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Tolerance ala Bolshevikism:

4 commandments that might be added to Alinskys original commandments:

1. When you know much more than others what is right, you know that other people are not tolerant.
2. When people who are not tolerant also have differing opinions that dont agree with MSNBC, these are bigots.
3.These bigots are the suppressors of human rights, and amplifier of hate. This is discussed daily on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS.
4. Since they are bigots, hateful, and out of touch with human rights, they cannot be tolerated. Not coincidently some of these people also read Bloomberg and watch Fox News. This proves their bigotry.
5. Since they cannot be tolerated, you can disparage them, and you should speak out against them, and never let them forget ever that they are intolerant, bigots, suppressors of human rights, and amplifiers of hate.

The guy's an asshole. Regardless of what trolling she was doing, she does have the right to video record people in public, and no, you don't have the right not to be recorded. I hate to break this to you, but America has NEVER given people privacy rights. It should, to a large extent, but it doesn't. In any case, being recorded in public is ubiquitous in modern life. Get used to it.

That said, the above video is clearly very cropped. This suggests that the "reporter" -- and that's a term that can only be use very loosely today -- was trolling and trying to get a reaction to discredit her political opposition. That, of course, does not excuse this asshole's behavior, but it does invalidate the source as a real news source. It's a propaganda site masquerading as reporting like most so-called reporting today.

People need to grow a pair of balls and be intellectually honest when they are opposing a political position. Instead of pretending to be reporters, come out as the political opposition and actually debate your opponent as the opposing viewpoint. Be a real debater, not a fake reporter.