ESPN First Take - Cincinnati Bengals Defeat Seattle Seahawks

[EnglishBengal]

A very intense, frank discussion.  The guy on the left is a dick!  He hates the Bengals! 

 

 

[ValleyBengal]

Stephen A. Smith is generally a waste of time. Opinionated, subjective and loud - he only has a job because he fits the mold of the "new" ESPN.Skip Bayless isn't much better, but his objectivity is miles above Smith's. I bet the A. stands for Asshole.

 

I miss the days of Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman...

[Gremzz]

I love that they can have a 15 minute video regarding the game of week and talk about how good the Bengals played for all of about 30 seconds. Typical.

 

Also, Stephen A Smith is an idiot. Kam Chancellor got burned just as much as Williams, and not solely because of Eifert.

 

[jhowdy54]

Said If they had Lynch theres no way they lose that game. He does realize that Trevor Rawls rushed for more yards Sunday then Lynch did in his entire tenure with the Seahawks. I dont think Lynch makes a difference.

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[Jason]

I've said it before and I will say it again.

Sephen A Smith is the Morton Downey Junior of Sports.

[Jason]

I am a fan of Molly Qerim though.

[bigboi]

they just couldn't give the Bengals any credit.

[DanvilleBengal]

Simply put, the vast majority of disrespect will stop when our boys show them they are indeed for real---and that means at least one playoff win, or even better a Superbowl  berth (because that probably means that we beat NE and/or DEN in the playoffs) Every analyst is still on that 'talk to us in January' schick.

Let the games and performance do all the talking, because no one can dispute results.

[AmishBengalFan]

First Take is an absolute waste of air time.  Skip Bayless (the white guy on the right) is a blatant negro-baiter, while Stephen Smith (the black guy on the left) is even worse.  Smith sees race EVERYWHERE, and he sees it first.  Any criticism leveled at any sports figure of color is first judged by Smith through the prism of his race-sensitive eyeballs.

He has twice - TWICE - used the forbidden "N" word on this show.  Both times he was directed by ESPN to apologize, and both times he blamed his upbringing or his passion, but neither time did he admit to any wrongdoing.  But Smith isn't on TV only on this chow... he makes consistent apparances on political talk shows discussing race - yet there's only one place where Smith cannot control his desire to say, "n---a, please." ??  Seriously?!?

ESPN's "First Take" is there only to bait Blacks to act like n---as.

And before you whip out the race card on me, I am quoting Jason Whitlock with ALL of the above.  Here's a direct link:

http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/espn-stephen-a-smith-n-word-race-racism-skip-bayless-first-take-102612

Here's a photo of Whitlock:

And here's the rest of what Jason has to say about Mr. Smith:

For years, ESPN pitted a parade of 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.

Enter Stephen A. Smith, desperate to re-emerge as a high-six-figures TV celebrity, desperate for his next hit from the TV crack 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 negro-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 “douchebag.”

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.

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.

The bottom line here is this.... Stephen Smith is biased.  Stephen Smith is racially motivated.  Stephen Smith is a blow-hard.  Stephen Smith is a waste of your time and mine.  If Stephen Smith says it, it isn't worth listening to.

Bayless is only marginally better... there's a reason both of them are on a show with the other, they're both horrible.

[Jamie_B]

yeah not gonna reply to that, it will end up in J&D

 

[|kennethmw|]

yeah not gonna reply to that, it will end up in J&D

 

For once, I will agree with you.

[Jamie_B]

For once, I will agree with you.

I thought you had me on ignore?

[|kennethmw|]

 

 

I thought you had me on ignore?

I just have ceased to comment or debate you.  You're stubborn, but you're not a dumbass like some people on here.

[Jamie_B]

I just have ceased to comment or debate you.  You're stubborn, but you're not a dumbass like some people on here.

Admit it Kenneth you love me lol

[Jason]

What man over 24 years old goes by Skip?????