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...Jews ... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. Are you a Jew?" MEL GIBSON, to a police officer in Malibu, Calif., as he was being arrested for drunken driving AFTERMATH: Huge. Gibson apologized, offered to meet with Jewish leaders and checked into alcohol rehab. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
...turns out you have to go to rehab if you use the word faggot." ANN COULTER, explaining why she didn't have anything to say about Senator John Edwards in March this year AFTERMATH: Politicians from both parties condemned her. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
...probably the best example of this, playing a constant game of "Can you top this?" with herself, as in March, when she told the Conservative Political Action Conference that she would have a comment on Senator John Edwards, "but it turns out that you have to go into rehab if you use the word faggot." Coulter is only the most egregious example - from Bill O'Reilly on Fox to Glenn Beck on CNN, offense is the coin of the cable realm...
...many scandals, the first response may have been the most authentic - at least we're inclined to take it that way because the contrition cycle has become so familiar. You blurt. You deny. You apologize. You visit the rehab center or speak with the Official Minority Spokesperson of your choice and go on with your life. Although - or maybe because - it's so easy to get caught today, it's also easier to get forgiven. In 1988 Jimmy (the Greek) Snyder was fired by CBS for saying black athletes were "bred" to be better than whites. In 1996 CBS golf...
...Keith Richards has never been known for mainstream values, but he is a family man of sorts: he told NME magazine that he snorted the ashes of his dead father. Quoth Richards: "I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow." Trying to rehab Richards' rep, a spokesman later called it a joke. SCORE...