NewsMax.com is carrying this story:The ABC television network has pulled a miniseries about the Holocaust it was developing with Mel Gibson 's production company, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, quoting an unidentified representative for the network.
Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving early on Friday and was reported to have launched into a tirade against Jews, asking the arresting officer if he was a Jew and blaming the Jews for starting all wars.
The actor, who holds strong conservative Catholic religious and political views and whose father is a Holocaust denier, apologized on Saturday.
It is no surprise that Disney would put as much distance between themselves and Gibson as possible. Corporations are generally allergic to anything controversial (except "Gay Days" in Disney's case).
What I question here is the assertion that Gibson holds "strong conservative Catholic religious and political views". That he holds strong conservative Catholic religious views is not in dispute. However NewsMax needs to understand that with the sole exception of "life issues" like abortion and euthanasia the Roman Catholic Church is a left-wing organization.
The RCC supports the welfare state and unlimited Third World immigration and opposes the death penalty. To be a "conservative Catholic" is to be a political liberal. During the filming of The Passion of the Christ Gibson was accused of belonging to the Pat Robertson/Jerry Falwell "Christian Right". He denied it. He claimed that he was unsure of his political views.
On top of this he recently said that he modeled the dying Mayan Empire in his new movie Apocalypto on the Bush administration's war on terror. Apocalypto is about how the Mayan rulers attempt to use apocalyptic religious rhetoric to distract the population from the governments failures, which are leading to the collapse of their civilization.
Yep, sounds like the next Jesse Helms to me.
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