Stephen A. Smith says he’ll never forget when two politicians ripped each other apart on TV, only to later spot them together at a restaurant “laughing it up.” “I was in a booth next to them. And they were like, ‘That was some DAMN GOOD TELEVISION.’” Smith says things on TV got “really bad” and “ugly.” So intense that you felt like you needed security on standby because they were “going to come to blows.” But after the cameras stopped rolling, Smith says he spotted the same politicians “laughing it up” and “clanking glasses,” bragging about how they got “everybody fooled.” Smith says this was a moment that “changed” his life politically forever. He couldn’t believe it. He realized: “The more division you have, the more control you have because you’re forcing folks to pick a side.”
