Barstool Sports Founder Hits Media After Viral Anti-Lockdown Monologue

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Portnoy expressed the frustration and anger of every rational American. The media didn’t like that.

Barstool Sports Founder Hits Media After Viral Anti-Lockdown Monologue

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By May 15, 2020

On Thursday, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy slammed Forbes for an apparent “incoming hit piece” on the 43-year-old, a day after a video of Portnoy criticizing excessive and indefinite lockdown measures went viral.

“We’re writing up a story on your video and wanted to reach out for comment before we publish,” an apparent email from Forbes reporter Jack Brewster said. “In the story we point out that [Dr. Anthony] Fauci’s comments were slightly more nuanced than your characterization and wanted to make sure to give you a chance to clarify.”

“Was that a question or just clarifying an upcoming hit piece is coming?” Portnoy responded to the email.

On Thursday, the businessman posted a screenshot of the exchange to Twitter, adding the caption, “I got to be honest. This doesn’t seem like fair reporting [Forbes].”

During the monologue, Portnoy questioned Fauci warning against a reopening, claiming it would cause death and destruction.

“What the f*** is going on?” he started the video. “When did this become, ‘flatten the curve’, ‘flatten the curve’, ‘flatten the curve’, to we have to find a cure or everyone is gonna die?”

“Like, [Dr. Anthony] Fauci, seems like a nice enough dude, I was always like, this guy has no agenda …  [He] gets in front of the Senate, he’s like, we’re reopening the country too fast everyone’s dead,” Portnoy said. “Where’d that come from?”

Dr. Fauci, a key member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, recently warned opening “too early” — though it’s been weeks since the White House’s “15 Days to Stop the Spread” has lapsed — would lead to “needless suffering and death.”

“If we skip over the checkpoints in the guidelines to: ‘Open America Again,’ then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country,” he said in an email to The New York Times. “This will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would actually set us back on our quest to return to normal.”

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Dave
Dave
3 years ago

Faucci might be a gentle man: but him sending 3.7 million to the Wuhan Lab, and having financial interests in the vaccine and its distribution just cracks my nut the wrong way.
Since I learned those famous nine words: “I’m from the government……………… makes me not trust Faucci.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave

he’s a gentle man if stalin was a gentle man. that little twerp single-handedly has destroyed our country because trump wasn’t smart enough to get out in front on him and call bullshiite on all this 2 months ago

John U
John U
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave

The same is true a-x the Atlantic here in the UK: both Prof. (T)W(h)itty (!), the national CMO & Prof. Neil Ferguson whose highly dodgy model(l)ing methods have been used to justify the disastrous lock down have extensive links with Mr. Microsoft. Both academics & their teams have received extensive funding from Bill Gates’ foundation to carry out past research at London University. So it’s no surprise both men have veered towards endorsing such medieval methods in the hi-tech 21st century to combat the virus & that they are so pro-vax.

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

I’ll tell you what the f is going on. We’re being murdered for political power. The people who have ruled us for a century want to finish us off, by any means. They set the stage to take the globe at our expense, and murder us, but their global hitman and assassin assigned to murder us lost the last election. They want the power of the WH so they can finish the job they have worked on for a century, and actually since the day our nation was born.

The people who released this virus as a tool to take power should be living in fear, not us. That’s what the 2nd Amendment is for. They’ve been murdering us in front of our faces for a century. They conquered us through a poisonous monetary system and every influence of the currency it controls.

Once this bug was out, it was murder that can’t be stopped, so now what? Tens of thousands of old, frail, defenseless citizens are dead, and are going to die, and what will be done about it? Will we ask for resignations? Will we hope the laws they have been writing for the last century will punish them? This is the sickest set up I could ever imagine.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

i don’t even believe that some virus has been unleashed on us. the hoax is so broad and deep that i refuse to accept anything as being true. last week, a guy in montezuma county in my CO died with a blood alcohol content of 0.55, which is alcohol poisoning. his corpse apparently had the “virus”, and the state of CO ordered the coroner to call the cause of death to be the “virus” on the death certificate. if they are this obsessed with enforcing the hoax in nowhere colorado, what does that tell you?

