"Mel on the Cross" and in a scary photo too ...

[NVMojo]

Mel on the cross

Hollywood may shun Mel Gibson for his anti-Semitic ravings, but the right wing in George Bush's increasingly hate-filled America won't.

By Neal Gabler

August 1, 2006


Ordinarily when a celebrity transgresses -- when Lee Tracy urinated off a Mexican hotel balcony in the 1930s, or Ingrid Bergman bore twins out of wedlock in the late 1940s, or Tara Reid does her impersonation of "Girls Gone Wild" -- the moralists descend and mea culpas are issued. So it has been for Mel Gibson. Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade during his DUI arrest last weekend may not be your garden-variety misbehavior, but Gibson was quick to act as if it were – recanting, apologizing and blaming alcoholism for his remarks, on the assumption that he was, as he snarled at the arresting officer, "fucked" and that he needed immediate rehabilitation. (Gibson did check himself into a rehab center Monday.)

Gibson may very well have been right had this occurred, say, 10 years ago.

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http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/08/01/mel/index_np.html?source=newsletter

[Agnomen]

1. photo: definite resemblance to Saddam Hussain

[Sadie5]

3. Amazing isn't it?

Mel knew right away that rehab was the place for him. Wonder if they washed his filthy mouth out with soap and smacked him on the wrist before they called Bush to tell him of Mel's excellent drunken performance.

[Minstrel Boy]

6. oh, I dunno...

[Flying Dream Blues]

2. Is anyone else skeptical about the reported .12 blood alcohol?

It seems he was way more trashed than .12 would explain.

[NVMojo]

4. I wondered about that too ...probably more like a 1.2

[soothsayer]

5. eh, mebbe he's just a lightweight pu$$y!