Like the other post you "didn't get," it stands on its own.
The woman made a goddam threat to bust this poor sap's ass all over the internet as a lousy reporter if he didn't change his story.
That's the point. Not the initial exchange, which was reasonable.
Like any other heretic, he was shown the instruments of torture and told to recant. If the activist had been pro-life, an NRA member, or any of the people with the "wrong" views, and done this, your head would have exploded.
Please reserve the main BBC Online channel for emerging truth.
"As long as it's our truth." Neither you or ER would know real fascism if it bit you in the hind end.