Jason Whitlock calls Steve A. Smith "House Ni@@a ? who Buck Dance for Skip Bayless"
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not in those exact words but yeah......
Stephen A. Smith and ESPN think we forgot the fool-me idiom. Shame on them.
The first time was in December during a debate about LeBron James. Smith tweeted a denial. The second time was Thursday, when Smith was discussing Kobe Bryant. Smith, this time, taped a post-show denial.
I’m not going to waste a lot of time breaking down the weakness of Smith’s latest denial. He dropped the N-word. The audio and video speak for themselves. Smith’s laughable denial — saying he's from New York and sometimes speaks too "fastly" — doesn’t even attempt to explain what he said if not “n---a, please.”
Nope. The discussion today should focus on First Take, and why this particular show can’t avoid sprinkling the N-word into its discourse.
Think about it. Across the television landscape,therearehundredsof talkshows. Asbest I can tell only one show and only one host are struggling to contain their loveof theN-word whileon nationalTV. I couldbe wrong — I don’t watch everything on TV — but is there another TV talk show where a host is annually blurting out the N-word? Are Kornheiser and Wilbon struggling with this? Michael and Kelly? The cast of Around the Horn? Bill O’Reilly? The crew on Morning Joe?
Now, think about this: Stephen A. Smith has been running his mouth on TV for more than a decade. He’s good at it. He’s bright, articulate, passionate and quite informed on the NBA. I’m a Stephen A. Smith fan. I consider Smith a friend. When ESPN gave him his own talk show seven years ago, I thought Smith had a chanceto be this generation’s Howard Cosell. When Smith’s show failed, I still believed in his talents. I believed he just needed more seasoning, more knowledge of the sports world beyond the NBA.
My point is that in all of his years of television — including consistent appearances on political talk shows discussing race — there’s only one place where Smith can’t control his desire to say “n---a, please.”
Why? What’s so special about First Take?
It baits Negroes to act like n---as.
That’s the job. For years, ESPN pitted a paradeof attention-starved,mostly black stooges against Skip Bayless to legitimize and sanitize Skip’s over-the-top attacks on Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, LeBron James and all the other low-hanging black fruit Skip could reach from his debate chair. The parade of stooges failed to properly protect Bayless. You could still see he was an insecure, disingenuous version of Glenn Beck.
Enter Stephen A. Smith, desperate to re-emerge as a high-six-figures TV celebrity, desperate for his next hit from the TV ? pipe. Smith campaigned for the role of Skip’s beard.
Recognizing that its black viewers couldn’t resist Skip’s bait, ESPN doubled down, making Smith an equal partner in the show and re-imagining First Take as the black barbershop of sports talk. The rap-music bumpers, the black, eye-candy female host, the guest appearances by rappers and Smith are all an attempt to make Skip’s ? -baiting palatable, marketable and justifiable.
The show has been dumbed down and ghetto-ized. An environment has been created that entices Smith and others to bojangle and stoop to Bayless’level of discourse. Terrell Suggs was celebrated for coming on the show and calling Bayless a “? .”
Do not misconstrue my main point. In my opinion, Skip Bayless is not the bad guy. He is what he is. He’s never hid it. He will unfairly climb the back of any athlete — regardless of color — to compensate for his personal demons and insecurities. Bayless exposed himself decades ago when he groundlessly suggested a white, high-profile NFL quarterback was ? .
No. Stephen A. Smith is the villain in this scenario. Smith has enormous broadcasting talent. Dancing for Bayless is beneath Smith. He also has the intellect to see how ESPN and Bayless are using him. Smith could be the Adam Schefter/Chris Mortensen of the NBA, a high-paid, invaluable information-and-insight guru. But taking on Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski is hard work. Dancing for Bayless is easy. Being half of ESPN’s hip hop, N-word-dropping sports show makes you more popular with celebrities. It’s fun.
Smith has fallen for the okeydoke.
You don’t have to. You were fooled the first time. And maybe you were fooled when ESPN took no action against Mike Greenberg when he said Martin Luther ? on Martin Luther King’s national holiday.
I’m not calling for Smith to be fired. He doesn’t deserve that. But don’t bring me this Mickey Mouse $h*# that he didn’t say it. Don’t do it when you unfairly suspended Max Bretos for a month for uttering a cliche about a flaw in Jeremy Lin’s armor.
