Stephen A. Smith Rips Jason Whitlock In NSFW Rant, Social Media Explodes

Source: Allen Berezovsky / Getty Stephen A. Smith warned viewers yesterday that they were in a wild episode of The Stephen A. Smith Show. And he delivered. Smith has been at war with Jason Whitlock for years but often refrained from name-dropping or eviscerating him, but that all changed last night when Smith went on an uncharacteristic rant calling him a “b-tch” and a “fat-a-s piece of sh-t.” It all started when Whitlock, who now hosts a show on right-wing network BlazeTV, questioned the validity of Smith’s memoir, Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes, on his show. Before his lengthy, nearly 40-minute rant, Smith built up the hype by telling viewers he called his coworkers, emailed his ESPN bosses and coworkers, and spoke to his pastors asking “for his forgiveness and understanding.” Smith shows no mercy as he name-drops countless other Black on-air talents who refuse to work with Whitlock, and how many networks like ESPN, FOX, and FS1 who steer clear of him because of his penchant for disrespecting them. “What he does is he puts himself in front of white folks; the white folks, dare we say, may have a problem with black folks....