HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE: Clay Travis writes:

As soon as the Washington Post told me they wanted to do a story on Outkick I knew what was coming.

The usual far left wing smear job to try and make me — and Outkick — look awful.

Been there, done that.

In fact, all of you knew what was coming as well. As a prelude to the story I polled you guys on Twitter and asked if I’d be painted in a positive light.

[Tweet omitted from quote – Ed.]

30k of you voted in my Twitter poll and a whopping 94% of you said the story wouldn’t paint me — or Outkick — in a positive light. The public is not dumb, they know the sports media has picked a side and I’m not on the “right” side so I don’t get positive media coverage.

I know this too.

But the reason I agreed to participate in the story was because I thought you guys would enjoy a behind the scenes perspective to illuminate just how biased hit pieces like this are. So I decided to record every minute of my conversation with the Washington Post reporter and post the portions of our conversation he decided to use as quotes to demonstrate how fundamentally artificial and devoid of context those quotes truly were.

As the Insta-Professor has said, always record your interview.

Update (From Charlie): I’ve disabled the link for now — it’s apparently been hijacked.

The home page for outkick.com works, but the story link has the same problem. I’m trying to notify them.