As Twitchy reported earlier, Daily Beast contributor Thor Benson shared an anecdote that he must have thought would have impressed people: “Hey, I saw Andy Ngo and told him he’s a garbage person.”
I just ran into Andy Ngo at a bar in New Orleans. I politely told him he's a "garbage person." Lol
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) April 8, 2022
As stunning and brave as that is, it wasn’t Ngo, and the onus is not on him to prove he wasn’t in a bar in New Orleans early Friday morning. Ngo wrote up the story for The Post Millennial:
.@thedailybeast tech & science contributor Thor Benson claimed he confronted me at a New Orleans bar & made me so uncomfortable that I left. It never happened—he racially profiled & harassed another Asian man. #StopAsianHate cc: @TracyConnor https://t.co/FYqrRGDMl0
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 9, 2022
Libby Emmons writes for The Post Millennial that Ngo “was not even in New Orleans, nor Louisiana, at the time Benson approached the stranger and harassed him until he left.”
Responses to the tweet encouraged Benson to treat the stranger roughly, with one Roel Miranda, whose Twitter bio says he lives in New Orleans, suggested Benson “Shoulda clocked him,” before asking “what bar?”
Others wondered if Ngo was still there, such as a filmmaker who lists his pronouns in his bio, asking if Ngo was “still there,” and asking that Benson let him know where so that he could “politely tell him something.”
When Benson responded that the man had “just left,” saying that he thought the man was made “nervous” by the harassing comment, the filmmaker said: “You did good then!”
Another user said that “An ‘accidental’ elbow to his grill—twice—would have been fitting.”
Speaking of garbage people, Keith Olbermann decided that he had to make himself part of the story somehow:
Was he carrying the kind of weaponized lethal sex toy that seem to follow you around? https://t.co/oAaENwdeTd pic.twitter.com/BXmU87QkHi
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 9, 2022
That’s a fake tweet, Keith. https://t.co/AV8vUNWIdi
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 9, 2022
We’re not finding “silicone rod” in Ngo’s Twitter feed.
Love how this illustrates just the kind of "journalist" @KeithOlbermann is. What other unverified stories have you pushed Keith?
— NVRMND (@friendster_fame) April 9, 2022
Remember these are the people who invent new words just to win an argument. They invent scenarios to get their way.
— Moogly (@Moogly2021) April 9, 2022
Keith continues to prove time and time again just how grounded in reality he really is. I wouldn't give this awful excuse of a man any attention, he's simply not a bottom feeder worth acknowledging.
— TheReplyGuy (@ReplyGuyReviews) April 9, 2022
10 to 1 thats Keith's "Rod"
20 to 1 Keith fabricated the post.— Knyghte (@Midknyghte) April 9, 2022
Keith is comfortable treating racist intimidation of Asians as a joke and spreading misinformation.
If he saw the mirror image of himself on the other side of the political aisle he would want that doppelgänger severely punished.
— Scott Bridgeman (@Devils73) April 9, 2022
Pretty much everything @KeithOlbermann tweets at this point, is fake, so… not unexpected.
— Floplag (@floplag) April 9, 2022
@KeithOlbermann is one of the truly horrible people who so often endorses people he personally don’t like should be harmed.
— T (@justagu39669288) April 9, 2022
Keith is trying to achieve Thor Benson status.
— That Dude (@ancapistanE) April 9, 2022
How ironic…Keith Olbermann is the biggest dildo there is.
— Doc Studentoflife 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@DStudentoflife) April 9, 2022
Olbermann could have just let it be, but it looks like he’s on the side of harassing Asians in bars.
For what it’s worth, Benson is doubling down on his story and blocking people “trolling” him.
Hello Andy Ngo supporters who are trolling me. You can come here to be blocked. Have fun! 🙂
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) April 9, 2022
What happened 👀👀
— Nelini Stamp 🐺🐜 (@NelStamp) April 9, 2022
I met him and said he was a garbage person and now he's predictably lying about it lol
— Thor Benson (@thor_benson) April 9, 2022
Related:
Andy Ngo has something to add after blue check writer ‘doubled down that the random Asian he harassed into leaving a bar was me’ https://t.co/bJlfvrWsKr
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 9, 2022
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