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As the furor over the altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday continues to dominate the news cycle, every pundit has leaped at the opportunity to give a take, and Fox News’ Jesse Waters was no exception.
Hot takes have flown back and forth since Smith’s slap, with people alternatively saying Smith was defending his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s honor, others saying his violence in response to a joke (that most regard as having been in bad taste) was way over the line and unprofessional. Everyone has agreed that it was certainly the highlight moment in the otherwise forgettable 94th Academy Awards.
The incident got started when Rock told a joke about Smith’s wife, who suffers from hair loss due to alopecia. Rock’s reference to Jada’s bald state noted Demi Moore’s shaved-head character in “G.I. Jane.”
Fox News’ “The Five” chimed in on the incident, with Piers Morgan appearing as a guest panelist.
Morgan defended Smith, saying that the slap was like seeing the cowboy in some movie defending his wife’s honor.
Watters interrupted Morgan to say that Rock gets a pass for being a comedian: “It’s one thing when a cowboy says it, it’s another thing when a comedian says it. You wouldn’t have done that, because you have class.”
Watters then quipped that “This is the first time I’ve ever seen the media cover black-on-black crime, so I’m actually quite surprised by this.”
“If Mel Gibson had done this, [Speaker of the House] Nancy Pelosi would be kneeling in the Capitol right now. He would be the only guy not being allowed out on bail in L.A. County,” he continued.
“The fact that the L.A. Sheriff didn’t haul this guy out of there at the next commercial break explains why there’s such a huge crime problem in this country because you can just go up as an audience member and just cold-cocked the comedian on live television and get away with it,” Watters exclaimed.
He also noted the methodology of the strike, saying that “a slap is more humiliating than a fist, you know it as a man and I know it as a man.”
Rock wound up declining to press charges, which Watters applauded, before commenting on the Smiths’ “open marriage” and speculating that it was the root behind the on-screen slap.
Perhaps the most sincere and truthful opinion was Greg Gutfield’s, who captured what many on social media felt, saying, “part of me was just really grateful that something interested happened. That was probably the realest thing that has ever happened on the Oscars.”
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More like making excuses for Smith’s bad behavior.
Is this the Hollywood version of spring break? Jesse Watters nailed it. If this keeps up, I might start watching after 30 years.
The OLD and FUNNY snl crew would have a gut busting skit with Will and the others slapping each other all through the night!! I miss funny!! Lots of people find biden to be funny – I don’t – I find him to be evil and sick! Oh, i digressed a tad – back to Will and his completely not like him physical assault – press charges and let’s see how big of a man he really is or if he’ll plead “not guilty” and try to weasel out of his crime on the basis that he was PROVOKED!
If they ban Kanye West from award ceremony then they must ban Will Smith as well, no matter how much he can cry. JMO
ROTF LMFAO
Don’t they know the American people are wise to their antics.
They are ACTORS, the event was FAKE. The dying and irrelevant Establishment “entertainment” industry is simply being noisier to try and get our attention.
Imagine the total meltdown in Harveywood/LibWorld if that was Mel Gibson who ran up and socked Chris Rock. Of course, that wouldn’t have been a btch-slap, it would have been a roundhouse KO. There would have been riots, jailtime, and a lifetime ban for ol’ Mel.
A) gunsmoke was fiction
B) gunsmoke was based 150 years ago
C) 1870s dodge city was considered to be barely civilized.
In the colored parts of 2022 Chicago, it might be normal to shoot each other because of a “yo mama” joke, but not in the civilized parts of the country.
It looks like the whole incident was a hoax. In slow motion Rock puts his hands behind his back seems to lean toward Smith, who delivers a huge roundhouse slap that does not seem to make contact as Rock leans way back. Rock has no mark on his face, no blood, nothing-he does not touch face as you would if someone hit you that hard. Looks like the classic Hollywood slap or punch in the movies where no contact is made.
ALA JUSSIE SMOLLET !!
I said almost the same thing. All planned out because that is what democrapers do. It’s about optics.
I didn’t see Rock putting his hand behind his back. When someone gets slapped in the face their whole body doesn’t move like Rock’s did. Plus it looked like he was waiting for it.