Dave Portnoy blasts TV station over contentious interview

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy discusses an antisemitic sign being displayed at a Barstool bar Philadelphia and his decision to send the culprits to Auschwitz to learn about the Holocaust.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy blasted ABC’s Philadelphia affiliate on Monday following an interview that was about the antisemitic incident at one of the company’s bars in the city.

Portnoy said in a video posted to his X account that the local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia "begged" him to do an interview. He said when he agreed to do the interview with one reporter, a new reporter showed up. 

He did not identify the reporters.

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Barstool Sports founder and pizza influencer Dave Portnoy went on a four-shop tour of Rhode Island pizza places. (Eric Rueb/Providence Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK)

The new reporter, Portnoy said, asked all the pertinent questions about the incident and responsibility and then "shifts" focus and quoted a professor who said "Barstool Sports creates a culture of harassment."

"Basically, that I’m responsible for this happening at my own bar I never heard the quote. You’re saying some f---ing liberal college professor said they don’t like Barstool. And I was like well who f---ing said it? What is this even journal?"

Portnoy said one of his colleagues, who was with him ahead of the Barstool Sports Bet Gala in Scottsdale, Arizona, started to record the interview. Portnoy posted a clip of himself in the interview with the station and said universities that allowed Jewish students "get harassed on campus 24/7" was the cause for that type of environment. The interview then appeared to turn contentious.

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