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1. RE:

Despite their commercial success, at the end of the day Will Smith and many other narcissistic celebrities like him are pathetic losers.

I’m reminded of the old Alan Parsons song, ‘If I had a mind to, I wouldn’t wanna be like you…”

Jul 1, 2008 - 10:08 am 2. wjohnson:

Amen to that

Jul 1, 2008 - 10:12 am 3. Dee:

And people ask me why I don’t attend Will Smith movies. I prefer not to contribute to American bashers bottom line.

Jul 1, 2008 - 10:30 am 4. always right:

And that is why Hollywood has to trot out an endless stream of Ameican-bashing, Iraq war criminal movies. Cause they know where they will recouperate their investment.

Thing is, where the 3rd world goes, they don’t need to pay money to see those. Ever heard of copyright piracy?

Jul 1, 2008 - 10:38 am 5. hollywoodsux:

Who cares? Smith just wants Obonzo to win because he’s black. In Hollywood being liberal is a fashion statement just like those stupid dogs women carry in their purses. Who cares what morons like him think?

Jul 1, 2008 - 10:39 am 6. Doc99:

Mr. Smith should be what he wishes for.

Jul 1, 2008 - 11:07 am 7. Sensible:

Gee, I hope Smith-who I like- was only expressing his discomfiture at the annoying tendency of many Europeans (upset that they can’t sell weapons to Saddam anymore) to ask every American “how can you tolerate Bush?”

No matter how proud you are, its sometimes an endurance contest to be an American over there. Like wearing a flag pin in Santa Monica. Acknowledging that fact of life–that annoying people make it tough sometimes-does not mean you’re not proud. Also, as best I can tell Smith didn’t unload there–unlike the DixChix who cheaply trashed us there not here.

Jul 1, 2008 - 11:13 am 8. Illinois:

I just got back from Europe myself. I had last been there in the 1980’s when Reagan was in office. Americans were hated then as well.

Why? Because Reagan was thumbing his nose at the Soviets. Reagan was correct in his approach and helped hasten the end of the Cold War.

This time, the anti-American sentiment was nowhere to be found. In fact, in London people are much more concerned about the threat of Radical Muslimism than anything going on in the USA.

Jul 1, 2008 - 12:01 pm 9. Kay:

Every time an actor opens his/her mouth without a written line to say gives me an ice cream headache. And complaining about Amercia while on completely free ride to millions of dollars? STFU.

Jul 1, 2008 - 12:06 pm 10. Lynn:

Geez, for some reason I thought Will Smith would be in those foreign countries being a kool actor promoting his movies and not feeling embarrassed to be American for the last five to ten years. Crazy me.

Jul 1, 2008 - 12:12 pm 11. NahnCee:

Mr. Smith got caught once before with his foot in his mouth and backpedaled fully and immediately. I don’t remember right now what he said, exactly, but I do remember thinking his apology was graceful and well-said.

The way I read him, he’s one of those type personalities who just wants to be loved by everyone and doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings – which accounts for his world-wide popularity as much as his undoubted talent. To someone like that, it *would* be tough being around snarky Yurps who are going to sense that as a weakness and beat him around the head and shoulders with their BDS.

He just needs to toughen up when he goes overseas and learn how to be a proud cowboy gunslinger, since he’s undoubtedly got both the power and the money to back any anti-American naysayer except a Saudi oil tick into the corner. And if a Saudi is saying bad things about your President, then you know without a doubt that said President is doing very good things indeed.

Jul 1, 2008 - 12:20 pm 12. Gringo:

I worked in Latin America for four years, in addition to have spent much time there as a tourist. From my own experience, the best way to turn from a guilt-ridden liberal into an unapologetic flag-waging American is to work in the Third World.Liberal assumptions about Latin America didn’t stand up to reality , I found out.

I did encounter the occasional EUROSNEER in Latin America, but at the time, they were a distinct minority of the Europeans I worked and traveled with.

Jul 1, 2008 - 12:21 pm 13. Mabel:

These bubble-headed celebrities make their millions playing American heroes (Independence Day anyone?) to an American audience…we are the ones who elevate them to international stardom and this is how they pay? I agree this is not like the Dixie Chicks (I will never buy their albums or listen to their music for their sins) but it shows Smith’s limitations at not being able to defend his own country…probably because he lacks the intellect to do so…he doesn’t get pay the big bucks for thinking, that’s for sure.

Jul 1, 2008 - 12:25 pm 14. schnargley:

Thank you for reminding me of why I only buy bootleg movies – a year ago, after a spate of anti-American, contrived, the-real-enemy-are-conservatives-in-our-own-governemnt tripe, i drew the line.

I was starting to waver in my commitment to never support Hollywood ever again wih my family’s entertainment dollars, but thanks to Will, my patriotism will remain firm.

Jul 1, 2008 - 12:31 pm 15. wf:

You would be surprised by the endless parade of American entertainers and academics who show up on European media to bash their country. The only difference is that entertainers say things they would never say back home while intellectuals say exactly what they always say.

This is not a new phenomenon, by the way.

And it is frankly a bit creepy from a European perspective. It is inconceivable that a French, German or Russian celebrity abroad would behave in such a way. They couldn´t show their faces anymore at home. American celebs don´t look admirable for being so obseqious. Nobody likes a lickspittle.

You know who refused (in at least one interview in Germany a couple of years ago) to say anything bad about his country or government? James Ellroy, the author of The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential. When prodded he said America got bashed everywhere these days, often unfairly, and he wouldn´t add to it. That was nice. Doesn´t happen often, though.

Jul 1, 2008 - 12:38 pm 16. Roderick Reilly:

Will Smith is supposed to have made some depraved statements about 9/11 to the effect that it “was no concern of black folks.”

At the risk of being labeled a racist, I join the many millions of Americans who are sick and tired of so many high-profile, fabulously successful African-Americans talking about America as if it was 1930s Alabama. Also, the proportion of disaffected African-Americans who are benefitting just fine from this country is dismayingly high.

As to celebrities in general, they need to be told that their primary purpose in life is to alleviate the boredom of the rest of us who choose to pay attention to what it is they are being payed too much money to do. They are jugglers, mountebacks and sword-swallowers, nothing more.

Jul 1, 2008 - 1:17 pm 17. Me&BobbyMcGee:

“My husband wonders why I bother to get all worked up over incidents like this. And every time I do, I swear it will be the last time I waste my breath.”

Tell your husband to knock it off! I experience the same process of emotions and decisions as you – and then get all worked up the next time somebody like “wittle willies getz his whittle feewins hurtz”. Its even more frustrating for me because – except for posting replies – I can’t speak up on a national forum like this. So please, Pam, stay worked up and keep calling these people out!

