beck appeal to the common man as well?
To be honest, I don’t believe so. I know he appeals to the craziest segment of the far right, but I think his notability is more about volume than numbers.
What?
http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-glenn-beck-ratings-down-by-30-this-year-2010-4
I guess what I’m trying to say is that Beck spews horrid, bonkers shit with clockwork regularity and is embraced by people who self-identify as common folk — who truly see “political correctness” (i.e. not being able to say women are bitches or use the n word) as the means by which the liberal elites are ruining America .
While Beck has a talk show and, hell, started a political movement (!) Gibson is just some hate-filled, bipolar has-been. So maybe “the people” are jumping on him because he’s getting away with what they feel in their tea partyin’ hearts. Or maybe the media is run by liberals, I actually heard Bonnie Fuller on one of those Hollywood shows talk about how Hollywood would not stand for such behavior.
But because his followers identify as common folk only means that a segment of the common folk give him their ear. Just because Tyler Perry’s audience is predominantly African American does not mean that all African Americans watch Madea movies.
But because some film fans try to defend Polanski only means that a segment of film fans try to defend Polanski…
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ummm I don’t agree with the comparison of making mel gibson’s racist tirades (stupidity and ignorance) being worse than Polanski’s ‘one bad thing’ ( we are talking about drugging and raping a child…it should never be described in that manner.)
Secondly, no sane person would drug and rape someone. Nor do I believe Polanski’s ‘rough life’ excuses his actions.
Why we’re even comparing the two men boggles me…Mel GIbson actions are wrong but his actions are nothing new..there are tons of bigots, I encounter them on a daily basis, and yes he should be punished but I can’t be bothered to give those type of people undeserved attention.
Roman Polanski’s crime and the fact that he’s being freed is a travesty, and leaves me shocked at how a society can allow him to get away with it. There is no humour to it.
We need to get Jimmy Buffet and friends to help plug the hole that’s spewing crude awful stuff every where (not the one in the ocean, Gabe):
Butts.
I’m just in shock from this because Pitchfork didn’t like M.I.A.’s new album. I thought they basically created her.
“I don’t want you anymore.” – Pitchfork, to M.I.A.
You don’t know Pitchfork well enough then. That’s how they do. It’s actually hysterical how predictable they are in bashing the album after the one they praised endlessly.
Did anyone read MIA’s interview in the latest Believer magazine? She’s on this kick now about how terrorists and/or people who post youtube footage of terrorists are the new important artists who are hot and hip right now. She has this lame pseudo-liberal justification for all this that really irritates me. If I was smarter I’d write an essay about my feelings but all I can say is, yeesh.
I’m way behind on my reading Steve, but when I finally get around to reading the music issue, I’ll respond randomly and off-topic to your take on it, because odds are, judging by other things she’s said, I’ll almost agree with her, but will think that she is being an idiot about it.
And yeah, I’m surprised you’re a Believer reader. Subscription or do you pick up random issues that look particuarly good?
“I don’t want you anymore.” – America, to Mel Gibson.
Whoops, adgied. Beat the ol’ senator to the punch. And here I was just getting over the fact that you identified yourself as a “theater person.”
My brain has been fine-tuned from years of memorizing music and tap dance routines.
Does Mel Gibson taste like a burger?
I’m getting too old to listen to this shit.
This needs a lethal (weapon) guitar solo. So good!
http://youtubedoubler.com/Lbg4
I don’t know what to say. It’s just so, so terrible.
I know that this isn’t the appropriate subject matter to post this at, but my family and I arrived in South Carolina late Saturday afternoon to begin our vacation. A thunderstorm swept through and after that, a double rainbow appeared! My family was awestruck, but I was all like, “SEEN IT.” All jokes aside, I totally know why that dude was tripping out now!
It is TOTALLY appropriate, because rainbows are perfect metaphors for racial harmony, with all of the different colors coming together and working to create something beautiful, and also because a double rainbow looks like a fucking bitch in heat.
I KNOW! I was driving on Lake Shire Drive this Saturday here in Chicago, and the Rain was doing this crazy, raining in random patches thing. I looked out over the roiling Lake to see an AMAZING Single Rainbow, all the way. I almost cried it was so beautiful, all the Rainbow Rays hittin me in my face holes…
Fuckin Miracles Y’all
I totally saw that same rainbow on Saturday, driving back from Andersonville. WE MADE IT A DOUBLE RAINBOW BY BOTH SEEING IT.
