http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/...make-jaws-drop/

George Smiley goes off....

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Actor Gary Oldman says his colleagues in Hollywood need to learn how to take a joke and stop being such “hypocrites” when it comes to political correctness. In a new interview with Playboy, Oldman went off when asked to discuss the downfall of Mel Gibson’s career following a number of controversial comments.

“I just think political correctness is crap,” he said. “That’s what I think about it. I think it’s like, take a f***ing joke. Get over it. … I don’t know about Mel. He got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those things. We’re all f***ing hypocrites. That’s what I think about it.”

The actor, who identifies as a libertarian, said “dishonesty” and “double standards” frustrate him the most. Accordingly, there are certain things that left-leaning comedians like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart can say, but not others, he said.

“Well, if I called Nancy Pelosi a c**t—and I’ll go one better, a f***ing useless c**t—I can’t really say that. But Bill Maher and Jon Stewart can, and nobody’s going to stop them from working because of it,” Oldman said.

“It’s our culture now, absolutely. At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for 12 Years a Slave, you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say,” he continued. “I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn’t share, but it’s not like I’m a fascist or a racist. There’s nothing like that in my history.”

Oldman also said Hillary Clinton isn’t the right person for the job of president of the United States, Bill Maher would likely fail the libertarian test and named syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer as someone who “speaks the truth in this culture.”

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I don't know who this guy is, but he seems remarkably smart for the Hollywood crowd.

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I don't know who this guy is, but he seems remarkably smart for the Hollywood crowd.

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OK, I saw Sid and Nancy. Most of it anyway. The self-destructiveness got boring towards the end.

BTW - your tag line under that photo is great!

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I don't know who this guy is, but he seems remarkably smart for the Hollywood crowd.

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His name sounded very familiar but I just can't picture who he is. To me that's the sign of a great character actor who role adds to most movies he's in. He also really has a quite extensive oeuvre.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000198/

Follow up: If this report is true, it's Oldman who is now groveling and apologizing.

"I got an email from the Anti-Defamation League, blasting and condemning what it calls Oldman’s anti-Semitic remarks. Per the release: “The British actor remarked that, ‘Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews and he said the wrong thing because he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him.” The ADL says the remarks “irresponsibly feed into a classic anti-Semitic canard about supposed Jewish control of Hollywood and the film industry,” said ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman. “He should know better than to repeat and give credence to tired anti-Semitic tropes. Mel Gibson’s ostracization in Hollywood was not a matter of being ‘politically incorrect,’ as Mr. Oldman suggests, but of paying the consequences for outing himself as a bigot and a hater. It is disturbing that Mr. Oldman appears to have bought into Mr. Gibson’s warped and prejudiced world view.” Foxman adds that the assertion that Jews control Hollywood…”is an anti-Semitic stereotype based on the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,’ the 19th Century anti-Semitic forgery that suggested Jews conspire to control major industries such as banking and finance.”

Oldman's response?:

"Gary Oldman has sent an explanation to the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Weisenthal Center, in response to the ADL’s charge he propagated anti-Semitic stereotypes in his Playboy Interview. He’s the response:

Dear Gentlemen of the ADL:

I am deeply remorseful that comments I recently made in the Playboy Interview were offensive to many Jewish people. Upon reading my comments in print—I see how insensitive they may be, and how they may indeed contribute to the furtherance of a false stereotype. Anything that contributes to this stereotype is unacceptable, including my own words on the matter. If, during the interview, I had been asked to elaborate on this point I would have pointed out that I had just finished reading Neal Gabler’s superb book about the Jews and Hollywood, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews invented Hollywood. The fact is that our business, and my own career specifically, owes an enormous debt to that contribution.

I hope you will know that this apology is heartfelt, genuine, and that I have an enormous personal affinity for the Jewish people in general, and those specifically in my life. The Jewish People, persecuted thorough the ages, are the first to hear God’s voice, and surely are the chosen people.

I would like to sign off with “Shalom Aleichem”—but under the circumstances, perhaps today I lose the right to use that phrase, so I will wish you all peace–Gary Oldman.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/gary-old...ithout-context/

Oldman's grevious mistake was probably bringing up Mel Gibson.

Some sins are just unforgivable.