Hitler was a socialist and McVeigh was an anti-God statist inspired by the Turner Diaries. Is this professor ignorant of history?
I think KSDK, SIUE, and Taylor owe apologies for impugning half of KSDK’s viewership last night.
No, Dana, KSDK did NOT smear conservatives as you would like to allege. Also, Hitler was NOT anywhere near a "socialist", and McVeigh was a far-right loon.
P/oed Patriot
first broke the story of a reported sexual assault case which took
place at the Occupy St. Louis encampment in downtown Keiner Plaza on
November 8th:
According to the St. Louis Police website crime map,
at 3:55 PM at the corner of North 7th Street and Market (the exact
location of Kiener Plaza where Occupy St. Louis was camped out) a Sexual
Offense occurred.
Why did this take ten days to make it to the mainstream media? Media tried to smear the tea party when they couldn’t find controversy, but this goes unreported for ten days?
ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — A woman participating in the
OccupySTL protest reported to police that a man sexually assaulted her
while she was in her tent last Tuesday, three days before tents were
removed by the city. A St. Louis City police officer says the mayor
could have prevented it.
Brian E. King, 38, was charged with first degree sexual misconduct
after police said he crawled into the victim’s tent and touched her
breast. The assault happened on November 8 at the encampment that used
to be set up in Kiener Plaza.
[...]
The mayor’s chief of staff says that Wiegert’s accusations are all
about politics, and the staff points out that St. Louis did not have
problems like other cities.
Occupy member John Mills says that crimes happened before the
occupation, and the perpetrator in this case was not a regular
participant. He does not think it should reflect on their movement.
The assault occurred at the protest and it would not have occurred
had the protest not occurred. Mills can’t say for certain that the
perpetrator isn’t a “regular participant.” So he’s kind of a participant? Mills stated that King isn’t a “regular participant” which suggests King had
participated before. The words of Occupy St. Louis’s own organizer
refutes the defense offered by its group on Twitter that King was “only
tied by location.” The group insists that the press, which hadn’t
reported on the assault for ten days, is also somehow “smearing” them
over the actions of an “unregular” participant.
Since KMOV reported this Occupystl attacked them on Twitter, accusing
them of “pandering” to me simply because I’m in the media, discussed it
on my radio show (KMOV and my flagship station are two media entities
in the same city), and publicly @’ed me on Twitter with a link to their
story while I was on air. The Occupy group seems more outraged over this than over the fact that a crime against a woman occurred at their event in the first place. Figure that one out.
*MORE from Adam Sharp replete with Marc Cox’s report on KMOV.
From the 11.17.2011 edition of KMOV's News 4 at 6PM:
KSDK, the St. Louis market's NBC affiliate, had reported the real facts-- unlike the Teabagger spin from KMOV.
St. Louis (KSDK) -- A homeless man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a tent at the Occupy St. Louis encampment in Kiener Plaza.
Brian Eric King, 38, was charged with first-degree sexual misconduct.
According to the probable cause statement, Krug allegedly went into the tent and touched woman's breast on November 8.
From the 11.18.2011 edition of KFTK's The Dana Show:
Bonus tidbits: Rabid Nickelback and LadyGaga hater Loesch is also trashingThird Eye Blind for supporting the OWS movement. She trashed Maroon 5 in October for bashing Fixed Noise, a GOP advocacy outlet disguised as a "news organization."
