The fucking food writer for a newspaper. A stupid pizza party.
This has unfortunately driven me nuts due to the sheer pettiness. It just tells me that these regressives are absolutely relentless, high-school-aged cunts.
Story from Outkick.com: https://archive.ph/VF2IO
One of the sponsors alerted Portnoy of the outlet’s inquiry, reading, to the effect, ‘Dave’s a misogynic racist. Do you want to defend yourselves advertising at this event?’”
Portnoy posted a screenshot of the email on the Barstool blog, showing the exchange between Emily Heil, the paper’s national food writer, and a redacted sponsor: [image]
Dave calls the reporter: https://archive.ph/6is0X
“I’m sorry. Who are you?” she asks, unbeknownst Portnoy was aware of her article plans.
“I’m Dave. The guy you are writing about,” he responded.
Portnoy questioned why she did not ask him for comment but went to his sponsors instead, to which the “journalist” insisted she had yet to come up with “specific questions” for him.
Heil denied that she called Portnoy “misogynic” and “problematic” in her email to the sponsor. Portnoy then read her the email to prove otherwise.
“Well, that email was the most pointed because I was trying to get a response,” responded a dishonest Heil.
[...]
Portnoy and Heil eventually agreed to speak at length at 10 a.m. on Thursday. However, Heil canceled those plans late Wednesday night, “proposing 5 p.m. instead.”
“I said 10 a.m. or nothing. They refused,” Portnoy commented on X.
WaPo's tweet of the article, with community notes added: https://archive.ph/VEvQh
Never talk to the media. This denies them the ability to get a quote, which is all they want from you. They have their article written already when they contact you.
"We reached out for comment before printing the article"
Means: We shot an email to the person about 10 seconds before this hit the website.
I listened to his recording of the phone call with the reporter.
Many of the comments are people who think they're clever for realizing the media is corrupt, but they still think it's about clicks/money rather than activism.
Picture related
filthy dumb journo scum
They have to double down and try to fabricate something because Portnoy has a pretty stellar legal case to extract quite a bit of cash from Bezos if they don't.
Fake it 'till you make it.
They'll go for the Libelling The Kenosha Kid defense: "We libelled and slandered him SO MUCH that he became a public figure. Public figures have different rules for defamation. Therefore, our earlier works that made him into said public figure are all a-ok."
Its stories like this that really make it sink in how stupid these people all are.
Like, its one thing to be malicious, duplicitous, or even an activist for evil. But to be this fucking stupid while doing so (while thinking you are slick) offends me more than anything.