"We asked Stephen A. what he said when the confusion arose over his remarks on First Take,” an ESPN executive told Dan Patrick’s radio show Friday morning. “He vehemently denied using any inappropriate language. We removed that part from the First Take re-air to avoid creating additional confusion if people misunderstood him . . . We believe him and no further action will occur."
Well, that settles it. I vehemently deny ever overeating! I’m a Midwesterner, and I chew my food really fast, so it occasionally appears I’m overeating.
I’m no fool. This is a horrendous look for black journalists. Where are the standards? How will we have any credibility the next time a white broadcaster says anything remotely racist if we sit quiet while Smith gets away with this?
Smith owes us an apology and a few days off work to think about how to properly and respectfully use the immense broadcasting talents he’s been blessed with.
Stephen A. Smith and ESPN think we forgot the fool-me idiom. Shame on them.
The first time was in December during a debate about LeBron James. Smith tweeted a denial. The second time was Thursday, when Smith was discussing Kobe Bryant. Smith, this time, taped a post-show denial.
I’m not going to waste a lot of time breaking down the weakness of Smith’s latest denial. He dropped the N-word. The audio and video speak for themselves. Smith’s laughable denial — saying he's from New York and sometimes speaks too "fastly" — doesn’t even attempt to explain what he said if not “n---a, please.”
Nope. The discussion today should focus on First Take, and why this particular show can’t avoid sprinkling the N-word into its discourse.
Think about it. Across the television landscape,therearehundredsof talkshows. Asbest I can tell only one show and only one host are struggling to contain their loveof theN-word whileon nationalTV. I couldbe wrong — I don’t watch everything on TV — but is there another TV talk show where a host is annually blurting out the N-word? Are Kornheiser and Wilbon struggling with this? Michael and Kelly? The cast of Around the Horn? Bill O’Reilly? The crew on Morning Joe?
Now, think about this: Stephen A. Smith has been running his mouth on TV for more than a decade. He’s good at it. He’s bright, articulate, passionate and quite informed on the NBA. I’m a Stephen A. Smith fan. I consider Smith a friend. When ESPN gave him his own talk show seven years ago, I thought Smith had a chanceto be this generation’s Howard Cosell. When Smith’s show failed, I still believed in his talents. I believed he just needed more seasoning, more knowledge of the sports world beyond the NBA.
My point is that in all of his years of television — including consistent appearances on political talk shows discussing race — there’s only one place where Smith can’t control his desire to say “n---a, please.”
Why? What’s so special about First Take?
It baits Negroes to act like n---as.
That’s the job. For years, ESPN pitted a paradeof attention-starved,mostly black stooges against Skip Bayless to legitimize and sanitize Skip’s over-the-top attacks on Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, LeBron James and all the other low-hanging black fruit Skip could reach from his debate chair. The parade of stooges failed to properly protect Bayless. You could still see he was an insecure, disingenuous version of Glenn Beck.
Enter Stephen A. Smith, desperate to re-emerge as a high-six-figures TV celebrity, desperate for his next hit from the TV ? pipe. Smith campaigned for the role of Skip’s beard.
Recognizing that its black viewers couldn’t resist Skip’s bait, ESPN doubled down, making Smith an equal partner in the show and re-imagining First Take as the black barbershop of sports talk. The rap-music bumpers, the black, eye-candy female host, the guest appearances by rappers and Smith are all an attempt to make Skip’s ? -baiting palatable, marketable and justifiable.
The show has been dumbed down and ghetto-ized. An environment has been created that entices Smith and others to bojangle and stoop to Bayless’level of discourse. Terrell Suggs was celebrated for coming on the show and calling Bayless a “? .”
Do not misconstrue my main point. In my opinion, Skip Bayless is not the bad guy. He is what he is. He’s never hid it. He will unfairly climb the back of any athlete — regardless of color — to compensate for his personal demons and insecurities. Bayless exposed himself decades ago when he groundlessly suggested a white, high-profile NFL quarterback was ? .
No. Stephen A. Smith is the villain in this scenario. Smith has enormous broadcasting talent. Dancing for Bayless is beneath Smith. He also has the intellect to see how ESPN and Bayless are using him. Smith could be the Adam Schefter/Chris Mortensen of the NBA, a high-paid, invaluable information-and-insight guru. But taking on Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski is hard work. Dancing for Bayless is easy. Being half of ESPN’s hip hop, N-word-dropping sports show makes you more popular with celebrities. It’s fun.
