The Mel Gibson Set-up

Just this morning I wrote this in the Today's Quick Hit Headlines post:

MORE Mel Gibson Audio Being Released; Threatens to 'burn down the house'...
I'm actually starting to feel sorry for the guy.  This whole thing is starting to feel like a set-up.

Sometimes I amaze myself:

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.”

I've done enough recording to know that her voice sounded way too professionally recorded to be a random phone conversation. I'm sure Mel has some issues he needs to deal with, but he's been given a bum rap on this deal.

Frankly, I thought Alec Baldwin's screaming and insulting rant at his 12-year old daughter was far more disturbing than anything I've heard Mel say.