Yes, it’s true. I don’t know what page it’s on, because I haven’t seen the magazine. [Charles says it’s on page 8.] But I know it’s in issue number 890, dated Aug. 11, 2006, the one with something called “Little Miss Sunshine” on the cover.
Someone from Entertainment Weekly magazine called me on Tuesday, to ask if it would be fair to describe me as a “conservative Christian.” I told him it would. And now, a story in the latest issue contains a genuine Sean Gleeson quote. The article, punningly titled “Mel to Pay?,” by Daniel Fierman, explores the possible repurcussions of Mel Gibson’s drunken rampage. My quote is in the sixth paragraph (counting those two Gibson quotes on top as paragraphs).
But the most troubling news for the 50-year-old director is that, aside from some fundamentalist leaders, even people who loved The Passion seem deeply dismayed. “Like many millions of others, I lost a great deal of respect for Mel Gibson yesterday,” wrote conservative Christian blogger Sean Gleeson. “If I lost more than most, it’s because I had more than most…. I do admire his immediate and candid apology, and I do forgive him. I urge the country to forgive him… and put him in prison.”
The quotes, of course, were taken from my July 30 post “Bad boy, good guy, antisemite.”
And apparently “Little Miss Sunshine” is a motion picture. The EW reviewer called it “schlock” and gave it a “C.”
Great news Sean!!! I’d say something snarky about EW but it’s late and what needs to be said about EW that hasn’t been said already?
I’ll actually have to pick this up… or at least read a friend’s copy. Any word if they’re printing the URL?
As for Gibson, I tend to agree with the South Park episode on the matter… the guy is an out and out lunatic.
I didn’t expect the deadtree version to contain the URL, but the guy who ported it over to ew.com should have included it.
(Page 8, top of the second text column - not counting the sidebar.)
Sean,
Why didn’t you send out some sort of announcement? I love having friends “hit the big time.”
Then I like borrowing money from them.
Some sort of announcement? Jeez, Gordon, you read blogs, don’t you?
Charles, I’ve often thought you could get a job at EW, in their Headline Punnishment department.
[…] But our blog buddy Sean Gleeson gets quoted on his thoughts on Mel Gibson. […]
I’m thinking that the point you were making in your Entertainment Weakly interview was that Gibson’s dui was much more important to worry about than any anti-semetic comments he made. Am I correct in this?
A friend of mine who was usually an angry drunk when he’d had a few too many once verbally attacked me simply because I tried to take his car keys (to save his life). He tried very hard to hurt my feelings by bringing up some very personal and private issues. It was quite embarrassing, and he succeeded in doing damage.
The next day he cried in my ear on the phone and later in person telling me how sorry he was to hurt a dear friend.
I believe Mel Gibson was lashing out at the jewish police officer in a way he knew he could hurt the man’s feelings, because Mel is an angry drunk who was not thinking of the international ramifications of his actions. The dui and the fact he tried to escape from police should be the subjects of alarm, not the hurtful comments.
Naturally, I didn’t mean he should go to prison for an antisemitic remark. In the U.S.A., even odious speech is protected by law. Part of my lengthy post not quoted by EW:
But he does pay a price for his antisemitic outburst too: he lost my endorsement, and so doesn’t get to be president. I think that’s fair.