ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith joined the “ladies” of The View on Thursday, was confronted over remarks they found controversial, and promptly rolled the hosts.

It’s truly saying something that Smith, who is as far from being the brightest bulb as anyone can be, put an intellectual smackdown on anybody. And yet, I give you the incredibly challenged cast of The View.

What had the ladies in a tizzy this time? Smith’s radio commentary in which he ripped Sen. Mark Kelly for recording a video urging military members to defy orders from their superiors. Kelly, a former Captain in the United States Navy, is now under investigation and facing a potential court-martial.

“You know better, Senator Kelly,” he said on an episode of his “Straight Shooter” SiriusXM show, adding that the video was “crossing the line.”

“Respectfully, senator, what the hell are you doing?” Smith said. “Looking into the camera and telling military men and women to ignore the commander in chief? How dare you? How dare you do that?”

The problem is that while the Senator was pretending to be speaking of “illegal orders” exclusively, he was intentionally creating a gray area. Orders whose illegality is debatable can not be ignored. Refusing to obey an order one feels personally questionable is itself illegal, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). 

Smith, like a blind squirrel, is actually right for once.

Stephen A. Smith tackles ‘The View’

During Thursday’s episode of ABC’s The View, co-host Sunny Hostin confronted Stephen A. Smith by playing the radio clip and inviting him to retract his comments. Well, no. She was pressuring him to take his comments back.

And honestly, if Hostin thinks you’re wrong, being dumber than an onion as she is, then you’re almost assuredly right.

“I’d love to give you the opportunity to perhaps change your position on what you said,” Hostin said, showing up to an intellectual gunfight armed with a frisbee.

“I’m not changing a thing,” Smith fired back. “I didn’t stutter when I said it.”

“OK. You want to stay loud and wrong?” a bitter Hostin countered, practically providing the mantra of her own show (loud and wrong).

“Well, you can call it loud and wrong all you want to. You’re entitled to your opinion, I’m entitled to mine,” Stephen A. replied.

Respectfully, Mr. Smith, surely you know that free-thinking and varied opinions are not allowed on a show overrun by loudmouthed Karens with a combined IQ that still doesn’t enter triple digits. But ya showed up anyway.

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Presidential material?

Look, there’s a lot that we could criticize Stephen A. Smith on – the fact that, as a sports analyst, he thinks you can try a field goal on third down and get a do-over if you miss is right up there. As is when he argued that, regarding the NBA gambling scandal, President Trump was behind the arrests and suggested he would target the WNBA next, neither of which was true.

But there is so much to love about that video.

The look on Hostin’s face when she thinks she’s got him cornered because, in her mind, she’s right (which is rarely the case) is gold. You can watch that clip with the sound off and tell who’s winning the debate.

The last time Stephen A. was on The View, it was a much friendlier reception as Smith toyed with the idea of actually running for President.

“I mean, I have no desire to be a congressional figure or a senator, but if you came to me and you told me I had a legitimate shot to win the presidency of the United States of America, I would definitely consider it,” he said.

Problem is, his base would be fans of a low-IQ show like The View. And if Hostin isn’t on board, you’re not getting those people.