Where There’s A Will, There’s a Misinterpretation
Will Smith has reacted angrily to reports suggesting he thought Hitler was basically a good person, with the Hollywood celebrity stating unequivocally that he was misinterpreted.
Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a recent remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler.
Will Smith was upset that a remark about Hitler was misinterpreted by a writer, and then gossip sites.
In a story published Saturday in the Daily Record, Smith was quoted saying: “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’ I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good.’ ”
The quote was preceded by the writer’s observation: “Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good.”
Over the weekend, dozens of celebrity gossip Web sites posted articles about the comment, many saying that Smith believed that Hitler was a “good” person.
“It is an awful and disgusting lie,” Smith said in a statement Monday provided by his publicist. “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.”
“Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet,” read the statement.
Unlike the last man who claimed he was misinterpreted, I am inclined to believe him.
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I hate to say it but I told you so.
Actually, I kinda liked it.
Well I’m glad he finally came out and said that Hitler was evil! He may claim he was misinterpreted but no matter how many times I read his first comments they still sound stupid. To suggest that Hitler got up one morning and decided to do what he thought was “good” just minimizes both Hitler’s responsibility for what he did and the extreme selfishness and evil of what he did. If I were Jewish I would be highly offended by that.
But thankfully Will has corrected himself. It’s a relief to hear it.
oh bloody hell. we all knew what he meant.
this is just stupid
We all knew what he meant? What exactly???
I am inclined to accept his explanation.
See if any of you can misinterpret Clint Eastwood.
I believe Will was correct in both statements actually…dont get me wrong I believe hitler to be one of the most horrible, vicious, and crazed men to ever walk on the planet, however what will’s first statement said was true as well
It doesn’t admit to Hitler being a good person at all, rather that through hi s twisted racial and evil ideals he believed he would be helping the world
that doesn’t at all take away the fact he was an evil man, that is what I believe what Will was trying to say and I agree with him