Jul 1, 2008 - 1:42 pm 18. GM Roper:

I’ve been to a lot of countries in the past 5 to 10 years and I have to say that I’m almost ashamed to come home to a land where folk given a free ride because they can memorize a few lines have their poor pitiful egos bruised because they live in the greatest country on earth.

Shorter version: Hey Smith! Shut your pie hole!

Jul 1, 2008 - 1:48 pm 19. GB:

I look forward to the day when Americans stop caring what Europeans think about us. Here’s the truth, they have never liked us in 230 years, and will never like us in until we’re down and out.

And thanks to guilt-ridden, sanctimonious, ignorant, perpectually depressed liberals — our country may be there one day.

Jul 1, 2008 - 2:27 pm 20. Kay:

“Mabel:

These bubble-headed celebrities make their millions playing American heroes (Independence Day anyone?) to an American audience…we are the ones who elevate them to international stardom and this is how they pay? I agree this is not like the Dixie Chicks (I will never buy their albums or listen to their music for their sins) but it shows Smith’s limitations at not being able to defend his own country…probably because he lacks the intellect to do so…he doesn’t get pay the big bucks for thinking, that’s for sure.”

I have to admit, Will Smith is good at playing Will Smith in movies. It has always amazed me at the credence we have given movie stars, the easiest occupation on the face of the earth. They live in such a bubble from reality-I kinda feel bad when we put them under such stressful situations such as asking political question without a scripted answer for them to read.

A movie star gets 20 million dollars and writers and directors tell them ‘act like this and say this’ (they also need not lift a finger to dress themselves or even find a bite of food) for a few weeks and expect them to know anything about the real world after a few years of that. Apparently, they eventually even seem to forget what country they live in.

Jul 1, 2008 - 2:36 pm 21. newguy40:

His statement just do not mean anything to me.
I have absolutely nothing in common with the
rich folks and their pronouncments and world view.

As some one already mentioned, the best cure for these people are real work AND exposure to 2nd and 3rd world locations. For business, I have travelled and work in Tijuana and PRC electronics factories. Believe me, even 4 weeks in some of those places will make you very very grateful for what you got back in the old US of A.

Jul 1, 2008 - 2:46 pm 22. TmjUtah:

Europe.

They’ve always been there when they needed us!

Europe is a parable for what happens when you raise kids without giving them responsibilities.

We should have been worried once france started putting the Jerry Lewis posters up in their bedrooms. It was a sign!

Jul 1, 2008 - 2:49 pm 23. vb:

WF is exactly right. Almost all the entertainers and academics bash America when travelling abroad. The Smiths deliver their pearls of wisdom to the same group of reporters that hang outside the 5-star hotel to catch a glimpse of Michael Jackson–real deep thinkers. The literary types fawn over Vidal, Chomky, and Michael Moore, so the US authors give them what they want to hear. Few of these travelling troupes have any contact with real people, nor are they able to read local papers or watch TV news. In short, they are ignorant and boorish.

Jul 1, 2008 - 2:49 pm 24. Greyland:

Try it this way: “It’s weird how Europeans think that being American is a bad thing, then suddenly Obama gets nominated and, somehow, suddenly being an American is a good thing.” That’s how I’d read it. Except I’d add “Oh, those silly, silly Europeans!” and Will Smith is probably too nice a guy to do that.

Jul 1, 2008 - 2:52 pm 25. Surrounded in LaLaLand:

Yet another Hollywood snot-nose brat demonstrates his/her ingratitude toward the country that has heaped untold riches upon them.

For what? Certainly not for their patriotism.

Certainly not for their talent.

Acting? Let’s see…..
Someone tells you what to say.
Someone tells how to say it.
Someone tells you where to stand.
Someone tells you how to move.
Someone puts on your clothes.
Someone puts on your makeup.

And if you somehow manage to screw up your line, they’ll give you an unlimited number of cuts to get it right.

Gee, that sounds difficult……

I’m still waiting for one of these America bashing egomaniacs to offer to give back the millions they’ve made as a result of being American.

Not that he would have anyway, but now I’ll be certain that Will Smith is another Hollywood jackass that never sees a dime of my money.

Previous poster Kay said it best:

Yo! Willy! STFU! Or better yet, GTFO!!

Jul 1, 2008 - 2:52 pm 26. Good Ole Charlie:

Remember the term used by Alfred Hitchcock refering to actors and actresses?

“The Meat”

Which summed up Hitchcock’s estimation of their intelligence…about the same as a slab of baloney.

Jul 1, 2008 - 2:57 pm 27. PaulB:

How disappointing. So W. Smith now goes on the list of folks whose movies I won’t see. Why on earth don’t entertainment folks learn to keep their opinions to themselves? When you depend on the public for your livliehood, it makes good sense to offend as few of us as you can. That’s not limiting your free speech, its called GOOD BUSINESS SENSE. gracious sakes.

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:00 pm 28. tim maguire:

As with a few others here, I am not the world traveler Will Smith is, but I have been outside the U.S. a number of times during the reign of GWB and I have to say, I’ve never felt ashamed to be an American and the only place anybody’s ever asked me to is here at home.

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:07 pm 29. chicopanther:

Hey Willy BOY–if you don’t like America you don’t have to come back! We won’t even miss a jackass like you.

chicopanther

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:09 pm 30. wtlf555:

I travel quit a bit and I also have this conversation with many of my “elite” friends. They all believe that foreigners hate Americans. I tell them that it all depends on where you travel. Go to Central America, eastern europe, south africa and you’ll be a minor celebrity. Go to France, Italy or Sweden and you’ll be treated with disdain. The interesting thing is that the countries that have people who treat you well are the ones with rising per cap GDPs and standard of living. Those with folks who don’t like you have stagnent growth and entitlement programs that are eroding very high standards of living. There is also a noticible difference in opinions on trade. The elite countries with high standards of living align themselves with the American left and protectionism. The poorer growing countries like the current administrations support of NAFTA, CAFTA and support of breakaway soviet republics trade policies verses Russia. My leftist friends hate to hear this but in reality rich, elitists hate Americans and hard working poor (normal folks) like Americans and the current administration. It’s very ironic and I savor the irony.

The other ironic thing is that my well healed friends feel the need to travel to Paris, Stockholm etc hang with other affluent foreigners and commiserate about all things American. I on the other hand go to places like Costa Rica and the Ukraine. There I hang out with hard working people amidst vibrant growing economies and talk about how good life is even though were in conditins far worse than my counterparts travelling in Western Europe.

