An Invitation to Mel Gibson

Dear Mel,

This is a free invitation to come and do teshuvah on rubyjewsday. As an old peace and love relic from the 1960's, I can assure you that the Jews dont start all the wars in the world--quite a few of us Jewish peaceniks spent the better part of our lives opposing them. As for you---nu, talk about clueless middle aged men behaving badly! Really, Mel, one would have expected a somewhat better performance from the guy who managed to outwit the Anti-Defamation League and score millions with The Passion of the Christ. I never saw your movie--I'm not into S&M flicks--and it sounded truly vile, but the marketing strategy was brilliant, so you must have something going on upstairs. The Christian Right slobbered all over it, and made you into a kind of cardboard saint. And then for you to go out and get falling down drunk, pawing several blondes, and manage to get pulled over by a Jewish cop, who you go and curse as a f----- Jew? Real bright, Mel! But hey, we're all weak.

By the way, loved you in The Year of Living Dangerously. As someone who also dabbled with being a foreign correspondent, I thought at the time that being a dashing correspondent who looked like Mel Gibson and got to dabble with Sigourney Weaver while a revolution was going down all around them would be a nice thing to be. And you played that role with a lot of intellegence as well as panache. I wasnt into the Mad Max or Lethal Weapon muscle stuff but you didnt really lose me until you turned out to be an anti-Semite, as well as a Jesus freak and a right-wing Republican to boot. That is a drunk, lecherous fundamentalist Christian spouting obscenities against the Jews. Serious hypocrisy, Mel, and serious stupidity! Now Abe Foxman has you right where he wants you. But everyone is redeemable, so come to rubyjewsday and spill your guts to your heart's content. Then go forth and sin no more.