Mel Gibson's Racist Rant Caught On Tape (now with Audio) — Page 5

Mel never got another dollar from me after that anti-gay vomit poured out of him.

Any hotness he had died that day.

Whoopi's not all that different from that other Mel Gibson apologist, The Beaver director, Miss Jodie Foster. It's funny how friendship creates an allegiance that helps people excuse the offensive behavior of their friends.

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According to the LA Times, no one wants to say anything.

"On Monday, representatives for Jodie Foster, Gibson's longtime friend and his director and costar in his new movie "The Beaver," said that she was in post-production and unable to comment. A spokeswoman for Graham King, the producer who worked with Gibson on his recent film "Edge of Darkness" and has been planning a Viking epic that Gibson would direct, said King was on the set of another film and was unavailable to comment.

A spokeswoman for Danny Glover, the often vocal African American actor who costarred with Gibson in the four "Lethal Weapon" movies — the franchise that, with its biracial pairing, helped shoot Gibson to the top of the action-star A-list — chose not to weigh in. "At this time, Mr. Glover does not have a comment, and there is no statement regarding Mr. Gibson."

Whoopie evidentally got calls about her statement that Mel is not racist. The "responded" to the calls and bloggers this morning. She says that anyone who say the show knows what she said. I saw the show, and she said he is not a racist. I just lost a bit of respect for her. Watch her rant:

http://tv.gawker.com/5586931/whoopi-goldberg-confronts-blogger-backlash-about-mel-gibson-comments-kiss-my-behind

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She *does* have telepathic powers! She won an Oscar for them, remember!


(/sarcasm)

Thank you Reg.

I lost some respect for her this morning. I actually lost some when she defended him. As a black man, I was a bit outraged that she "gave him a pass" on this when he clearly used the "N" word.

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I get that when people you are friends with do bad things, the natural instinct is to defend them. For whatever reason. Loyalty, truly believing in them. Whatever.

But this man has a 20 year history of saying hateful things like this. IN PUBLIC. I can't imagine what he says in private...let alone thinks to himself.

None of her "points" stand up to any scrutiny, I'm afraid.

Phyllis, I think she was trying to "lighten things up" but it was too late.

I am reading The View's Facebook page. Some people are defending Whoopie because she did say that we don't know for a FACT that the voice is Mel Gibson's. That's fine. But she kind of skirted around her saying that he isn't a racist and I think that is what is bothering people. Had she said that she has known him for a long time but didn't know this side of him and would wait to see what comes out of this, I would have been fine with that. But she clearly defended him on the racist thing.

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Does she really think that all the people who complained didn't see the clip? I know she doesn't understand the internet and all, but the contempt she speaks with about the "bloggers" who took issue with her (as though only bloggers think what she said was completely insane) says something in itself, just as her outrage that people told her assistant or receptionist or whatever she was they took issue with her comments instead of her directly. I guess - like many a celebrity who came from humble beginnings to find herself with fame and wealth - it can all be chalked up to the fact that she's completely out of touch. Maybe that's why she can't/doesn't do stand-up anymore.

It's curious that all the people Craww listed were men. Has Whoopi ever done the apologist thing for a woman who screwed up royally or does she just blame the women who were at the hands of men she's defending?

The View clearly doesn't care about alienating the people who watch it (note the silence on the who DL/DL discussion). And as much as I love a good train wreck, I don't understand why people with any sense still watch this show.

I can sort of understand why Jodie Foster wanted to believe that Mel Gibson's anti-semitic rant was only a product of his alcoholism. Apparently she had a great time doing Maverick with him. I would imagine, or, at least, I'd hope, that these phone calls are harder for her to brush aside.

As far as Whoopi goes, she's leaving the fact that Mel Gibson's father is a holocaust denier and a bigot out of the equation. Mel used to defend him in the Aussie press in the 80s when he made crazy remarks. This leads me to believe that his use of racial, misogynistic, and homophobic slurs is a little bit more deeply rooted than Whoopi calling some dude a honky because he cut her off on the road. She either doesn't get the difference, or she's being willfully ignorant.

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Updated On: 7/14/10 at 03:33 PM

I've said some nasty sh*t in my life. Everyone I know has said some nasty sh*t. If this were confined to some crazy-ugly utterings, I guess I could understand a friend being willing to stick up for him.

But Goldberg's history of defending men who have caused violence to other living creatures (be it women, men or animals) is shocking. Absolutely shocking. I understand that people are innocent till proven guilty...but STILL. Girl's track record is terrible.