Stephen A. Smith vowed that he’d “finally” communicate his thoughts on Jason Whitlock earlier than a wild, roughly 40-minute rant concerning the conservative commentator, who he known as a “bastard … worth less than a damn cockroach” on Wednesday.
The ESPN persona slammed his former colleague on the “Stephen A. Smith Show” podcast Wednesday after Whitlock, who now hosts a present on right-wing community BlazeTV, questioned the factual accuracy of Smith’s memoir, “Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes” on this system and in a column.
Smith, who has stood by his ebook and brought jabs at Whitlock just lately, stated he gave ESPN a heads-up about his remarks and requested his pastor “for his forgiveness and understanding” earlier than he went after Whitlock.
The ESPN star, who claimed that the BlazeTV host has “napalmed” bridges as an alternative of burning them, stated he was unsuitable for calling Whitlock a “roach.”
Smith stated, “Because that’s not my name for him. My name for Jason Whitlock is religiously Cain: C-A–I–N.”
He added, “There is nothing good about him, absolutely nothing and I challenge anybody that knows anything about him to refute what I’m saying.”
Smith, who famous that he stated “absolutely nothing” about Whitlock earlier than he made a “bastard” dig just a few months in the past, referenced a 2015 Deadspin article that described quite a few ESPN stars not eager to work with their then-colleague.
“While you were on BlazeTV, spewing that bullshit to people, did you tell ’em that? Did you tell ’em how you stood outside of ‘First Take’ begging me to talk to you?” Smith stated. “Did you tell them that once this same article in Deadspin came out, weeks later, you wrote a lengthy apology to me in an email begging me to forgive you? Pointing out how you were betrayed by this particular writer so you know how I must feel that you betrayed me? Did you tell the folks that? You bitch. Did you tell ’em? You fat piece of shit.”
Smith, later in his rant, added that he – as a Black man – can’t think about “anything worse than a white supremacist.”
“That is until Jason Whitlock came along. He’s worse than them,” stated Smith of the BlazeTV host, who has entertained conspiracy theories akin to Michelle Obama being a transgender girl and stated, “Not everybody has to have a vote” after discussing the ladies’s suffrage motion.
Whitlock, in response to the rant, wrote on X (previously Twitter) that Smith made a “fool of himself” and he didn’t know that the ESPN star “was this limited.”
