Barstool Sports in a War with TSN Reporter Gord Miller and His Daughter

SGKing

4 years ago

TSN reporter Gord Miller took some shots at Barstool, more specifically, the Barstool Brand, which he is clearly not a fan of. He took to Twitter to express his concerns about the messages Barstool sends with their brand. It all started with one tweet.

I like those guys a lot, but anything to do with Barstool is a no-go for me. https://t.co/W5l3IjmgIC

— Gord Miller 🌻 (@GMillerTSN) March 16, 2021

Then he further explained:

My problem with Barstool is the history of unapologetic misogyny, racism, xenophobia and the repeated condoning of non-consensual sex. If not wanting to associate with that makes me part of “cancel culture”, or constitutes “virtue signalling” or being “woke”, I’m OK with that.

— Gord Miller 🌻 (@GMillerTSN) March 17, 2021

“Cancel Culture”: holding individuals and groups responsible for what they say and do.

“Everyone is in favour of free speech…but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.”

-Winston Churchill

— Gord Miller 🌻 (@GMillerTSN) March 17, 2021

“Woke”: Recognizing that there has been—and still is—inequality and injustice around us, and making a commitment to point it out and affect real change.

— Gord Miller 🌻 (@GMillerTSN) March 17, 2021

And so no, I won’t “stick to sports” or “stay in my lane.” Sports is part of my life but not all of it, and the road I’m on has many, many lanes.

— Gord Miller 🌻 (@GMillerTSN) March 17, 2021

Barstool’s El Presidente responded to Gord’s comments:

I know people say I should ignore guys like @GMillerTSN But I’ll never be able to do that. Barstool is 20 years of my life’s work. I’m proud of it. I’m proud of our fans. He attacked everything I’m about. If you don’t fight back against that what do you fight back against?

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) March 17, 2021

Blue checkmark playbook

1. Make up lies about Barstool
2. Get meme’d to death by @Vindog56
3. Cry https://t.co/YAKLDgBZEp

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) March 17, 2021

Gor

If @stoolpresidente wants to point out where I lied about incidents of misogyny, racism, xenophobia and condoning non-consensual sex at Barstool, I’ll be happy to retract what I said. However, I did do my research, and there is plenty of evidence to back me up in each case. https://t.co/EGhR3x5zmI

— Gord Miller 🌻 (@GMillerTSN) March 17, 2021

Barstool started attacking Miller and his daughter’s account online with slurs, insults, harassment, attacks, and “she asked for it.”

She also weighed in:

https://twitter.com/BIairMiller/status/1372041558883729408

https://twitter.com/BIairMiller/status/1372041560863412225

https://twitter.com/BIairMiller/status/1372041563677851648

Just another day in the Twitterverse.

Beefs to be had and beefs to be squashed. Not sure this one is going to get ironed out so fast.

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