{"id":36261,"date":"2022-03-28T20:24:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=36261"},"modified":"2022-03-28T20:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:24:44","slug":"briefly-why-do-you-care-about-tiff-between-chris-rock-and-will-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=36261","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Why do you care about tiff between Chris Rock and Will Smith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Chris-Rock-and-Will-Smith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36262\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Chris-Rock-and-Will-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Chris-Rock-and-Will-Smith.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Chris-Rock-and-Will-Smith-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Chris-Rock-and-Will-Smith-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a live awards show Sunday night, one man made a joke about a female celebrity. The husband of the celebrity was offended and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/28\/entertainment\/will-smith-apology\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit the man<\/a> who made the joke. Or maybe it was staged for entertainment. Who knows? Who cares? Social media is full of discussion \u2014 and even arguments \u2014 about this idiocy today. This baffles me. Let\u2019s assume for a moment that the event happened as reported. People have been having such idiotic fights ever since there have been humans. Half the bars in the world see such brief dustups regularly. It simply doesn\u2019t matter. The fact that so many people believe they need to talk about this \u2014 or even need to have opinions about it \u2014 is more evidence of the bizarre media brainwashing that convinces many to care passionately about brain-dead trivia. Your life will be happier and saner if you focus on yourself, your family and your friends, not on whatever scripted (or spontaneous) bilge that the media wants to pipe into your home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a live awards show Sunday night, one man made a joke about a female celebrity. The husband of the celebrity was offended and hit the man who made the joke. Or maybe it was staged for entertainment. Who knows? Who cares? 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