The Fox Business segment became heated during a discussion about Portnoy's trading of 'meme stocks.' Stocks like AMC and GameStop saw their values massively increase earlier this year after retail traders snatched up shares following their promotion by a group of investors on Reddit. Portnoy is pictured during an event at Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey on May 11, 2019. that thing was viral, it was trending in the United States.'īarstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said that his 'face lit up' after being called 'a little bitch' on air by Fox Business host Charles Payne last week. I don't know what they thought, like this is what you lift all them weights for. 'The Fox people-usually they just hang up-they're like, 'Oh my God, we're so sorry, please tell us you'll come back on the show.' It's like, I thought that was f***ing great. 'I was very happy, like my face lit up when he said it,' added Portnoy. But if you rationally think about it, he made an idiot out of himself with his argument.' I like Charles, I love that he called me a little bitch. Like, I'm so right about the argument it's insane. 'Hilarious clip, he called me a little bitch on national TV,' Portnoy said after a clip of his appearance with Payne played. on Wednesday, Portnoy insisted that he enjoyed the exchange while maintaining that Payne had 'made an idiot out of himself.' During a discussion on his own The Dave Portnoy Show with Eddie & Co. Portnoy called Payne a 'moron,' who returned the insult by referring to Portnoy as 'a little bitch,' during a live broadcast of Making Money with Charles Payne last week. That’s how you put asses in the seats you little b***h,' he said.Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy says that his 'face lit up' during his recent on-air spat with Fox Business host Charles Payne, while the network later profusely apologized for the incident. 'I have our pr people and Fox show being like 'so sorry' blah blah blah. On Twitter, Portnoy reiterated his lack of offense. Don't be a little b****, Charles,' Portnoy said before the segment ended.ĬLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER 'These people, these are Twitter eggs that you're listening to,' Portnoy added, calling the host a 'naive fool.' So anybody 'paper hands,' I'd like to wrap them in toilet paper and glue lettuce to them and set them afloat in the ocean.' Listen, most of the people who are saying 'paper hands' and this and that. 'We don't pay any attention to those morons. 'Oh, those people are idiots,' Portnoy said. They're so disappointed and angry at you.

'Now, so many of these people who were in this, a lot of them got drawn into it because of you. 'You sold the minute you took that $700,000 hit, and you said you were 'paper hands,'' Payne said, employing a pejorative used to describe people who sell stocks off too early. Portnoy replied laughingly, 'I like that.' 'You're being a little b****,' Payne responded. 'You're being a moron,' Portnoy said at the climax of their argument.ĭAVE PORTNOY BRIEFLY SUSPENDED FROM TWITTER He also pushed back on Portnoy's mocking of those who criticized him for doing so. Payne pressed Portnoy on selling all his ' meme stocks,' a decision he announced in February after a Reddit-fueled push to buy stocks from companies such as AMC Entertainment and Gamestop disrupted the stock market and caused competing hedge funds to lose massive amounts of money.

Fox Business host Charles Payne called Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, a 'little b****' during a heated back-and-forth on Thursday.

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