Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow found himself in a tense back-and-forth with intelligence expert and MSNBC contributor Malcolm Nance on Friday about an article Nance says led to him getting dozens of death threats.
The two took part in a panel on Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real Time” and the topic of fake news came up.
“I sort of have a bone to pick with you,” Nance said to Marlow.
“There was this article about a 35-year counterterrorism expert who claimed they wanted Trump Tower attacked that was written in Breitbart. I got 31 death threats and that came from your website,” Nance continued. “You gonna apologize to me?”
After saying he spent decades hunting terrorists, Nance added that the story was “fake as hell.”
That moment when @MalcolmNance calls Breitbart’s @AlexMarlow out to his face about death threats Nance & family received b/c of fake news pic.twitter.com/n31IZgJI2k— Hercules Mulligan (@johnvmoore) June 17, 2017
“You don’t have to share your bonafides with me. I respect you. I respect your service,” Marlow began to reply.
“Your followers threatened my family, my children, my wife,” Nance shot back.
“Are you really suggesting that Breitbart doesn’t get death threats? That our lives aren’t put in danger?”, Marlow replied in defense.
Unsatisfied with that comment, Nance said, “no no, you can apologize to me now.”
Marlow said that if Nance could show him that the story is as he described it, he’d be “happy” to offer an apology.
“I will come to your office to see that retraction,” Nance said.
Marlow later said that Nance was once liked by people on both sides of the aisle, that is until Donald Trump became president. And now he has become an “hysterical person,” he added.
Others on the panel then defended Nance, including Maher.
