Sports activities commentator Stephen A. Smith introduced his argumentative skills to Sean Hannity’s Fox Information present Thursday night time.
“I know you’re not talking about somebody being lucid and cogent and enunciating their thoughts with clarity, and you’re bragging about Donald Trump. We can’t be watching the same stuff,” Smith stated, breaking by way of the delusional different actuality Hannity promotes.
Smith is among the highest paid sports activities speak present hosts on tv, partly due to his unabashed willingness to provide an opinion.
“Ain’t he cancelling press conferences?” Smith remarked after Hannity protested that Trump is “so dialed in.”
And Hannity’s last-ditch effort to get Smith again on board the Trump prepare by the top of the interview failed spectacularly.
“So once more, we would not like one thing on the left. We’d not like one thing on the best. These are the 2 candidates that we have to work with,” Smith stated. “And when you bring up issues in terms of character, or in terms of being truthful, or whatever, let me tell you something right now: You can bring a whole bunch of Republicans and I’ll be cool with it. You can’t bring up Trump to make a case against somebody else using those arguments,” Smith stated over Hannity’s protests. “You can’t do that.”
Hannity was left to strive some unusual (and weak) rhetorical magic right here, by undercutting Smith and saying, “Look, you know what? I’m predicting that privately, you’re going to vote for Trump.”
“Oh, never. Never,” Smith responded. “And I told you, I’m on a record. I’d have voted for almost any Republican but him.”
Smith, who’s within the final 12 months of a contract with ESPN, has been broadening his media appearances as contract negotiations are reportedly underway. “I am a centrist that leans left. I’m fiscally conservative. I love capitalism! But it doesn’t mean that I’m completely opposed to certain entitlement programs that uplift communities,” he instructed the Hollywood Reporter in an interview in August, saying he’s a registered unbiased.
He additionally defined that he had an current friendship with Hannity, which is why he sometimes seems on his present. Hopefully Smith’s readability on the character of Trump’s character can be shared by sufficient undecided voters come Election Day.