Dan Bongino is a former secret serviceman
running for office in Florida. In a tweet, he suggested that coverage of his backers in Naples Daily News was “propaganda.”
.@ArekSarkissian @ndn also,my campaign is full of passionate small donors who despise papers like the @ndn & the propagandists working there
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) August 21, 2016
Asked by Politico reporter Marc Caputo to be specific, they end up on a call (after some Twitter trash talk), where things go horribly wrong for Bongino. (The action gets most classy about 7m 30s in)
Caputo’s being tricky—Bongino’s “propaganda” remark isn’t aimed at any specific claim in a specific story, even if it was a response to a tweeted Daily News URL. But Caputo knows how to work an angry idiot, and Bongino soon shits himself on a recorded call.
BONGINO: Marc, listen, you go fuck yourself.
CAPUTO: Awwwww, Dan, you’re so angry!
[Crosstalk]
BONGINO: My entire following has been developed by beating on people like you. … My audience is far bigger than yours.
Indiscreet, so say the least. But this is a fellow who talks of himself in the third person.
Yes, Bongino doesn't tolerate biased reporters. Ever. https://t.co/xpMZVnbzfq
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) August 21, 2016