What happens when a mentally ill left-winger who thinks people are “raw-dogging the air” by not wearing useless masks goes on Sean Hannity to talk about her affinity for a cold-blooded murderer? An absolute train wreck happens.
The setup involves Taylor Lorenz going on CNN on Sunday to participate in one of the most surreal interviews I’ve ever seen. In truly psychopathic fashion, the former Post writer described Luigui Mangione, who shot a husband and father in the back of the head because he was a health insurance CEO, as “handsome” and a “morally good man.” Perhaps worse, the CNN flunkie sitting next to him started laughing, as if he wasn’t facilitating the ravings of a mad woman.
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Needless to say, Hannity wasn’t as inviting an interviewer as Donie O’Sullivan was. He repeatedly pressed Lorenz to condemn Mangione, and that sent her into a tailspin.
HANNITY: Do you condemn that? Can you take a moral stand and condemn that?
(Cross-talk)
LORENZ: What I condemn is the violence of our system, and I would love for you to acknowledge that, and I would love for you to acknowledge the constant…
HANNITY: I’m not asking you to condemn the system. Taylor, I’m asking, do you condemn people who call for assassinations?
LORENZ: Gosh, you’re gonna ask me if I condemn Hamas next. This is crazy. I would love for you to acknowledge what I’m actually saying, Sean, and we seem to be talking past each other.
HANNITY: No, I hear you loud and clear.
LORENZ: I want to talk about the fact that half of all adults (inaudible) because of cost. We need to talk about the 70 percent of Americans, by the way, who believe that the insurance companies’ practices are responsible in part for Thompson’s death. These are signs of an unhealthy…
HANNITY: You want to put a rationalization. I am saying that anybody that wants to assassinate any innocent person is wrong. I don’t care if it’s a Democrat or Republican or a father or a husband, and that is a simple truth that anyone with a heart would easily say on national TV, and you’re having a hard time with.
For starters, this was not just a “death.” Brian Thompson was murdered by Mangione, and it’s notable that Lorenz refuses to admit that. Secondly, it should not be difficult for anyone to say that assassinating an innocent person is wrong and that those who hold an ideology in support of that are depraved. Instead, Lorenz just keeps doubling down, bringing up Hamas because she’s a big supporter of theirs as well.
Things only got worse from there.
LORENZ: If you want to prevent further deaths, and you don’t want gun violence in the street, which I think we are both aligned in wanting, right? We want peace, we don’t want violence in this country no matter what side of the political aisle it’s coming from, you need to understand motives, and you need to understand the ideology that people have, and that is what my job is.
HANNITY: Why don’t you start with the basics? I’m going to help you out. Why don’t you first condemn those that want to be involved in assassinations and stop talking about them being handsome and smart and intelligent, and, you said, morally upright.
LORENZ: I didn’t say that I believe that. I am describing his supporters.
Let me translate that argument: Do what people like Lorenz want, or they’ll keep shooting people in the streets. Does that sound like someone we should be negotiating with? And as to the idea that Lorenz “didn’t say that I believe that” regarding Mangione being handsome, intelligent, and morally good, I want you to scroll back up and watch that clip of her CNN interview. Then I want you to tell me if she believes what she said or not.
O’SULLIVAN: The women that gather outside court [in] New York…
LORENZ: So, you’re gonna see women that feel like, oh my God, right, like here’s this man who’s revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart. He’s a person who seems like this morally good man, which is hard to find.
Lorenz was practically glowing. The idea that she’s a bystander just gathering information from “his supporters” is laughable. No one should believe it because it’s obviously not true. She is one of his supporters, and she’s made that clear with her ridiculous doting over him and continued defense of his murderous actions.
I’ll stop the transcriptions there because it just kept going around and around, with Lorenz refusing to condemn the assassination of Thompson. Hannity finally got to a point where he had to cut it off and head to commercial. What’s clear, though, is that Lorenz is a total lunatic. That she was ever taken seriously by the mainstream press is an indictment of their judgment that shouldn’t be forgotten.
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