{"id":570683,"date":"2021-06-22T15:22:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570683"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T19:22:06","slug":"dave-portnoy-trashes-politico-over-report-on-barstools-popularity-with-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dave-portnoy-trashes-politico-over-report-on-barstools-popularity-with-gop\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Portnoy Trashes Politico Over Report On Barstool\u2019s Popularity With GOP"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdave-portnoy-trashes-politico-over-report-on-barstools-popularity-with-gop%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=570683&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\/2021\/06\/Dave-Portnoy.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, slammed Politico and contributing editor Derek Robertson over his report on the \u201cBarstool-ification of the GOP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Portnoy accused Robertson of spreading \u201clazy\u201d criticisms of Portnoy\u2019s sports and pop culture site while omitting its successful pandemic charity work with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/portnoy-announces-barstool-fund-to-save-struggling-businesses\">Barstool Fund<\/a>, which raised money for struggling small businesses at risk of permanent closure during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis man wrote an 8 gadzillion word article on me trying to explain why Ive become pop with Republicans. It included all the 1 sided lazy examples taken out of context people use to trash me. Yet in the entire essay not 1 mention of Barstool Fund,\u201d Portnoy tweeted Sunday along with a photo of Robertson.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.2132564841499\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This man wrote an 8 gadzillion word article on me trying to explain why Ive become pop with Republicans.  It included all the 1 sided lazy examples taken out of context people use to trash me. Yet in the entire essay not 1 mention of Barstool Fund.     <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TcnJ890eZ0\">https:\/\/t.co\/TcnJ890eZ0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vuPKXD4mVg\">pic.twitter.com\/vuPKXD4mVg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stoolpresidente\/status\/1406638957279035397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Robertson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/derek_j_rob\/status\/1406643565925646341\">tweeted<\/a> back: \u201cthank you for reading, dave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cfwiw, i think the barstool fund both fits perfectly into the dynamic i describe here and was a salutary thing to do,\u201d Robertson added. \u201cthis piece wasn\u2019t meant to \u2018trash\u2019 portnoy or the GOP, just to accurately describe a cultural dynamic that\u2019s impossible to ignore. make your own judgments!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Portnoy challenged Robertson\u2019s claim that the article was not meant to \u201ctrash\u201d anyone, pulling a quote from the second paragraph of the piece: \u201c[Portnoy] also heads an online outlet that has shamelessly stolen content and engaged in flagrant racism and misogyny, leading harassment campaigns against anyone who would dare call them out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOhh. Derek chose to omit it even though he admits it fit perfectly.\u00a0 Thank god he was unbiased. Nice and unbiased per below paragraph,\u201d Portnoy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stoolpresidente\/status\/1406654529857261572\">responded<\/a>, referencing the quote he pulled. \u201cIronically \u2018Dereks\u2019 are why people like me in 1st place. I enjoy life. I got no agenda. Don\u2019t lie and believe actions speak louder than words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politico published Robertson\u2019s roughly 1,800-word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/06\/20\/barstool-sports-republican-politics-portnoy-trump-495221\">article<\/a> titled \u201cHow Republicans Became the \u2018Barstool\u2019 Party\u201d on Sunday. The piece is an attempt to describe the cultural pressures that grassroots voters are putting on the GOP and an attempt to pinpoint what carried President Donald Trump to victory in 2016 and earned him nearly 75 million voted in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson contends that Portnoy encapsulates the right-wing populist and anti-politically correct attitude that propelled Trump to the White House, quoting Portnoy\u2019s own 2015 endorsement of Trump in a 200-word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barstoolsports.com\/blog\/351804\/im-officially-voting-for-donald-trump\">blog post<\/a>: \u201cI am voting for Donald Trump. I don\u2019t care if he\u2019s a joke. I don\u2019t care if he\u2019s racist. I don\u2019t care if he\u2019s sexist. I don\u2019t care about any of it. I hope he stays in the race and I hope he wins. Why? Because I love the fact that he is making other politicians squirm. I love the fact he says s*** nobody else will say, regardless of how ridiculous it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the piece, Robertson does not mention the Barstool Fund that has floated small businesses through the pandemic and heavy-handed lockdowns. Portnoy himself was one of the most vocal critics of lockdown regulations, citing the harm they were doing to small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson claims that the uniting feature among \u201cBarstool Republicans\u201d is a willingness to criticize Democrats. Robertson writes, \u201c\u2026 those willing to trash the Democratic cultural regime most loudly and consistently are firmly in command, with more staid Republicans forced to at least provide cover, if not actively follow their cues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, slammed Politico and contributing editor Derek Robertson over his report on the \u201cBarstool-ification of the GOP.\u201dPortnoy accused Robertson of spreading \u201clazy\u201d criticisms of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280997,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Dave-Portnoy.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Dave Portnoy Trashes Politico Over Report On Barstool\u2019s Popularity With GOP","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Dave-Portnoy.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Dave Portnoy Trashes Politico Over Report On Barstool\u2019s Popularity With GOP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}