Dave Portnoy Calls Brianna Chickenfry’s Comments On Israel/Palestine War “Spectacularly Stupid”

Stick to beefing with Zach Bryan.

Barstool Sports personality Brianna Chickenfry (whose real name is Brianna LaPaglia) is best known for her bitter feud with her now ex-boyfriend. The two have gone back and forth on social media lately, following the explosive accusations she made against him when they broke up last fall and her claim that he offered her $12 million to sign an NDA when they split.

But now it seems she’s taken an interest in foreign affairs.

Earlier this week, Chickenfry took to social media to share her thoughts on the war between Israel and Palestine, calling it a “genocide” in Gaza and admitting that she just learned about what was happening – after hearing about it on Theo Von’s podcast:

“To be honest, I feel really f—ing ashamed of myself and I feel like utterly privileged and ignorant and just like gross that I haven’t talked about this sooner.

To be honest, I think I’ve just been so uneducated and not willing to go out and learn for myself about what’s happening in Gaza and I’ve just like been ignoring it as if it’s not a literal genocide going on and I know it’s like, okay, Brianna, what can you do about that?

I just watched Theo Von’s podcast.”

@ihatebriannachickenfry

♬ original sound – Brianna LaPaglia

Well as soon as the video was posted, everybody immediately wanted to get Dave Portnoy’s reaction.

The founder and CEO of Barstool Sports is himself Jewish and an ouoken supporter of Israel while criticizing Hamas, so there’s no doubt he has a different opinion than Chickenfry. But Portnoy has also been notably defensive of Chickenfry in the wake of criticism following her split with Zach Bryan, and at one point even briefly fired another employee, Kirk Minihane, after Brianna complained that he was attacking her.

So yeah, how would he handle this one?

Luckily, Portnoy hosts a podcast alongside Minhane (one of Brianna’s most outspoken critics at her company). And during today’s episode, Minihane wasn’t about to let Portnoy get away with not addressing it.

During the conversation, the outspoken Portnoy admitted that he didn’t agree with Chickenfry’s comments – and called them “spectacularly stupid.”

“It’s a very stupid comment. And then she’s like, ‘Everything I learned was from Theo Von.’ So I’m not going to put a whole ton of credence…

I think it’s idiotic. I think her take is absolutely idiotic… It’s a spectacularly idiotic statement to weigh in on something that is so controversial for two years and then say, ‘I learned it all from Theo’s trip to Qatar.'”

While he says he doesn’t believe Chickenfry was being anti-semitic with her statement, he doesn’t believe she’s educated enough on the subject to be chiming in:

“When you say it’s a genocide…and nobody wants little kids to die or anything. It’s a war. There is a war going on there. And even if you want to come to that point, which I totally disagree with, to say you didn’t really know it was going on for two years and you learned it from Theo Von and then you take to the internet and make that? Spectacularly dumb, stupid move.

But I didn’t take that as, ‘I hate Jews.’ I just took that as, ‘You’re an idiot for that rant.'”

You could tell that Minihane was enjoying hearing Portnoy (finally) criticize Chickenfry, as he kept baiting Portnoy to continue calling her comments stupid:

“‘I haven’t been paying attention to what is a worldwide conflict that everybody’s been talking about, wildly controversial for two years, but I think it’s time I speak up because I watched Theo Von?’…

It was so spectacularly stupid that she weighed into it. There’s no way…to talk about that particular issue without getting involved in it… This was a stupid move to me.”

Guess there are at least some things that Portnoy isn’t willing to defend from Chickenfry.

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