By Angie Han/June 20, 2011 1:00 pm EST

Unfortunately, Fox, Bay, and LaBeouf all have a tendency toward what might politely be called outspokenness, and what might less charitably called a constitutional inability to shut the hell up – and so here we are, a year later, still reporting on this ridiculous story. Bay is attempting to set the story straight. Again. And this time, he’s bringing Steven Spielberg into it for some reason. Sigh. Read the latest chapter in this tiresome and apparently endless saga after the jump.

“You know the Hitler thing. Steven (Spielberg) said, fire her right now,” he said ahead of the premiere of Transformers 3. The comment drew the ire of the film’s crew, who compared her acting to that of a porn star.

[Fox’s comparison of Bay to Hitler] angered Spielberg, who is executive producer of the Transformers series and deadly serious when it comes to Nazis. Bay revealed for the first time he was told to get rid of Fox.

Bay said he wasn’t hurt by the Hitler comment. However, Spielberg is known to be sensitive when it comes to Nazis. After his experience directing Schindler’s List, he founded the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which furthers the remembrance of the Holocaust of World War II.

What exactly Bay hoped to accomplish by dragging Spielberg into this is beyond me — his statements don’t really make Spielberg look bad, but they make Bay sound petty and defensive. It’s kind of a dick move to shift the blame to Spielberg, regardless of whether or not his statements are true. If Bay’s telling the truth, he’s an ass for pointing fingers. If he’s lying, he’s an ass for pointing fingers and also lying. Either way, he’s only making this feud messier and more annoying by bringing it back up again instead of letting the stupid thing die.

So, okay, in Bay’s defense, perhaps he realized how obnoxious LaBeouf’s comments were, just wanted to clear his name. But — really? Was blaming a beloved director and producer supposed to make Bay look better? Ironically, it’s Fox, whose loose lips made all this drama public in the first place, who’s coming off the best here — she’s the only one out of the three of them who’s managed to keep her damn mouth shut over the past several weeks.

Discuss: Do you believe Bay’s Spielberg story? Do you even care about this feud anymore?