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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:33 PM
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Mel Gibson (Barf) Needs Your Help!
From ScaifeMax:

NewsMax.com, one of America's leading online news services (please, someone, cue the laff track), is conducting an urgent national online poll (translation: sure, we know that Mel Gibson can afford his own publicist, but this is just too thweeeeet an opportunity to inflame our Xtian-wacko readers).

NewsMax will provide the results of this poll to major media, Congress, the President, and key members of the administration (knowing full well that they all need a good laugh). Additionally, NewsMax's results will be shared with every major radio talk show host in America (knowing full well that their job, like ours, is to inflame proto-Fascist Jaaaaaay-zus-lovin', Confederate-flag-wavin' patriots). NewsMax reports have been cited by national major media, including Fox News, CNN and MSNBC (followed by uncontrollable laughter from the production staffs and on-air talent when they cut to the commercial).

Don’t miss this opportunity to let your voice be heard!

(You know what to do, DUers!)

Mel Gibson's upcoming movie "The Passion of the Christ" – has come under fierce criticism (because as cinema it sucks). The movie depicts the last hours of Jesus' life and his crucifixion (as pictured by the fetus-fetishizing, Cult-of-Virgin-Mary, neo-Nazi regressive wing of the Roman Catholic Church).

Critics say the film is too real and shows the brutality of the death (... that is, when they're not making fun of the inept direction, over-the-top acting, and grammatical errors in the original Aramaic). Other critics say because the film too closely mirrors the Gospel accounts, it is anti-Semitic (... well, not really; they're saying that because Mel Gibson himself is a raving anti-Semite just like his daddy, the film is an anti-Jewish turd that not even Scaife monkey-boys Chris Ruddy and Carl Limbacher can polish with their silly ScaifeMax diatribes).

Some Jewish leaders have stated Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite (cry me a river). Others say the film should not be shown in movie theatres (because, lets face it, Mel Gibson's "Passion" is the "PLan 9" of religious epics -- it should go straight to DVD). Efforts are underway to block the movie's distribution to the public (mostly by movie theatre chains that know box office poison from 3,000 miles away).

So what are you waiting for? Go vote -- and send Chris "Hillary killed Vince Foster" Ruddy your love!
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:35 PM
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1. I don't vote in there polls
They spam the email you signup with.
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The Zanti Regent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:36 PM
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2. Why is Chris Ruddy Silent about Killer Pickles?
Must be that MAGIC (R)!
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evil_orange_cat Donating Member (910 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:37 PM
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3. I doubt Mel Gibson is a Jew-Hater...
I know about his dad, but come on, the guy is older than dirt... Gibson is a Hollywood Elite... you don't succeed in Hollywood if you hate Jews. :D
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La_Serpiente Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:43 PM
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4. Well he seems to take his religious views seriously
The church he attends doesn't recognize the Catholic Church's 1965 resolution at the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church. The resolution exonerates the Jews for the murder of Christ. Here is the text:

"The Church repudiates all persecutions against any man. Moreover, mindful of her common patrimony with the Jews, and motivated by the gospel's spiritual love and by no political considerations, she deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and from any source"

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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:55 PM
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6. It's important to note that Mel Gibson's

church doesn't recognize ANY of the changes made by "Vatican II." They didn't just pick out one to reject.

I have no idea if Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite. And neither, I'd suggest, does anyone else unless they know him personally and very well.
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scottcsmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:58 PM
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7. If "Passion" is biblicaly "accurate"
Edited on Tue Dec-02-03 12:00 AM by scottcsmith
As Gibson says it will be, then Jews will be portrayed as being responsible for deicide, not the Romans. Early word from people who have seen the movie (in bootleg form) is that the Romans are portrayed in a very positive light. I, as a Jew, am not looking forward to a movie that might re-open these wounds that have not quite completely healed in 2000 years.

That said, if the film opens in Portland, I will definitely go see it, if anything to see for myself how Jews are portrayed.

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Kurt Remarque Donating Member (709 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:55 PM
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5. we can defend mel's right to speak
without taking newsmax that seriously
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 12:28 AM
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8. Just curious, but who started all of the attacks on Mel Gibson...
...and his movie? I personally don't recall Gibson ever being vilified for ANY reason prior to the making of this film.
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-02-03 12:57 AM
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9. Could Mel's Jesus
become another "Reagan series."?
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