Most people are probably aware by now that Mel Gibson's father, Hutton Gibson, is an Antisemite and a Holocaust Denier. But, just in case there were people who had questions or doubts, he has done us all a favor by giving an interview with a New York radio talk show host (Steve Feuerstein) in which he makes his position clear.

Australia's The Age explains:

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."

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 New York Post has more:

"They're after one world religion and one world government," Hutton Gibson, 85, said in a radio interview that will air Monday night. "That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine."

"They claimed that there were 6.2 million in Poland before the war, and they claimed after the war there were 200,000 - therefore he must have killed 6 million of them," he said. "They simply got up and left! They were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney, Australia, and Los Angeles." He said the Germans did not have enough gas to cremate 6 million people and that the concentration camps were just "work camps."

Gibson repeatedly smeared prominent Jews as money-grubbing power-mongers. "Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him." He even belittled the Pope's reported endorsement of "The Passion," recounting how Mel referred to the pontiff as an "ass." Gibson reserved most of his vitriol for Judaism, asking: "Is the Jew still actively anti-Christian? He is, for by being a Jew, he is anti-everyone else."

In an interview of his own with Peggy Noonan, Mel Gibson is reported as having said that "My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life." I wonder if Hutton Gibson has repeated the above statements to his son Mel and if, therefore, Mel believes them? He certainly has never said publicly that his father is mistaken about the Holocaust and the Jews. I can understand a man not wanting to publicly state that his father is, well, a jerk - but these statements are rather extreme and do merit a response.

 

Update: Read about Mel Gibson's run-in with the law — an anti-Semitic tirade during a drunk-driving arrest in which the police allegedly tried to cover things up.

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