Posted on 11/09/2016 4:33:18 PM PST by TigerClaws
Wednesday, ESPN2 “First Take” co-host Stephen A. Smith reacted to San Francisco 49ers quarterback and activist Colin Kaepernick sitting out on voting in the 2016 election by delivering one of his greatest rants ever.
Smith called Kaepernick “shameful” and a “flaming hypocrite” for kneeling for the national anthem until change is made but choosing not to vote to make the change he wants.
The ESPN host urged fellow media members to take the camera and spotlight off of Kaepernick because his protests have meant “absolutely nothing.”
Partial transcript as follows:
As far as I’m concerned, Colin Kaepernick is irrelevant. I don’t want to hear from him again. I don’t want to hear a damn word about anything that he has to say about our nation, the issues that we have, racial injustices, needing change, etc. He comes across as a flaming hypocrite. As far as I’m concerned, I’m not interested in a damn word that he has to say. I hope he goes away. He’s lucky to be in the league right now. He’s 0-3 as a starter, completing 52 percent of his passes. He doesn’t look good at the quarterback spot. I don’t care about rust or anything else.
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Could the order to slam him have come from high up in ESPN, panicked at crashing viewers and subscribers?
The most dangerous thing for the left is for regular americans to realize they have more power than they thought
No, no, Hillary is not a hypocrite. He doesn’t believe in any leader other than a Muslim leader. Even Hillary is far from his ideal.
And ESPN
What a shiathole that network turned into
I want to watch sports, not MSNBC rejects
50% of the revenue of Disney is from ESPN.
NFL revenue also keeps the aging major networks alive and funds the anti-Trump MSM media. The news loses money. They spend the football revenue WE give them to attack our country.
BOYCOTT THE NFL.
Awesome rant. This one’s a keeper.
I meant Kaepernick is not a hypocrite, not Hillary. Of course Hillary is her idea of an ideal leader.
Pretty much have done that this year. My Colts suck eggs, Peyton is retired. No reason to watch. This is just gravy
Kaepernick being in the top five reasons for yesterday’s blowout..
most definitely worth four minutes of your life to watch...
Lefties mad at lefties because things didn’t go their way. If I could watch either of them less than zero, I would. But ‘not at all’ will have to suffice.
I suspected he was gonna be benched and/or released after the election anyway. Maybe this is the first step.
Getting the attention off Kap would be step one... getting Lady Gaga the #spiritcooking satanist off the Super Bowl LI halftime show... is the other non-negotiable to save the NFL.
I rarely agree with Smith, but I like that he’s not a sheeple like most libtards.
Voting is overrated.
What matters most is individual rights.
And individual rights are getting sacrificed to the mobocracy of voting.
So I was watching "Pardon the Interruption" tonight--and Wilbon the Social Justice Warrior said that Trump's victory and Kaepernick's protests were related. Funny, but he and Kornhiser have been denying on multiple occasions that Kaepernick's behavior has anything to do with the plunging ratings for the NFL. Does this make sense? I almost turned off the show tonight.
I love these guys when they talk sports, but they suck moose schlong when they try to get political.
SJWs think everything is about them..
Stephen A is one of the (very) few people at ESPN who says what he really thinks, so probably not. I don't know his politics, but he is not one to suffer fools gladly - and he has correctly identified one, here. :)
Colin off to Cleveland or Detroit.
Not to mention that he's made tens of millions of dollars while claiming to be "oppressed".
The ESPN host urged fellow media members to take the camera and spotlight off of Kaepernick because his protests have meant “absolutely nothing.”
Well, except put the NFL ratings in the tank.
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