This story - running extracts from an interview between Peggy Noonan and Mel gibson - is getting some play in the blogosphere (Atrios had it, steered there by tbogg. It should. Liz Smith runs quotes from the interview - of the holocaust he says:

Gibson: "I have friends and parents of friends who have numbers on their arms. The guy who taught me Spanish was a Holocaust survivor. He worked in a concentration camp in France. Yes, of course. Atrocities happened. War is horrible. The Second World War killed tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps. Many people lost their lives. In the Ukraine, several million starved to death between 1932 and 1933. During the last century, 20 million people died in the Soviet Union."

That, I guess, cannot be quite called denying the holocaust - but it certainly downplays the importance and meaning of it. The more he talks, the deeper in it he seems to get...