Will Smith has gotta be one of the most impossibly wholesome guys on the planet! So how do websites end up misquoting him as saying that Hitler is a good person?
Will Smith angry over Hitler comment interpretation
Whoever’s writing those websites is an idiot, and I’m not even speaking in defense of Will Smith. You have to look at the evidence - Will Smith did the Fresh Price of Bel-Air, one of the more wholesome sitcoms of the day. He’s an actor and a rapper, and somehow through all of that he’s managed to keep the image of father and family man. He refuses to curse or use derogatory themes in his music, ever, and as an actor he carefully chooses roles to do that he wouldn’t be ashamed of having children (especially his own) see. Who in their right mind is going to think Will Smith really said Hitler is a good person? It’s laughable.
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that really is the stupidest person with a pen i have ever seen and the quote was right to people dont think that they are actualy doing wroing things it is just what they think is right even if by most standards it isnt
Wow–not to mention that the idiot who quoted him in the first place failed comrehension nearly as badly as the others commenting on the quote. Smith in no way said that Hitler was good–he said that he thought Hitler’s *own* self-image was that he was good, as opposed to how the rest of the world viewed him.
And meanwhile, I apparently fail spelling–that should have been ‘comprehension’…
Sadly, these days news reportage is geared more toward sensationalism (which, apparently, media marketing departments believe sells more advertising — despite being able to cite no evidence that it actually does) than toward accuracy. (Which, apparently, media marketing departments seem to believe is an unimportant factor in the credibility of the media that they are shilling for.) Guess who the losers are in *that* little equation…
I don’t know, they got a bunch of clicks form us looking aththe misquote, and a whole lot more with the correction. Probably from people who never would have clicked if they had got it right in the first place. Seems that poor journalism does generate more site hits…
Okay, say that this particular example *does* hold true for a majority of news stories. (*Especially* mainstream news!) This would mean that editors (and their bosses, the publishers) will actually have an *incentive* to get it wrong since they know that both an incorrect story *and* the “correction” will generate more hits; thus more advertising. (And, of course, seeing as how Internet “standards” are pretty nonexistent where corrections are concerned; few people may ever find out that a particular story was incorrect, or just plain lies — just ask John Kerry in regards to his “swiftboating”…) Again, who are the losers here?
That’s way beyond idiotic. Reading the original quote should make it plainly obvious that he never said Hitler was a good person, just that Hitler probably believed himself to be… and I’d agree with that. This is why celebrity gossip magazines and websites shouldn’t exist. They’re just moronic trash.
Well, for the media, no matter how much they manipulate a statement, they’ll run it if it means attention. I mean, I agree, I personally don’t think Hitler thought of himself as pure evil when he commited the acts he did. I’m sure in his twisted mind, he had some good reason.
Sounds just like what the media did to John Lennon…
If people quit reading those rags, those idiots would be out of work.
But Lillian, if they did that where would the MIB get their news from?
on a slightly more serious note, that stuff will always sell for the same reason why springer was on tv for so long, people like to see that other people’s lives are even more screwed up than their own, ie, “my life sucks, but at least I’m not britney spears’ mom”
isn’t springer still on the air?
A sensational quote sells more copy than an intelligent one. That’s why the guy misquoted him, because Will Smith complimenting Hitler starts up more water cooler talk than Will Smith making an intelligent remark about how people justify their own actions. What else do you expect from magazines that keep telling us the world is ending in two days?
Or, in this case, sites that have nothing better to do than discuss celebrity sex lives.
Not all of Will Smith’s tracks are clean. I’ll grant that as Rappers go he’s squeeky clean, but there’s a few songs I wouldn’t want my 10 year old listening to.
example? There isn’t a single song i would care about a 10 year old listening to from any of will’s ablums. That includes the times when he was with jazzy jeff.
“You saw my Blinker Bitch” springs immediately to mind. There was also a Track on Big Willie Style IIRC, and one on his last Album as the Fresh Prince. All transition periods when he was going from rapper to Star, and back, so its understandable.
And compared to Snoop or Eminem who’re luck to get a single 10 y/o friendly tack a decade, it’s Will Smith FTW.
Who in their right mind is going to think Will Smith really said Hitler is a good person?
^ The same type of person that keeps miss quoting him/putting it up on website after website?
I love Will Smith, he’s one of my favorite actors EVER.
I’m not so sure about the whole “wholesome” aspect. I admit that he dosen’t use curse words but in almost every acting role he has sex plays a heavy part of the storyline. Like in Independence Day he’s married to a stripper or in Wild Wild West it opens up to a hotub scene and his running joke in Fresh Prince “you know what I’m Sayin’?”
But the Hitler thing is just a dumb distraction
Definitely Will Smith is a kind of person that would never say anything meaning what was quoted. He does seem to be a genuinely nice person who’s managed to stay out of the puppet theatre of the media for the most part.
However, English is a complex language. I could see how it can be misinterpreted.
ananth your awesome did i ever tell you that?
will smith would never say that ppl need to hear closely on what ppl are saying
The biggest atrocity of it all is that he apologized.
Where the **** do you get off asking Will Smith to apologize for a HIGHLY and I mean ************* HIGHLY misinterpreted quote?
That’s like a scientist going up to a guy that cured AIDS and saying “Thanks a lot now I’m out of a job”