Yet another reason to hate liberal Hollywood

ABC has tabbed Mel Gibson's production company to make a miniseries about a Holocaust survivor.

It's right for me to find this patently offensive, no? I mean, as the lead from the story notes, Gibson's big film, "The Passion of the Christ," was criticized as anti-Semitic, and his father, Hutton Gibson, is a Holocaust denier.

Granted, Mel Gibson himself might not actually be involved with this project, other than having his production company undertaking it, but it still sends a very strong a disturbing message to put the two together.

And it's really insensitive, I think, that ABC seems to relish the controversy it'll create, since it'll drum up interest and thus viewers, meaning profits:

But Quinn Taylor, ABC's senior vice president for movies for television, acknowledged that the attention-getting value of having Mr. Gibson attached to a Holocaust project was a factor.

"Controversy's publicity, and vice versa," Mr. Taylor said.

Yeah, except that when part of that publicity is generated by a tangential link to Gibson's father, who has stated publicly that stories of the Holocaust were largely "fiction," and that Europe emerged from the Second World War with more Jews than before; and when Gibson hasn't distanced himself from those comments, only acknowledging that "some" of the tens of millions killed in the war were Jews, it's a good bit more problematic.

But hey, I guess ABC thinks it's OK to exploit a genocide 60 years down the road if there's money to be made off it. Perhaps I sound a bit crass, but I'd say I'm no more so than the ABC execs who think this is a really good idea.