MEL GIBSON REALLY IS A NAZI AFTER ALL!!! WHO KNEW?

Could a big mainstream movie star in Hollywood, no less, really be anti-Semitic. I mean, in 2006? It's so easy to call everyone you disagree with a Nazi. So Mel Gibson made a movie that potentially stokes a little hatred towards ancient Jews. Does that mean he's some kind of a subhuman who should be shunned and avoided and whose films should be boycotted? Well... maybe yes.

Today's New York Daily News has a story by Michelle Caruso that is pretty damn scary. Even bearing in mind that Gibson was drunk out of his mind-- or zonked on drugs and out of his mind-- his tirade on being arrested is something we all ought to look at carefully before we think about seeing a movie that has something to do with Mel Gibson. I sure don't behave like this when I get pulled over!

Gibson was zooming down Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu just after 3 AM when he was pulled over. He failed an alcohol breath test and a field sobriety test. His response? "Fucking Jews!" is what he started screaming. He demanded to know if the Asian-American police officer was a Jew. Claiming he "owns Malibu," the power-crazed and very right-wing Gibson reacted a little differently than most of us do when we get into a mess with a policeman. "You motherfucker. I'm going to fuck you." He claimed he'd spend "all my money" to get even. "Fucking Jews! The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."

Hat Tip: AmericaBlog


UPDATE AT 9: GIBSON'S PUBLICIST ISSUES FAKE, HOLLOW APOLOGY

Gibson's publicist penned a really shameful and pathetic excuse of a pseudo-apology today. Basically, it claims the far right extremist was apologizing for his "belligerent behavior" towards the cops. The celebrity damage control shill had him saying that "I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable... I am deeply ashamed of everything I said, and I apologize to anyone who I have offended." And, like all Republicans who never take responsibility for anything, Gibson blamed it all on "alcoholism." No mention of Jews or of his raging anti-Semitism.

Ken doesn't think it was alcoholism or drugs or anything like that. He told me on the phone earlier that he suspects Gibson was just attempting to appeal to his base.