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Is it unspeakable?

You probably know that Mel Gibson was picked up last night on a DUI arrest outside LA.

Earlier today a number of readers sent me this story at TMZ.com which alleges that Gibson resisted arrest and among other things went on tirade against Jews. From the site

Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began banging himself against the seat. The report says Gibson told the deputy, “You mother f****r. I’m going to f*** you.” The report also says “Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he ‘owns Malibu’ and will spend all of his money to ‘get even’ with me.”

The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: “F*****g Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” Gibson then asked the deputy, “Are you a Jew?”

Now, I wasn’t familiar with this site. So I didn’t know what to make of it. What the site alleges is that the arresting officer wrote up a detailed report from which the alleged quotes above come. But the police brass thought its contents were too inflammatory. And a sanitized version of the police report was then prepared. The site published what it claims is the original suppressed report here.

Now, as I said above, I’m not familiar with the site. But this evening TPM Reader EG sent in this AP story reporting that Gibson’s publicist has now released a statement in which Gibson says, inter alios, “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.”

What the AP doesn’t give any clue about is what these “despicable” statements might have been.

And you have to ask, why? Given what we know now, and now Gibson’s cryptic apology, it really sounds like the TMZ story is probably on the mark. So why won’t the AP touch that part of the story? CNN doesn’t mention it either. People do say all sort of things when they’re crazy drunk. But with Gibson, there’s a history.

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