All I can say is thank God I’m not my friends. My travels are great, everyone treats me (as an American) with respect and I have a great time.

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:12 pm 31. Diane:

Great list of other country’s dirty laundry. I’d like to add one more to the list: rampant vexillophobia (fear of flags).

I recently learned that in some European countries, a presidential candidate wouldn’t be questioned about his alleged refusal to wear a flag pin. Rather, he would be chastised for wearing said pin, as an act of nationalist provocation.

“Dutch school officials order two boys to remove Dutch flags from their backpacks because Moroccan students might find them ‘provocative.’ A Swedish high school sends two girls home for having tiny Swedish flags on their sweaters…”

That’s according to Bruce Bawer in the inaugural issue of Standpoint, a European-based conservative magazine. [http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/put-out-more-flags]

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:13 pm 32. Jonathan:

Smith’s comments seem to be about the reaction of people in “Moscow, Berlin, London, and Paris.” He doesn’t say it’s bad to be an American, he said that when visiting Moscow it’s not in one’s favor.

As a dual citizen, I’ve watched very different reactions when I am overseas (haven’t been to the countries above, but in Muslim and Asian nations), people often more positive reactions when they believe I’m Canadian vs when they believe I’m American.

I don’t think he was bashing America with this particular statement, but talking about how the people he meets in these other countries react to him.

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:14 pm 33. Dusty:

Sensible @ Jul 1, 2008 – 11:13 am

Yeah, I had thought that too. It certainly sounded, though, that he enjoyed going back again and again.

Maybe he was just looking on the bright masochistic side of it.

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:24 pm 34. Lou:

He needs to take a lesson from Michael Jordon.
When asked why he would not support a dem canidate in his home state. Jordon said “because repubs buy shoes too” Something like that. In other words stfu fresh prince

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:32 pm 35. Paul M Hupf:

If Will Smith’s shame about his native land, or lack of shame, depends on the holder of the office of the President of the United States, he should live elsewhere. Perhaps he might find, no matter who was President, that thousands, if not tens of thousands, would be happy to exchange citizenship with him to spare him his ordeal.

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:33 pm 36. Barf:

But again, Smith does not seem to have said it THERE.

He also appears to have only said it was TOUGH to wander around France, where snuggling up to dictators is normal and resisting them is not (it speedily exported its Jews under Vichy, colaborated with the Nazis, apologized for the Soviets and denied us flyover rights to bomb Quadaffi in 1986). I’ll bet it is tough. Give him the benefit of the doubt here.

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:45 pm 37. paul:

Smith is added to the Hollywood boycott list.

His career just ended. Ask Penn, Clooney and whatshisname if this isn’t true. Dixie who?

Jul 1, 2008 - 3:55 pm 38. drjohn:

Do you have to make a crappy movie to fall into this category or does it come naturally?

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:00 pm 39. Elroy Jetson:

These people are the most miserable group of multi-millionaires the world ahs ever seen.
Not going to see Hancock. The trailers looked awful anyway.

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:05 pm 40. dirigible:

The quote doesn’t say that Smith has been dumping on America. It says that he’s noticed that some Europeans have been dumping on America, and that some Europeans are afflicted with Obamamania. None of which is news.

But what bothers me is – Smith is a smart guy, and he’s not without talent as an entertainer.

But why are his movies so bad?

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:06 pm 41. Grace D:

Nothing new about this. I remember being in the Canadian government bldg. in Ontario during Reagan’s term.I ( small woman) nearly came to blows with a Canadian not liking Reagan because he thought WE Americans did not like him. I told him we loved him and he won by a landslide. he couldn’t believe that an American would like her own president.I told him he was getting his views from the press and it just was not the truth.Hide my face? I was held back from punching him.

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Jul 1, 2008 - 4:18 pm 43. Porkov:

Nationalism is so trite and (how can I put this politely?) old. “Would some pow’r the giftie gie us / To see ourselve as others see us.” How many people in the 21st century know that this means you’ve got a bug problem?

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:26 pm 44. Buckeye Tom:

NahnCee,

I don’t know how graceful his explanation was, however, Will Smith is from the Jeremiah Wright school of thought. He believes AIDS was invented by the U.S. government.

“At first, Smith dodges the AIDS question again, and talks about conspiracies in general. We ask him point blank if he thinks the government started AIDS, and he pauses again for a moment and looks at us.

“Yes,” he said. “Yes, I do.”

“We start to follow up, but he interrupts us. “Look, for the longest time everybody denied the Tuskegee experiments [where black men were denied treatment for syphilis by 1950s scientists to "study" the disease], then last year the President made an apology about it. Now they say the government doesn’t release the common cold on the New York subway, but how do you know? What are they going to admit in 20 years?”

http://www.well-rounded.com/movies/reviews/willsmith_intv.html

No wonder he supports Obama.

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:32 pm 45. Mike:

I don’t see what the big problem is. His statement, as relating experience abroad is completely accurate as far as it goes. He doesn’t say he was embarrassed about being American, in fact he goes out of his way a little later to make the obligatory “I love America”, but simply expresses that he personally saw the universally acknowledged Anti-Americanism that is so prevalent in many Euro circles now adays. I think he’s being a little ignorant when he implies this is a new thing: I was spit on in Greece back in ‘99 because of the “war-criminal Bill Clinton” and nearly got a beer-bottle to the throat in Ibiza that same summer for because I wasn’t sufficiently remorseful for America’s relentless “cultural imperialism”. And he’s absolutely right that you can use the name “obama” like a cross to ward of Euro vampires. It actually tempts me to vote Obama, because so many Euro elites seem to think that if the US votes in Obama, all of our differences will go away. The exact same way they did with Clinton. It didn’t change their opinion of America then and it won’t change it in November if Obama is elected.

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:37 pm 46. CDO:

Perhaps the reason he can travel and you cannot is because you are easily satisfied and he is not. Just because this country has provided the infrastructure for him to be wealthy is no reason to be satisfied with its current state of affairs. By striving to be better one excels. No surprise he has, and you have not.

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:45 pm 47. Just the facts, ma'am:

I think he was just making an observation. Europeans, for good or ill, are going gaga over Obama just like many here in the U.S. As a tourist or business traveller, I am sure it’s much more pleasant to be somewhere where people are actually talking about your country in an excited way.

Two things are at work here. One, Obama is young, good-looking, and a dynamic speaker. Two, politically he is much closer to European sensibilities than most other Democrats and Republicans. The same reason explains why I am much more excited about Sarkozy than Chirac. Younger, charismatic, and a great speaker, and oh yes, he’s much closer to my politics than your typical Frenchman.

