A Web site calling itself melgibsonsblog, and bearing Mel Gibson’s photo, is filled with anti-Semitic comments and other outrageous statements, much of them in Latin.
Gibson fans should rest easy: The blog is a hoax, though it claims to be a personal blog by the 'Passion' producer and Hollywood celebrity.
Alerted by Canada Free Press editor Judy McLeod - who wrote about a new blog allegedly posted by Gibson - NewsMax located the Web site and checked with a colleague close to the actor/producer. NewsMax was told flat out that the blog was a hoax.
Further proof came when a leftist Gibson impersonator - calling himself gobacktotexas - bragged on the ultraleft Daily Kos blog that he had created the phony Web site, and chortled over the fact that he had fooled McLeod.
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Wrote the blog forger: " ... I started a satirical blog, Mel’s Musings, to make fun of the retrograde political and religious views of Mel Gibson," wrote gobacktotexas. "I never thought that there would be many who would think the site was seriously Mel Gibson’s ... I posted an article with tongue-in-cheek commentary, from a right-wing tabloid journalist."
McLeod reported that the phony blog, which had Gibson making outrageous statements, has since been taken offline, but NewsMax found that it was still online as of 3 p.m. Eastern, January 13.