Dave Portnoy mentioned an area ABC information affiliate tried to “bait and switch” him throughout an interview concerning the incident involving an antisemitic signal at his Barstool Sansom Road bar in Philadelphia on Saturday.
In a video posted to his social media on Monday, the Barstool Sports activities founder included a partial recording of the interview, which confirmed him in a “contentious” trade with an unnamed feminine reporter, who he mentioned tried to “ambush” him by blaming him and his firm for the incident.
Portnoy claimed the reporter “tried to say Barstool and I and white men were responsible for the incident,” — throughout which an indication that mentioned “F–k the Jews” was displayed by bottle women on the membership in a now-viral video on social media.
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“ABC News Philadelphia, they reached out, they begged me to do an interview,” Portnoy mentioned within the video. “They gave me the reporter’s title, after which they do a bait and swap and a brand new reporter reveals as much as do it this morning.
“She begins OK, asking questions concerning the bar, how’d it occur, duty, blah blah blah, after which she shifts after which she does what a media scumbag does.
“She pulls a quote out of her ass from I don’t even know, a made-up journal, some professor… They are saying that Barstool Sports activities creates a tradition of harassment and that mainly I’m liable for this occurring at my very own bar. I’ve by no means heard of the quote.
“Oh, you’re saying some f–king liberal college professor said they don’t like Barstool? So I was like ‘who f–king said it and what is this journal? We go back and forth and Austin starts taping it.”
Portnoy included a recording, which confirmed him in a tense backwards and forwards with the reporter throughout the digital interview.
“I don’t like quotes that I have no idea where they’re coming from,” Portnoy mentioned of the assertion the reporter claimed got here from professors on the College of Virginia. “I totally disagree with what you just said. Who is creating more hate right now in the world, would you say Barstool Sports and white men or on college campuses? … That was a question to you.”
The reporter responded, “I’m the journalist.”
Portnoy, who mentioned he agreed to do the interview as a result of it was native to his bar, didn’t again down.
“I don’t play by those rules,” he mentioned. “What does that mean? You’re a journalist? I’m a journalist. I run a big media organization. I just asked you a question.”
“You’re not running this interview,” the reporter mentioned.
“Alright then the interview is over,” Portnoy replied earlier than shutting his laptop computer.
On Monday, 6ABC printed a narrative written by Katie Katro about Portnoy talking out after studying of the antisemitic message displayed at his Philadelphia bar, however they didn’t point out their interview with him.
As of Monday, it doesn’t seem the interview was printed.
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In a separate video addressing the the incident, Portnoy mentioned the servers concerned in displaying the signal, have been fired and that he reached out to Philadelphia authorities.
He later added that he needed it to be a teachable second.
College students of Temple College reportedly have been concerned in ordering the antisemitic signal.
Temple’s president, John Fry, mentioned the college positioned one pupil discovered to be concerned on interim suspension, in keeping with 6ABC.
Philadelphia police and the ADL are investigating the incident.
“I’m sending the people who ordered the “F–k Jews” indicators at my bar to Auschwitz to study concerning the Holocaust. Quite than smash a pair 20 yr olds lives possibly this can be utilized as a instructing second,” Portnoy wrote on Instagram.
Barstool Sansom Road posted a assertion on social media apologizing for the incident and confirming that a number of staff have been terminated from the their positions after a full investigation.
“We take all forms of discrimination incredibly seriously and are particularly upset by the actions taken against our Jewish patrons, colleagues, partners and friends… This unfortunate incident is the opposite of what we stand for, and we will be doubling down on efforts to prevent such actions in the future,” the assertion mentioned partially.
