Will Smith's Slaps and Double Standards - The Left and violence at the Oscars

Here you can see Will Smith Laughing at the joke of Chris Rock @ 1.18, Jada must have pulled the trigger

I did not see Bruce Willis slap anyone when the linked Debbie Moore with G.I. Jane.

And then it happened. Chris Rock, who’d been tapped to present the award for Best Documentary Feature, started off with a couple of jokes - the first real humor of the evening. Taking in the sight of Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head - she was seated down front, next to her husband, Will - Rock quipped that he looked forward to seeing her in G.I. Jane 2. (It will be recalled that Demi Moore went bald in the 1997 movie G.I. Jane.) Whereupon Will Smith stepped onstage and slapped him in the face. Returning to his seat, he twice shouted at Rock: “Keep my wife’s name out your f--king mouth!”

At first, I thought it was a stunt. Some people are still saying it was. I doubt it. Both Smith and Rock have striven to be seen as good role models for young blacks: why would either of them have wanted to plan a fake confrontation that made them look like gang members in tuxedos? Also, if it had been planned, Rock, one of the funniest men alive, would’ve contrived a witty reaction to the slap. He didn’t; in fact, he struggled to get back on script. Finally, would Smith have used the F-word - twice - on live network TV if he hadn’t really been out of control?

As far as I’m concerned, Smith acted abominably, whereas Rock was a class act. Although visibly stunned, he kept his cool and kept at his job. Some observers, noting that Pinkett Smith shaves her pate because she suffers from a skin disorder called alopecia, have actually praised Smith for “standing up for her.” But as Hadley Freeman pointed out in the Guardian, “It’s quite weird that Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith were fine with the host Regina Hall joking about their open marriage early in the evening, but not with Rock joking about Pinkett Smith’s hair, no?”

What compounds the weirdness is that Smith laughed at Rock’s joke - until he saw that Jada wasn’t laughing. Could it be that he was really stewed at Hall - and still burned, deep down, by the recent revelation that Jada had two-timed him with a guy half her age - but, unable to slap either Hall or Jada, took it out on Rock? Or did the slap have more to do with the fact that he was on tenterhooks, desperate to know if he’d won Best Actor - an accolade that he’s long considered long overdue?

One big question: why did they let him get away with it? A lesser member of the audience who’d struck someone on camera and hurled F-bombs would’ve been hauled out of there prontissimo and handed over to the L.A. cops. Instead, Smith was allowed to stay, collect his award, and bask in applause - a standing ovation, even. On Monday’s The Five, Jesse Watters suggested that if, say, a white hothead like Mel Gibson had slapped Rock, he’d have been booed roundly by the audience and dragged out by security, superstar or not. Was there indeed an element of racism - an unarticulated feeling that the assault, being black-on-black, wasn’t quite as horrible or shocking as it might otherwise have been - in ABC execs’ decision to leave Smith alone?

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