Beating a Dead Horse But...
Everything that could be said has been said already about Monsieur Gibson's troubles, but I'm a bit skeptical of the in vino veritatis line ("in wine, truth"). Wine depresses reason, and anti-semitism is unreasonable. Given the anti-semitism of his father one would expect that when a relaxant like alcohol is imbibed one might fall back into old patterns and ways of thinking. For someone with Gibson's background, it takes reason to overcome the old patterns of thinking, and alcohol, like sleep, undermines reason.
Kathy Shaidle said recently - concerning conspiracy theorists in general and "Bush-Orchestrated-9/11" believers in particular - that alcohol and depression tend to act as accelerants for those prone to conspiracy theories. Gibson's anti-semitism is a conspiracy theory.
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