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Brent Bozell on Mel: Who Are the Bigots?
It's open season on Mel Gibson. Critics far and wide are vigorously pillorying the producer of "The Passion of the Christ" for his recent drunken, anti-Semitic rantings. The critics are demanding that Gibson crawl on his knees begging for forgiveness, which is pretty much what he has already done. However, no such apologies are being demanded from the host of anti-Catholic bigots attacking Gibson who apparently remain free to spout their hatred of everything Catholic without criticism from the same celebrities and media members now demanding Mel's scalp. Writing in his syndicated column, the Media Research Center's L. Brent Bozell III took on the hypocrites for gleefully pointing to the speck in Gibson's eye while ignoring the beams of bigotry in their own. In his column "Mel Gibson and the Politics of Bigotry," Bozell cited some rancid examples of the hypocrisy now rife in the get-Gibson campaign.
Story Continues Below Acknowledging that "Gibson’s remarks were disgraceful," Bozell asks if Gibson "is now to be disgraced, and if so, who is qualified to make that judgment?" Is, for example, Arianna Huffington - who has denounced Gibson’s "odious racism” qualified? Or her colleague Ari Emanuel, who demanded that Hollywood shun Mel? What about other vitriolic critics such as Christopher Hitchens, Joy Behar, Barbara Walters, and Sony Pictures Chairwoman Amy Pascal . . . are they qualified to cast stones at the star? "The first thing Mel Gibson and everyone else should do is ignore people like these," Bozell advised. "They are hypocrites." Bozell asked where these same critics where when: What of the movie itself, a bigoted anti-Catholic screed if ever there was one.
Such examples of anti-Christian, anti-Catholic bigotry in Hollywood, Bozell wrote, "are seemingly endless. Each and every one is uglier, more mean-spirited than anything Mel Gibson said. While Gibson’s comments were those of a slobbering drunk, these anti-Catholic rants were not just deliberate, in most cases they were scripted. And while Gibson has apologized profusely, none of the people cited above has any intention of showing contrition because they have none. Bozell continues: "Gibson’s statements were awful, and deserved condemnation. But the anti-Catholic bigotry raging in Hollywood is far worse. "Those who suddenly proclaim themselves to be shocked – shocked I tell you! – over Gibson’s religious bigotry, but have remained silent all these years as the Catholic Church is mercilessly pummeled, ridiculed and insulted, are frauds."
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