Dave Portnoy accuses ABC of bait and switch in heated interview over antisemitic fk the Jews signat Barstool bar

Dave Portnoy said a local ABC news affiliate tried to “bait and switch” him during an interview about the incident involving an antisemitic sign at his Barstool Sansom Street bar in Philadelphia on Saturday.In a video posted to his social media on Monday, the Barstool Sports founder included a partial recording of the interview, which showed him in a “contentious” exchange with an unnamed female reporter, who he said tried to “ambush” him by blaming him and his company for the incident.Portnoy claimed the reporter “tried to say Barstool and I and white men were responsible for the incident,” — during which a sign that said “F–k the Jews” was displayed by bottle girls at the club in a now-viral video on social media.Warning: Graphic language“ABC News Philadelphia, they reached out, they begged me to do an interview,” Portnoy said in the video.“They gave me the reporter’s name, and then they do a bait and switch and a new reporter shows up to do it this morning.“She starts OK, asking questions about the bar, how’d it happen, responsibility, blah blah blah, and then she shifts and then she does what a media scumbag does.

“She pulls a quote out of her ass from I don’t even know, a made-up journal, some professor… They say that Barstool Sports creates a culture of harassment and that basically I’m responsible for this happening at my own bar.I’ve never heard of the quote.“Oh, you’re saying some f–king liberal college professor said they don’t like Barstool? So I was like ‘who f–king said it and what is this journal? We go back and forth and Austin starts taping it.” Portnoy included a recording, which showed him in a tense back and forth with the reporter during the virtual interview.“I don’t like quotes that I have no idea where they’re coming from,” Portnoy said of the statement the reporter claimed came from professors at the University of Virginia.

“I totally disagree with what you just said.Who...