Posted on 03/28/2022 1:20:47 PM PDT by Morgana
Co-hosts of The View slammed actor Will Smith for slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars Sunday night, calling his shocking outburst 'immature and childish,' but Whoopi Goldberg broke ranks to defend the actor, saying 'sometimes you behave badly.'
The 53-year-old actor who won an Oscar later that evening marched onto the stage and hit Rock in the face, then returned to his seat and yelled, 'Keep my wife's name out your f---ing mouth!' after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair.
The bizarre outburst led to swift backlash from millions of viewers, including The View co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro who discussed the ordeal on Monday, calling it 'toxic masculinity' and a 'crime of assault.'
But co-host Whoopi stepped in with a different take.
'I think he overreacted…I think he had one of those moments where it was like G.D. it, just stop,' Whoopi said. 'I get it, not everybody acts the way we would like them to act under pressure. And he snapped.'
Meanwhile, on the Today show, host Craig Melvin slammed Smith for aiding 'this long-held perception that men of color can't control their rage and anger.'
'It was really disappointing,' Melvin said. 'If you're rearing a boy, especially in this country, you spend so much time talking to our kids about keeping your hands to yourself and this long health perception that man of color can't control their rage and their anger and to see someone who's been that beloved for decades - it was troubling on so many levels.'
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More like wifey told him, “You just gonna let him get away with that?”
“Yeah, he bitch slapped Rock. Insulting him in many ways. You notice the soy latte types are the ones in Hollywood protesting this the most. I hope next year brings snatching weaves and cat fights!”
Just all out ghetto and World Star
I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t find that joke funny and making fun at a sick woman is not cool. I think Will could have handled this better than going full ghetto. Will was laughing until his wife gave him the evil eye.
“Today show host Craig Melvin slams Will Smith for Chris Rock slap and stoking idea that ‘men of color can’t control anger’ - but Whoopi Goldberg DEFENDS him on The View, saying ‘sometimes you behave badly’”
Today show host Craig Melvin slams Will Smith for Chris Rock slap and stoking idea that ‘men of color can’t control anger’ - but Whoopi Goldberg DEFENDS him on The View, saying sometimes you behave badly but only if you’re a person of color
There, clarified it
Probably should not have Chris Rock then, I think he's well well known for this type of performance. And we don't know that he was aware of the medical condition.
... if someone cracked a joke about my Mom when she had a serious illness (cancer), I’d have done a lot more than b##### slap the jerk.
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I like both Chris Rock and Will Smith. Each is two standard deviations above the industry average talent. CR made a horrible judgment. Smith should not have smacked him but it was a purely human reaction and it was a slap not a punch.
The entire Oscars schtick involves insulting and humiliating individual members of the audience one after another. It’s wretched. If there is any good that comes out of this going forward, it just may be to tone down some of these non-funny, non-clever personal attacks on audience members.
I see no possibility that this was staged.
“So I do not hold this against Will Smith.”
Neither do I. I look at this like Chris Rock’s “Andy Kaufman” moment. Sometimes these guys go a little too far.
He had a long standing feud with Rock and this was probably icing on the cake. A lot of emotion there, You could see Rock trying to collect himself afterwards. I think Will hit a cord for those tired of seeing jokes made on someone else’s misery. You can tell this hit a nerve with the cowardly liberals who are use to doing this to others and expecting them to take it. Now, if someone could just smack Howard Stern!
More like wifey told him, “You just gonna let him get away with that?”
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Exactly.
I’ve seen this type of feminine trash all my life
” you and him fight “
She doesn’t have cancer
She’s not physically ill
She’s a thin skinned celeb like William thug.
Had ivanka been there with that hair style and Chris made that crack
All of Hollywood and every hair trigger violent thug of all colors would have loved and praised Chris for days.
The whole industry and thug culture are hypocritical trash.
Try to imagine for a second what would happen if Will Smith were white. 1st he would have been arrested right there IN that auditorium, the Marxist propaganda media would be portraying him as a white supremacist KKK member who “whipped a black man”, he would have had his butt sued off by everyone involved in that show, and his career would have been utterly GONE forever.
They wanted the ghetto Oscar’s so…………!
Imagine they were both White, it would be a story about toxic masculinity and a slam at White men not being able to control their tempers. The Academy would throw them out and take back their awards like they took back Harvey Weinstein's Oscars.
Damn straight.
In Oct 2016 DeNiro said he wanted to hit PDJT in the face Will Smith just wanted a big moment of fame. Loser.WS
Without the slap, would anyone be talking about this non event?
Well there's certainly no reason to talk about any of the crappy movies.
I anonymized it and this is what I got.
Chris Rock insults someone for their medical condition.
Husband of that person slaps Chris Rock.
Off screen I could’ve said it was a strange story but could’ve been justified. On screen it might have been staged, hard to say.
Its a tabloid story
Whiter than white baseball player Steve Garvey punched whiter than whiter player Don Sutton purportedly for remarks Sutton made about Garvey’s “family”, and they were on the same team.
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