Anyone who threatens to murder someone over a politician has serious mental issues. That writer needs to contact the police immediately.

devoid of detail or any way to verify the claims. As it stands now, if that is all you got, you got nothing here.

I have no way to confirm any of this. Not a shrewd of evidence that anything actually happened, whether something happened as he said it did and YOU have no evidence it was a Bernie supporter. You should edit your bullshit headline.

You have some scary people on your side. The superdelegate hit list comes to mind.

I have no idea if he is lying. That is my point! There is nothing there. Where are the tweets threatening his life, for starters?

Then show is they are Bernie fans.

You didn't try to scoop those with this breaking story?

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about as dumb as you can get. Call them out? Trolls like that. They contacted your family? Call the cops. I looked at his posts, could not find the tweets at all.

Created by rabid Hillary supporters

That is a simple observation based on empirical observation.

You show me a death threat, I'll show you concern.

You show me a guy tweeting that he received death threats with nothing more, I wait for more.

You post the claims here while adding that Bernie fans are threatening to kill someone with NO evidence, I will take you to task.

You just saw evidence. A WaPo journalist said that happened to him. That is evidence. There are jerks on the internet who do this stuff and it's not that surprising after all the BS supporter harrassment campaigns against those who disagree with them that some real thugs are going to come out of the deep woods.

Otherwise we have a number of people.who have been in ufos with the same level of evidence.

This religious behavior has got to go.

so he was asking for the death threats he received for the crime of explaining its not really a 27 dollar average...

Can we please reconnect with reality a little bit here!

Some idiots make death threats and publish Bumps address on the internet.

Did they claim to be Bernie supporters? The initial tweet by Bump does not state that faith based "fact". It appears that Bump assumes they are Bernie supporters.

If they did claim to be Bernie supporters, is that truthful? Or is it a prank by sociopaths with no political allegiance?

Bump has the perfect right to be outraged. He is morally and ethically wrong to place sny blame on Bernie or his supporters.

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The wall appreciates your self restraint.

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Show me proof of that. Sounds like Breitbart journalism to me.

Hillary tainted herself when she brought on David Brock. Nothing that comes out of her campaign rings true.

Your religiosity is bumming me out.

I have no religion, so I can't be the cause of your bum out on that front.

I am however, fond of the idea of Bernie Sanders as POTUS. I wish you big time bumming out over that.

I can't say that I wish you luck with it. But here, have a donut.

but thank you anyway.

here have a strawberry smoothie and some salmon.

That part about not swallowing junk, was meant to include anything offered by you.

as a mild dig, just decided not to respond in kind this time.

no one has a sense of humor anymore. I however am running away with it.

The Sanders campaign has been playing with fire for some time now by playing in the darkest corners in the internet.

It's a natural and predictable consequence of how he's leading his campaign.

Bernie supporters. It never stops.

Same old title, though.

It's not harassing.

Any more than I care what you think. It's sad, isn't it? I happen to think superdelegates should expect that they will be approached, but I'd hesitate to call it harassment, if I were you. Sounds whiny.

And then having people make "threatening or profanity-laced phone calls" them all night is harassment?

http://patch.com/california/losalamitos/california-superdelegate-writes-open-letter-bernie-sanders-stop-harassing-phone-calls

"having people make..." etc. It's sheer hyperbole, AT BEST.

Has Bernie or anyone in his campaign asked for it to stop?

personal homes at night time against their wishes? ...Really?

You can't be serious. "Mean" tweets on the internet does not even merit serious attention, let alone serve as grounds for outrage.

Was there was a mean tweet about Al's bad hair day? Did Don Rickles insult someone at a show once? Geesh!

The point is that enough of us have experienced it and seen it that its bad enough that foreign journalists have discussed it.

Anyway, here's a section from an article from the latimes about Bernie supporters tactically harassing people from just this week alone.


“These people are worried someone is going to come to their house,” said Bob Mulholland, a Democratic political operative in California who supports Clinton and recently wrote an open letter to the Sanders campaign accusing it of fanning the flames of harassment. “They have been put on a ‘hit list.’”
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Even so, the Sanders campaign has struggled for months with loutish behavior online that extends beyond a few jerks. Most any woman who “has said anything critical about Bernie or positive about Hillary” on social media has been subject to Bernie bro harassment, said Laura Olin, who advised the 2012 Obama campaign on social media.

A frequent target is Joan Walsh, a national affairs correspondent for the Nation, who is supporting Clinton for president, though the magazine has endorsed Sanders. “They never stop, and you wind up on Twitter trying to convince a BernieBro that BernieBros exist -- and even as he's being Exhibit A, he's calling you a whore, $hill, sellout and on and on,” she said in a direct message on Twitter.