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:48 pm 48. Porkov:

Perhaps we bear within our body politic the seeds of our own destruction. Those here who resonate to the scorn of the efete elite of Europe toward our barbaric ways clutch at our ankles from under the bus of decadence. They fail to percieve the envy that propels that scorn.

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:51 pm 49. Max:

America has been hated by communists, Nazis, thugs, and petty dictators of all kinds. As long as America is hated by the right people it isn’t a problem.

Jul 1, 2008 - 4:54 pm 50. bour3:

I’ve forfeited quite a large number of friends over this issue so it’s a bit of a sore point, but still, I see no reason to tolerate self-loathing. Everyone who honestly thinks and feels like this can just piss off as far as I’m concerned. They don’t care for our country, I automatically don’t care for them. Narrowing the field to just those in love with their country has been good on the nerves and on the blood pressure. I’m much much better off keeping so many people at arms length.

As to traveling and to foreigners, I have more patience. I will not argue or bother to counter their bad impressions. It works out more like patiently listening without facial expression then asking kindly, “Do you have anything more to say about this before you bring me my coffee?” That’s in lieu of and an improvement over, “bite me.”

Jul 1, 2008 - 5:04 pm 51. Big Daddy Matty:

Those of you defending Smith’s comments as being indicative of his take on Europeans’ opinions, rather than an expression of his own, have obviously not heard/seen/read the entire interview. Will Smith is an unabashed Obama supporter, and the statements quoted in this post were very much of the Michelle Obama “first time I’ve been proud to be an American” variety.

A transcript of the relevant portion of the interview can be found here: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2008/06/23/will-smith-obama-first-time-10-years-it-s-good-be-american

Not that I expect much from the MSM, much less Matt Lauer, but the following portion of the interview just floors me:

LAUER: Do you think people can’t get behind America led by John McCain?

SMITH: You know I just, there, there are, there are certain ideas that I believe Barack stands for that are fundamental that the forefathers of this country wrote down on paper that we’re all supposed to pay attention to, we’re not supposed to ignore it and do what we want to do ’cause we have different ideas. And I believe just at his core the, that those ideas just they, they just come of his pores. And I’m, I’m excited to support him.

Now, I’m going to guess that no one commenting here is a big-time TV journalist, but something tells me that every single one of us knows exactly what the next question should be. “What, pray tell, are those ideas, Mr. Smith?”

Lauer’s next question? “And so the question everybody gets right now, if he calls you and wants you to be his Vice President you will?”

Really, Matt? Your interviewee tosses out a provocative statement like that and you ask if he’s willing to be the veep? While I understand that the resume of a guy who’s been a rapper, sitcom star, and action hero is roughly on par with that of his preferred presidential nominee, I would think that burning question could’ve waited 30 seconds or so.

Jul 1, 2008 - 5:09 pm 52. Porkov:

Is this a tempest in a teapot dome? I’ve always figured Mr. Smith for a talented and ambitions all around good human being. I grew up with the Coz, and I put Will in the same category. Let’s face it – he’s punched out more aliens that either candidate for Prez.

Jul 1, 2008 - 5:09 pm 53. Irish Gal:

Like I’ve always said, there is a one way traffic jam and it isn’t going out of this great country. Gee, any connection between his loud mouth and low movie viewership. Take that one to the bank Mr. Smith. It’s better to have a black man as President that is a liar, story maker upper, with terrorist friends (and I don’t mean muslims), and sleaze bag real estate deals than a honest man of principle that you just may completely disagree with.

Jul 1, 2008 - 5:17 pm 54. Fool Intollerant:

So really, Will is just a Euro boot licking panzy who is afraid to stand up for his country. Or maybe he agrees with the reasons these people give for their irrational hatred.

So what is it Mr Smith? Are you ashamed of your country or do YOU share these deranged views?

It’s sad. Its just getting so hard to enjoy a movie these days without having to look at one of these clowns.

Jul 1, 2008 - 5:32 pm 55. Helen:

Can anyone think of an anybody in Hollywood who has a brain? Will Smith is just the latest ’star’ to prove that Hollywoodites are part of a moronic Borg collective. Happily for thinking folks, resistance is not futile.

Jul 1, 2008 - 5:51 pm 56. Tantor:

Was Will Smith, at any time during his trip, skyjacked by Muslim fanatics and smashed into a skyscraper?

Just asking.

Jul 1, 2008 - 6:05 pm 57. Roark:

Will Smith=douchebag of the year.

Jul 1, 2008 - 6:14 pm 58. Kelly:

My 18 year old daughter and I were just talking today about how much we like Will Smith and look forward to his new movie. My daughter commented that she had never heard him say anything political and though she figured he would support Obama, he didn’t find it necessary to spew…I mean share…his political views. Sadly we were wrong.

Jul 1, 2008 - 6:18 pm 59. AemJeff:

Get over it. He didn’t “trash America.” He trashed George Bush. And, like it or not, that’s his right. And THAT is what’s great about America.

Jul 1, 2008 - 6:26 pm 60. 357:

I am hearing Joe Cocker in my mind, singing Cry Me a River. Sometimes you should judge how you’re doing by the people who do not like you. If a great deal of Eurotrash and the MSM and libtards (but I repeat myself) don’t like you, you’re probably doing something right.

Like Will Smith used to, before he Dixie Chicked his career. I wonder who he will blame this on? Certainly not the guy he shaves every morning while looking in the mirror.

Jul 1, 2008 - 6:28 pm 61. monkeyfan:

What the hell is it about friggin’ celebrity that rots the brain with such crushing regularity?

- Is it the hookers and drugs?
- Something in the pool water?
- Being above the common law?
- Small dog saliva?
- Shameless groupies?
- Psychiatrists angling for job security?
- Some tragic casting couch accident?
- Botox toxicity?
- Lack of community standards?
- Wildfire smoke inhalation maybe?
- Prolonged distance from the necessity of working one’s butt off to put tuna casserole on the table?
- Lack of a productive vocation?
- Maybe it comes from being surrounded by brown-nosed vultures (AKA: Posse) hoping some unearned respect and/or cash rubs off?
- Fear of ostracism for daring to recognize and articulate a patriotic appreciation for the country that afforded them the opportunity to be a *star*?
- The spiritual emptiness of their lives perhaps?
- Full-on guilt for all of the above?

Every one of them seems to think they are so unique and special yet they all eventually fall into the same moral flailing and narrow bias.

No wonder there are so many Zombie movies.

Shut up and rap badly already!

