Disown your dad's denial of the Holocaust, Gibson told (Mel Gibson's dad not keen on Jews)

The Austrailian ^ | 12-08-05 | David Nason

[emiller]

A WORLD authority on Hitler's Final Solution has called on Australian actor-director Mel Gibson to publicly repudiate the Holocaust denial of his father Hutton Gibson and to clarify his own position on the extermination of the Jews.

Rafael Medoff of the US-based David S. Wyman Institute of Holocaust Studies issued the ultimatum after the Walt Disney-owned ABC television said a Gibson company would produce a four-part Holocaust mini-series for the US network next year.

Tentatively titled Flory, the telemovie

[emiller]

I don't know, the lamps made from human skin kind of was enough for me, you know? Oh yes, and the movies of thousands of emaciated nude bodies being earthmoved into pits. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it happened.

[Mikey_1962]

The sins of the father shall not be visited upon the son.

[big'ol_freeper]

And explain to me why the son has to answer for the sins of his father? Mel should tell them to go stuff it where the sun doesn't shine.

[EveningStar]

ping

[wideawake]

Any kind of evidence can be denied by anyone who is willing to spend all their time devising alternative scenarios that "explain" things the way they want to explain them.

More to the point, Hutton Gibson has every right to be an unbalanced victim of dementia.

His foolishness is not his son's responsibility and Mel Gibson has no obligation of any kind to explain himself to Rafael Medoff.

When did Medoff become the Chief Political Commissar of Australia?

[gcruse]

"thousands of Jewish and Nazi combatants rush at each other across an open field."


Uh, yeah.

[SouthernFreebird]

I wouldn't answer to anyone for what I never said. who the f**k do they think they are demanding anything from him.

[Vaquero]

Mel was born right here in the USA....not Australia...the father move the family way back when Mel was a kid....but any one who could make a movie like the Patriot...is all american in my book....

.................Mel should not have to answer for his father. even the bible says he must honor his father.

[Borges]

His father was born in America as well.

[TNdandelion]

Because financing and producing an extensive series on the Holocaust isn't evidence enough that he believes it happened. I suspect he wants Gibson to publically humiliate his father which will no doubt cause family distress and pain.

This is most likely about revenge.

[BonnieJ]

They did this same thing with Arnold. VERY unfair, and it would never happen to a Democrat in this country of course! They don't have to carry their family's negative past/present with them, or their own either!

[netmilsmom]

The Dad is a schismatic Catholic. Pre-Vatican II disdain of the Jews was well known by Catholics. We grew up and realized that the thought process was wrong.

Mel loves the Traditional Latin Mass but I have never heard he was part of that vein of schismatic.

He should tell them to talk to his Daddy. Mel and Dad are not one person.

[nmh]

I don't understand why Mel should speak for his father. If Mel's father wants to deny it then that's up to Mel's father. This is getting very childish in their attack on Mel Gibson.

[WV Mountain Mama]

I have a bunch of in-law related family members that are clearly nuts. That doesn't mean my husband has to publicly disown them. btw, I have been to Dachau, and I got my book out just the other day when I read about the Katrina survivors likening their superdome stay to the concentration camps. They are just as pathetic as Mel's father. I still don't believe that Mel has to publicly disown his kook of a father.

[Alouette]

a climactic "Braveheart-style" battle scene where thousands of Jewish and Nazi combatants rush at each other across an open field.

Now that's a form of Holocaust revisionism that nobody has seen before.

[StAnDeliver]

[wildwood]

gimme a break. anti-semitism is up all over the world...people are openly scorning jews, israel and the israeli desire for a homeland, and yet all of a sudden the opinions of some dude like mel gibson's ancient father take on gargantuan proportions and importance.

what a phoney scam these people are running. once again, selective memory.

[SJackson]

Thanks for the ping.

Hutton’s comments are somewhat obscure since he distributes his publication, in the past very limited circulation, personally and little other that excerpts can be found on the internet. There are some dealers you can purchase old newsletters from. I don’t think it’s worth adding many Hutton Gibson links, but you might find the thread below interesting.

As regards The Passion I largely took the position that Mel could legitimately bypass the questions, as his dad’s orientation was peripheral to the film. However Hutton has claimed to have been involved in the concept and marketing of the film. I know he’s a liar, but if true, then Mel should have answered the questions. Think of David Duke’s son, were he a successful producer, hiring pop to do a film of this nature. The questions would be asked, and likely answered.

Hutton Gibson Interview Partial Transcript

[wideawake]

I wonder what the Warsaw Uprising really did look like.

[Alouette]

There were no vast open fields in the Warsaw ghetto.