Jill Filipovic, a freelance journalist and attorney who often writes positively about Sanders, said that when she criticizes him, she is subjected to “a mass dogpiling” of tweets “sort of treating you like you’re a dumb girl.… The degree to which any criticism of this candidate is met with this complete brick wall of rage -- it’s like criticizing Jesus,” she said. “It’s truly bizarre.”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-bernie-sanders-supporters-20160415-story.html

get hit pretty hard by the bro segment of Sanders supporters especially on feminist blogs where people are Clinton supporters. Look around, ask around. It's not a secret.

I'm in the twilight zone, I will wake up soon.

who thinks that way. Real proof, which I have already provided, is irrelevant. So, at this point there isn't anything I can do.

I'm attaching a link that shows a youtube video by somebody that thinks Martin O' Malley is a devil. I thought about contacting the person to let them know about a medical condition that could make your pupils look that way, or explaining it could be to do with the angle and lighting, but I realized that that person probably couldn't be reasoned with so I didn't bother. I think the same thing is happening here in so far as evidence, which you have already been given, is irrelevant to you.

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are available on google.

Lying or incredibly, industrial-strength stupid.

Stupid enough to believe anyone would swallow the lie? I mean, it's not the first time some idiot has tried this.

Yes, you're OP is this.

Let's face it. Strategic thinking and political acumen are not their strong points.

Out of control.

life.

If he is being "threatened" than he should produce evidence and contact authorities. How does he know, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it was Sanders supporters? No evidence at I see.

Pretty sure they should be banned from this site.

Of course you do. Its in line with your ^H candidate

I assume there will be no hypocrisy now that the fingers are pointing to his own campaign. He should reign in those thugs asap.

For fucks sake.

And has been a point of multi public discussions as well as articles have been written over and over, face book pages linked to for people like Jande Goodall, Rep Lewis and Super delegates have complained....Bernie has encouraged them because he never reigned them in. It was only a matter of time for that envelope to get pushed out further and further until the lines of decency are crossed to a point of no return. Bernie should reign them in maybe even chastise them, and then distance himself so they understand this is not acceptable.

There are many articles- Many--News articles on the behavior of a no doubt minority of Sanders supporters. Many.


http://americablog.com/2016/04/sanders-supporter-publishes-hit-list-super-delegates-including-home-addresses-women.html

Or
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/10/bernie-sanderss-most-vitriolic-supporters-really-test-the-meaning-of-the-word-progressive/

Or
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35422316

Or

http://www.progressivestoday.com/bernie-sanders-caught-double-standard-behavior-supporters-video/

Or even this dude

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/alan-dershowitz-bernie-sanders-illiberal-supporters-article-1.2603151

Or the man Sanders himself


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/02/07/3746988/bernie-sanders-tells-berniebros-to-knock-it-off-we-dont-want-that-crap/

Lots more.

Bernie bros need to get a grip and figure out boundaries of decency.

Don't take it--not worth it.

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This isn't baseball.

Picking the winning team can pay off.

Some of us like the Mets over the Yankees though

and do not post on progressive sites with such venom.

This is a loud, ugly, group that has to be in the minority of supporters. But, yes, they are here.

He needs to start condemning the harassment; and doing it more vigorously and loudly. There will always be some crazies out there, but, putting his foot down would reduce the level of the vitriol, and helps reduce the chance of the real crazies getting too overexcited and taking it to these more frightening places.

There will always be some people who are nuts, but there are ways to blunt the more frightening impulses of the extreme fringe.

I imagine they are in jail by now, so they won't be voting for Bernie.

It must have been very bad, surely police were called.

Eh, who am I kidding, more hyperbole.

If that happened to me, the cops would be the first I reported it to... and then maybe I would hit up Twitter.

show how good your candidate is on the issues would have helped, violence and threats of violence is not acceptable.

Please remove it. I'm sure I'm not the only one who recognizes what you are doing here.

Looks good on you.

Let's see how it works on adults, seemed to work great scaring children.

Til a few unhinged Bernie supporters resort to violent threats. When you stoke anger like Bernie does bad things can happen.

unacceptable.

It's basic sanity... but it's enough to make you shake your head and laugh. The internet is a crazy place and I don't expect anything but I'm relieved you said something. Condemning it discourages it.

Some anonymous people said something online.

The guy even admits:

Philip Bump
Philip Bump – Verified account ?@pbump

I mean, lots of people get a lot worse, regularly. Just pointing that out.
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He's a man, yes?

because of his gender

I don't know enough about that to discuss it, but I've heard that comparison before.

me either.

Mr. Citizen strikes again?

Ask anyone on MIRT

He always re-appears with a new name.

My only point is that it is stupid to call the Sanders supporters since they are much more properly called what they are, which is crazies. It reflects Sanders in no way.

They're doing Sanders a lot more harm than good.

Who really knows how these people think?

Great strategy they have there.

Lord, that campaign is off the rails

when did this become Gamergate?