Jul 1, 2008 - 6:33 pm 62. michaelg:

I think Smith simply expressed himself — what’s the word? Ah yes — “inartfully.” He was saying that for the first time, Europeans didn’t hassle him over his nationality.

Of course I may be giving him too much credit.

Jul 1, 2008 - 6:37 pm 63. barb:

ditto on liberals curing themselves by living for a year in a 3rd world country. Try Russia ..I did and made me see clearly the problems with liberalism. They live in a fantasy world they try to create by believing certain things. Then if they could ONLY get the rest of us to do what they want..it would become their world. Its all messed up that is for sure.
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Jul 1, 2008 - 6:54 pm 64. usmcret:

Wow, poor Will Smith. He and the other Hollywood neanderthals are so upset that the Europeans don’t like us. That’s understandable. They have never forgiven us for twice in less than 35 years saving them from themselves in WWWI and from the likes of Hitler and Mussolini in WWII. Yes, the Europeans are so sophisticated—they gave the world, fascism, nazism, communism and socialism. All great political philosophies. Will Smith ought to get his head out of his rectal orifice and stuck to making lousy movies.

Semper Fi

Jul 1, 2008 - 7:11 pm 65. LYNNDH:

Will, what a shame. I always liked his movies. But now there is another actor that I will not pay money to see. Words have consequences.

Jul 1, 2008 - 7:18 pm 66. Jbl:

A few years back Will Smith was talking about how he might like to run for president some day. I wonder how easy a job he thinks it is?

I don’t need to see Will Smith movies.

Jul 1, 2008 - 7:20 pm 67. Movie Goer:

Try to imagine the 4th of July without a Will Smith movie. Yes, I can do that.

Jul 1, 2008 - 7:22 pm 68. Ellen K:

I remember when celebrities weren’t held in such high esteem. Now it seems that the opinions of relatively uneducated and overpaid athletes, celebrities and performers hold sway over much of the population. Many of these folks never even graduated from high school, much less college. Yet the media holds them in awe. I will be so happy when these idiots start having to pay the same rates of taxes as we do and realize that they will have to pay a chunk of change for “free” healthcare. As for Will Smith, he’s entertaining and that’s all. He’s not my guru.

Jul 1, 2008 - 8:38 pm 69. stop it:

I find it hard to believe most people on here. While everyone is talking about these ‘elite’ hollywood actors, I think they fail to realize that even most of our presidents and presidential candidates come from wealthy families. Don’t believe me? George W. Bush has a net worth of around $15 million. McCain about the same, and John Kerry having a net worth well over $200, maybe even up to $600 million. Although, Obama has only around $1 million in assets. The fact that Will Smith is wealthy does not immediately disallow him the right to express his feelings. Money did not just come to him, he had to work his butt off to earn that money especially in his early career. So please stop saying that he is some sort of mindless shell of a person that has no ability to produce his own thoughts (Although I do believe that many hollywood actors lack a 3-digit IQ, just like many opinionated people all over the world). Also, why does everyone believe that they cannot listen to anyone who has ill-feelings towards his/her country? Like it’s a sin to have some doubt in our country’s actions. They have that right to free speech just as much as any marine speaking words of semper fi. Throw up the argument, if you want, that they are the ones who protect our rights. That’s fine, but I will not support a war that I do not agree with, like it or not, that’s my right as a hard-working, tax paying citizen. Genocide in the Middle East? Think about Native-Americans. Who tells us to own up to our own actions? Do you think Iraq could say to us “hey should you guys be doing that?” Or course not, but of course we can say to them “hey should you guys be doing that?” If people think that we have a perfect system, or a system better than all others, there is a blind arrogance present that is not something to be proud of. I’m not trying to make fun of put down anyone (with the exception of Pariz Hilton), just want people to see that there are at least two sides to every argument.

Jul 1, 2008 - 9:10 pm 70. Kim:

That poor black man.

Jul 1, 2008 - 9:47 pm 71. Thomass:

GB:

“I look forward to the day when Americans stop caring what Europeans think about us.”

I care what the non bashers think. If they have a complaint I’ll listen. Then again, they listen when we have a response… like, umm, give people in gitmo trials. Uh, we’re working on it, have to wait until a couple court cases are over to decide how to handle them. Then everyone says ‘ok’ and is over it.

Jul 1, 2008 - 10:34 pm 72. tortillapete:

I’m white and I hate myself – go Obama!

Jul 1, 2008 - 11:07 pm 73. David:

As a Brit tell those Euro trash to put their money where their mouth is, like perhaps you should take in those people from Gitmo, then we will see them back of like the spineless cowards they are.

Thank you George W Bush, thank you America, or at least that 52% of Americans who are real Americans. Yes Bush has made mistakes, but I think that he has done very well, I would much prefer to have Bush as President rather than those elite Europe anti-democratic leaders we have.

And for the person who thinks Sarkozy is great, do you want him, he is an autocratic jerk of the first order, however he is the best out of a seriously bad lot. If I could have Geert Wilfers as preseident I would be happy.

As for Will Smith, Hollywood is controlled by Dems, he has to walk a line between getting work and also being watched, nasty, would not want to wish that on anyone.

Jul 2, 2008 - 12:23 am 74. Robert:

Hasn’t been proud in five to ten years?

That’s strange, cause it’s been five to ten years since he last released a decent movie.

Vote Obama, so Will Smith can stop making sh*tty movies.

Jul 2, 2008 - 1:57 am 75. Andrew Lale:

We don’t have thanksgiving here in the UK. But I understand why Americans do. They have an enormous amount to be Thankful for. Apart from Will Smith obviously, who has had such a hard life and who has been the beneficiary of nothing from America. Poor guy. I may be the only Englishman to love Bush, and I don’t mind saying so wherever I am. Tony Blair was loathed here right up until he left, and now people want him back! The same will be true of President Bush, I’ll wager.

Jul 2, 2008 - 5:33 am 76. Boris:

Ugh. another stupid PJM article.

Smith is clearly talking about attitudes toward Americans in other countries and how this has changed with the rise of Barack Obama.

Can you people actually listen to what people say rather than trying to make what they say fit in with one of your paranoid biases?

Jul 2, 2008 - 5:40 am 77. Jake:

I think it’s ironic that everyone here is like “Why should he care what Europeans think!?!?!?” when you all seem to care very deeply in what Will Smith thinks.

Relax?

Jul 2, 2008 - 5:53 am 78. Jim:

Since 1990, I have had 47 business trips to Europe and Africa. I have never experienced a problem with anyone or have I been made to feel uncomfortable due to being an American. I have found if you treat people with respect and kindness you will receive the same in kind.

Are you listening Will?

