“You’re not stupid, Peter. You know better. In this instance, you’re just full of s**t.”
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Peter Rosenberg‘s reaction to Caitlin Clark not making the Olympic team sent Stephen A. Smith over the edge.
“I’m not letting it go,” said Smith in his 11-minute rant about the matter. “I don’t appreciate what he said. Actually, I think what he said was utter bulls**t.”
Rosenberg mentioned the sports commentator by name because “he’s jumping in on this train of the ‘Caitlin Clark’s not being treated fairly by the world.’” Smith denied that this was his stance while Rosenberg argued that the sentiment was “unfair” to Clark and the WNBA overall.
“This whole idea that if Caitlin Clark isn’t propped up the right way then it’s not right for the sport, if that’s your take maybe you don’t really care about the sport and shouldn’t be giving an opinion about it,” said the radio host.
In Smith’s tirade, he barked, “Let me reiterate my point for the challenged and by that I don’t mean somebody who’s cerebrally challenged or intellectually challenged. I think morally challenged, simply because it’s not in their heart and in their mind to have this need to be fair. Ladies and gentlemen, I said what I said about Caitlin Clark and I’m not backing up one bit. There is not a single player on Team USA, not a single player, that deserves to be taken off because of her. Not a single player.”
He continued, “Why the hell would this guy go out there and say to America, ‘Yo, Stephen A. is propping Caitlin Clark up as a victim?’ What, you the white boy that’s gravitating to Black folks and you wanna make folks believe, ‘Hey, you know something, this is the latest thing he’s doing against y’all?’ Is that what this is? You sitting there and you on a station, they’re playing Hip-Hop music, that makes you down now? You think you know us better than me? Is that what this is, Peter? Peter.”
Rosenberg argued that Smith “misrepresented his [initial] thoughts” but made no attempt to speak with him privately before taking their verbal spat to the “public airwaves.”
Smith concluded his rant by stating, “You’re not stupid, Peter. You know better. In this instance, you’re just full of s**t. Shutting the hell up would have been an option, you know, if you’re gon’ call my name out like that, but once again I find myself in front of the microphone saying, damn.”
Watch Smith “sound off” in full above.
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