THE DOWDIFIED QUOTE OF MEL GIBSON is used in an article printed today in the following Australian newspapers: the Daily Telegraph (where the article originated), the Mercury, News.com.au, and the Melbourne Herald Sun. Even though the transcript of the O'Reilly interview is easily available on the web (see first link), it obviously wasn't consulted by the writer of the article. Nor has it occurred to anyone at any of these papers to double check the ellipsis points in the quote to see what's missing and if it might affect the sense. So much for journalistic fact-checking.