We really need to back up and start over on this topic; okay, let's suppose that I'm Mel Gibson's lawyer and I'm arguing his DUI case in court.
The first thing I'd say is that he's suffering from a neurological condition like Tourette Syndrome:
http://members.tripod.com/~tourette13/So, he compulsively repeats the same behavior over and over. In his case, it's asking everyone he meets— even if he's known them for 25 years or more— whether they're a Jew. His longtime associates have gotten used to this quirk, but strangers (such as the police) are still caught off guard at times.
"Your Honor and ladies and gentlemen of this most distingushed and
intellectual jury, Mr. Gobson... er, Gibson, can't stop this practice any more than His Honor up there on the bench can stop picking his nose... although I wish he
would stop it."
D.A: "Objection! The defense is being unclear as to just what it is he wants stopped, Mr. Gregson... that is, Mr. Gibson's behavior, or the judge's."
"Well, both, if possible, with all due respect to the Bench and even to what's sitting on it. Mr. Gibson has no more presence of mind than the judge's desk blotter— but he's not just an
ordinary idiot, he's got a medical condition which demands the sympathy of every decent person in this courtroom, if only there were any."
"The poor man comes home to his 60-room mansion every afternoon and asks the dog, the cat, and the parrot whether they're Jewish. In the considered opinion of prestigious Dr. John S. Hopkins of the Prestigious Johns Hopkins Medical School, the patient, Mr. Gribson... uh, Gribbens, no... uh, wait a second here (fumbles with stack of index cards), yes, Mr. Gibson, is patently insane."
"That is,
so insane that they're trying to get a patent on it."
"I was going to call a... (fumbles with cards again), a Mr. Fee DelCastro as a character witness, but he seems to be indisposed at the moment, if not disposed
of. Instead, I beg the Court's indulgence in presenting a series of color slides depicting the defendant's behavior, even when he's not blasted out of his gourd on rotgut fortified wine, malt liquor, or corn squeezin's."
"Who among you, I ask, doesn't have a relative like this? Okay, okay,
without the money."
"Bailiff? Lights down, please, and let's begin."
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