Smith has fallen for the okeydoke.
You don’t have to. You were fooled the first time. And maybe you were fooled when ESPN took no action against Mike Greenberg when he said Martin Luther ? on Martin Luther King’s national holiday.
I’m not calling for Smith to be fired. He doesn’t deserve that. But don’t bring me this Mickey Mouse $h*# that he didn’t say it. Don’t do it when you unfairly suspended Max Bretos for a month for uttering a cliche about a flaw in Jeremy Lin’s armor.
"We asked Stephen A. what he said when the confusion arose over his remarks on First Take,” an ESPN executive told Dan Patrick’s radio show Friday morning. “He vehemently denied using any inappropriate language. We removed that part from the First Take re-air to avoid creating additional confusion if people misunderstood him . . . We believe him and no further action will occur."
Well, that settles it. I vehemently deny ever overeating! I’m a Midwesterner, and I chew my food really fast, so it occasionally appears I’m overeating.
I’m no fool. This is a horrendous look for black journalists. Where are the standards? How will we have any credibility the next time a white broadcaster says anything remotely racist if we sit quiet while Smith gets away with this?
Smith owes us an apology and a few days off work to think about how to properly and respectfully use the immense broadcasting talents he’s been blessed with.
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First take dont even have different segments anymore to discuss other stuff.
I remember they did the NFL power rankings for the NFC and AFC every week using helmets but they dont even do that anymore. Its just stephen A and skip going back and forth over lebron,tebow, and then the jets,tony romo, and then eric mangini comes through while the black ? sassing everybody. Then Dmx will play as they go to commercial. (Which makes it awkward when Im watching it around all the white ppl at work)
But jason whitlock pretty much is callin stephen A a ? ass ? .. -
Real Talk.......
As much as he irritates me sometimes, Fat Whitlock tends to be on point a lot. -
i remember when it was called cold pizza (terrible name) and they talked alot of ? on their . now its just a football ,basketball , baseball debate show. it jumped the shark. he was right tho, when steven a was a philly espn reporter he was entertaining.
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Alpha Outlaw wrote: »First take dont even have different segments anymore to discuss other stuff.
I remember they did the NFL power rankings for the NFC and AFC every week using helmets but they dont even do that anymore. Its just stephen A and skip going back and forth over lebron,tebow, and then the jets,tony romo, and then eric mangini comes through while the black ? sassing everybody. Then Dmx will play as they go to commercial. (Which makes it awkward when Im watching it around all the white ppl at work)
But jason whitlock pretty much is callin stephen A a ? ass ? ..
word that ? what Jason Whitlock wrote burns slow, he pulled stephen a. card and touched on some ? and called him bojangles -
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Not reading all that
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I can't stand Jason Whitlock a lot of times but he took Smith soul with this article good drop
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Not A fan of Whitlocks but he does have a point. SAS does legitimize Skips subtle racisism.
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skip still a G for sonning Chris broussard tho, lol
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Crazy whitlock calls SAS a friend and ? @ the same time SMH.....but isnt shocking coming from him even though he makes valid points
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i been saying this. all you have to do is log on to the IC and read the first take related threads.Why? What’s so special about First Take?
It baits Negroes to act like n---as.
whitlock drops that ether
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he is in his feelings
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Whitlock is right whether you like him or not.
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I cosign this article....i stopped watching ESPN shows a while ago if is not an NBA or NFL game. i channel surf past ESPN
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SAS's rebuttle should be interesting
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Im glad there is a show with a black barbershop talk attitude about sports. Im also glad there is a show like the sports reporters. There is room for both. I enjoy watching both.
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Im glad there is a show with a black barbershop talk attitude about sports. Im also glad there is a show like the sports reporters. There is room for both. I enjoy watching both.
But honestly Open Court is a better show for that type of Format.
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Damn I haven't watched first take in a while. Turned it on.
From the set to the music its kinda hood now.. -
eh ? whitlock
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IMO Whitlock is not making sense. What is Stephen A Smith doing that is so ? like?
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IMO Whitlock is not making sense. What is Stephen A Smith doing that is so ? like?
because the format of the show and skip bayless lends itself to race baiting, and stephen a smith plays the willing participant of the bojangling black man. -
That fat ? needs to worry about his blood pressure
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I don't like whitlock but he's got a point
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