Parr: Dave Portnoy's retaliation makes him look weak and endangers employees
Sam Parr · Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More · Nov 19, 2021 · at 13:25
Sam Parr critiques Dave Portnoy's scorched-earth PR campaign against Business Insider and Morning Brew following the publication of an exposé.
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“Now, the reaction, I think, is totally inappropriate, and I think it totally makes him look butt hurt. I think it makes him look weak. I think it's a bad move. The reason why it's a bad move is because Dave has fans, and he could be like, well, you know, I'm only, maybe he could say he's only joking. Maybe he could say you know, I'm not saying that I'm going to do something bad. Right. But I didn't believe this until I had someone close. So we're, I'm friends with the morning brew guys. And I see how I actually, they didn't explicitly say this, but I think that they're fearful that something bad's going to happen because Dave's fans are going to go after them. I actually believe that might actually happen. And because of that, I think that like when you have that great responsibility and that power of these crazy, so we'll do whatever you say, you have to act careful. And I don't think that he's being careful. I think it's, he's being harmful.”
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