Jul 2, 2008 - 5:57 am 79. syn:

Mugabee: The Slaughter.

Nothing more can be said about Will Smith’s willfull blindness.

Jul 2, 2008 - 6:30 am 80. Heather:

Helen:
Can anyone think of an anybody in Hollywood who has a brain?

Patricia Heaton. Kelsey Grammer. Bruce Willis. Drew Carey.

OK, it’s a short list off the cuff, but there have to be one or two more…

Jul 2, 2008 - 6:48 am 81. Bill in New York:

Since his fresh prince days, I always thought he was an obnoxious and arrogant. Never quite understood the popularity myself, but hey, everyone has an opinion, right? Chalk him up to one more empty headed liberal in Hollywood I will never spend a dime to see on the big screen. But after seeing this, I’ll never even waste my time watching a free tv re-run of one of his movies. No surprise he’s in Obama’s camp at all.

Jul 2, 2008 - 6:50 am 82. CJ Casey:

I lived in Italy from ‘99 to ‘03 and Japan from ‘03 to ‘06. Not counting the efforts of a very few local dorks (which every country has), I found that the closer I got to the local culture (and the better I became at speaking the language) the less I felt like anyone was being ‘anti-American.’ Without fail, my American friends who felt that there was a lot of anti-American sentiment were the ones who had little (if anything) to do with the locals. When I read of celebrity Americans who say that Europe hates the US I wonder (a) which ‘Europe’ are they in, since it’s definitely not the one that bought me free food after the towers fell, or bought me drinks and practiced their English with me even as the Iraq war was heating up, and (b) how nice are they to confused tourists and travelers from other countries?

Jul 2, 2008 - 6:54 am 83. icrutchfield:

I am a german citizen; living here in the USA about 25 yrs off and on. My husband is now retired from the US Army.
So, yes, I travelled quite a bit myself. I is disgusting to hear these bafoons to trash this country, which I call my home, regardless of citizenship.
My parents were victims of the ‘hitler regime’, and it wasn’t pretty. They are no longer alive (never making it far after the war ended, and physycological reason caused them to die), I appreciate this country more than anything I’ve ever loved, other than my family.
If these morons had any clue, what it was like, they would worship their country, and the many blessigs given, rather than tearing it down.
Histroy will be kind to Pres. Bush, the hollywood morons have to live with that. Shame of Smith!

Jul 2, 2008 - 6:54 am 84. Hmm:

What I don´t understand, though, is why you guys are so obsessed with whether this guy is proud of being an American or not. To the extent that you would boycott his movies over it. Perhaps it´s about time with a new Un-American Activities Committee? And blacklist? Would make the job easier for the consumers, you know….
And all this because he talks crap about the most un-popular president in American history….well, well.

Jul 2, 2008 - 7:39 am 85. House of Eratosthenes:

[...] is Will Smith earning a eulogy full of awkward, empty bromides? He certainly seems to be trying to. The lad is younger than me, stronger than me, looks much better than most of us and who [...]

Jul 2, 2008 - 7:50 am 86. Lynn:

Hmmm: ” And all this because he talks crap about the most un-popular president in American history….well, well.”

That’s what makes me laugh about people who hate President Bush. He’s soooooooo unpopular, in fact the most unpopular president in American history! The whole world hates him! Even our enemies! That’s what we like about Obama: He’s soooooo popular. Everone loves him! Even our enemies!

Jul 2, 2008 - 8:12 am 87. Hmm:

Well, I don´t hate Bush….not the least bit. How he conducts his job is really more interesting to me than popularity contests. But the fact that Bush is pretty unpopular in the states as well as abroad, makes me ask why this is such a big deal….

Jul 2, 2008 - 8:33 am 88. MethodtoMadness:

Holy cow. You guys are going to boycott Will Smith’s movies because he acknowledged Anti-American sentiment in Europe? Really? He’s not saying he’s not proud to be from the US, he’s not saying he agrees with the sentiment, he’s just acknowledging it exsists. Which it does. Duh.

Not to mention the fact that there’s a big difference between being a proud American and agreeing with everything that our leadership does. Calling every opinion you don’t agree with “Anti-American” is not intellectually honest in any way. When Obama becomes president (or McCain — ha!), something tells me that many on this board will not like everything he does. Will that mean that you are America-haters? Of course not! Why would you think that of those of us who have a big problem with GWB? (Um…like 70% of the population of the US).

Jul 2, 2008 - 9:49 am 89. Cindy Sue Causey:

You said: “I too know the burdens of exotic travel: I just came back from a whirlwind trip to the next town over, where I got the window in my car fixed at the dealership.”

That was very, very funny.. Welcome to my Life.. I’d drive to the next town, too, if I could afford to fix my car to be able to do so..

Cyber hugs from Talking Rock..

PS.. *WHY* does our country pay actors sooo much money and yet endlessly fight tooth and nail when it comes to providing a reasonable pay base, let alone giving raises, to the service men and women who keep us safe..?

And I’m not just talking about the military.. I’m talking about our fire and law enforcement departments, too, among untold others…….

Jul 2, 2008 - 10:12 am 90. Sandra M:

I remember reading some time ago that Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett (who shares Princess Ticked-Off’s rancorousness) were moving to South Africa.

These celebrities constantly get our hopes up that they’re leaving and then, they don’t. Promises, promises.

Perhaps, after Obama loses, they will go. And good riddance.

Jul 2, 2008 - 11:47 am 91. NoThanks:

I think Pam may have taken the comments out of text. Will may have been talking about the reception of American travelers and how it appears to him as though it has changed for the better since Obamma got the nomination. From what I have seen/heard, Will Smith is not one of those people who tosses stupid comments around.

Jul 2, 2008 - 12:17 pm 92. Lynn:

MethodtoMadness: Why would you think that of those of us who have a big problem with GWB? (Um…like 70% of the population of the US).

Are you kinda like saying that GWB is soooooo unpopular. Hmm and Um it’s soooooo kool how you both can say the same thing but in different ways.

Jul 2, 2008 - 1:01 pm 93. MethodtoMadness:

Lynn — I’m not “kinda like” saying anything. I’m saying that disliking the actions taken by a leader does not mean a person doesn’t love their country. Perhaps there are REASONS he is “soooooooooo” unpopular. This isn’t high school here, and I’m not worried about the wrong brand of jeans or acne. He has worse approval ratings than Nixon ever did, meaning that huge swaths of the population have serious issues with how he’s running the country. If that makes you laugh, you must have a sore tummy and the hiccups by now.