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

You’re free to believe whatever you want to believe. A few examples of fudged data don’t make the virus and all deaths from it a hoax. It only proves the virus itself and the reaction to it has a political motivation.

Is the entire world, with no exceptions, in on the same hoax? Nope.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

More than likely the dead drunk wasn’t even checked, prior to death OR post mortem, to find out if it was even infected.

Ten to one says …. No the drunk wasn’t tested.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

California is warehousing the homeless in hotels and supplying them with DRUGS and ALCOHOL! It’s insane. They want people dead.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

It’s real but no where near as deadly as they claim. The fatality rate is with the older people and those with compromised health. I’d bet ANY flu or virus affects them the same way. The bigger difference seems to be more contragious than others. It’s time to get on with life and NO MORE BAIL OUTS! Suicides and domestic violence may out number the BOGUS virus numbers soon! DEMS want to make you crazy!

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

this guy is what every elected republican should be acting like and saying. i called my repub state represenative in CO 2 days ago, and said he was fed up with this shutdown and, wait for it, was going to introduce legislation in a state where the democrats have seized the entire machinery of the government. what a fool and loser. i told him to get on the steps of the state capitol and say 2 things: the guvs orders are not constitutional and are therefore illegal, and no one in CO has to comply with them. i think he thought i was a nut, and my guess is that he is in some committee meeting this morning wondering what he can do about all this.

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

The only people who knew what this virus would do are the people who released it. No one releases a virus without knowing what it will do. It’s a perfect virus to spread rapidly and murder old and frail people, and that image creates fear. That’s why they made sure it hit a nursing home first. That’s why Cuomo infected nursing homes. Think about that.

They didn’t get the spread and death they wanted early on, so they didn’t get the voting by mail they NEED to take power.

The other edge of this blade cuts the economy, so they use it as well. They use fear of death and fear of economic ruin. They win elections by smearing their opposition. The Democrats have nothing but ruin in the cities they control, so they can’t boast on their public service.

The smear and fear distracts from the reason they went this far to take power. TREASON. They can’t elect a traitor to finish us off, and that’s what they’re trying to do. They can’t give us time to focus on the candidate they haven’t really chosen yet, they can’t allow debates at all or until the last minute so the people don’t have time to think about who the Democrats are trying to put in the WH. As long as everyone is talking about the virus, and the lockdowns, and all the theories about the whole situation, and all the players involved, they’re not talking about why all of this is happening.

It’s all happening because Hillary lost the election. She was supposed to wipe away the treason of the Democrat Party and the Obama regime FOREVER.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

It’s tyranny into submission.
They want to see if we will put up with it.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Stop being so dense.
FAUCI has an agenda. He is corrupt!

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
3 years ago

The truth hurts, doesn’t it?

BTW, I don’t recall having voted for Fauci to be President in 2016.

John Acord
John Acord
3 years ago

Faucci has revealed himself to be a farce leading to a fiasco. Every last one of his projections has proven wrong not by a little but by a chasm.

Janet Mohrman
Janet Mohrman
3 years ago

Once the vaccine for Covid 19 is available you cannot refuse it. If you do you will be sent to an army camp and incarcerated. The vaccine contains a component to sterilize you. Bill Gates is 100% behind this as he supports the new world order-population control, among other things. I know this sounds insanely crazy but read Agenda 21, aka Agenda 2030.
You are right, all of this has nothing to do with our health. We have never had such chaos and destruction of our economy during the regular flu season. So, why now? One argument that the left gives is “you want to kill grandma” if you open up the country. Well, if they were so concerned about “grandma” they would have insisted on mask wearing, close the country down during the regular flu season! Also, Democrats have tried multiple times to get Trump out of office, as they are still mad that he is president. So, perfect timing for the Democrats-an election year- unleash the virus, ruin the economy, cause radical unemployment, cause panic with the food supply and blame it all on Trump! Democrats think that they have already won the election but I believe that their strategy will back fire on them! Americans are smart! We know what real story is! We will return this country to world domination!

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