{"id":1303,"date":"2006-08-02T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2006\/08\/mel-icious-intent\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T14:29:00","slug":"mel-icious-intent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/mel-icious-intent\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel-icious Intent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/07\/28\/gibson.dui\/index.html\">Mel Gibson can kiss my ass.<\/a>  I don&#8217;t accept his apology.  Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.  The first time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepassionofthechrist.com\/splash.htm\">that movie of his<\/a>, I could allow in the name of freedom of expression.  I knew it was biased against the Jews and really inflammatory, but that&#8217;s his right. I knew that it would work to undermine Vatican II, but most people I know who are Christians still hold with the whole &#8220;the Romans did it&#8221; mentality. I think.  I mean no disrespect here.  I am just angry about the slant of that movie, what I think was maliciously intended, consciously anti-Semitic especially now with this.  But at least it can be said that no pogroms occurred because of it, anyway; no Kristallnacht, thank God.  Many Jews harbor fears of such a thing in the backs of their minds, especially when something like Gibson&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Passion<\/span> comes along.  But perhaps some good came out of it:  most people really began to believe that Mr. Gibson&#8217;s wig was flipping.<\/p>\n<p>So now, with this whole thing.  I don&#8217;t know about you, but when I get pulled over by a cop, the first thing that comes into my head is usually, &#8220;Oh, God, please get me out of this with just a warning,&#8221; and not some diatribe against some religious group or other.  But that&#8217;s just me. <\/p>\n<p>Look, Mel, get some help.  Look at your genetics.  The sins of the fathers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Gibson can kiss my ass. I don&#8217;t accept his apology. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. The first time, that movie of his, I could allow in the name of freedom of expression. I knew it was biased against the Jews and really inflammatory, but that&#8217;s his right. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-l1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}