Is it the drunk or drink doing the talking?

August 8, 2006

More Mel Gibson analysis from the NY Times:

So where, exactly, did those words come from? (And not just the anti-Jewish comments, but also the less-noted crude aside about the anatomy of a female officer?) Was this alcohol-fueled soliloquy an ugly insight into Mr. Gibson’s character “” in other words, in vino veritas? Or was it just the tequila talking?

Science, as it happens, has been hard at work trying to understand the how and the why of what everyone at a college mixer learns: alcohol can make people do, and say, stupid things. But does it make people say things that they do not believe at all, that are, as Mr. Gibson insisted in his statements, antithetical to one’s own views and faith?

Experts generally suggest that the answer is “Nope.”

(via Defamer)



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{ 2 comments }

1 Gasman August 8, 2006 at 5:35 pm

Virtually all of the public Mel is trying to convince otherwise has some personal experience with alcohol intoxication.

I never did or said anything under the influence that I did not want, at some level, to do. Sure, in the cold light of morning upon more sober reflection it is clear that not all wants are best acted upon, but nothing ever happened that was not already inside me.

So the only question for Mel, is will he be honest and admit that like everyone he does have some darker but ordinarily hidden aspects to his personality and appoligize for his harms or will he lie like a bastard and accept no responsibility for his own actions.

2 beajerry August 9, 2006 at 2:57 pm

Heard on The Onion radio: “Mel Gibson has launched missles into Israel.”

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