Almost Certainly The DUMBEST Misquote of the Year!

OK, it’s only Page Six of the NY Post, so what else would you expect, but THIS example is particularly egregious;
Will Smith: 'Hitler Was a Good Person'
By jwinter
Created 12/22/2007
http://www.pagesix.com/story/will+smith+hitler+was+good+person


"Will Smith has disappointed us in ways we could’ve never imagined.

"In an interview, the 39-year-old family man and former-all around good guy says he sees the good in everyone, including Adolf Hitler.

"Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today’. I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming,” Smith told the Daily Record. Um, yeah, except for the whole killing six million Jews thing. Will, you’ve broken our hearts.

"It’s you that needs reprogramming.”


Hey Ms. Winter, put down the pen and stick to caryons!

In the entire Will Smith quote, “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today’. I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming,” Smith NEVER uttered the word, nor even implied that Adolph Hitler was anything close to being a “good person.”

What’s more Smith DID condemn Hitler’s actions in using him as an example of the most irredeemable type of person in history and saying that Hitler’s views were based on “twisted, backwards logic.”

Indeed, Hitler fervently believed that advancing a doctrine of “racial purity” was, as Smith said, “good.”

What Jana Winter has done here, is the worst kind of misrepresentation! She’s deliberately put words in Will Smith’s mouth he did not say and deliberately (if she did it ignorantly/incompetently that would even be worse) miscast that benign quote as claiming some sort of affection on Smith’s part for one of the three worst tyrants in history!

Again, “it’s ONLY Page Six, so what would you expect?”

I don't know, but perhaps the ability to read with some basic comprehension and the ability to write?

Nah!

The worst thing about this kind of thing, once relegated to places like The National Enquirer and The Weekly World News, is that it's become a staple of the American media from the NY Times on down.