For real though, it was a crazy vibrant gigantic rainbow, and I’m sorry that any part of me was kind of laughing at Hungrybear9562.
w/r/t rainbows, I was reading “Lamia” by John Keats this weekend (ladies..)
and there is this passage about science taking the magic out of things:
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.
Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine -
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person’d Lamia melt into a shade.
And I was like, that is basically these two lines from “Miracles”:
Fucking rainbows after it rains
there’s enough miracles here to blow your brains
(…)
And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Y’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed
Also, fun quote:
“We can see your lamia from behind.” -Byron
single? in the austin area?
I think this is the perfect forum for mentioning rainbow news, because after thinking about Mel Gibson and his horribleness, reading about real-life rainbows is like a cleansing shower. Thank you all, for serious.
“I don’t like it. I don’t want you. I don’t love you. Stay in the fucking house.” – The World, to Mel Gibson
I was wondering what this message would sound like in Aramaic
“If they’re too big to fit in this hand, it’s a sin, right? Right?
I still like Mad Max. The movie, not the man, though the man was pretty good too. I go back and forth with the little feral boy on the Mad Max character ladder.
I just liked humongous. I bet if humongous heard what mel gibson said to his wife he would call mel puny.
My favorite thing about MAD MAX: at the time filming was completed, Gibson was neither a member of SAG nor a participant in the film’s sale, so outside of Australia, he gets NO MONEY from this movie! Yay!
I think I am going to pass and wait for the Mel Gibson v. Dog the Bounty Hunter v. Michael Richards mashup… remixed by Pat Obrien:
Pat O’Brien appears to have a tumor in his Right Forearm. Because What?
http://tinypic.com/3ia2nlur
A Derp
Wow… thats nasty. I was too distracted by his ridiculous outfit and stupid hat to even notice. Nice lookout!
mel gibson, meet the bottom of the ocean…
are we not allowed to enjoy his movies anymore? or will this fall into a roman polanski category, although the difference between polanski and gibson is like throwing a bullet and shooting it
I think the last time I enjoyed one of his movies was 1999′s Payback, so it may not even be an issue at this point.
ill upvote anyone who likes payback
You should watch the “Straight Up” director’s cut. It restores some of the more unpleasant stuff that Mel’s character does, such as beating the shit out of his wife. He took over the movie from Brian Helgeland because he thought his character was too unlikable and re-shot several parts including pretty much the entire third act. I like both versions of the movie, and it’s really interesting to see the differences.
I wonder which current movie heartthrob will have a similar meltdown 30 years from now.
My money’s on Efron.
This is all very horrible and Mel Gibson is an urchin, but we must admit that “we can see your pussy from behind” is a terribly, frighteningly hilarious thing to say in almost any context.
Also, it’s unclear if he’s upset that she has breast implants or that she’s smuggling illegal immigrants in her blouse.
It’s interesting that the single racial epithet is getting so much more attention than the heaps of misogynistic abuse. Has anyone else noticed that the guy is actually saying she deserves to be raped?
you’re totally correct…maybe it isnt as harsh to the ears (not saying thats right though) or maybe we kinda knew it already after “sugartits”….either way…mel gibson is terrible all around.’
i immediately regret listening to this. its just awful. i dont even feel like making a joke about how awful he is…im gonna go watch something with Christopher Lloyd in it…hes never said anything horribly bigoted has he?
“Racial epithets? Where we’re going, we don’t need … racial epithets.”
okay..im back in the mood to joke about this. restoring spirit upvote!
“Filthy, drunken, lazy Scot!”
I like that Mel Gibson is so method, that even his racist, misogynistic rants are Australian accent free.
I feel sad and angry now.
In these times, we can read the youtube comments to reassure our faith in humanity. Reassure means destroy, right?
Top Rated comment by ironcall102:
“Oh please, everyone here is so self-righteous! This was a private conversation! I highly doubt that none of you have ever said the N-word or swear this much when in a bitch-fit. Leave him alone. He directed Braveheart. What have you people ever done??? “
I’ve not directed Braveheart, so that’s something.
