On Tuesday night, Current TV host Keith Olbermann got into a heated battle on Twitter with Andrew Breitbart and CNN contributor and Big Journalism blogger Dana Loesch over Olbermann’s February 13 assertion on his program “Countdown” that there rapes and sexual assaults in various Occupy Wall Street encampments were “made up.”
On “Countdown,” Olbermann was commenting over a clip in which Breitbart was yelling at Occupy protesters who had stopped by last week’s CPAC conference in Washington D.C. who called on Occupiers to “stop raping people!”
After accusing Breitbart of being drunk and on drugs, Olbermann’s guest and founder of the liberal blog Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas, claimed that the myriad documented cases of sexual assault and attempted cover-ups by leaders of those Occupy encampments were both “made up” and inconsequential:
“They [Occupy Wall Street supporters] can be as filthy and they can rape people — if you want to make stuff up —but the fact is nobody really cares about it because that message isn’t about the messenger, it’s not about who’s delivering a message, but it’s about the message itself which really resonates at a very core emotional level with people who are suffering in this economy,” Moulitsas told Olbermann.
When challenged on this assertion, and demands made by Breitbart’s Big Journalism for Current’s co-founders, former Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, to address this irresponsible statement, Olbermann took to Twitter to double down on the comments.
"No Occupy Rapes, No Cover-Up, No Apology, No Retraction," tweeted Olbermann.
Breitbart’s network, which has provided running coverage of the many criminal abuses committed at the Occupy encampments across the nation and globally since the movement’s inception on September 17, 2011, posted a selection of the best-of rapes and cover-ups for Olbermann to digest.
Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 — Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation
Cleveland: 10/18/2011 — ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
Seattle: 10/18/2011 — Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested
Cleveland: 10/29/2011 — Rape Reported at Occupy Cleveland
Dallas: 10/24/2011 — Police Investigating Possible Sexual Assault Of Teen At Occupy Dallas
Portland: 10/16/2011 — Sex Offender Registers Occupy Portland Camp as Address
Lawrence, KS: 10/25/2011 — Sexual Assault Reported at Occupy Camp
Glasgow: 10/26/2011 — Woman Gang-Raped
Manchester, NH: 10/28/2011 — Woman charged with pimping teen recruited at Occupy NH rally
NY: 10/30/2011 — Woman Assaulted in Her tent
NYC: 11/3/2011 — Occupier Busted In Tent Grope, Suspected In Rape
Chula Vista, CA: 11/6/2011 — Underage Girl Missing From Occupy Protests
Philadelphia, PA: 11/13/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Rape
Austin, TX: 11/15/2011 — Occupier Accused of Masturbating in Front of 16 Year-old Girl
Chicago, IL: 11/16/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Child Porn
St. Louis, MO: 11/18/2011 — Woman Sexually Assaulted
NYC: 11/19/2011 — Occupier Arrested for Forcibly Touching Woman
And a list of attempted cover ups by Occupy leaders:
New York: 10/25/2011 — Three Men Threatened to Kill 24-Year-Old Occupy Wall Street Protester for Reporting Rape
Baltimore: 10/18/2011 — #OccupyBaltimore Discourages Sexual Assault Victims from Contacting Police
Boston: 10/20/2011 — Occupy Boston Doesn’t Want Police Involved in Rape
NY: 10/10/2011 — Sex, Drugs and Hiding from the Law at Wall Street Protests
Ottawa: 10/31/2011 — #OccupyOttawa Violent & Sexual Assaults Not Reported to Police
Portland, OR: 10/27/2011 — Sexual Assault: ‘nobody should contact the police’— Video
Olbermann shot back that the stories above were of Occupiers getting raped, and that they were the victims of the documented assaults not the perpetrators. “why are you blaming the victims, @Dloesch,” Olbermann asked Loesch.
The Twitter battle continues, even to this hour. When Breitbart asked why are “mny lfties dnying the nmbr of #Occupy rapes [sic],” Olbermann responded “Because almost none of the allegations are of rape and most on this list are duplicated.”
Breitbart appeared on Current TV’s “The Young Turks” on Tuesday to discuss with Cenk Uyger the accusation of rape, racism and several other topics of contention between the conservative blogger and the progressive television news hosts.
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