A Fox News Host Walks into a Bar
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Fox News personality Kat Timpf says that she was attacked with a bottle of water in a NY bar.
The New York Post writes that Timpf says she was ambushed while attending her pal’s campaign event in Brooklyn Monday night — doused head to toe with a bottle of water.
The assault against Kat Timpf, a libertarian co-host on “Fox News Specialists,” occurred at Union Pool in Williamsburg, where her friend and Brooklyn Borough president hopeful Ben Kissel was hosting the event, which coincided with his birthday.
A still shaken Timpf told The Post Tuesday hat she was definitely targeted for the ttack.
“This was a pre-planned thing,” Timpf said. “Just to see someone look you in the eye with that kind of anger and hatred and whip water in your face … is a terrifying thought.”
Timpf said the man was silent s he tapped her on the shoulder, dumped water on her head and then splashed it into her eyes. She said the unprovoked incident forced her to cancel her speech at Kissel’s event about criminal justice reform and budget cuts.
“The way things have gotten, it’s just so sick,” she said. “I don’t even have a right to exist in public is how it feels.”
The 28-year-old commentator chronicled the “infantile bulls–t” in a fired up tweetstorm.
The unknown guy “walks in, clearly here because he knows I’m here, dumps an entire 1.5 liter bottle of water on me, first on my head and then I turn … to look and he splashes it directly on my face and runs out. I’m shocked, I’m stunned. I’m obviously upset. I end up not being able … to speak because of it,” Timpf wrote Monday night.
She went on to add, “I’ve never seen a more disgusting insane cruel climate than the one we’re in now. Why? What does that … accomplish? I guess I wasn’t able to speak so that’s great and I guess he wins, but we’re just randomly assaulting people in public now?”
The altercation was caught on security footage, which Timpf said has been turned over to police. She also filed a police report — but the assailant is still in the wind, she said on Twitter.