Jul 2, 2008 - 1:24 pm 94. Dave Surls:

‘“We start to follow up, but he interrupts us. “Look, for the longest time everybody denied the Tuskegee experiments [where black men were denied treatment for syphilis by 1950s scientists to “study” the disease]‘

Actually, Willie, they were denied medical treatment, and essentially murdered in cold blood, by the liberal Democrats…the same pack of rascals you’re now whoring for.

The use of American citizens for Nazi-like medical research by the scum in the Roosevelt administration is one of the umpteem zillion reasons why I will NEVER vote for a Democrat.

Of course, Willie’s new hero wants to put us into the same situation the victims of the Tuskegee “experiment” were in, i.e. he wants to make us totally dependent on a government, run by liberal Democrats, for our medical care.

Will Smith is an idiot.

Jul 2, 2008 - 1:47 pm 95. Lynn:

MethodtoMadness: “If that makes you laugh, you must have a sore tummy and the hiccups by now.”

Congraulations you have just managed to say the same thing again but in another way! A really low approval rating by huge swaths of the population! Worse than Nixon!

Noooooo not a sore tummy or the hiccups Madness but I might have added some years to my life. Thanks for the laughs.

Jul 2, 2008 - 2:31 pm 96. Arnold:

Dave Surls
“The use of American citizens for Nazi-like medical research by the scum in the Roosevelt administration is one of the umpteem zillion reasons why I will NEVER vote for a Democrat.”

Dave, you might want to check your facts before you spew your hate. The Tuskeegee Experiment was authorized and begun in 1932, under the Republican administration of Herbert Hoover. It was ended, over the Nixon administration’s continuing objections in 1972, after the Washington Star broke the story. The first official US apology and acknowledgement that the experiment was wrong didn’t take place until the Clinton administration did so in 1997. It’s not surprising that the intervening Presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, either didn’t know about, or didn’t take action on, a medical project within the NIH in Macon Georgia, affecting some 400 patients. I don’t fault Eisenhauer anymore than I fault Roosevelt. The two I do fault are Hoover, whose administatiion approved it, and Nixon, who should have immediately recognized it as evil when it became public and closed it down. Those weren’t Democrats.

Jul 2, 2008 - 3:19 pm 97. Dave Surls:

“Dave, you might want to check your facts before you spew your hate.”

Everything I said is 100% true. The Hoover administration didn’t deny medical treatment to people, the Roosevelt administration did.

Check your own facts.

Jul 2, 2008 - 3:59 pm 98. Gerry:

I’d just thought to my self, ‘who the hell is Will Smith’. His photo didn’t look familiar. Then I thought to look over the cast of “I Robot”, which I watched last night. Really bad acting, I’d thought, not really up to Azimov standards. Lots of films like that.
So Smith can’t act – outside of male shoot-em-up/action movies. And now I find that he’s maybe crapping on his American birthright and upbringing (if ‘upbringing’ is the correct term here.
Smith may be a kind of Stokely Carmichael kind of guy. Which is alright, as long as he, like Stokely, moved to one of the African Marxist countries and answered the phone with, “Ready for the Revolution”. Don’t think he’ll do that. No real guts for the big conflicts of this time. Like Stokely. Coward.
He is, after all, an actor, and actors are notorious for their creepy insanities. Most of them are crazed (even the ones you ‘like’).
He could always run for Governor of California.

Jul 2, 2008 - 4:05 pm 99. Dave Surls:

“In 1933, the U.S Public Health Service in Macon county, Albama began an investigation to chart the succession of phases syphilis exhibits when left to itself, uncomplicated by other morbid processes and unmolested by active treatment. 399 African-American men with latent syphilis and 201 men without disease were enrolled in the study based on the results of a 1930 venereal diseases control projects survey. This survey had identified Macon County to have the highest prevalance of syphilis of the six southern States examined. The rural setting of Tuskegee – a deprived socioeconomic status,high rates of illiteracy and especially a paucity of medical care – were exploited by the investigators of the syphilis study who led the poor sharecroppers to believe they were being treated for “bad blood,” a euphemism for syphilis. The study, which lasted for 40 years included only sporadic clinical reexaminations when a Public Health physician came to Tuskegee and denied the individuals any form of anti-syphilitic therapy. In fact, in 1942 when it was brought to the attention of the then Assistant Surgeon General, Vonderlehr that some of the syphilitic subjects were being called for examination prior to induction into the Armed Forces and were being directed to undergo treatment systematic steps were taken to preserve the investigation. To prevent the draftees from receiving anti-syphilitic treatment, the investigators provided the Macon County Selective Service Board with a list of 256 names of men under the age of 45 years who were to be excluded from the list of draftees needing treatment. The Board agreed to exclude these men. Furthermore, when the modern-era of anti-syphilitc therapy began in 1943 with the introduction of penicillin as an effective drug, the Public Health Service did not use the drug on the Tuskegee participants unless they asked for it.”

It was the Roosevelt administration that DELIBERATELY denied American citizens medical care, causing the deaths of numerous “subjects” in the Tuskegee Experiment. And, what they did, my friends, is cold-blooded murder.

“By the time the study was exposed in 1972, and ended on November 16th of the same year…”

And, it was the Nixon administration that shut the experiment down.

http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_160/Projects2000/Ethics/TUSKEGEESYPHILISSTUDY.html

And now, the liberal Democrats are demanding that we ALL accept government mandated/provided health care, and half the idiots in this country are ready to go for it.

Madness.

Jul 2, 2008 - 4:42 pm 100. Mike Boyce:

Will Smith, Susan Sarandon, Barbara Steisand…and on and on….silly people, one and all. I once again plead with them all to kindly pack their bags (along with the whole entertainment industry) and depart this wonderful country post-haste. I don’t like you and I honestly don’t think you like yourselves. They only thing you like about America is that you became “rich and famous” but you would be the last ones to admit that only in America could you have become the spoiled fools that you are. Please, these other “enlightened” countries have a cesspool history of offenses against humankind and are unable to fend for themselves in this world of ours. Obviously, with their proud histories of Nazism, Communism, anti-semetism, bankrupt government medicare systems and American envyism they are the role models America should aspire to. You are so blatantly silly that in your narcicistic state of mind you can’t see yourselves for what you truly are…..useless play actors who have done little to nothing to honestly advance this country in any way, shape or form. Please, Mr. Smith, come out and admit what you are. An anti-American plain and simple. Please give me one poorly paid U.S. Marine who has served and sacrificed for this country over all the play-actors that California and New York can generate. You truly belong in France…the wishy-washy cowards that they are. Mr. Smith, if you were typical of the tens of thousands of Americans who have fought to liberate France, they would still be under the Nazi jackboot and you would be drinking wine with the German Generals on the Riviera still whining about how embarrased you are about America. Go..we don’t want you

Jul 2, 2008 - 4:45 pm 101. Dominique:

Wow come on now, your a really lame to say that. Bush sucks butt bottom line he is ruining our economy with a smile on his face hell its not a good thing to be an american shoot. Yea i said it. I mean dang is it that deep? I would be be the same way too, but that doesnt mean at the same time I dont like America.

