June 25, 2014 8:11 AM

Stupid never takes a vacation

stupid_people.jpgGreetings from Sodom and Gomorrah…or as I like to call it, San Francisco. I’m here on vacation, and I’m relaxing and recreating all over the place. I’d sort of hoped to leave the world behind, especially the part where people say and do intensely stupid things for no discernible reason.

Turns out that stupid NEVER takes a holiday. It’s on call 24/7/365…and it has no problem with being called up on short notice. F’rinstance, whatever flavor of brain fart possessed Gary Oldman to weigh in on the racial balance of power in Hollywood, there’s no good reason why an ostensibly intelligent, lucid, and talented individual such as Oldman should think he has the chops to tap-dance through a mine field. Why anyone would feel the need to defend Mel Gibson’s drunken, raving racist lunacy defies anything resembling rational understanding.

I’d ask what Oldman was thinking, but that would presume there was some actual, honest-to-god, thought processing taking place…which really doesn’t seem to ben the case. I’m guessing it’s just a case of incurable foot-in-mouth disease.

The Anti-Defamation League has issued a strong rebuke of Gary Oldman’s recent Playboy magazine interview, during which the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes actor said that Hollywood is “run by Jews” and defended Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic tirade….

“Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews,” Oldman said in the interview, “and he said the wrong thing because he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him.”

I don’t know enough about Hollywood to be able speak with any authority to the racial power structure of Tinseltown. For all I know, Oldman may well be correct about Jews running Hollywood…but why is that a bad thing? Even if he’s correct, what did Oldman possibly have to gain by defending Gibson and disparaging Jews? What benefit did he think he could realize by doing something so incredibly ill-advised and stupid? It’s not about being politically correct; it’s about recognizing that some subjects are best left alone.

Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.

  • Mel Gibson

It’s not about Jews- or any other ethnic or racial group- “controlling” anything. It’s not a club in which only Jews are welcome and help their own with an eye towards total world domination. The entertainment industry, like virtually any other market segment, is a meritocracy. Produce quality entertainment that puts butts in the seat, and you’re in. It’s about making money for investors…as it is in any other industry. That’s not a racial or ethnic thing; it’s about business acumen. Dollars don’t care if you’re Jewish, or Buddhist, or Zorastrian…or good ol’ White Christian.

It’s tough to go broke underestimating human stupidity…and in this case, Gary Oldman’s epic display of anti-Semitism proves once again that stupid never takes a vacation.

Now if y’all don’t mind, I’m going to get back to mine.

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