The feud between Aaron Rodgers and Jimmy Kimmel seems tame compared to the feud between Stephen A. Smith and Jason Whitlock.
The ESPN “First Take” member spent 40 minutes on Wednesday's “Stephen A. Smith Show” to air his grievances with Whitlock, who recently questioned claims in Smith's memoir. He uttered merciless abuse.
Whitlock criticized Smith's book, “Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes,'' saying that Smith lied and exaggerated, including about his basketball career. ESPN personality Stephen A. Myss goes so far as to call him a “myth”.
In response, Smith launched into a violent tirade against Whitlock, including numerous expletives.
He also told a number of behind-the-scenes stories, eviscerating Whitlock, who has worked at ESPN twice and now works at Blaze Media, as someone who builds bridges everywhere he goes.
Before his rant, Smith said he called his pastor and emailed his superiors at ESPN asking for forgiveness in advance.
Warning: Explicit language
“I mean it with all my heart when I say this is the worst human being I've ever known,” Smith said. “I don't know anyone worse than Jason Whitlock. He's just the st. He's going to have a funeral, but he's not going to be a casket bearer.”
Smith called Whitlock a “fat bastard” multiple times during the episode, claiming that Whitlock was targeting him because he was jealous of Smith's accomplishments.
The longtime ESPN personality defended the high school and college basketball eligibility mentioned in the book amid previous criticism. Reminds me of a 2015 Deadspin article by Greg Howard The article covered Whitlock's time with The Undefeated on ESPN, now known as Andscape.
“Did you tell them that while you were spouting that bull to people on Blaze TV? You were standing outside 'First Take' begging me to talk to you.” Did you tell them?'' Smith said. “Did you tell them that after the same article appeared in Deadspin, you wrote me a long apology email asking for forgiveness a few weeks later?” Because you pointed out how you felt betrayed by this particular writer. , do you know how I must feel that you betrayed me? Have you told people that? Bitch. Did you tell them? This fat guy. ”
Jemele Hill, a former colleague at ESPN and now a journalist at The Atlantic, said she agrees with Smith.
“Stephen A. Smith told the truth.” she said in x. “Ole Boy tried to recruit us into the Undefeated movement at the time, but we didn't want to work with him.”
But perhaps one of Smith's most surprising comments was when he called Whitlock a person “worse than a white supremacist.”
“What he's doing is he's someone who puts himself in front of white people. White people, not all white people, not most white people, but dare I say white people might have a problem with black people. “Hmm,” Smith said.
“He says, 'I'm your man.' That's what he's doing. Do you think I'm lying? Ask ESPN. Ask Fox. Kansas. Ask The City star. Ask everyone. As a Black person, knowing our history, I couldn't imagine anything worse than white supremacists. That was until Jason Whitlock came along. He's worse than them. He's the worst, meanest, lying, no-good, fat person I've ever known in my life.”
Smith also added that his ESPN contract stipulates he will never work with Whitlock.
After the rant went viral, Whitlock called out X.
“I knew Stephen A had limits. I didn't know he had such limits. I'm starting to feel sorry for him. He beat the baby seal,” he said. I wrote it in a post.