Jul 2, 2008 - 6:15 pm 102. Dominique:

All you people that turned on Will just because of his own opinion seriously needs to get a fucking life. I thought… no I’m pretty damn sure that “Freedom of Speech” is one of the amendments. He has the right without all of yall taking so seriously and all of sudden Will Smith sucks wow, seriously get a life. What does his opinions have to do with his movies and acting, losers.

Jul 2, 2008 - 6:38 pm 103. Lynn:

It’s not a good thing to be American, but I like America
I support the troops, but not the war.
I have nothing against Americans, but just the government.
We like the American people, but not their foreign policy.
Bush sucks butt bottom.
Bush is unpopular.
Bush has a low approval rating.
Americans are going in the wrong direction.
Bush is ruining our economy.
We’re sorry world (book available).
Countdown to November (calendar available).
Will you like us again?
Will you support us again?
Will you not attack us again?
Will our economy improve?
Will the oceans recede?
Will the earth cool down?
Will you really, really, really love us again if we elect the right person?
Promise?
OK.

Jul 3, 2008 - 5:56 am 104. reader2551:

If he feels ashamed of his country and president why does he stay in the country he is ashamed of. He should renounce his ctitzenship and relocate to Iran. I sure he would be proud of the way the citizens are treated there. Good thing about being a proud American is that I have a choice of which movies I choose to see. His movies will not be seen by this American again. Freedom of Choice rules!

Shame on Will Smith.

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Jul 3, 2008 - 9:48 am 106. MethodtoMadness:

Lynn –
You seem rather disturbed. What, exactly, is your point? “sooooooo unpopular! Haaaaahaaahahahahahahaha!!!!!”

Huh?

I can think of a few ways it’s funny, most having to do with I-told-you-so feelings, but somehow I don’t think they’re the same reasons you have. Is it funny because you think the statement is wrong? Or that we shouldn’t care? Or you’re really fond of nitrous?

Jul 3, 2008 - 11:02 am 107. Tally:

I feellike the on.y reason you were steamed is because you are an alabaster women. If you were a women of color I think that your opinion about being amerikan would change just a lil!!!

Jul 3, 2008 - 12:27 pm 108. Tally:

Seriously I have read most of the comments that have been made on this article and .i have to sadly say that most of the individuals makin these statments are alabaster,european,white or as you guys like to hear Caucasian Most of you are americanized to the point of stupidity. Look at your american history and you are proud of that. Our president continues to ignore major issues and concerns here and most of you, want to get on a black man who cares less about his president because he care less about his country. Before another white person makes a comment please think before you write and if you have something personal to say about this email, please feel free to email me so i can educate your slow ass hollablack(under score)24@hotmail.com anytime people

Jul 3, 2008 - 12:39 pm 109. Dave Surls:

“so i can educate your slow ass”

You might want to learn how to spell, punctuate and capitalize before you go into the education business.

Jul 3, 2008 - 3:20 pm 110. Whammo:

If Will Smith had any credibility he would be ashamed to be black, what with all the gang bangers as role models and blatant racism against whites these days.

Jul 3, 2008 - 9:20 pm 111. Sheila:

“What does his opinions have to do with his movies and acting, losers.”

Dominique you hit the nail on the head – he’s just an actor. What gives him the right, together with the rest of the Hollywood elite, to think that his opinions are worth a damn. Why why why can’t these silly people just do the job they are paid to do and stop trying to influence other susceptible dunces.

Dave Surls – Let’s give the benefit of the doubt. maybe Tally isn’t as stupid/uneducated as his grammar implies. Perhaps he’s the next (James) Joyce swiftly on his way to creating another Ulysses – no punctuation, rambling, everending paragraphs of (frankly) rubbish. It’s just a thought….

Jul 4, 2008 - 4:58 am 112. m in Boston:

Has Will Smith paid his taxes ??

Jul 4, 2008 - 8:54 am 113. dpw:

as far as “hollywood” pronouncements on usa position if world, not much creativity coming forht from jet set. but hey, what can you expect from a group of people who’s formal education in world affairs ended with high school civics class and who , like lemmings, form their opinions from conversations with one another, listening to the “view” and “comedy central ” and reading the huffington post

Jul 4, 2008 - 12:38 pm 114. Gary Ogletree:

A while back Will went to South Africa and expressed outrage that no one had ever told him there were skyscrapers there. Most likely he was victimized by a conspiracy to prevent poor Will from going to the library.

Jul 5, 2008 - 5:40 am 115. loic dincuff:

what to say , could not even read the comment till the end here are the people that makes america look stupid and nasty ,am 30 years old and have been travelling for the last 10 years,by the time of 09/11THE WORLD WAS WITH YOU BUT FROM VICTIMS YOU TURNED AGRESSORand since everywhere hav been people hav been looking to american with disgust . GOT TO GO BUT WILL BE BACK TO EXPLAIN YOU SOME SIMPLE TRUTH

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Jul 12, 2008 - 5:15 pm 118. Fred:

Thanks for reading this article though I am not an American but I think I am more patrotic to the state than the born Americans thm salves…for once I have never been there but Love the people and the starts for reasons that they make the country to always maitian her gretness and they make the USA a dream land to every body in the world. Why only among the American they can not praise those who are making the country to look gret but instead looking at the list error they’ll do to critisis them…that brings the moral of the USA down please try to repesct and keep the US flg to flicker 24 hours…I am a Cameroonian never been to the states but always will Love the Americans i will be back for detail.

Oct 4, 2008 - 2:12 am 119. Mauna loa:

Why does the Advocate magazine just love Will Smith. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I’m just saying?

Jul 2, 2009 - 9:03 am 120. Muttley:

Will Smith – whose life has shown exactly what America’s promise is, is embarrassed of it? Got a tip for you Will, move your a$$ to Europe and peddle your cinematic tripe to the Europeans you have such respect for. Don’t like it here amongst the unwashed Americans who pay all your stinking bills, Will? Then get the @#$^ OUT! I wish more Hollywooders would move to Europe like Paltrow and keep their “ashamed ex-American” faces off our cinema screens.

Jul 2, 2009 - 1:23 pm

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