Genius of the Weeek: Mel Mel Meeeellll Gibson

After the stunt he pulled, if we didn't pick Mel Gibson as our Genius of the Week, in the words of an Inquirer staffer, "Next Friday we'd be our own Geniuses of the Week."

To escape our own chastising, here he is in rare form. Braveheart, Leathal Weapon (I, II and III!) star, amazing man who can read women's minds, Mel Gibson gets nabbed DWW. (Our own acronym: Driving While Wasted.) And instead of walking the line, muttering jibberish and blowing a .31 or something absurd like that, he decides to start panning Jews for all the hate in the world.

As the San Francisco Chronicle says, "We're stuck on Mel."

Perhaps The Inquirer ought to just chastise the entire damn country as the Week's genius, because this really isn't worth much. Synagogues are inviting him to speak. He's issued an apology, of course, which concluded, "It's about exisiting in harmony in a world that seems to have gone mad." We'd almost buy that. And then there's the clincher. Guess where? From Aljazeera:

I wonder what brought up this issue of "anti-Semitism" and the arrest of the 50-year-old prominent film-maker Mel Gibson for having made several "anti-Semitic" remarks prior to and at the time of his arrest over DUI while the Arabs' anger at he Israeli atrocities in Lebanon has reached its peak?!

Is this foul play by the American star to gain publicity? Or do these words he uttered present his true feelings?

Another importan thing -- isn't it suspicious that Mr. Gibson's case coincided with the decision by his production company to cancel the Holocaust mini-series it was developing with the ABC TV network?

Gone mad, anyone?

Genius.

(Photo from flickr.)