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[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]MEL SAYS SORRY TO THE JEWS
Tue Aug 01 2006 11:10:45 ET
August 2, 2006 -- There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of Anti-Semitic remark [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]even though I'd love to come up with one[/span]. I want to apologize specifically to [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]the damn Jews[/span] everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]came straight from my heart[/span] I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]after I was tackled trying to run away[/span].
I am a public person, and when I say something [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]by accident that I really think[/span], either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena. As a result, [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]people now know what I believe[/span] I must assume personal responsibility for my words and [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]try to spin this in a positive way[/span] apologize directly to those who have been hurt and offended by those words [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]otherwise those damn Jews in Hollywood won't let me make another movie for the rest of my life[/span].
The tenets of what I profess to believe necessitate that I [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]hate Jews[/span] exercise charity and tolerance as a way of life. Every human being is God's child [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]except for those damn Jews[/span], and if I wish to honor my God I have to honor his children [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]and keep my stupid, drunken mouth shut[/span]. But please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]except when I'm really drunk[/span]. I am not a bigot [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]but I do hate Jews[/span]. Hatred of any kind goes against my faith [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]unless of course it's hatred of those stinking Christ-killers[/span].
I'm not just asking for forgiveness. I would like to take it one step further, and meet with leaders in the Jewish community, with whom I can [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]bullshit into liking me again[/span] have a one on one discussion to discern the appropriate path for healing [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]even though they're Jews who we all know are greedy bastards[/span].
I have begun an ongoing program of recovery and what I am now realizing is that I cannot [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]say what I think in public[/span] do it alone. I am in the process of understanding where [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]I f*cked up[/span] those vicious words came from during that drunken display, and I am asking the Jewish community, whom I have personally offended, to [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]let me slide[/span] help me on my journey through recovery. Again, I am reaching out to the Jewish community for its help. I know there will be many in that community who will want nothing to do with me [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]because some of them just aren't that stupid[/span], and that would be understandable. But I pray that that door is not forever closed [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]and that I can keep making movies in that Jew-ridden city of sin called Hollywood[/span].
This is not about a film. Nor is it about artistic license. This is about real life and recognizing the consequences hurtful words can have [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]to my career[/span]. It's about existing in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]due to dumbf*cks like me[/span].
