JDL Backs Off Will Smith: ADL Backs Him Up

It looks like the JDL has backed down from boycotting Will Smith's movies. The JDL in anattempt to save face said it accepted Will Smith's apology. They were referring to the statement he made after the Scottish newspaper article was published. The problem of course is he never apologized and they know it. The ADL is backing Will Smith and agree that his words were certainly twisted to sensationalize the story.

JDL Goes After Will Smith

The JDL is slamming Will Smith after comments he made stating "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." The JDL has condemned his remarks as "ignorant, detestable and offensive" and urged theaters to pull Mr. Smith's new movie, I Am Legend. As you can imagine this is not the kind of PR Mr. Smith was looking for as he released his latest big hit film. He was angered by what he felt was a misinterpretation of his words:

"It is an awful and disgusting lie," Smith said in a statement Monday provided by his publicist. "It speaks to the dangerous power of an ignorant person with a pen. I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such ludicrous misinterpretation.""Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet," read the statement.