Speaking of Myths: Mel Gibson

No way was Mel Gibson's reported tirade Friday a "mistake" or just a "drunken and/or insane" moment. Why would you say something when inebriated that you wouldn't say some other time? Mel's comments on Jews in the past rather sink him on the score of anti-semitism and anti-semitic remarks.

Nor does this explanation cover why Gibson was stopped several times previously for drunken driving but let go because he was considered such a pain in the ass (the sheriff's department should do some explaining why Gibson was so frequently treated differently than they would treat others, or why they continued to let Gibson drive when he endangered others), or why Gibson didn't just resist arrest, he actually tried to book.

The man may be mentally ill, and I think he is, but this doesn't let him off the hook.

I do think it's the height of sick irony that at the time this happened, Gibson was "developing a "Holocaust-based" series for ABC. Um... to further his father's notion that the holocaust did not really happen and, if by some chance there is a "little" truth in it, it was nowhere near as horrific as claimed. Sheesh.