So let me get this straight. Mel Gibson's father thinks that the Holocaust didn't really happen and that European Jews "got up" and moved away -- to Brooklyn, no less. And somehow we're not supposed to connect this to a movie that many fear will inspire a new wave of anti-Semitism? Hmmm...

What scares me even more? There are way too many people out there like Hutton Gibson who really believe the revisionist bullshit. My first month at A&E Television Networks involved numerous bulletin board posters who used The History Channel message boards to publish their nonsense. It got everyone's attention when the ADL threatened to make noise. I'm having trouble giving Mel Gibson the benefit of the doubt after hearing a few quotes from his father. Can you imagine what it must be like living with such a person? Or the dinner table conversations?