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Oh my: Mel Gibson tapes might have been doctored
Hotair ^ | 07/16/2010 | Allahpundit

Posted on 07/16/2010 8:26:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Huh. Well then, I’m eager to discover from what context “I’ll burn the goddamn house up, but blow me first” might have been unfairly ripped.

Second look at Mel Gibson’s sanity?

Forensic audio and video experts examined the recordings for HollywoodLife.com and believe someone tampered with them, editing the audio, removing parts of conversation and piecing together phrases to make the recordings sound real.

“One of the things that you have to know is that nobody at this point can authenticate it’s Mel’s voice — not 100 percent,” Bonnie Fuller, editor of HollywoodLife.com, said on “Good Morning America” today. “There are words that are edited out, there are spaces, there are gaps.”

“I believe these are professionally done. I think she had help,” said forensic audio expert Arlo West. “She clearly was speaking into what we call a large diaphragm microphone. Her voice is very well engineered. She sounds great.”

She really does. Here’s the latest tape from Radar; it occurred to me after listening to the first one a few days ago that her voice sounded unusually crisp, even with the mic being on her side of the phone, but maybe it’s a little too crisp. Two issues for the cops who are combing through the tapes in hopes of using them against him, then. First, if they’ve been edited, then they’re obviously not true and correct copies and can’t be admitted. Second and more problematically, California law requires both parties’ consent before a conversation can be recorded. Is Mad Max so mad that he actually agreed to let Grigorieva tape him?

If you missed it in Headlines, this Time mag piece on therapists’ reaction to audio of the calls is grimly fascinating. Most of them aren’t surprised, but one worries that this degree of rage is “dangerous” and “not typical” and another says, “I’ll bet every penny I’ve ever made that he was abusive in all his previous relationships.” For what it’s worth, according to Mel’s ex, she’d lose that bet. Exit question: Is this pushback about the tapes being doctored really just Mel’s way of planting a tiny enough seed of doubt in the public’s mind to save his career? E.g., “Honey, I don’t want to see the new Mel Gibson movie. Didn’t you hear those tapes?” “But baby — he says the tapes were doctored.



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KEYWORDS: doctored; melgibson; tapes
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To: Mere Survival

Too sadly true.


61 posted on 07/16/2010 10:10:00 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Exactly.

Generally, the word of an ex-wife is often not one’s best defense. ;>) He is fortunate in that regard. LOL


62 posted on 07/16/2010 10:11:34 AM PDT by Gator113 (God save the Republic.....)
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To: All
What's with the polarized thinking on here? Ofcourse, it is Mel GIbson on those tapes. Yes, he is obviously deranged. And yes, she is a gold digger who used him, released the tapes for profit and is playing a dangerous game. Also, a very short sighted one because a career ruined Mel GIbson can't keep her in the chips. It's not either or, water seeks it's own level.

Mel thought he was getting a lady on his arm and a whore in the bedroom. More than likely, he was getting a temporary whore in the bedroom until she roped him in. Then she was a lady in the bedroom and a whore everywhere else. Oldest trick in the book and yet they always fall for it.

63 posted on 07/16/2010 10:11:50 AM PDT by riri
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To: SeekAndFind

She has “poofy” lips. Sometimes more than others. See 57.


64 posted on 07/16/2010 10:12:02 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: HearMe

met Bond star Timothy Dalton while working as an interpreter to Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov. The duo married in 1997 and have one son, Alexander, of whom they share joint custody. Just 27 at the time, she already had one marriage under her belt, having tied the knot with British artist Nicholas Rowland in 1992, a union which paved the way for her relocation to the U.K. and her later meeting with Dalton.

Read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/detail.jsp?contentId=190543#ixzz0trkGzhJ4

She is a singer.

She has a well-documented like of technology.

Grigorieva was working as a hostess for the Romanav Restaurant & Lounge in Studio City


65 posted on 07/16/2010 10:13:02 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: riri
Ofcourse, it is Mel GIbson on those tapes.

The CD's were given to Sheriffs Dept yesterday. Forensics will examine them.

