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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-02-06 12:49 PM
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Gibson not Anti-Semetic? Checkout the outtakes from a Readers Digest story
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206639,00.html
(yes, I know it's fox news)


Mel Gibson: Holocaust a 'Numbers Game’
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
By Roger Friedman

Mel Gibson is in a lot of trouble now, but his problems began a long time ago.

Two years ago, Gibson gave an interview to former Republican speechwriter Peggy Noonan for Reader's Digest. Now the outtakes of that interview have been made available to this column.

His unpublished remarks, according to the Digest’s publisher, are shocking. Gibson actually ridiculed the historically acknowledged number of Jews killed by Hitler.

Of the Holocaust, Gibson told Noonan: “I mean when the war was over they said it was 12 million. Then it was six. Now it’s four. I mean it’s that kind of numbers game …”




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