Dave Portnoy speaks with NPR’s Steve Inskeep as part of a series that raises real questions to controversial or influential figures.
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Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, was surprised when a team of NPR journalists asked him to speak.
“If I said I was in NPR, on a podcast that was politically leaning like five years ago, I would say:
Portnoy is interesting after the election in which a man voted heavily for Trump, which includes Portnoy. National review, It is a secular “sexual liberalism, anti-recognitionism, anti-toxicity, and many F-bomb potpourri.”
His business rose along with the internet and sports gambling. There are many gambling ads on the Barstool podcast. As a creator, Portnoy made enough money to own a home near Nantucket and Miami, making millions of dollars bets on football games and cryptocurrency. He has also been criticized for years of criticism for unions, race, women, and even rape comments he claims to be a joke. He rebutted and sued, Business Insider After it’s published A story about claiming sexual misconductdropped the appeal in 2023 after his case was eventually dismissed.
As a star figure for a media company that caters to a large male audience, he is also seen as part of the “manosphere,” which speaks of the interests and sometimes the complaints of male voters.
Portnoy spoke Morning Edition People who, as part of the series, are thought to be different for longer than we do in our desperate, distracted, overheated national discourse, as intended to ask real questions to controversial or influential figures. Previous guests include Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, podcaster Steve Bannon and Harvard President Alan Gerber.
Below are some important points from the interview. You can see this above.
Style is just as important as material
Portnoy seemed to focus most on culture and attitudes. He said the vote for Trump was “a Democratic accusation rather than a support for Trump’s politics.” The Democratic indictment centers around “dull talk,” the lack of excessive “awakening politics,” and what he generally perceived as a desire to “shamble” in particular.
He differs from Trump on some issues
If politics is purely on the issue, Portnoy may be closer to the Democrats. He supports abortion rights and when he talks about immigration, he appears a little more generous than the Trump administration.
“I don’t think you should necessarily go back in time,” he said. “I don’t think I’d say, ‘I’m going to get out of here’ if someone’s legally not here, but they’re productive members of a society that’s not a problem. ”
He feels very successful and looks down
In explaining his tilt to the right, Portnoy spoke about establishing the Barstool as a four-page paper newspaper on sports gambling in the early 2000s.
“I started a business from scratch, but I really didn’t ask for help, went home, worked and didn’t spend 10 years off.
His language seems to have evolved a little.
In our conversation, Portnoy mentioned words that suggest that society is becoming more feminine, “it would have been using that day.”
He also recounted the moments that led him to be labeled as racist. He sang n-word on a social media post many years ago. “I’m not going to do it again,” he says. “But at different times… I wasn’t aware of the impact it had on some people. I’d never do that again. But there’s more texture to things. And in this internet age, it was often blown away. That means that clip is still used against me.
More recently, free speech advocates have created the news by denounceing the use of slur against Jews on the Philadelphia bar stool bar.
He was able to vote for Democrats
“I vote for Democrats, and I voted for Democrats,” he said, but he added that he “don’t want to be deviled” by the party because of his language and views. “It’s not all as serious as it looks,” he said. “You can say that guys are cute even if they’re not sexist.”
