{"id":1413076,"date":"2022-03-31T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413076"},"modified":"2022-03-31T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:45:13","slug":"nolte-the-disgraceful-early-coverage-of-will-smiths-assault-on-chris-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-the-disgraceful-early-coverage-of-will-smiths-assault-on-chris-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: The Disgraceful Early Coverage of Will Smith&#039;s Assault on Chris Rock"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fnolte-the-disgraceful-early-coverage-of-will-smiths-assault-on-chris-rock%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=1413076&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\">Because we are plagued with a left-wing media and entertainment culture guided by politics instead of moral principle, days passed before these moral illiterates figured out that Will Smith\u2019s unprovoked assault on Chris Rock during Sunday night\u2019s basement-rated Oscar telecast was indefensible.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do we do? How do we cover this? What\u2019s the correct way to think about it? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/03\/30\/new-york-times-columnist-roxane-gay-jada-pinkett-smith-shouldnt-have-to-tolerate-jokes-at-her-expense-nor-should-you\/\">Black women\u2019s hair<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/will-smith-chris-rock\/\">Chivalry!<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/health-wellness\/2022\/03\/29\/smith-slapped-chris-rock-but-some-say-joke-violent-too\/7207103001\/\">Jokes are violence<\/a>! Will Smith is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/03\/28\/tiffany-haddish-praises-will-smiths-attack-on-chris-rock-at-oscars-most-beautiful-thing-ive-ever-seen\/\">a bigger<\/a> Hollywood player than Chris Rock! Two black men! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/03\/28\/stern-will-smith-and-trump-are-the-same-guy-decided-hes-going-to-take-matters-into-his-own-hands\/\">Trump<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/03\/29\/forbes-contributor-white-supremacy-to-blame-for-will-smith-controversy\/\">White Supremacy<\/a>! <\/em>My personal favorite was CNN\u2019s toxic, moral midget Jemele Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/03\/28\/jemele-hill-black-women-encouraged-by-will-smiths-protection-of-wife-after-kbj-hearings\/\">bringing<\/a> child-porn enabler Ketanji Brown Jackson into it.<\/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>As far as the early coverage, it was all angled to mitigate Smith\u2019s assault\u2026 To have it both ways\u2026 Headlines and write-ups like these\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/03\/will-smith-slaps-chris-rock-in-the-face-on-oscars-stage-1234988514\/\">Deadline<\/a>: \u201cWill Smith Slaps Chris Rock In The Face On Oscars Stage After Jab At Wife Jada Pinkett\u2019s Appearance\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chris Rock\u00a0got more than he may have bargained for as a presenter at the 94th Academy Awards.\u00a0While presenting the award for Best Documentary Feature, which ultimately went to Questlove\u2019s<em>\u00a0Summer of Soul<\/em>, he made a joke at the expense of\u00a0Will Smith\u2019s wife,\u00a0Jada Pinkett Smith, leading to an on-stage altercation that was not scripted and drew gasps from the room, according to sources.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/2022-oscars-will-smith-vanity-fair-party-chris-rock-slap-1235120646\/\">THR<\/a><\/em>: \u201cWill Smith Holds Court at Vanity Fair Party After Chris Rock Slap: \u2018It\u2019s Been a Beautiful Night\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Oscar winner\u00a0Will Smith\u00a0took a victory lap at the\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>\u00a0Oscar party after\u00a0Sunday\u2019s awards ceremony, dancing to his own hits as wife\u00a0Jada Pinkett Smith\u00a0cheered him on and telling\u00a0<em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>: \u201cIt\u2019s been a beautiful night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith seemed unbothered by the drama that happened on the Oscar stage earlier Sunday evening, when\u00a0he slapped comedian Chris Rock\u00a0for joking about his wife\u2019s shaved head. Pinkett Smith has talked about her hair loss due to alopecia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/will-smith-smacks-chris-rock-oscars-1235216387\/\">Variety<\/a><\/em>: \u201cWill Smith Smacks Chris Rock on Oscar Stage After Jada Pinkett Smith Joke\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chris Rock\u00a0and\u00a0Will Smith\u00a0had an altercation during the 2022 Oscar telecast. Rock appeared on stage to present the Oscar for documentary feature and made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith being in \u201cG.I. Jane\u201d because of her shaved head. Smith then took the stage to slap Rock. Although it appeared to be a joke at first, Smith returned to his seat and yelled at Rock, \u201cKeep my wife\u2019s name out of your fucking mouth!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith and Rock had an \u201caltercation.\u201d Lol.<\/p>\n<p>You can see what was going on\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to have it both ways. Smith smacked Rock, but <em>only after Rock insulted his wife! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>And this was everywhere, not just the Hollywood trades. Honestly, is there a clearer sign of how morally broken these people and institutions are than the first 24 hours after The Slap?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>It gets worse\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how the Motion Picture Academy initially responded. Their invited guest, Chris Rock, was assaulted in their house, \u00a0and here\u2019s the Academy 40 minutes after that assault.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Best Actor in a Leading Role goes to Will Smith for his incredible performance in &#8216;King Richard&#8217; Congratulations! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oscars?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Oscars<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y0UTX48214\">pic.twitter.com\/y0UTX48214<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Academy (@TheAcademy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAcademy\/status\/1508292151389548544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, and here was the Academy\u2019s initial statement on the <em>altercation<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Academy does not condone violence of any form.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Academy (@TheAcademy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAcademy\/status\/1508310547564953606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Think about what happened\u2026 Chris Rock was invited by the Academy to present an Oscar and to be Chris Rock. He tells a nothingburger joke about Jada Pinkett Smith and gets assaulted for it. Then, in front of the whole world, Will Smith strolled onto that stage during a live television show and smacked a man for doing his job, for telling a joke. But these institutions are so morally warped, they didn\u2019t know enough to be outraged by something that would be indefensible in a bar, much less at a worldwide-televised awards show.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>***LANGUAGE WARNING***\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This type of thuggish behavior has no place in civilized society. Will Smith needs to be charged for assault. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MydlQBTqBT\">pic.twitter.com\/MydlQBTqBT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACTBrigitte\/status\/1508294636670009344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the show itself, just 40 minutes after he committed an unprovoked assault on a much smaller man, Smith was handed an Oscar and basked in two separate standing ovations, one of them after his disgusting, slobbering, self-justifying acceptance speech about how he\u2019s God\u2019s vessel for love and peace or something.<\/p>\n<p>The left is now at a point where it doesn\u2019t know how to react to an act of unprovoked violence.<\/p>\n<p>But this is the cancer of Woke, of identity politics, of people who equate words with violence and therefore see everything through a warped moral lens where there\u2019s an equivalence between a joke and an assault.<\/p>\n<p>The only silver lining here is that some people appear to be coming to their senses. The coverage is much tougher on Smith.\u00a0 The moral fog appears to be lifting now that people have processed the horror show of their obscene equivalence of speech and violence in action.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe, just maybe, this will snap a few people out of the woke cult. I doubt it, but maybe we\u2019ll be surprised.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we are plagued with a left-wing media and entertainment culture guided by politics instead of moral principle, days passed before these moral illiterates figured out that Will Smith\u2019s unprovoked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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-1413076","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\/1413076","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413076\/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=1413076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}