I am starting to think the Will Smith Chris Rock thing was fake the reasons are

He has been endlessly targeted for attacks by certain posters. They stalk him across the threads.

Why even care at all about it?

No one is standing at Flagpole's keyboard with a gun at his head forcing him to write these vitriolic insults to posters who have a genuine differing opinion than Flagpole. He calls women who try to improve their lives and the lives of their kids "whores." Who does that? Answer - a really messed up person.

Based on Flagpole's replies we know he would smack someone if they said something he didn't agree with. Flagpole = Will Smith

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You are one of the stalkers. Stop insulting people and maybe the won't "insult" you. And stop posting under so many different names when you decided to insult other posters.

By the way. Why were your many registered variations of the Sally Vixen name banned? It seems you hold the all-time ban record on LRC, Plumper Sally Beltbuckle.

It's definitely a little weird - I agree that contact appears dubious at best and if you listen to the audio it does not pointing to anything that makes heavy contact (sounds more like Chris Rock bobs his way out of it) but did that sound like a slap/punch that connected? Tell you another thing - have you ever seen anyone take a real slap/whack to the face and never touch their face afterwards? It's a natural reaction to - am I bleeding? am I okay? Watch Rock - hands go right back behind his back. Very odd.

Let's assume that this is a WWE style spot and it's fake - if that's the case it's up there with the most pathetic attention seeking moments in televised history and actually a very damaging one which is why I can't possibly believe that Will Smith, who people now think is a full-fledged lunatic, would open himself up to this all to "help the Oscars". Nobody has won here - not Will Smith, not Chris Rock, not the Academy Awards, not black men - nobody, so it's illogical despite (and here is where I agree with you) it appearing as if physical contact was pretty limited at best.

I personally believe it wasn't a work and the confrontation is genuine. I think Chris Rock bobbed his head out of the way and at best took a graze across the chin. I don't think Will Smith sits down and screams out twice what he did, the way he did it with the look on his face if it's fake. I also think this is why Chris Rock didn't bother to press charges - he wasn't hurt or injured and honestly Smith looks stupid enough as it is.

Solid assessment Stitchmo, I think it was staged but I can see your points as a possibility. Is it safe to say that Will Smith needs a conservatorship?

It would be so much fun if it turned out to all be fake. But it's not really likely.

Conspiracies do happen, but they're rarely interesting. A group of business executives tacitly agreeing not to raise prices, sure. A woman calling for help outside a convenience store so that her boyfriend can empty the cash register, maybe. A bunch of people all lying about the same thing because they're all implicated. But it's rare to have this sort of elaborate conspiracy that needed impeccable planning, at least three parties with very different interests (Smith, Rock, and the Oscars), and indirect motives (even if you believe they will benefit, they weren't exactly casing a bank vault).

On the other hand, people often do act weird or irrationally. A lot of us are fishing for conspiracy theories because the incident didn't make sense. But people's actions usually don't make sense, especially not in charged scenarios. One can't deny that Smith's actions were really weird, and other people's were a bit strange too. But it turns out that this sort of "weirdness" is much more common than elaborate conspiracies, which, again, almost never happen. You could call it Occam's razor or just human life, but the world is a messy place and sometimes things happen that don't have a great explanation.

I would love to be wrong, but the chances that this was all a carefully planned conspiracy seem pretty low to me.

Sadly, much of Hollywood will love him all the more for this outburst. When he broke down in tears, acting like a man on the edge and opining about protecting his family, half of them were probably swooning with delight and admiration! I have already seen TV commentators tacitly defending his behavior. It came from a deep reservoir of pain and sensitivity, you see. And therein lies the problem! There is a vast values divide between Hollywood and the "every day folk" populating the country. Its a sad state of affairs and harkens the slow demise of a once great epicenter of the filmic arts.

A situation where a pharmaceutical company is sponsoring an event at which a high-profile attendee just so happens to have a condition for which the pharmaceutical company has recently developed a treatment, and the host of the event just happens to draw attention to the attendee's condition, and such attention is amplified by the spouse of the attendee, is nothing more than just another isolated coincidence, so move along because there is nothing to see there.

Yep, lots of suckers.

If you freeze frames, Rock actually looks right at him and braces- with hands behind back mind you- before mith hits him.

Then, unlike 99.9999 % of people being slapped in the face, his hands stay there instead of instictively touching and rubbing this burning face.

No to mention Smith's stance and the angle of his hand

These guys must think every movie is a documentary

No f*cking way.

CORRECT! Absolutely NOT fake. There are so many reasons that these two men would NEVER perpetrate a fraud like this, but beyond that, the people who think this was fake have NO powers of observation AT ALL. Morons...all of them. I have overestimated the abilities of others. Wow. I remain absolutely SHOCKED that people who know how to use a computer actually think that was fake.

I have long wondered how so many people fall for conspiracy theories and money scams. I STILL don't understand how it must feel to be that dumb, but this idiotic thread is at least showing me that there are far too many morons among us.

Saw the slap in super slo mo frame by frame, this was a feeble brush no actual anything, trust me. So some game is being played here.

What Slap-Deniers do not realize is Rock and Smith are participants in an underground Slap Club.

This public win sets Smith up for a title slap match with world champ Vasily "Dumpling" Khamotiskiy.

insider.com

A 300-pound internet star took part in a 'prison block' slapping match against a 6-foot-7 cage-fighter

Alan Dawson

Watch "Dumpling" come back with a bang, slapping an MMA fighter in a prison just months after being slapped unconscious in a recent loss.

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Some of you guys are treating this like the Zapruder Film. Perhaps a Congressional Commission could look into this. Flagpole you are possibly correct but you are stunningly arrogant and you sure were willing to die on the hill in defending Alec Baldwin when he killed someone.