Mel Gibson: Did His DWI Stop By Police Unleash an Anti-Semitic Tirade?

[Ed. note: Update: Well, my skepticism regarding Mel and the story of his idiotic anti-semitic rant was off! Just as I was doubting even more strongly what I'd posted from AlterNet, Ha'aretz, the Israeli newspaper, had a news banner stating that Mouthy Mel had issued an apology for his anti-semitic tirade uttered during his Friday traffic stop. So Mel really is that stupid and banal. Our apologies for doubting even he couldn't be that shallow and base.]

Anybody with an 85 I.Q. or higher (which eliminates Mr. Bush and half his cabinet and staff) knows that Mel Gibson is 108 cards shy of a full 52-card deck. But this one sounds wild even for Mel.

From AlterNet Blogs:

Mel Gibson, director of Jesus gore-fest The Passion of the Christ, was pulled over for drunk driving early Friday morning, launching almost immediately into a Jew-hating tirade of, well, biblical proportions.

"F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?"

In addition he threatened to...

fuck the officer several times, snapped at a female officer, "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?", bragged that he "owns Malibu" and that he "will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me," according to Deputy James Mee's report.

The original report that is, since the L.A. Sheriff's office had him remove all the yucky stuff because, as Mee was told by higher-ups, "Gibson's comments would incite a lot of 'Jewish hatred,' [and] that the situation in Israel was 'way too inflammatory.'"

Right. Sure. People just hear Jew hatred and rush from the dinner table for a little pogrom.

Consider the nation's intelligence insulted and the LA Sheriff's office bought and paid for.

Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood spoke with the sheriff's office, which denies the cover-up, but early reports have the sheriff's spokesman claiming that Gibson was arrested "without incident" so it's highly unlikely that he just happened to have messed up, that Mee just happens to have claimed that he was told to write another report and that other officers (as stated above) gave excuses for the report.

But back to Gibson. The man who shipped an 8-lane bowling alley to his private island that he intends to leave as pristine as he found it; who donated "$5 million of his The Passion of the Christ profits to expanding a religious compound near Malibu for Catholics who reject Vatican II reforms [the reforms that finally, officially, stated that Jews were not culpable for the death of Christ]."

What the hell?