This overtook Ukraine news for Google's top news story this morning. Something wrong about that.
I mean, yeah, it's unusual for the Oscars, and I can see it headlining entertainment news, but still.
Anyway...I was cynically even more surprised that my husband sympathized more with Will Smith than Chris Rock, especially since said husband tends to distrust anyone even vaguely associated with Scientology (which, I think, is more Jada's thing than Will's, but given that he was defending her...).
I don't really sympathize with either, but if I had to explain my views, I think Rock's joke was in poor taste...but that Will can't just slap a guy in a huge public event, either. I've had many anger issues in my life, particularly in my late 20s and early 30s, but I never got to the point where I slapped anyone in public. Even the most socially discinclined usually recognize that as a big no-no, unless someone has crossed an even greater line than what Rock did last night. Many jokes can be in poor taste; they usually don't result in very public slappings.