Richard Gere has backtracked from his comments he made on the Jon Stewart show and has apologized for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty.
On Comedy Central's The Today Show, he told Stewart that "There is a very small, right-wing, very conservative political party in India, and they are the moral police in India and they do this kind of thing quite often."
Gere's kiss of Shetty (shown below on video) caused an uproar in India and initiated legal complaints across the country. A court in India has issued an arrest warrant for Gere as a result.
While Gere's apology was half-hearted saying concerning whether he offended them or not: "If that has happened, of course it is easy for me to offer a sincere apology." I'm not sure what he means by "if." Is he still not sure?
As far as the right-wing conservative thing in India, that "conspiracy" type of stuff doesn't work in America for Hillary Clinton, why would he think it would work in India? Pretty stupid when you look at it.
If Gere were to ever go to court and convicted of public obscenity, he could be sentenced to three months in prison, fined or both.
Richard Gere's Offending Kiss:
What misinformation you spread? ” India has issued a warrant …. ” It’s a small town judge in a very large country.Chill guys. In a country of about a billion people and hundreds of towns and cities a few dozen rascals go out burning effigies on the streets of no more than four towns and the media there screams ‘ The Kiss that Shocked India ‘ or - ” Protests Rock India ” . Indians including Shilpa Shetty ( the actress in question ) didn’t care much about it. And please stop asking people to respect our ‘ conservative ‘ culture. We ain’t no Saudi Arabia. We gave the world the Kamasutra, the sculptures of Khajuraho, the raunchy Bollywood movies and the annual Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar ( scantier clothed models than those in Victoria’s Secret’s calendar )
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