You guys, I was never in “Man Without a Face”.
Ugh, I almost completely forgot about Man that doesn’t have a Face.
“….And I will take care of my child.” Third act twist and redemption? Anyone? Anyone?
Clearly M. Knight wrote this rant for Mel, what with all the racism and plot twists, and bad writing.
Is it just me or does this sound like they’re both acting? Her voice is so calm and measured it’s as if she’s actually bored by the whole thing. Mel doesn’t sound like there’s any real range in his voice, like he’s reciting. All in all, he sounds very mean, crude, and shallow. What a waste.
“We Don’t Need Another Hero (Like Mel Gibson)”
I can’t get beyond the thunderdomes
#borderlinemisogyny
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OK buddy let’s get something clear. There is a big difference between the politically incorrect and racists. I find political correctness offensive, but only because it is a farce. Political incorrectness can be a source of great solidarity. For example, in former Yugoslavia under Tito there was a golden era of racist jokes. The jokes conformed to widely accepted stereotypes. The Slovenes were misers, the Macedonians were lazy and so on. Surprisingly all these people were able to live amongst each other without conflict, because these jokes were told in solidarity: I accept (not just tolerate!) you and all your flaws real and perceived. Not long after conflicts arose and Croatia and Bosnia declared independence these jokes stopped, and then the war started. These racist jokes weren’t the sole source of solidarity, but they were an everyday sign. It’s a strange phenomenon that has repeated itself in other ethnic/civil wars. Political correctness is a social construct that prevents criticism of a real conflict, a euphemism machine that restricts free expression and candor. In other words: the reaction is false the object is real.
What Mel Gibson expresses here is is latent racism, which is quite different. It’s the difference between a friend calling me a fag, and a guy leaning out of the passenger side of a passing pick-up truck yelling it at me. Gibson refers to rape by a pack of niggers as something truly disgusting and vile- a PACK of niggers. They’re like animals with huge mandingo dicks that roam the streets looking for white pussy to violate. That’s what he infers with his tone and words. He is expressing here his latent (not so latent) fear/disgust of the other. He is not like the rest of us. You may identify with this garbage heap of a human being, but leave the rest of us out of this.
? it’s not the racism i’m commenting on…who cares about that?
i’m saying i love when people get angry over stuff that happens to normal people…like a failing relationships…unless the rest of you have never had a failed relationship that ended with heated arguments with both parties shouting offensive insults that have no context
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Huh?
Sure his racism came from somewhere, but who gives a shit where? All racism in every racist comes from somewhere, that doesn’t mean we just say, “Those Ku Klux Klansmen are just being true to themselves! We can’t get mad at them for not knowing how not to burn a cross on the lawns of random black families!”
Either we hold everyone responsible for their words and actions or we hold nobody responsible for their words and actions. Maybe when you’re still a teenager you can get away with that “I’m a product of my environment” crap. But as an adult who exists in a society, eventually you need to become aware of how that society functions around you and stop expecting that you can say and do hateful, hurtful things without repercussion.
I mean how old is this dude anyway? 60? Grow the fuck up, Mel!
No, the people he hurls epithets at are the victims of his racism, and his ex-girlfriend here (you know, the one he threatened and apparently hit) is the victim of his towering misogyny.
Those may have been values that he was taught, and if so he is the victim (to use your language) of terrible parenting. But he is not a child, unthinkingly echoing what he’s heard at home. He is a grown man who has lived in the big wide world and is able to make his own decisions and judgements. He has had plenty of time to develop his racist, sexist, and homophobic beliefs on his own, and he has chosen to express them through speech and action.
I don’t pity him.
Ditto. Shoulda read your reply first.
To take off the fatmanj persona for a second…
The sad thing is the fact that this man is the person most people in the world will think of when they think of the most popular retelling of the true myth of Jesus Christ of the last 30 years. I’m not sure if Mel has a true understanding of the Gospel, and that’s a shame. I hope he knows that Christ died for this sin…
I feel like this comment should really make Monster’s Ball this week. Anyone with me in making it happen?
Mel Gibson does not approve.
It already got six stars. I think we’re good.