Ep 700 | Stephen A. Smith’s Egotistical Doc 'Up for Debate' Exposes the Devolution of Sports Media

Fearless with Jason Whitlock

Blaze Media

Politics, News, Sports, Sports News

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Stephen A. Smith fancies himself as rap legend Chuck D of Public Enemy: a disruptor and innovator. In reality, he’s Flavor Flav, an outlandish hype man with nothing meaningful to say. “Up for Debate,” the ESPN documentary that Smith produced, is a self-serving resume tape whose only objective is to paint Smith as the MLK of sports media and position him to cash in on his next contract. Jason walks us through the docuseries and its stated tagline, “The Evolution of Sports Media,” which reveals just the opposite, paralleling the degradation of discourse across all media and American society. Steve Kim joins “Fearless” to add his take on the doc. In Tennessee Harmony, Jason is joined by Anthony Walker and Kevin Donahue to debate the pope’s latest controversial statement that humankind is inherently good. Is that biblical? We want to hear from the Fearless Army!! Join the conversation in the show chat, leave a comment or email Jason at FearlessBlazeShow@gmail.com Visit https://TheBlaze.com. Explore the all-new ad-free experience and see for yourself how we're standing up against suppression and prioritizing independent journalism. Today's Sponsors: Everyday, young, scared women, who don’t think they have options, are choosing abortion. Preborn seeks these women out before they make the ultimate choice and introduces them to the life growing inside of them through FREE ultrasounds because of YOU who donate. Help rescue babies' lives and donate by dialing #250 and say the keyword, "BABY." or go to https://Preborn.com/Fearless Living a porn-free life will bring you a new freedom to live honestly and remember Accountability is NOT others calling you out on your sin but others calling you UP to the person you are in Christ. So what are you waiting for, Anyone can get started on their path to recovery for free by visiting https://Covenant Eyes.com and using my promo code FEARLESS for 30 days free. Use my code FEARLESS at https://Good Ranchers.com and with your subscription you can claim free American Wagyu burgers for a year (a $400 value) AND support veterans this Memorial Day season. Get 10% off Blaze swag by using code Fearless10 at https://shop.blazemedia.com/fearless Make yourself an official member of the “Fearless Army!” Support Conservative Voices! Subscribe to BlazeTV at https://get.blazetv.com/FEARLESS and get $20 off your yearly subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today I hope to deliver one of the most important and best fire starters of the three years of fearless.
0:11.0	It's central to everything that we've been talking about here on this show.
0:17.0	Hopefully I'm going to further connect dots on a lot of the larger discussions that we have on this show.
0:26.0	I'm going to do it by talking about a little bit about myself,
0:30.0	but a lot about Stephen A Smith and what has happened to the sports media world because of Stephen
0:39.8	A Smith and because of ESPN and a choice that ESPN made.
0:46.0	ESPN had a decision to make in the early 2000s what was going to be the direction of the worldwide leader in sports.
0:56.6	And I would analogize it to hip-hop and a choice that it had in the 1990s where let's say you had Chuck D on one hand and you
1:10.0	had flavor flave on the other hand and you had this group public enemy that was powerful and
1:15.0	that was powerful and eloquent and made rap feel very, very important and revolutionary and educational and uplifting.
1:31.7	But within that rap group, Public Enemy,
1:34.8	you had Chuck D.
1:36.6	The voice and the face of Public Enemy.
1:40.6	And then you had Flavor Flav, the mascot of Public Enemy.
1:45.0	And as we look, let's say Public Enemy started in the late 1980s,
1:51.0	and if you had to ask yourself which direction did rap music choose Chuck D or
1:58.7	flavor slave it is without question rap with the flavor-flave root.
2:05.0	Same thing happened in the sports media world.
2:09.0	You had Jason Whitlock and Stephen A Smith.
2:15.0	Stephen A Smith is Flavor Flav.
2:18.1	I'm going to connect it to a much bigger, larger
2:21.4	narrative that connects to everything that I've said about Diddy,
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