66 posted on 07/16/2010 10:18:40 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: wardaddy
oddly enough my wife is somewhat sympathetic to Gibson through all this.....

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Some gals are just suckers for troubled Irish guys.

67 posted on 07/16/2010 10:23:45 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: Mere Survival

“Cheating Mel Gibson had a string of girlfriends throughout the years”

http://www.celebitchy.com/48014/cheating_mel_gibson_had_a_string_of_girlfriends_throughout_the_years/


68 posted on 07/16/2010 10:49:26 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: HearMe

Although not common, there are a few women that need a good smack in the face..I have know a couple...real bit*hy...feel sorry for their poor hubby’s...but they choose each other...


69 posted on 07/16/2010 11:56:11 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
I have known a lot of creative people in my life....some more “artsy” than others but almost everyone of them has a common thread. Everyone of them is almost like a tortured soul...never really sure of what they really want in life and can't focus to find it.
Mel Gibson reminds me of them in a lot of ways...so creative but if not creating something, they “create” chaos in their lives.
70 posted on 07/16/2010 11:59:02 AM PDT by 4everontheRight ("America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Tocquevill)
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To: HearMe
How do you people, I don’t know if you either a man or a woman, continue to defend a man who violently hits a woman.

So we should just take her word for it.

After all, a woman would never lie.

... for millions of dollars.

71 posted on 07/16/2010 12:00:49 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: DJ MacWoW

Mr G could put those tapes together here, without ever having met the man or spoken to him. Just getting hold of his movies would be all he needs, to get his voice. Analyzing them won’t tell you much, unless the guy was really sloppy about it. If you don’t have the original files (nobody uses tapes any more... all done in computers)it is hard to tell where the editing has been done.


72 posted on 07/16/2010 12:25:25 PM PDT by Grammy
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To: kcvl

Typically old teeth are filed down prior to apply veneers. It looks to me like she removed them with the intent of claiming she was hit. No way there wouldn’t have been soft tissue trauma. No way.


73 posted on 07/16/2010 12:27:55 PM PDT by Raebie
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To: Grammy
nobody uses tapes any more... all done in computers

Yeah. Articles state that she turned over CD's yesterday. And that forensics is looking at them. Gibsons attorneys say they have proof they are doctored.

74 posted on 07/16/2010 12:39:13 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: Raebie

The Ace of Spades is saying that her dentist says he thinks she was punched in the temple, bit down hard, and dislodged her own veneers. Here’s the quote and the link:

“TMZ: Oksana’s Own Dentist Cries “Fake.” Actually he doesn’t say that at all, though TMZ cries that to get some attention.

What he claims is that he believes she was struck in the temple, not the mouth, and she reacted by biting down hard, breaking her own teeth.

But TMZ is representing him as casting doubt on how she received her injuries — well, sort of, but not really. He says the teeth were broken in a “chain reaction” injury (hit, then bite), but he’s not really undermining the claim that Oksana was hit, and that this hit, whether directly or indirectly, broke her teeth.”

http://minx.cc/?post=303701


75 posted on 07/16/2010 12:41:34 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Fantasywriter
They're going to have to decide just where he hit her.

Shocking photo emerges of Oksana Grigorieva after alleged attack by ex Mel Gibson

Though there was no swelling or bruising indicating a punch to the mouth, as Grigorieva originally told police,

76 posted on 07/16/2010 1:49:35 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I posted a link. That’s all. If you want to argue, please argue with someone else. Thank you.


77 posted on 07/16/2010 2:07:59 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Fantasywriter
I posted a link. That’s all.

So did I.

78 posted on 07/16/2010 2:12:40 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

You stalk me. I never post to you (originally). But the minute I post on one of these threads, you immediately answer me. I’m asking you to stop. With this many people posting on this thread, there must be someone else you can post to. You hounded me yesterday over things I never said. You have an ax to grind, but Not With Me. I am asking that you leave me alone. No more stalking. Thank you.


79 posted on 07/16/2010 2:21:22 PM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: Fantasywriter

It’s not about you. You posted info. I posted info. NOTHING in my post is about you.


80 posted on 07/16/2010 2:24:55 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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