(NECN: Josh Brogadir, Boston, MA) - The story blew up this afternoon: a naked photo posted of Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's son Benjamin on the website Barstoolsports.com, and the guy who posted the photo and the blog post is defending himself.
Dave Portnoy, known by the site's legions of followers as El Presidente, says he had every right to do this and thought it was funny, playing into the website's theme - which is comedic, in a sophomoric way.
The photos came from paparazzi and were shot in Costa Rica - many of the photos were of the Patriots star quarterback's supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen.
Those were also posted on the website.
Portnoy is the owner of the company based in Milton, MA.
Some are calling this child pornography, Portnoy says that is the farthest thing from his mind.
"It's Boston. We're going to show the Gisele pictures. We saw the Brady's kid picture and basically I saw it and thought it was a funny joke. I mean really that's the nuts and bolts of it. For me it wasn't so much about the kid, it's an ongoing theme with us is that Brady is the best, Brady is God and really for us that blog was just another way to say it. It's like Brady's kid is the best, Peyton Manning's is the worst," said Portnoy.
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"To use an analogy, it could have been a dog, same genetic disposition, and we would have made the same analogy. So for me, obviously people are saying it's sexual, pornographic, all that. That's really not, for somebody to say that, that's wild to me. It's not sexual at all in nature to me," he said.
Portnoy says he is not worried he will be arrested on child pornography charges.
He says his only concern is his own safety.
He says some of the WEEI callers were making death threats against him.
Portnoy describes his website like an R rated movie.
It typically gets two million hits a month.
Portnoy says he was going to take the photo down - but it would seem like he caved.
See more of Josh Brogadir's interview with Portnoy here.
