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Free speech means you have the right to say something. It does not mean you have the right to say something free of any and all consequences. He'd already fought off questions about being anti-Semitic before; now he's just confirmed that they were true. Being an anti-Semite, unfortunately for Gibson, has consequences-like ABC won't want you to produce a miniseries about the Holocaust, for example. People who think biggotry is stupid and wrong won't want to work for him or with him, despite his star power.
This isn't about "He's free to say whatever he wants." Of course he is. That doesn't mean the rest of the world either has to like it or has to ignore it. It is not illegal for him to hate Jews. He cannot and should not be jailed for it. However, he has no Constitutional protection against people deciding that being one makes him a stupid asshat and not be interested in seeing his movies or being in them or associating with him. People are not entitled to the rest of the world conforming to their ideas or accepting them simply because they have them.
As tophat said, in vino veritas. I have no interest in supporting someone who thinks that Jews killed his lord and savior and ruined the world, and neither the Constitution nor anything else guaranatee him the ability to be like that without other people choosing not to have anything to do with him.
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