Dave Portnoy's Barstool Sports employs 'super libs with no testosterone who voted for Kamala Harris', claims bitter rival Clay Travis
Outkick founder Clay Travis dismissed Dave Portnoy's Barstool Sports as competition, as he claims the organization employs 'super libs with no testosterone', while his group does not.
Barstool and Outkick are commonly lumped together for looking at sports through unique lenses which are not afraid to be controversial.
Travis took a bitter swipe at Portnoy and his company by saying they're not the same with them not a single 'white dude who voted for [Kamala] Harris.'
'I'm actually stunned that we don't have competition because I feel like we created beer and no one else will share a competing beer,' Travis told Semafor Media.
'I don't really see [Barstool] as competition. No, I don't. Because I think if I were structuring the breakdown, first of all, Barstool employs a lot of people that are super libs. That would be the white dudes for Kamala. Nobody talks about it.'
The interviewer then questioned Travis about employing liberals and asked if Outkick had a no-Democrats policy.
'Well, I don't think we have a white dude who voted for Harris,' Travis added. 'If we did good for them. I would question why their testosterone is so low, but they're able to vote for whoever they want.'
Having Barstool lumped in as a left-leaning organization would piss Portnoy off, and make Democrats upset due to their founders support for President Donald Trump and bashing of their party over the years.
Portnoy has not responded to Travis' comments, which were in part likely to drum up controversy, with lumps him in with Barstool more than he would like to admit.
The Barstool boss has had a busy last week, beginning with a weekend firestorm where he has continually blasted student Mo Khan, who filmed a vile anti-Semitic sign at one of his bars in Philadelphia at the weekend.
Portnoy ripped into Khan on Tuesday night after the Temple University student claimed to be the true 'victim' of the shocking anti-Semitic attack at Barstool Sansom Street, where a bottle service worker was seen holding up an illuminated sign that read 'F*** the Jews.'
Then, Portnoy appeared on the 'BFFs' podcast and talked about the private lives of Bill Belichick and his 49-years-younger girlfriend Jordon Hudson.
Harris has kept a lower profile since losing the presidential election last year to Trump.
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