August 7, 2006, - 2:11 pm
Hilarious: The Mel Gibson Friends That Keep on Giving; Patrick Swayze, Mid-East Scholar
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I really don’t think the Mel Gibson anti-Semitism story is that big of a deal. Hardly an earth-shattering event. , and that’s the end of the story.
But not for Mel. He just can’t give it up. He keeps trotting out the worst choices in friends to vouch for him “not being an anti-Semite.” Last week, there was of Eminem-rapping-lyrics-as-a-graduation-speech fame. As , she was hardly the ideal choice as a Gibson defender.
Now, there’s “Dirty Dancer” Patrick Swayze, who also insists that Mel Gibson “is not anti-Semitic.” That’s the biggest acting gig Swayze can get, these days, apparently.
Wait, is this the same Patrick Swayze “? Why, yes it is. (My column on Middle East “scholar” .) Is it the same airplane pilot Patrick Swayze ? Why, yes it is.
Is it the same pan-Arabist, pan-Islamist Patrick Swayze, “? (Fortunately, the movie was shelved, permanently.) Based on a book by Sheik Sultan Al Qassimi, ruler of Sharjah (one of the seven United Arab Emirates), the script was about Johannes Herman Poll, an American boy who was “adopted” (a/k/a kidnapped, held hostage, and forcibly converted to Islam) by an Arab couple to become a powerful 19th Century sheik.
Hmmm. . . . Maybe that’s how Patrick Swayze is such an expert on anti-Semitism. That and his experience “raising Arabian horses.”
Instead of pontificating on Mid-East policy and Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitism, Swayze should have stuck to acting. His career went downhill after “Red Dawn” and “North & South” (the Civil War miniseries). Remember “Road House“?
Hilarious. Come on, Mel. Give it up. This sorry lot of defenders is turning a week-long story into a several weeks-long farce.
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Hey Patrick, I understand Arabs very well because my Arabian horse just crapped on a hate manual book written in Arabic.
anonymous twit on August 7, 2006 at 4:22 pm