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Chapter 1: What is the controversy surrounding Dave Portnoy and Barstool Sports?
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The fight for our country is happening right now. Be a part of it at dailywire.com slash subscribe. Alrighty, folks, the big online story of the day, the story that has exploded across the interwebs is a controversy involving Dave Portnoy. Dave Portnoy is, of course, the founder and owner of Barstool Sports.
He also owns a series of bars, restaurants around the country that are labeled with Barstool. And the reason that he's in the news today is because of a controversy that broke into the open when a person who is a student apparently at Temple University named Mo Khan went to a barstool bar and proceeded to order from the back room some sort of dish.
And one of the things they do, I guess, at these bars is they have a sort of letter board. And you can ask the waiter or waitress to change the letters on the letter boards. You can say, break up with him on the letter board. Or you can say, go Eagles on the letter board. Well, this guy asked for a very specific thing on the letterboard. F the Jews. And then he proceeded to post that video online.
And here's what it looked like. So you can see there are a bunch of girls who are laughing, thinking it's hilarious. As a waiter holds up a sign that says F the Jews. a lot of celebration in the club. So that's always wonderful. That's just delightful. All these people seem like just delightful, transgressive, wonderful human beings.
Okay, in any case, Dave Portnoy is the owner of Barstool Sansom Street. The bar put out a statement saying that it involved a customer whose actions were deplorable. And Portnoy said that two customers were involved. The bar blamed misguided employees who ignored the company's training and their zero tolerance policy for discrimination and hate.
And again, private companies can have those sorts of policies. If you are an employee and you are asked to say the N-word on a sign or screw Whitey or whatever it is, and you say no, that is what you are supposed to do as an employee of Barstool. Well, the president of Temple University, John Fry, announced that a student believed to have been involved in the incident had been suspended.
That would be the person who posted this in celebratory fashion. Well, then apparently Portnoy reached out to this person whose name is Mokan. Originally, he said he was very angry and it happened at his bar. He himself is Jewish. He was upset about it. And he said that he was going to make it his life mission to ruin these people like I'm coming for your throat. And then he backed off of that.
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Chapter 2: How did Dave Portnoy respond to the anti-Semitic incident?
CNN cited people familiar with the matter as saying that Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his supposed negotiator extraordinaire, who has yet to negotiate a good deal, had worked with the Omanis over the past week to broker the U.S. Houthi ceasefire. The sources said the ceasefire was also meant to help build momentum in the Iran nuclear talks where Feshkov is leading.
So again, the goal here for Iran is to basically say, okay, the Houthis will stop attacking U.S. ships in the Red Sea. And in return, you guys cut a bad Iran nuclear deal and wash your hands of the whole region. That is the goal. Now, of course, Iran is not going to stop developing nuclear weapons, particularly if the Trump administration cuts a bad deal.
And what is the predictable result of all that going to be? The predictable result is going to be something very much like what just happened in Yemen, meaning the Israelis took it upon themselves to destroy the entire airport in Sana'a.
So if you want Israel bombing Iran, actually the best way to ensure that Israel is going to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities is to cut a bad Obama nuclear deal because Israel will then have no choice but to go ahead and do that.
So if what you're seeking to avoid is escalation, then stronger peace through strength, stronger strangling of the Iranian economy, stronger demands upon Iran would be the way to actually do that. It's not possible to see the Houthi deal outside of the context of the broader Iranian issue. I mean, President Trump said that back in March.
He literally put out a statement in March saying that the Houthis are just an Iranian proxy state. So the reason, again, that the Houthis are doing this is to try and suggest that if Iran basically goes after Israel on its own, that the United States will... sort of disappear, that it won't matter at all to the United States. And they're hoping the United States will buy into that.
Of course, that's not actually true factually. If Iran were to gain a nuclear weapon, they wouldn't just be threatening Israel. They would also be threatening, presumably, the UAE. They'd be threatening Saudi Arabia. They'd be threatening other areas in the Middle East, ranging from parts of Syria, presumably, to Iraq, to places like Azerbaijan.
An Iranian nuclear weapon creates geopolitical instability for sure. And so if this is an attempt to basically say to the Trump administration, get an easy win with a headline, and then we get to go nuclear. And after all, we don't care about you. We just care about the Israelis. First of all, the Iranians are good at this. They know the game that they are playing.
And if the United States shows that it is uninterested in the region, the Iranians are not going to stop being interested in the region. And that will lead to more conflict. Again, when the United States recedes from the world scene, it is not that what fills the gap is something better and more peaceful and more wonderful.
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