[af_vet_1981]

They even made a point of going after his aged father for questioning the Holocaust. I would guess that Mel's father is probably senile, and in any case is entitled to his private opinions

Since you bring him up, he is at best a Holocaust Revisionist. He may be tending toward senility now but was not when he was in his prime articulating his evil viewpoints. His opinions were not private. He published them.

[swilhelm73]

Of course one could point out that Al Gore's father was a racist and Ted Kennedy's father approved of Hitler. I don't see the press making such a connection in these cases...