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Will Smith Blasts Gossip Sites for Misinterpreting Quote About Hitler
Associated Press ^
| 12/25/07
| Associated Press
Posted on 12/25/2007 9:33:24 PM PST by winstonwolf33
Edited on 12/31/2007 7:03:19 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: adolfhitler; celebritygossip; gotchajournalism; macacamoment; willsmith
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"Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet"
He should've said that in the beginning!
To: winstonwolf33
Smith was just making a simple point: there hasn't been a bad guy in history who didn't think he was the good guy.
Unfortunately, that's far too complicated a concept for today's average Hollywood propaganda consumer to get their minds around. ;)
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:35:31 PM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: Mr. Jeeves
It’s the writer of the intial interview that misinterpreted his quote by putting in the asinine comment “Will believes everyone is basically good.” before it.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:37:44 PM PST
by
Borges
To: winstonwolf33
"He should've said that in the beginning!Will made the obviously mistaken assumption that anyone with more sense than a garden slug knew that fact already.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:37:59 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: Mr. Jeeves
Good point. I think what Smith said is right on point but simple logic is far too complex for most newspaper types these days.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:38:23 PM PST
by
hometoroost
(TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
To: Mr. Jeeves
I can’t help but to like Will Smith.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:39:35 PM PST
by
chesty_puller
(70-73 USMC VietNam 75-79 US Army Wash DC....VietNam was safer.)
To: Mr. Jeeves
To: winstonwolf33
He should've said that in the beginning!You're right!
Smith should have known that a disingenuous hack writer was going to attribute words to him that he never uttered, put those specious words in the headline, surrounded by quotation marks no less.
Maybe Smith should fire his agent and his PR person and hire you instead.
You seem to know it all.
To: winstonwolf33
Smith had to make the statement. I saw “I Am Legend” just yesterday, and just like “The Pursuit of Happyness”, it also had a conservative vibe to it. Kudos to Smith for the quick statement.
To: winstonwolf33
Welcome to the world of liberal media Will!
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:57:50 PM PST
by
technomage
(Radical Islam gives me the urge to go to the bathroom and drop a big mohammed!)
To: winstonwolf33
He should have known that this would bring a lot of criticism.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:58:54 PM PST
by
no dems
(FRED THOMPSON: The only Conservative running who can beat Hillary or Obama.)
To: winstonwolf33
My advice to celebrities. Talk only about stupid superficial topics. Don’t ever talk about Hitler and and stay away from politics, unless you think Reagan was the greatest modern president.
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posted on
12/25/2007 10:04:05 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: no dems
He should have known that this would bring a lot of criticism.Will Smith isn't a mind reader, he thought he was speaking in English, to English speaking people with brains. Pity the media is too cretinous to figure out what Mr. Smith actually said.
To: winstonwolf33
So what’s the retraction? What WAS the context of the ‘Hitler was misguided’ quote?
Is he claiming now that it was a complete fabrication? I saw plenty here on FR willing to agree with the assinine statement that Hitler did not know what he did was wrong.
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posted on
12/25/2007 10:07:04 PM PST
by
weegee
(If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
To: weegee
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Smith was just making a simple point: there hasn't been a bad guy in history who didn't think he was the good guy.
I understand his point, but I don't agree with it. I doubt Saddam or the henchman carrying out his orders was thinking, "Well, it hurts me to do this, but it's for the greater good" when he loaded someone into the mulcher.
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posted on
12/25/2007 10:10:29 PM PST
by
Rastus
To: winstonwolf33
in response to this story, my dad said: "hitler is off limits. just don't mention him...ever!"
why is this so hard for these people to understand?
To: Mr. Jeeves
Exactly. I think Dale Carnegie made the same point at the beginning of How to Win Friends and Influence People by describing some famous criminal during a gunfight. It's hardly a revolutionary concept.
To: weegee
Apparently, the full text of NY Post article is no longer accessible via the source link of the FR thread cited @ #15.
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