{"id":1540819,"date":"2022-07-06T07:53:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540819"},"modified":"2022-07-06T07:53:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T11:53:56","slug":"barstool-subverts-elites-on-everything-except-sexual-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barstool-subverts-elites-on-everything-except-sexual-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Barstool Subverts Elites On Everything Except Sexual Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbarstool-subverts-elites-on-everything-except-sexual-ethics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540819&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-05-at-2.21.19-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve always loved Barstool Sports, but the company\u2019s freakout after <em>Roe<\/em> fell has been telling. They\u2019re willing to challenge elite politics when it comes to just about everything except sexual ethics.<\/p>\n<p>In one of his \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CfMV3fxjv-O\/?hl=en\">Emergency Press Conferences<\/a>\u201d last weekend, Portnoy reacted to <em>Dobbs v. Jackson <\/em>by saying the nation is \u201cgoing back in time.\u201d Portnoy\u2019s employees at Barstool got busy retweeting his video and posting their own pro-abortion content as well. This includes the second biggest personality at Barstool and Portnoy\u2019s right hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarstoolBigCat\/status\/1540361371279273989\">Dan \u201cBig Cat\u201d Katz<\/a>. Katz reacted differently when Portnoy interviewed former President Donald Trump two years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/07\/24\/dan-big-cat-katz-is-a-big-cry-baby-whines-he-wasnt-involved-in-barstool-trump-interview-decision\/\">lambasting him<\/a> for politicizing the company.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO\u2019s support for abortion, then, is all the more revealing about where the left draws the line on what matters to them. If Portnoy wasn\u2019t kicked out of his social standing for his take on Covid restrictions or for speaking with Trump, his brazen appeal to the left on abortion shows how strongly they value men and women\u2019s ability to have sex without consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Barstool has raked in immense profits from podcasts like \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d which provide women step-by-step guides to encourage new sexual experiences. While CHD Host Alex Cooper promoted \u201cfemale empowerment\u201d through performing raunchy sexual acts, men like Portnoy benefit from an increasingly loose culture surrounding sex. And his freedom to sleep around and enjoy women\u2019s bodies for carnal pleasure partially hinges on easy access to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>In lock-step with most on the left, Portnoy\u2019s arguments in the video concerning a woman\u2019s geographical abortion access and disrespect for conservatives\u2019 regard for the Second Amendment hold no substantive constitutional ground. This makes sense considering he then ushered in one of the most consistent narratives of the leftist elite: the Constitution is no longer useful or worthy of respect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt what point do you look at the Constitution and say hey, this was written by people who had slaves. Maybe not everything is exactly to a tee in the Constitution? Like a million years from now, you\u2019re going to use a document written\u2026\u201d Portnoy said. \u201cThe world evolves, people evolve, technology evolves, you\u2019ve got to evolve. You can\u2019t stick with this document and look at that and be like that\u2019s the end all, be all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The obvious fallacies in that argument aside, Portnoy isn\u2019t a full-fledged progressive by any means. In fact, he has a reputation for riling up the left. As the leader of what can only be described as a media and pop culture behemoth, Portnoy\u2019s staunch views on individual liberty have generated a lot of negative attention from corporate media. <\/p>\n<p>They groan when Portnoy appears on \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight,\u201d they roll their eyes as he champions private enterprise through his pro small business charity, The Barstool Fund, and they threw a fit when he met with President Donald Trump for an interview at the White House. Barstool Sports as a company is known for its outright rejection of political correctness. <\/p>\n<p>Much of what makes Portnoy so iconic and Barstool so appealing to young people are these acts displaying such indifference for what causes corporate America seems to heed. According to a poll in <a href=\"https:\/\/morningconsult.com\/2021\/07\/08\/gen-z-critical-race-theory-polling\/\">Morning Consult<\/a>, Gen Z-ers are far less likely than millennials to hold a favorable view toward cancel culture. Portnoy\u2019s recent comments and his company\u2019s actions, however, fail to provide the kind of independent thought unabridged by special interests that they crave. His arguments from the press conference are uniform to that of other woke corporations.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the video, Portnoy called the left crazy and President Joe Biden a moron. But he defended his voting for them due to what he sees as the right\u2019s involvement in Supreme Court failures, and he used the opportunity to insert one more plug of support for another leftist cause: same-sex marriage:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>I end up having to vote for a moron like Biden because the right is going to put Supreme Court people in who are just ruining this country by taking basic rights away\u2026 You look at what they\u2019re doing and it\u2019s like, you\u2019re taking away basic rights. What\u2019s next? Same-sex marriage? Like what is next? It\u2019s insane. That\u2019s why we have to vote for the moron like Biden who\u2019s borderline incompetent because it\u2019s too dangerous to vote Republican.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Barstool also now has an LGBT podcast entitled \u201cOut and About,\u201d for which the company allocated $100,000 toward a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stoolpresidente\/status\/1541140901476667393\">rainbow flag truck<\/a>. Many of the company\u2019s most famous personalities were at the gay pride parades in Chicago and New York City in June, which they made sure <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivaLaStool\/status\/1541133327192600576\">no one missed on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further publicizing his recent elite opinion, a former critic of his at the liberal Business Insider published an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsInsider\/status\/1540415512894750723\">article<\/a> highlighting Portnoy\u2019s pro-abortion viewpoint the same day Portnoy posted the video.<\/p>\n<p>This level of pandering on sexual ethics helps someone like Portnoy eliminate some of his own bad press he\u2019s amassed and makes him more appealing to those within the elite social spheres he runs, such as the Hamptons where he bought a nearly $10 million beach house earlier this year. Even though Portnoy has garnered so much of his following from young people eager to cling to a figure who doesn\u2019t subscribe to the accepted mainstream narrative, he\u2019s no rebel when it comes to toeing the line on what the left values most highly.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Allison Schuster is a research assistant for Hillsdale College in DC and a 2021 Hillsdale graduate, as well as a former intern for The Federalist. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllisonShoeStor\"> @allisonshoestor.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always loved Barstool Sports, but the company\u2019s freakout after Roe fell has been telling. 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