Dave Portnoy unloaded on a Barstool Sports staffer for wanting to have an antisemitic comedian on a Barstool platform.
On a recent episode of “The Unnamed Show,” Portnoy and Kirk Minihane argued about comments made by a content creator who goes by Beyond Average Mick criticizing Portnoy’s reaction to a recent antisemitic incident at a bar Portnoy owns in Philadelphia.
The conversation reached a boiling point when Minihane told Portnoy not to tell him to “shut up.”
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“Shut the f–k up you bald f–k,” Portnoy responded. “How’s that?”
“OK, go ahead,” Minihane said in response. “I’ll never recover from that. Go ahead, Dave, continue.”
“Well, you’re the one that’s like big bossman ‘don’t tell me’ — you work for me,” Portnoy shot back. “You little bitch. You work for me.”
“For now,” Minihane replied.
“For now? Quit, I’ll save $500K,” Portnoy said.
Previously, Temple student Mo Khan posted a video on social media showing a bottle-service sign in the Portnoy-owned bar with the message “F–k the Jews” written on it.
Portnoy spoke with Khan, who initially took responsibility, and offered to send him on an educational trip to Auschwitz concentration camp.
When Khan changed his story and claimed he was not involved in the incident, Portnoy called him a “coward.”
That prompted Beyond Average Mick to call Portnoy “Rabbi Dave” and criticize him for what he believed was a sanctimonious response to the incident.
When Minihane suggested having Beyond Average Mick on his Barstool show to have a conversation with Portnoy, Portnoy was not pleased.
“I hate this kid,” Portnoy said. “I do think he’s an antisemitic piece of s–t.”
When Portnoy said certain “Jew jokes” crossed a line, Minihane pushed back and suggested jokes of that nature should be allowed.
“You’re telling a comedian not to make a joke,” Minihane said. “OK, we’ll ban Jew jokes of that nature. We’ll get the constitution, we’ll get congress and ban Jew jokes of that nature.”
Minihane explained his reasoning for wanting to have Beyond Average Mick on the show.
“I thought it would be interesting to have somebody on who you disagree with and have a conversation,” Minihane said. “Which I thought you were trying to do with bringing these guys to Auschwitz, trying to have a conversation so you can put a name and a face to someone you disagree with. You don’t want to do that, so I was wrong.”
Portnoy released a follow-up video Thursday.
“This is about the bigger thing. Clips, what we talk about, taken out of context,” Portnoy said. “Now I’m seeing ‘Dave wants to throw people in jail for Jew jokes’ and ‘Dave wants to regulate Jew jokes’ and ‘he’s been this free speech guy and remember he sang that Ja Rule lyric like 10 years ago.’ It’s crazy.
“So, let me just set the record straight because people just watch the little clips. I was referring to, if you’re making a Jew joke right now, currently, after a bunch of Jews got Molotov Cocktails thrown at them in Colorado, or after two Jew are gunned down outside a Jewish Museum, and your response is somehow ‘It’s the Jews’ fault’ or a veiled Jew joke, you’re an antisemitic piece of s–t. That’s what this was about.”
“This was about, after Mo Khan held the ‘f–k the Jews’ sign in my bar and I kicked him out and tried to make an example of him, a troll basically was saying I have no right to talk about that or be mad about that. It’s just a joke, I make jokes, when are jokes illegal? Well, that’s an antisemitic piece of s–t. I’m not saying he should be in jail. I’m not saying put in him in cuffs. I’m saying that’s an antisemitic piece of s–t.”