For the record, I feel there is nothing funny about Mel Gibson's ranting. It's unbelievable to me how many people online have come to his defense, calling his wife a sneaky, conniving woman who set him up by recording their phone conversations.
First, Mel said she deserved to be raped by a "pack of n***ers," then threatened to kill her and admitted to punching her while she was holding their child and said she deserved it. What a conniving bitch, huh? She got him right where she wanted him. (That poor little girl.)
Throw in a reference to a maid as a "wetback" and Mel is on his way to offending almost every race on earth. We already know he thinks Jews are responsible for all the wars on earth from his traffic stop years ago. Also, when his father said the Holocaust was a "fiction," Mel said, "He can back it up."
I don't know how MovieGodsLive managed to take the audio, mash it up with an old Christian Bale rant, which now seems quaint by comparison, and make something funny out of it: But I am so glad they did. The audiotape of Gibson that I listened to out of curiosity was so corrosive that I welcome this YouTube video as a Silkwood shower for my brain.
The full tapes of Mel's panting and raving are available on radaronline.com, but I don't recommend them. They're disturbing. The ravings of a man who's come unhinged and is threatening to take a bat to a woman's head and bury her in the rose garden is not easy listening.
Is there a rehab for abusive, sexist, racist assholes? If so, I hope Mel gets lifelong treatment with no chance of furlough. Because I'm pretty sure there's no cure. And it would keep him from making any more movies.
