Posted on 11/14/2025 6:20:04 AM PST by Red Badger
A college student allegedly shouted “F*** the Jews” and threw coins at Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy outside a pizzeria in Starkville, Mississippi, on Friday. The outburst occurred while Portnoy was filming a “One Bite” pizza review.
According to The New York Post, Patrick McClintock, 20, a mechanical engineering student at Mississippi State University, was arrested and charged with disturbing the peace on Monday. He withdrew from the university the same day.
In a video circulating on X, the man can be heard making the antisemitic remark. Members of the crowd immediately condemn the slur as Portnoy turns toward the heckler and says, “Why don’t you come in the camera, buddy?”
🚨BREAKING: A man who threw coins and shouted "f**k the Jews" at Dave Portnoy outside a Mississippi pizza shop has been charged, TMZ reports.
20-year-old Patrick McClintock faces a "disturbing the peace" charge. pic.twitter.com/hiQ4O41JxK
— Awesome Jew (@Awesome_Jew_) November 10, 2025
The same slur was directed at Portnoy during a pizza review in Toronto, Canada, in June. The remark can be heard around the three-minute mark in the video below.
Barstool Pizza Review – Terrazza (Toronto, ON) pic.twitter.com/rQw3Y3dQ1p
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) June 2, 2025
During an interview with CBS News that aired on Sunday, Portnoy told anchor Tony Dokoupil that he encounters antisemitic attacks “every day” and said it wasn’t always this way.
I’ve seen in my own experience, just being Barstool, the difference between how much hate I get. I never got — I mean, occasionally you get ‘Hey k**e’ or ‘Jew’ or whatever.
[But] It’s every day now. There’s a definitive shift in what’s going on.
This is not normal ‘haha’ with the guys. People are coming in with real hate.
Just days ago, Barstool’s Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) was recording a pizza review in Mississippi, when a passerby shouted an antisemitic comment and the interaction was caught on camera.
In an interview with @CBSSunday airing next weekend, Portnoy tells @tonydokoupil that… pic.twitter.com/JZirLahp0X
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 9, 2025
While McClintock’s words were reprehensible, few X users came to Portnoy’s defense. Instead, much of the online debate over the incident has focused on his arrest.
The following X posts are representative of the conversation that ensued on social media.
Attaching one of Charlie Kirk’s posts in which he defends hate speech noting that “ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment,” one X user asks, “do you think having Americans arrested for using their first amendment rights (yes that includes offensive speech) helps or hurts your cause?”
Honest question: do you think having Americans arrested for using their first amendment rights (yes that includes offensive speech) helps or hurst your cause? pic.twitter.com/QbN9bmMmco
— Paulina Plazas (@paulinaplazas) November 11, 2025
@grok isn’t offensive speech protected by the first amendment? Even if it’s racially charged, (e.g., Cohen v. California 1971) The yell was not directed at portnoy(face to face), it was an outburst.
— Miro (@GodlyRH) November 11, 2025
It’s worth noting that if any one of us hurled a similar slur at a Muslim or a black individual, the backlash would be swift and severe.
But McClintock wasn’t charged with hate speech; he was charged with disturbing the peace.
Under Mississippi law, “disturbing the peace” includes using profane or offensive language or loud conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace (Miss. Code § 97-35-7). According to Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, similar laws are meant to preserve public order rather than restrict speech.
McClintock disrupted a public event by using language that was both profane and offensive. His words were loud and it sure looked like he intended to interfere with a public event.
While critics argue that McClintock’s offense was minor, disturbing the peace is a minor charge. It’s a low-level criminal charge that is usually classified as a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine, community service, or a short time in jail.
If people were allowed to disrupt public events (as McClintock clearly did) with impunity, civil society would eventually begin to unravel. While I realize that liberals have a long history of defending protesters — even when they cross the line into criminal behavior, rules of conduct exist not to suppress free expression but to preserve the conditions that make it possible — mutual respect, order, and accountability.
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On the plus side, his student debt is probably going to be manageable.
If I live to be 200 I will never understand people who hate Jews.
After this little stunt he might want to find another line of work. Nobody wants to hire someone like this.
Free stupid evil speech is protected.
But you may not throw things.
Patrick McClintock, 20, a mechanical engineering student at Mississippi State University...
Heil State!
They’re jealous.
I don’t care about the language but you can’t go around throwing stuff at people even David portnoy
Me either............
add me to that list.
Saw the clip, a shorter type but thought he was real tough. He looks like a fag with all those curls dangling in his face, he says that to the wrong person he is gonna live his life in a wheelchair.
His looking for work with his mind set is his Judgement Day just anoyher know it all 20 year old.
He believes companies hire teenagers because they still know it all it gives hin a good chance.
“ If I live to be 200 I will never understand people who hate Jews.”
Simple.
It’s just basic evil , unchanged in thousands of years .
Thank God Eisenhower documented with photography and film what the Nazis did.
The knuckle dragging Jew haters would seek to deny what happened in today’s world
So he is charged with a misdemeanor right?
Whoop! We got NEWS! About a kid who got charged with a misdemeanor!
Ah yes, another Cucker Fuentenista being a boss
My first real encounter was in the early 90s during a trip in Eastern Europe. It's been building since, not coincidentally, the Obama election, into a full blown pandemic. I was brought up by parents who respected and admired them and, like you, cannot fathom the hatred.
I do not understand the hate for Dave Portnoy.
I have been following him on Barstool since he first came on the scene only in the Boston area. One of the rookie new guys turned us older guys onto it. He started the business out of condo. Hired all his friends. Built it up into a business he sold for millions. Then that company sold it for even more millions. Then he bought it back for $1.
Now, he has expanded even more. He is on Fox sports. He is in the box with Pats owner last Sunday. When he was literally THROWN OUT of the Superbowl because he bad mouthed the NFL commissioner such much.
Recently he bought the most expensive house on Nantucket.
So, yes I think it is jealousy
Portnoy better start carrying.
Tossing your pocket change at someone’s feet is disrespectful but not illegal...especially when the other guys ‘bodyguard’ is pushing you away.
Case dismissed.
In Minnesota he wouldn’t be charged at all..................
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