
Portnoy’s Right
Mike Leitao ~ 05/10/2025
Riot Club draws a lot of inspiration from what Barstool Sports was able to create. A platform that feels real and unfiltered and shows more truth than fiction in topics that people care about in ways the regular news doesn’t. Barstool’s freedom and targeted content does allow for some more freely spoken individuals to express themselves through Barstool and that is fine, but as we recently saw can be a slippery slope. There are varying opinions all over the internet right now about the whole situation, some warranted and some not, but one thing is pretty clear to anyone with a working brain. Dave Portnoy has handled the situation incredibly and Mo Khan is a fucking idiot.
The situation itself is pretty cut and dry. Dumbass Mo Khan posted a video of a “Fuck the Jews” sign at the Barstool bar in Philadelphia. Context is that Dave Portnoy, owner and founder of Barstool, is Jewish. Dave handled the internal Barstool people as needed, told Mo he’s stupid and that was that. Because some people simply hate Barstool, they decided that Dave was a bitch and thought being antisemitic was the correct response. Bafflingly, this dumbass Mo Khan then decided to post a public video saying Dave is in the wrong and the villain and he is the victim, then did a public interview with a well known antisemitic individual. This isn’t someone digging themselves a deeper hole, this is someone digging a hole then using an excavator to make that shit 30 times deeper.
Situations like this can always get a little foggy with the way Barstool presents itself. On one hand they have certainly posted their fair share of shit that has been controversial. On the other hand, using that as an excuse to be straight up antisemitic is on the same brand of someone making a slightly dark joke and then someone else using that as an excuse to be out right racist. Of course, being someone with an IQ over 20 also helps as maybe then you would think that posing clearcut antisemitic stuff when the owner is Jewish is more than likely going to go bad. This story should just end there, dumb kid makes dumb mistake to the wrong person, gets lit up on social media and apologizes and everyone moves on with their lives. But unfortunately, life isn’t always simple for those who are clearly less intelligent. The fact this ugly and dumb Mo Khan had the actually audacity to sit down in his room with a wrinkled suit in his fucking gaming chair and released a 3+ minute long video saying he’s the victim and asking people to send him money for the fight. I actually don’t know how unright in the head you have to be to go put on your suit, sit down and record a longish video, rewatch it to make sure it’s good, and then still decide after all that time that it is a good move to make. Also, there are videos going around now showing bro throwing water on homeless people, so any claim he’s a good person is pretty clearly some bullshit.
If you read through this and everything else on this entire situation and still find a way to side with Mo Khan over Dave Portnoy, I have some crazy news for you. That is simple confirmation that you are antisemitic and hate Jewish people for no reason. There is nothing wrong with thinking Dave Portnoy’s past actions and posts mean that it is hard to feel sympathy for him. But agreeing with the actions of Mo Khan is wrong. Dave Portnoy handled the situation correctly on multiple occasions, and I for one am looking forward to him spending his time ripping this man to shreds and showing him that sometimes doubling down on stupidity can make a bad situation into career suicide. Remember, when you see Mo Khan working at your local Wawa, be sure to let him know he’s a brain dead idiot and remind him that he ruined his life over one of the dumbest things possible.