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7:50 PM ET, July 29, 2006

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TMZ.com:
Gibson's Anti-Semitic Tirade — Alleged Cover Up  —  TMZ has learned that Mel Gibson went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets.  TMZ has also learned that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department had the initial report doctored to keep the real story under wraps.
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Michelle Caruso / NY Daily News:
Mel gives cops hell  —  Report: Drunken Gibson threatens officer in rant  —  LOS ANGELES - A blitzed Mel Gibson launched into an obscenity-laced tirade when he was busted on suspicion of drunken driving early yesterday, threatening an officer and making anti-Semitic and sexually abusive remarks, according to a police report.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Mel Gibson Self-Destructs?  —  Here's a page from what looks like a police report about Mel Gibson's alleged rants about "the Jews" after an arrest for drunk-driving, cited by the New York Daily News (click on the image below for a larger version) and originally reported by the celebrity news site, TMZ.com.
Discussion: James Wolcott and Gay Orbit
Sandy Cohen / Associated Press:
Mel Gibson apologizes for DUI arrest  —  LOS ANGELES - Mel Gibson issued a lengthy statement Saturday apologizing for his drunk driving arrest and saying he has battled alcoholism throughout his life.  —  The actor and "The Passion of the Christ" director also apologized for what he said were …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard
CNN:
Gibson apologizes for behavior  —  'I disgraced myself,' star says after 'horrific relapse' and arrest  —  LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Actor and director Mel Gibson issued a statement on Saturday, apologizing to deputies for his "belligerent behavior" when he was arrested on suspicion of DUI in Malibu the day before.
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David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Big List Of Big Givers Bolsters Lieberman  —  Lamont Far Back In Fundraising  —  WASHINGTON — Every day a fax machine in a Senate office spits out lists of the latest big donors to the Democratic primary campaigns of Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont.  —  The Lieberman list is long …
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Won't You Please Come To New Haven?  —  Matt Stoller and I were standing in the parking lot of a local hair salon with Tom Swan, Rick Melita and John Murphy of the Lamont campaign when the call came in that the New York Times was endorsing Ned Lamont.  It was war whoops, hugs and high-fives all around …
Discussion: MyDD
New York Times:
Bush and Blair Push Plan to End Mideast Fighting  —  President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain said Friday that they would present a plan to end hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah at the United Nations next week as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice headed into an urgent round …
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Alan Dershowitz / Washington Times:
A public advocate for the United States
Discussion: Macsmind
Yoav Stern / Haaretz:
Nasrallah threatens to fire missiles at central Israel, says …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
James Glanz / New York Times:
Audit Finds U.S. Hid Actual Cost of Iraq Projects  —  The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress …
Anne Plummer Flaherty / Associated Press:
Bush submits new terror detainee bill  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill.
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Grand Jury Probes News Leaks at NSA  —  A federal grand jury in Alexandria is investigating unauthorized leaks of classified information and has issued a subpoena to a fired National Security Agency officer who has acknowledged talking with journalists about the agency's warrantless surveillance program …
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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Associated Press:
Iranian Leader Bans Usage of Foreign Words  —  TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves," state media reported Saturday.
Little Green Footballs:
Seattle Terror Attack Update  —  Update on the Muslim murderer who attacked the Seattle Jewish Federation yesterday: Muslim charged in Seattle Jewish slaying.  —  You may have thought it was an act of terrorism.  But the authorities know better. … Notice: this murderous attack took place on a Friday, the Islamic day of prayer.
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Editor and Publisher:
Gallup: Current Negativism on Iraq Echoes View of Vietnam War in 1970  —  NEW YORK An analysis released today by Frank Newport, director of The Gallup Poll, shows that current public wishes for U.S. policy in the Iraq war eerily echo attitudes about the Vietnam war in 1970.
Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
2008 May Test Clinton's Bond With McCain  —  Two summers ago, on a Congressional trip to Estonia, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting that the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest.  —  Delighted, the leader …
Texas Rainmaker:
That's Gonna Leave a Mark...  John Kerry, meet John Bolton.  —  Transcript: … Hat tip: Gateway Pundit  —  Another flip-flop as well.  Kerry is now advocating a "go it alone" strategy.  Wasn't that the very thing he criticized Bush for doing back in 2004?
 
 
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Correction  —  There were not, as stated in the previous post …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Letterman: Clinton responds to Coulter-parody
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
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