As his hero sez, words mean things.

Dude: NO. You did NOT threaten him. You demanded he run for President, and then you published his email address. There was no intermediate phase here that could be said to have constituted a threat. A threat would have looked something like this:



THAT is a threat. Possibly not the most effective threat ever, but seriously, dude, you're a crank cartoonist whom everyone hates and whose work newspapers only run in a misguided attempt to "balance" Doonesbury. It's the best you can possibly hope for.