Stephen A. Smith Calls Out Michelle Obama Following Reality TV Remarks
Stephen A. Smith addressed Michelle Obama’s actuality TV comparability and previous political criticism, saying he’s “still salty.”
Stephen A. Smith had some phrases for Barack and Michelle Obama after she in contrast his ESPN segments to the chaos of actuality tv and accused the Obamas of “emotional blackmail” over previous political disagreements.
The former First Lady stirred the pot on her “IMO” podcast by likening Smith’s on-air debates to the high-stakes drama of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
“If I listen to ESPN for an hour, it’s like watching the Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Obama mentioned. “I mean, you know, it’s the same drama, and they’re yelling at each other and they don’t get along, you know? I mean, Stephen A Smith, he’s just like every other talk show host.”
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“It’s the same drama, and they’re yelling at each other and they don’t get along.”
“Stephen A. Smith would be a great Real Housewife.”
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Smith, by no means one to draw back from a rebuttal, took difficulty with the comparability and addressed it immediately. He argued that sports activities speak reveals are rooted in real-time competitors and evaluation, not manufactured pressure.
“No, reality TV is not like that,” he mentioned. “You’re so wrong about that, about that assertion, but that’s neither here nor there.”
But Smith’s response didn’t cease on the podcast jab. He additionally revisited a previous disagreement with Barack Obama throughout Michelle’s marketing campaign push for Kamala Harris.
At the time, she urged that voting for Donald Trump was a vote in opposition to ladies, a press release Smith discovered deeply problematic. He mentioned the remark ignored the complexity of voter decision-making and diminished it to a single difficulty.
“You will never hear me utter a negative word about you, but I respectfully disagreed and still remain pretty salty about what you said about us,” Smith mentioned, acknowledging his lingering frustration.
However, he added that Obama “sort of blackmail[ed] us emotionally into trying to compel us to vote one way or another.”
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