New York -- CBS has started a new early morning variety program called "The Early Show," co-hosted by Bryant Gumbel. In the 8:30 half hour of the November 1 show CBS played a taped interview by Mark McEwen with Mel Gibson on the set in South Carolina of his upcoming movie, The Patriot. The Media Research Center´s Brian Boyd noticed that McEwen told Gibson: "You live in Hollywood, work in Hollywood -- liberal town. Some of your views aren´t as liberal as that town. You´re anti-abortion, pro-capital punishment, do you ever feel like your howling in a hurricane?" Gibson replied: "Some kind of a dinosaur? No, you know you have to have these opinions about these things. I´m pretty firm on stuff like that. I don´t feel like I´m howling in a hurricane. I just try to do my bit the way I think it should be done." After the tape ended Bryant Gumbel told McEwen: "I was glad to see you ask him about it, because he´s said some pretty outrageous things over the years and nobody seems to ever call him on it. They kind of think oh that´s cute, he´s a movie star. But some of the stuff he´s said is..." McEwen, jumping in: "Well he speaks his mind and if you ask him, he backs up everything that he´s said." CBS does not yet have a program selection for "The Early Show" so be sure to mention the name and date of the show (which appears above) in your email to them. Please be polite in your email and encourage them to ask that Gumbel submit an apology to Gibson and/or retract his statement that the views of pro-life people are "outrageous." In The Patriot, Gibson plays Benjamin Martin, the loving father of seven children. Gibson and his wife, Robyn, just became the parents of their seventh child, a baby boy. He says that, as far as fatherhood goes, experience does´nt hold all the answers. Gibson believes so strongly in family togetherness that his oldest child, Hannah, is working with him on the set of The Patriot. She´s even sharing a house with him in the Carolinas.