Will Smith -- Reporters Just Don't Understand

16. Hitler had a dog. He wanted a cat. This maddening bad pet mistake rocked our WWII

Posted at 11:23AM on Dec 26th 2007 by ObEYEI

17. Maybe you were misinterpreted, but you are setting yourself up to be a target. You have made a friendship with a man who is part of a cult that is not respected by the majority of the people. You have donated to this cult, although it is a small amount, you still gave them money. Your wife is showing signs of agreeing with Scientology and now with your attitude about "good within all people" you chose Hitler as an example who must have started of "good" and became evil. I agree with you that Hitler's probably did start off with the idea he was helping his people but he was a man who wasn't intially good, he was a man whose evil lyied dormant and was given an opportunity to reveal himself. He was an evil man who had to justify he murderous rage..nevertheless, of all the people you could have picked as an example, Hitler wasn't a good idea.

I think you and your wife need to get over this idea that your going to hook up with Tom Cruise and his mind controlled wife as Tom is also someone who feels he is doing something good but the evil he has is starting to manifest. He is using you to make himself appear legitimate and your falling for it...

Posted at 11:28AM on Dec 26th 2007 by gwen0

18. His head has gotten so swollen he’s intoxicated with his celebrity status and thinks he can do or say anything he wants. He’s a bigot period! Let me have five minutes with his racist ass, he thinks he’s so bad, so tuff, let’s just see how tuff this xenophobic punk is!

Posted at 11:32AM on Dec 26th 2007 by Jizy

19. The scientology curse has begun

Posted at 11:35AM on Dec 26th 2007 by Timbo

20. Have you seen his wife lately? Ewww! She needs to gain about twenty pounds.

Posted at 11:41AM on Dec 26th 2007 by Jizy

21. Here is the quoted text that caused the trouble:

"Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today'," said Will. "I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good'. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.

Now, anyone that actually reads the quote and has an IQ above 70 would know that in no way did he say Hitler was good... He simply implied that Hitler was doing something that Hitler thought was good. Quite frankly that is most likely spot on accurate. The problem is the world's PC police like the Jewish Defence League simply wants to erase the ability to mention the name of Hitler regardless of context. They behave as if the mere mention of the name Hitler by any celebrity must somehow equate the person to an anti-semite... well grow up people... it's getting to the point that the JDL is becoming as much a monster as the ones they claim to be fighting.

Posted at 11:43AM on Dec 26th 2007 by yirmine snipe

22. Will Smith's quote was misinterpreted. Still, he should've thought more about using that subject because Hitler is a touchy subject for a lot of folks.

That being said, this so-called controversy is really nothing. He wasn't praising Hitler.

Posted at 1:19PM on Dec 26th 2007 by egriffin

23. Somehow I doubt Hitler got up every morning saying: "Mwahaha! What evil things do I have on my agenda today?". Will's point (if there was one) is that Hitler *thought* he was doing good, not that he *was* doing good. Does this imply that Will Smith thinks Hitler was a good guy? Absolutely not.

Posted at 11:45AM on Dec 26th 2007 by Narcissus

24. Not surprising that someone who proudly and publicly showed his ignorance and bigotry in the past would do so again. I am referring to his homophobic behavior back during the filming of Six Degrees of Separation. He could not bring himself to do the unspeakable and kiss another man, so he decried that just because the character was gay, well it wasn't crucial for him to show any expression of that. Then he exacerbated the reaction to that change from how it was realistically portrayed onstage by going on talk shows and making fun of the whole thing. His P R blitz to promote the film included his pandering to Oprah et al -giggling and preening for the audience about how he dont be kissin no mens. Ewwww. Gross,

Ignorant. Prejudiced. Furthering hatred. And now - more of the same.

Posted at 11:46AM on Dec 26th 2007 by Tom

25. Harvey Levin, the managing editor for TMZ.com is Jewish.

Big Surprise.

Wake up people.

Posted at 11:45AM on Dec 26th 2007 by Lame

26. One of the ten commandmests of scientology is "Its always someone elses fault"

Posted at 11:47AM on Dec 26th 2007 by my oh my

27. This is so dumb...for all of you that actually look at that quote and think Will meant harm by it, you are all in need of a lobatomy, pronto.

...let's see, saying that Hitler probably woke up everyday thinking what he was doing was good in a twisted way obviously means that HITLER THOUGHT WHAT HE WAS DOING WAS GOOD.....I have not once thought that Will meant he agreed with that. The statement makes total sense. Anyone with a brain would probably think that. Charles Manson probably thought what he did was good. Come on people, think for once.

Posted at 11:51AM on Dec 26th 2007 by Chad

28. Jizy, chill out. I hardly think his comments qualify him as racist. Thoughtless? Perhaps but not racist.

Got a point about his wife though. She's always been small but lately she almost looks skeleton like! Don't believe me? Look at her from TV's "A Different World" and from films like A Low Down Dirty Shame and Jason's Lyric and look at her now. Back then, she was small, petite but healthy looking. Now, she's small, petite and looks like he she needs a trip to McDonald's fast!

It pains me to say that because I used to find Jada Pinkett-Smith very sexy. Now, she's just dissapearing almost.

Posted at 1:19PM on Dec 26th 2007 by egriffin

29. Of course this story is taken completely out of context because he had the #1 movie -- bringing in almost $100 million -- with no co-star. So it's time to bring the Black man down -- and throw Barack Obama into the mix for no good reason. Ridiculous!

Posted at 12:02PM on Dec 26th 2007 by bnww

30. Some people on here need to take a reading comprehension class. He never said Hitler was a good person. Seriously, you folks will believe anything in a headline without reading something yourself.

Posted at 2:04PM on Dec 26th 2007 by JT