Bernie Sanders Supporters Attack Reporters Online After Hillary Clinton Declared Nominee (HRC GP)

[Her Sister]

Political reporters faced a series of nasty attacks from supporters of Bernie Sanders after The Associated Press reported that Hillary Clinton had secured enough delegates to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president.

While the AP didn’t receive any specific threats, Danny Spriggs, the organization’s VP for global security, sent out a memo Tuesday saying individual employees “have received angry communications in the form of emails, social media messages and phone calls,” Poynter reported. Spriggs urged AP employees to practice “situational awareness.”

Amy Chozick, a reporter for The New York Times covering Clinton, tweeted that she had received multiple threatening calls from Sanders supporters.

HuffPost’s Mollie Reilly received several personal messages attacking her for reporting Clinton was the presumptive Democratic nominee on Monday.

The Washington Post rounded up several of the attacks from Sanders supporters aimed at female political reporters, including some directed at NPR’s Tamara Keith and BuzzFeed’s Ruby Cramer.

More info in links plus examples of the harrassment: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-supporters-attack-reporters_us_5758356de4b0ced23ca68b3d?

[Cha]

1. Of course they did.. And, they're not stopping progress one iota.. only making

themselves look bad again.

[Her Sister]

2. Seems like they are specially targeting female reporters!

So disgusting!

[Cha]

5. Weill yeah.. Sen Barbara Boxer, Roberta Lange, and Delores Huerta come to mind..

[sarae]

14. Disgusting

I'm sick of the harassment of women who refuse to be silenced. It needs to stop.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Brogressives?

[tonyt53]

4. Nice term there

[Cha]

6. Definitely should be added to that's era's lexicon.

[Walk away]

7. I have no respect for them and I don't think we need them. nt

[tonyt53]

8. The odd thing is that most of them will have lost interest by November anyway

[Walk away]

9. Of course. The less attention paid to bullies, the faster their power dissipates!

It would be different if we were running against a Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush. I don't think the party has to be held hostage while we are running against a man who's own party keeps trying to oust him.

[Thinkingabout]

10. Sanders needs to get in front of this, get the supporters under control, if he is the peace loving

Person he says he is then the time to step up is now. These actions are not helping Sanders.

[stopbush]

11. Who knows what Sanders is these days.

I can tell you what he isn't...

[Koinos]

12. He is driving the bus over the cliff. He needs to find the brake pedal.

[stopbush]

13. Hard to do when your co-driver is Susan Sarandon...

[sarae]

15. HAHA

POOR SUSAN (not really) She'll be the butt of jokes for a long time, I think.