On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:36:19 -0700, "Kevin" <webman6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I'm glad that Mel Gibson committed career suicide like that other
>> asshole Tom Cruise. I'd have hated a Hogan's Heroes movie with Nazi
>> Mel as Hogan.
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>How would you have formed your opinion if we hadn't been blessed with
Mel's
>recent DUI episode? You would never have known and would have happily
>attended the movie in total ignorance. This is just an example of why
you
>don't ever really want to get to know your heroes or others of fame and
>celebrity. For instance, Danny Thomas --- you don't want to know about
him
>or Chuck Berry either.
I totally agree. That's why we can never have any more heroes today.
The past we teach is always a lie that never happened.
BTW: My opinion was formed when Mel Gibson's father was interviewed
during the "Passion Of The Christ" production in 2003 and denied the
Holocaust. I mean, how do you go into an interview about your son's
Jesus movie and come out defending the Nazis?
It's like a redneck raised by bigots in the South...he may talk about
racial tolerance but somewhere in the back of his mind is his parent's
voice screaming, "KILL THE NIGGER." Sad but true how a son who loves
his father will love his father's bigotry, too, because that's just
our Dad. Every Archie Bunker is just a man, not a monster. Even
Hitler petted his German Shepherd. Evil is never a creepy monster.
Pure Evil is always just you and me.
Mel Gibson's father says Holocaust exaggerated
February 19, 2004
A week before the United States release of Mel Gibson's controversial
movie, The Passion of the Christ, the filmmaker's father has repeated
claims the Holocaust was exaggerated.
Hutton Gibson's comments, made in a telephone interview with New York
radio talk show host Steve Feuerstein, come at an awkward time for the
actor-director who has been trying to deflect criticism from Jewish
groups that his film might inflame anti-Semitic sentiment.
In his interview on WSNR radio's Speak Your Piece, to be broadcast on
Monday, Hutton Gibson, argued that many European Jews counted as death
camp victims of the Nazi regime had in fact fled to countries like
Australia and the United States.
"It's all -- maybe not all fiction -- but most of it is," he said,
adding that the gas chambers and crematoria at camps like Auschwitz
would not have been capable of exterminating so many people.
"Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it?"
he said. "It takes a litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million
of them? They (the Germans) did not have the gas to do it. That's why
they lost the war."
Gibson's father caused a furore last year when he made similar remarks
in a New York Times article.
In a television interview with Diane Sawyer this week, Mel Gibson
accused the Times of taking advantage of his father, and he warned
Sawyer against broaching the subject again.
"He's my father. Gotta leave it alone Diane. Gotta leave it alone,"
Gibson said, while offering his own perspective on the Holocaust.
"Do I believe that there were concentration camps where defenceless
and innocent Jews died cruelly under the Nazi regime? Of course I do;
absolutely," he said. "It was an atrocity of monumental pro****tion."
During his lengthy radio interview, Hutton Gibson, 85, said Jews were
out to create "one world religion and one world government" and
outlined a conspiracy theory involving Jewish bankers, the US Federal
Reserve and the Vatican, among others.
The Passion, which gets its US release on February 25, pur****ts to be
a faithful and graphic account of Christ's last 12 hours on earth.
Jewish leaders who have attended advance screenings have voiced
concerns that its ****trayal of the Jews' role in Christ's execution
could stir up anti-Semitic feeling.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/19/1077072756433.html
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