If alcohol brings out the worst in someone's personality, then this is the perfect example of it in action, if this report is true. If it is true, Mel Gibson can kiss his career goodbye--and for good reason. (Although redemption in Hollywood is always a possibility.) Otherwise, TMZ is "staring at the mother of all libel cases if not, and I’m sure they know it", as Allah notes.

Update: Mel issues the standard apology here; meanwhile David Frum predicts the next stage of Mel's career, and Duane Patterson looks at the anti-Semitism of an even bigger media darling.