The latest conservative-minded public figure to fall victim to mob behavior from the left is Fox News contributor Kat Timpf, who said that she was “chewed out, abused” and “and ran out of an establishment” because of her affiliation with the cable news channel.
“But I guess that’s the norm now,” she wrote.
The new normal
Timpf, a regular guest on the “Greg Gutfeld Show,” described her encounter in an early Sunday morning tweet to her 265,000 Twitter followers.
I was just ran out of an establishment because of where I work. Chewed out, abused. But I guess that’s the norm now.
— Kat Timpf (@KatTimpf) November 11, 2018
After overhearing that Timpf worked for Fox News, a woman at the bar became enraged. “This girl started going nuts on me, screaming at me to get out of the bar. I found her very threatening,” Timpf said. She said she had never met the woman before.
Timpf eventually decided to leave the bar after the woman continued to follow and harass her, while other patrons just watched and laughed. “It was super uncomfortable and I didn’t want things to get physical,” she said.
This comes just days after Antifa protestors surrounded Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s home while chanting “Racist scumbag, leave town!” and warned Carlson’s family on social media that they “were not safe.” Carlson’s home was defaced during the incident, and authorities are investigating the threats as a criminal matter.
Not her first rodeo
Timpf also writes a column for the conservative magazine National Review, and she isn’t known to profess far-right or extremist views. However, this wasn’t Timpf’s first threatening encounter with an angry leftist, and she told The Hill in July that a man dumped water over her head at a political event in Brooklyn, New York earlier that month.
“I was there to do something for my friend,” Timpf recalled. “And this guy just comes up; it was very clear that he was there because he knew I was there ahead of time. He was coming there to come after me, which is the most terrifying thing about all of it.
“He came up from behind me, tapped me on the shoulder, dumped [water] on my head and whipped the rest of it directly into my face,” she said. “My eyes were burning. It was right into my face.”
The assailant was never identified or apprehended. Timpf, who has worked with Fox News since 2015, describes herself as “a chill person” and said she doesn’t know why anyone would want to harass her. “I felt bad having to call the cops,” she said. “I just want to be able to live my life and stay dry and un-threatened. That would be dope. That would be good enough for me.”
Liberal hospitality
“Not everyone has to like me,” she continued. “I don’t want to have to feel like I have a target on my back when I’m out in public by some lunatic who hasn’t even met me.”
“I can’t believe that this is the third time something like this has happened to me,” Timpf said in a statement provided to The Hill. “First I had that water dumped on my head, then a few months ago I had someone interrupt my dinner and tell me I was ruining the country, now this.”
These attacks have become a trend in recent months. Carlson’s 19-year-old daughter was verbally harassed at the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia, in October, because the attacker didn’t like her father.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders were similarly booted from restaurants by angry progressives looking to publicly shame them.
Timpf’s harassers, like many others, don’t bother engaging in debate or articulating their dissent. “None of these people have even been able to tell me what exactly I have said or done myself that they had a problem with,” she said. “I think it’s disgusting, and I shouldn’t have to worry about going out in public because of where I work.”
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