{"id":1404394,"date":"2022-03-28T09:14:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404394"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:14:14","slug":"oscars-on-will-smiths-attack-the-academy-does-not-condone-violence-of-any-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oscars-on-will-smiths-attack-the-academy-does-not-condone-violence-of-any-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars on Will Smith&#039;s Attack: &#039;The Academy Does Not Condone Violence of Any Form&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foscars-on-will-smiths-attack-the-academy-does-not-condone-violence-of-any-form%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, responded Sunday evening to Best Actor winner Will Smith slapping comedian and co-host Chris Rock onstage, rejecting violence without withdrawing Smith\u2019s award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Academy does not condone violence of any form,\u201d it tweeted. \u201cTonight we are delighted to celebrate our 94th Academy Awards winners, who deserve this moment of recognition from their peers and movie lovers around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Smith assaulted Rock on live television because of a joke Rock told about Smith\u2019s wife, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/03\/27\/leslie-odom-jr-on-will-smith-hitting-chris-rock-two-artists-its-always-beautiful\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Smith initially appeared to laugh after Rock made fun of his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, for her alopecia, a condition that causes hair loss. Rock suggested that she star in G.I. Jane 2, referring to Demi Moore, who shaved her head in the original.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Smith climbed onstage, walked up to Rock, and struck him in the face before returning to his seat. Rock, stunned, exclaimed: \u201cWow! Will Smith just smacked the shit out of me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith, from the audience, yelled: \u201cKeep my wife\u2019s name out your f*ckin\u2019 mouth!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rock responded: \u201cWow, dude! It was a G.I. Jane joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith repeated: \u201cKeep my wife\u2019s name out your f*ckin\u2019 mouth!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to, OK? Wow. OK. That was a \u2026 greatest night the history of television,\u201d Rock continued.<\/p>\n<p>After the incident, security did not remove Smith, nor was he arrested. He went on to deliver an acceptance speech after winning Best Actor for portraying Richard Williams, father to tennis stars Venus and Serna Williams, in King Richard.<\/p>\n<p>The audience applauded his speech.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reactions to the assault were mixed, with director Judd Apatow calling Smith\u2019s attack \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/03\/27\/judd-apatow-tweets-deletes-criticism-of-will-smith-pure-narcissism\/\">pure narcissism<\/a>,\u201d while actor and singer Leslie Odom Jr. called it a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/03\/27\/leslie-odom-jr-on-will-smith-hitting-chris-rock-two-artists-its-always-beautiful\/\">beautiful<\/a>\u201d expression of authentic and \u201cvulnerable\u201d feeling among two artists.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, responded Sunday evening to Best Actor winner Will Smith slapping comedian and co-host Chris Rock onstage, rejecting violence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}