Anatomy of a Liberal: NY Times Reporter Threatened to Disclose Montel Williams Home Address for Not Cooperating on Trump Hit-Piece
Bully, bully, threaten, bully...
10.28.2016
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This is the anatomy of the "tolerant" Left: If you don't agree with me or do what I want you to do, I will:
- Publicly shame you in the hopes you will either join my angry mob or be ostracized and hence, silenced
- Threaten your livelihood through boycott, berate the quality of your work, or have my online-minions post negative reviews of your work (where applicable) to lower your "stock"
- Assassinate your character to avoid debating an actual topic with you
- Enlist other bullies to rally around me and harass you into submission
- Compromise your personal safety by sharing your home address or phone number with the world
- Defame you as a "warmongering, sexist, Nazi, xenophobe" across all social media platforms
- Discredit you and any point you're trying to make by questioning your mental health
- Accuse you of being a stooge for Russia, ISIS, or insert-any-other-ridiculous-assertion I feel like
- Mock your intelligence or level of education
- Attack you for things you never said or did
- Throw anything else I can against the wall in the hopes that it will stick
TruthRevolt has been following, with great interest, the tolerant Left and its reaction to anyone -- be they a public or private figure -- who does not toe the liberal line in support of Hillary Clinton.
One of latest instances to illustrate this point, is how one New York Times reporter threatened to disclose TV personality Montel Williams' home address because he did not wish to participate in the writer's recent Donald Trump hit-piece.
While the Times story, which ran on Monday, was actually featured under a byline by Charles V. Bagli, it was reportedly feature writer Jacob Bernstein who contacted Montel Williams and his agent about the article.
Williams, who lives in a Trump-affiliated apartment building, was approached for the story because he is a prominent Trump critic -- one who Bernstein thought could speak powerfully to Trump's rise as a "white power movement" leader.
Williams was smart and essentially said, "thanks but no thanks" -- but the story doesn't end there. The Washington Examiner obtained private messages on Twitter between Bernstein and Williams
In his initial Oct. 19 message to Williams, Bernstein said he's "working on a story about what effect Trump's presidential campaign is having on the residential buildings he owns in New York."Williams directed Bernstein to his representative, Jonathan Franks. But Bernstein followed up with Williams to say he had been in touch with Franks but that "it's your voice I need.""You're one of the most prominent politically minded people living in a Trump building," Bernstein said. He added that Trump has "become the leader of a movement that seems to many to be the modern day incarnation of the white power movement..."
Williams' representative Jonathan Franks also contacted the Examiner to disclose contents of a subsequent phone conversation he'd had with Bernstein:
"On the phone, I asked him not to print which of the Trump buildings Montel Williams lives in," Franks said. "He then told me he'd be more likely to extend that courtesy if Montel gave an interview."Franks said he argued with Bernstein for about 20 minutes about whether Williams was a "hypocrite" for opposing Trump's candidacy while still living in a Trump-branded building.
So let's get this straight -- in order to "prove himself" to a New York Times reporter -- Montel Williams should have either moved out of his home (to prove he would boycott anything with the name "Trump" on it) or participate in a hatchet-job for the Times or risk of having his home address disclosed to the world as punishment.
This is the face of the Left and it is ugly to the core.
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