Team Will Smith? Or Team Chris Rock?
Hmmmm.
Should I join the conga line of columnists picking sides and tsk-tsking about Will Smith’s assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars?
Or do I pile on Joe Biden again? This time for insisting that his gaffes - the ones we saw and heard with our own eyes and ears last weekend - never happened?
When Peter Doocy, the hardest working TV journalist in Washington, on Monday asked the president about his statements that had to be walked back by his press people - that U.S, troops were headed to Ukraine, that the U.S. might retaliate against Russia with chemical weapons and that Putin needed to be removed from office, Biden declared, “None of the three occurred.”
He lies so easily. Either that or Biden can’t remember what he said 72 hours ago.
Either way, it may be time to start talking 25th Amendment. The president isn’t all there.
Frankly, I loathe the Academy Awards and haven’t watching in years, but I like Biden even less. So let’s talk Smith and Rock.
Late Sunday night my Twitter feed exploded with news that Will Smith had cold-cocked Chris Rock.
A quick look at the video showed Smith smacking Rock, not punching him.
An assault nonetheless.
Next, a social media debate raged about whether the incident was part of the show - these are ACTORS after all - or an ugly manifestation of Smith’s anger management problem.
It would not surprise me to find out that the Academy staged the attack in a desperate attempt to entice an audience back to the increasingly unpopular awards celebration. While many of us don’t watch because of the politics of the Oscars, we might tune in if there was a promise of fisticuffs between woke entertainers every year.
Only in Hollywood can a member of the audience slug a comic on stage, accept a major award an hour later and get a standing O from the crowd that witnessed the assault.
These were the same amoral hypocrites who leapt from their seats to cheer Roman Polanski in 2003 when he won Best Director for “The Pianist”, even though Polanski couldn’t enter the U.S. because he’s wanted in a case involving the rape of a 13-year-old.
One thing became abundantly clear on Sunday: The left has no sense of humor.
Video clips show Smith laughing at Rock’s joke about wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head. but when he sees his wife grimace, Smith leaps to his feet, to defend her honor.
Why didn’t the couple simply walk out if they were offended? Since when is it acceptable to leap onto a stage and attack a performer?
Answer: Never.
Bill Maher said recently he prefers performing in red states to blue ones because conservatives aren’t triggered by microagrressions and still retain a sense of humor.
In an interview with The Hill in January, Maher said:
Democrats have sucked “the fun out of everything.”
“Once upon a time, the right were the ones offended by everything. They were the party of speech codes and blacklists and moral panics and demanding some TV show had to go,” Maher said on his show.
“Well now that’s us. We’re the fun-suckers now. We suck the fun out of everything: Halloween, the Oscars, childhood, Twitter, comedy,” he added.
It’s being reported that Rock didn’t realize Jada Smith’s hairless state was caused by a medical condition. Yet even that explanation wasn’t good enough for the woke ones who have decided that every medical condition - including alopecia - is off limits.
On Monday Smith apologized to Rock, saying he was “out of line and wrong.”
He was.
Yet, for the first time in many years, the Oscars were interesting.
Oh, I’m on Team Rock. In case you couldn’t tell.
