From TMZ:
"On the day before Christmas, a leading Jewish group is kvetching loudly about
Will Smith's recent suggestion that Adolf Hitler wasn't all bad, calling it
'ignorant, detestable, and offensive.' Oy.
And it doesn't end there ...
The Jewish Defense League is calling on Barack Obama to repudiate
Smith's comments, and wants theaters to pull Smith's new flick 'I Am Legend'
from their screens. Smith told a Scottish paper that Hitler 'didn't wake up
going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' ... I think he woke up
the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he
thought was 'good.'' What kind of meshuggeneh talk is that?!
Smith's
words, say the JDL, 'spit on the memory of every person murdered by the Nazis.
His disgusting words stick a knife in the backs of every veteran who fought (and
sometimes died) to save the world from the intentions of Adolf Hitler.' Smith's
rep could not be reached for comment."
Did we miss something? Where's the offending tirade? Smith basically said Hitler was human not some born-of-evil, demon-seed that was out to be the biggesst villain of our time. Now they they want to boycott him and put him with the likes of Mel Gibson?
What do you readers think? Was Will wrong or are the JDL making too much of nothing?
1 comment:
Celebrities can't say much without being over analyzed. When it comes to Hitler, it is safest to stick with the "he is pure evil" route, but Smith is simply trying to get in touch with Hitler's train-of-thought, which in itself is not a bad thing and can help to explain why he did what he did.
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