Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy tore into an ABC Information Philadelphia reporter, accusing her of a “bait-and-switch” ambush over an antisemitic signal displayed at his Barstool Sansom Road bar in Philadelphia.
Portnoy posted a video on social media Monday, exposing a “contentious” trade with an unnamed feminine reporter.
He claims the reporter tried to pin the incident on him, Barstool, and “white males,” citing a doubtful quote from “some professor on the Sportocratic College or no matter.”
“So ABC Information Philadelphia, they attain out. They beg me to do an interview. They beg me to do an interview. They offer me the reporter’s identify—it’s some reporter—after which they do a bait and swap,” Portnoy stated.
He continued, “a brand new reporter reveals as much as do it this morning. She begins, like, okay, honest sufficient, asking questions concerning the bar: how did it occur, accountability, blah, blah, blah. After which she shifts. After which she does what a media scumbag does.”
Based on Portnoy, the reporter cited a imprecise quote from unnamed professors claiming Barstool “creates a tradition of harassment.”
When pressed for sources, the reporter claimed they got here from a journal and college on the College of Virginia—with out additional verification or context.
“She’s like—properly, she pulls a quote out of her ass from, I don’t even know, a made-up journal, some professor on the Sportocratic College of one thing. It’s like, “They are saying that Barstool Sports activities creates a tradition of harassment,” and that mainly I’m accountable for this occurring at my very own bar.
“I by no means heard the quote. Oh, you’re saying some fucking liberal faculty professors stated they don’t like Barstool? So I used to be like, “Properly, who f-king stated it? And what’s this even—journal? We trip. Austin, who’s right here, began taping it. This f-king piece of sh-t,” Portnoy stated.
The interview spiraled as Portnoy flipped the narrative, accusing faculty campuses of fueling hate far worse than Barstool ever may.
“Right here’s who’s inflicting that surroundings: schools letting Jewish children get harassed 24/7. I’ve been calling this out perpetually,” he shot again.
“I completely disagree with what you simply stated. Who’s creating extra hate proper now on the earth? Are you able to say Barstool Sports activities and the White Males or School Campuses?”
The reporter, clinging to her “I’m the journalist” card, refused to have interaction, insisting that Portnoy reply her questions.
“You’re not working this interview,” she snapped.
Portnoy, fed up, fired again, “Properly, I don’t play by these guidelines… I’m a journalist too. I run a giant media group. You reply my query.”
When she doubled down, he slammed his laptop computer shut.
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So @6abc begged me to do an interview concerning the incident at our bar. Because it was native I agreed. Then the reporter tried to say Barstool and I and white males had been accountable for the incident. Austin began recording as soon as it obtained contentious pic.twitter.com/ug8CX83HHp
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) May 5, 2025
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier {that a} disturbing incident occurred Saturday evening at Dave Portnoy’s Barstool Sports activities bar in Philly.
Police are investigating an incident the place a Temple College scholar receiving bottle service had the waitress carry an indication emblazoned with an anti-Semitic message, “F*** Jews.”
Portnoy, who’s Jewish, took to X to precise his anger and disgust on the incident, saying he shook for 2 hours.
He stated he was making it his life’s mission to “wreck these individuals,” and that he’s “coming to your throat.”
He adopted his preliminary remarks with a extra measured strategy and introduced that he’s sending the individuals concerned within the incident to Auschwitz, the location of the previous Nazi focus and extermination camp, to study concerning the Holocaust.
He shared that everyone concerned on their workers who let this occur was fired immediately.
“Let’s attempt to, like, flip a hideous incident into possibly a studying expertise,” he stated.
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