[mware]

Um, you're aware that these talks were done while Mel was in vacation in Italy?

I suspected that was the case. I think that his dad is considered something of a conspiracy fan.

[Nataku X]

if that's true about his dad, then that probably explains it...

my guess is that his studio is managed by liberal hollywood dopers, who are aware that Gibson is a conservative... but they are so far left that they think Michael Moore is a "moderate" and they didn't think Mel Gibson would find Moore to be extreme at all.

Heck, in Hollywood, "banning guns" is moderate and "banning slingshots" is liberal. Since MM didn't explicitly call for a gun ban, they probably even thought that Bowling for Columbine was conservative!