Maybe, maybe not, there's two sides to that. Presuming the transcript is accurate (and it conforms to the recordings at the website), this was clearly a question and answer session. IMO, it was an interview. BTW, aside from doing a sports talk show as the article notes, he does a twice a week show on political and Jewish issues, which this interview was for.
Interviewer Denies Tricking Gibson's Dad
The sports talk radio host who interviewed Mel Gibson's father last week is denying that he tricked the 85-year-old man into giving him a series of explosive quotes attacking Jews.
"He knew exactly what was going on," Steve Feuerstein, who interviewed the elder Gibson for the Talkline Communications Network, told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg on Sunday.
"When I air my show, people will hear me talk to him . . . about airing the show and about how much I'm looking forward to sharing his views with my listeners," Feuerstein said. "This man knew 100 percent what was going on."
On Thursday, Gibson family sources told NewsMax.com that Feuerstein never told Mr. Gibson he was being taped for broadcast, identified himself only as "Steve" and said he was a fan of Mel Gibson who wanted to congratulate the Hollywood star's father on the movie "The Passion of Christ," due for release this Wednesday.
As he had in a previous interview, the elder Gibson raised suspicions that he's anti-Semitic, telling Feuerstein that he believed Jews had exaggerated the Holocaust and were pursuing "one world religion and one world government."
But NewsMax.com's James Hirsen, who has covered the making of "Passion" extensively, said Thursday that while Hutton Gibson's comments were "indefensible," they're also "irrelevant."
"Mel's dad didn't make the movie; Mel Gibson did," he told Fox News Radio's Alan Colmes.
On Friday, Catholic League President William Donohue said reporters were using Gibson's father unfairly in a bid to discredit his son's movie.
"They’re going after Mel's 85-year-old father. . . . . Make no mistake about it, those obsessed with killing this movie will not manipulate Bill Donohue into berating Hutton Gibson. Nor will they push me to ask for information on how I can contact their fathers, though the thought is tempting."
No, they are going after what Mel's father, who is now 85 years old, has been saying and writing for some number of years. It does matter that he is Mel's father because he garners more publicity and cover that way. His views must be publicly repudiated by all genuine Christians.
Make no mistake about it, those obsessed with killing this movie will not manipulate Bill Donohue into berating Hutton Gibson.
This is the part that troubles me the most. It equates Hutton Gibson's views with the movie. They are separate in my mind. I can't understand how Bill Donohue can be a genuine Christian and not condemn Hutton Gibson's views. It makes no sense to me. It's as if the movie has no effect on him, at least no positive effect.