"He's the Dude That's Gonna Have a Funeral and Ain't Gonna Be No Pallbearers" [Video]

When Stephen A Smith launched the teaser for the latest episode of the Stephen A Smith Present, he promised that he would lay into his former colleague Jason Whitlock, and he did simply that Wednesday evening.

Jason Whitlock is a right-wing commentator who has a variety of enemies throughout the sports activities multimedia house because of his lack of empathy and his unhinged opinions, which frequently fire up controversy and provides him the clicks he’s so desperately searching for.

Since Whitlock’s departure in 2015, he has floated round to different networks and firms and has not discovered a stable place to remain for quite a lot of years. His obvious lack of empathy and incompetence has made him an unlikable determine. Whitlock has been recognized to make absurd feedback, reminiscent of his assertion in December the place he expressed his downside with girls voting and his conspiracy theories about Michelle Obama being transgender. Moreover, he known as into query the authenticity of the tales in Smith’s memoir when it was launched in January.

Stephen A. Smith has shunned explicitly mentioning Jason Whitlock and discussing their previous working relationship. Nevertheless, Smith stated he reached out to his pastor, executives at ESPN, and even his beloved sister Carmen. He knew he was going to get out of character. Nevertheless, given the platform he was on, there was nothing anyone may inform him. He was ready to go in on Whitlock.

Over one million views and counting, Smith offered examples as to why he would by no means be related to Whitlock in his response Wednesday. He even got here with receipts and referred again to a 2015 Deadspin article that referenced a number of ESPN workers who had issues with Whitlock and what number of refused to work with him.

The First Take main man additionally disclosed that he inked a clause in his contract upon Jason Whitlock’s arrival, making certain that they might by no means be required to work collectively. That’s why he by no means made it on First Take.

“I don’t know of anybody who has this of their contracts. I had it in my contract, and I’ve a duplicate of it, the place it particularly stipulates that I by no means work with Jason Whitlock,” Smith stated.

Whitlock’s possibilities of being on First Take had been lifeless earlier than they began.

“Did you inform them that when that very same article in Deadspin got here out, weeks later you wrote a prolonged apology to me in an e-mail, begging me to forgive you, mentioning the way you had been betrayed by this specific author, so you understand how I need to really feel that you simply betrayed me?” Smith stated a bit after 27 minutes into his soliloquy. “Did you inform the oldsters that, you b*&%$? Did you inform ’em, you fats piece of shit?”

Smith tried to befriend Whitlock and even stood up for him up to now earlier than Whitlock betrayed him, he says.

“I really tried to talk up for this rattling Cretin,” Smith stated. “This bastard is value lower than a cockroach.” He additionally referred to Whitlock as Cain. “You get inside a mile of his presence, wrap your arms round your self to guard your soul. He’s Cain. He’s a satan. The worst. That’s all I’ve to say.

Whitlock responded on Twitter final evening, saying that SAS “made a idiot of himself.” He tried to seek advice from Smith as unprofessional for his response.

Stephen A Smith, the self-proclaimed face of ESPN, embarrassed himself and ESPN final evening. He vows to by no means say my identify once more. No downside. He does not must say my identify to elucidate the hard-to-believe tales in his “memoir.” Amazed seemingly no media outlet within the nation is…

— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) January 11, 2024