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Stormtrooper dreams? Black leather suits you, Will
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| By Israel Insider staff December 26, 2007 |
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Well, it looks like superstar actor Will Smith got up one morning and decided to say something really stupid and offensive about the "goodness" of Adolf Hitler.
Smith was quoted in the Scottish newspaper The Daily Record as opining that the Nazi dictator wasn't really all bad, perhaps just needed his morning coffee and juice. "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today,' " Mr. Smith said. "I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'"
Yeah, like rid the world of six million Jews, a millions of Russians, Poles and Gypsies, not to mention plunging the world into six years of devasting conflict. But his intentions, you know, were basically good. Like hell. With good men like Will Smith paving the way with good intentions.
The JDL condemned the remarks as "ignorant, detestable and offensive" and urged theaters to pull Mr. Smith's new movie, I Am Legend, adding that Smith, "spit on the memory of every person murdered by the Nazis. His disgusting words stick a knife in the back of every veteran who fought (and sometimes died) to save the world from the intentions of Adolf Hitler."
Smith through his publicist issued a statement saying he was misunderstood: "It is an awful and disgusting lie," his statement Monday said. "It speaks to the dangerous power of an ignorant person with a pen. I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such ludicrous misinterpretation." He didn't clatify what he meant by his remarks, nor did he deny them.
"Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet," read the statement.
The statement did not continue: "but he really meant well...." |
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