Egg-Headed Witch-Doctor Denies Booze Made Gibson Say Things He Didn't Mean
Now that Mel Gibson is safely locked away at the luxurious resort-hab facilities of Promises Malibu for a solid week or so of waging a poolside battle against his Tequila-chugging, Jew-slandering demons, it might seem like piling on to mention Sunday's NY Times story claiming that the suspect field of "science" does not necessarily support the idea of the beer-goggle anti-Semitism that Gibson claims to have experienced on the night of his DUI arrest:
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."
When asked where those vicious words came from, Dr. Kevin J. Corcoran, a psychology researcher who has studied the effects of alcohol on perception and judgment, replied, simply, "his mouth."
Dr. Corcoran said comments do not spring from nothing; for example, Dr. Corcoran said, he himself would not make anti-Semitic statements under the influence of alcohol.
"I say other outrageous things when I'm drunk," he said.
The researcher has yet to conduct a study to determine whether subjects who ingest large amounts of alcohol and then are exposed to images of female law enforcement officials will speculate about the relative sweetness of the officers' secondary sex characteristics, but he calls the reliable reproduction of Gibson's infamous "sugar tits" result "highly unlikely given the variables at play."
Bonus Mid-to-late afternoon Mel Gibson links: Mel's Moonshadow's drinking buddies think it would've been "cool to give Mel Gibson a ride home"; Mel finally issues the third apology to the sugar-titted community that we've been clamoring for; did Gibson's tenuous association with a far-right-wing Australian political group plant anti-Semitic ideas that would reemerge 20 years later?
