[Trust but Verify]

I don't think what he offered was a defense of his father, but an admonishment to Diane Sawyer that she shouldn't tread onto the turf of a father and son. Let's be honest. The left wants the son to denounce his father. No good son would ever do that.

[Rome2000]

The left wants the son to denounce his father.

At this point I don't think anything short of the "Crucifixion" of Gibsons father would satisfy.

[AlbionGirl]

I don't think what he offered was a defense of his father, but an admonishment to Diane Sawyer that she shouldn't tread onto the turf of a father and son. Let's be honest. The left wants the son to denounce his father. No good son would ever do that.

So succinct and right on, that it needs to be repeated!

I would never publicly denounce my Father or any family member no matter what they did.

In an Italian family you publicly denounce a member of it, you might as well go bury yourself alive because the Family is Sacrosanct, and now you've become nothing but a pile of dung!

That doesn't mean you don't tell your father in private that he said something ignorant or did something wrong. But I would never offer up a public castigation of any member of my family, especially to please the likes of the people who are demanding that he do so.

They can go pound sand, today, tomorrow and forever! Don't mess with the Family, if you know what's good for you.

[truth_seeker]

"I don't think what he offered was a defense of his father, but an admonishment to Diane Sawyer that she shouldn't tread onto the turf of a father and son. Let's be honest. The left wants the son to denounce his father. No good son would ever do that."

Mel could say: "I don't share my father's views, in that area. That is all I will have to say on that topic. Next question, Diane."

[daybreakcoming]

diane overstepped when she asked about his father and got smartly put in her place. Family is family - not many in the public eye "get" that anymore.

[Criminal Number 18F]

The left wants the son to denounce his father. No good son would ever do that.

No, but a good leftist would. All socialist states of the 20th Century had a moral parable about a true-believing child who denounced his parents to the State. The Soviet Union's was Pavlik Morozov. [pravda.ru]. (Appropriately, George Soros is a fan of Morozov).

PBS's Version from here:

Pavlik Morozov (1918-1932)
Pioneer martyr. According to the legend that every Soviet child was taught, Pavlik was a good Communist boy, a Pioneer, who always did what the Party told. When his father, a "kulak" peasant, did not want to join a collective farm, Pavlik patriotically denounced him to the Cheka, who promptly arrested and shot him. Other kulaks later killed Pavlik in revenge. This story taught Soviet children that it was their patriotic duty to squeal on their parents to the secret police. Recent evidence has cast doubt on the several aspects of the Pavlik Morozov legend.

The Nazis had a similar story, which might have been real, and might have been a rip-off of the Communist legend. Unfortunately, I've forgotten the kid's name.

Of course, recently, during the Clinton Administration, a new push to get American kids to do a Pavlik Morozov on their parents got underway. It's a standard technique of the Left, break intergenerational bonds.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F