The most wince-inducing part of his clip, to me, is at 7'30" where he says "...you may say, Riggs has done political interviews, Zero Blog Thirty... PFT's done political interviews, OK, I get that. But Dave doing political interviews is different than that, because Dave has always been about comedy-first. And Barstool is, for better or worse, it's Dave and it's me. And when people think of Barstool, they think of the two of us."
Leaving aside the egotism, and the more-sympathetic fact that he sounds legitimately blindsided... how can you pay the barest amount of attention to Dave Portnoy, nevermind work directly for him, and then say "he's about comedy first!"? Like, with a straight face? The guy couldn't be more of a distillation of naked political ambition if you gave him a soapbox and stood him out on the corner of the public square. He wants attention, he wants a following, he wants the world to be as HE thinks it should be, and couldn't care less about anyone else but himself in his pursuit to make everything about him.
I believe Katz when he says he signed up for this to make people laugh, and tries to stay out of politics because he thinks it's a domain too complex and serious for him. I have a hard time keeping my eyes from rolling when he tries to tell me that Dave Portnoy shared, he thought, a similar approach.