Chris Cuomo Rips ‘Journalists’ Like Taylor Lorenz Who Are ‘Celebrating’ Murder of Health Insurance CEO: ‘What the Hell Is Going Wrong Here?’
NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo tore into “people who call themselves journalists,” including Washington Post and New York Times alum Taylor Lorenz, for “celebrating” the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Thompson was gunned down in Manhattan on Wednesday morning. The NYPD say the murder looks more like an assassination than a random act of violence, and police sources also told ABC News that the words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend” were carved into shell casings found at the scene of the crime.
On his Thursday show, Cuomo blasted those “celebrating” the murder and justifying violence as a “justifiable end for disagreement over policy.”
Lorenz is among those to have been criticized over her commentary.
“And people wonder why we want these executives dead,” Lorenz said in her first post about the murder on BlueSky. Lorenz was commenting on a post about how Blue Cross Blue Shield, one of UnitedHealthcare’s competitors will no longer pay for “anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries,” a policy change that was revoked this week after Thompson’s murder.
In another post, Lorenz shared an image literally filled with balloons and a smiling animated star with caption, “CEO Down.”
“Woke up to see this spammed in my chat groups,” she wrote.
Lorenz has made a number of other posts on the matter that have earned pushback. Cuomo name dropped Lorenz and journalist Ken Klippenstein in his rant against these celebrations of Thompson’s murder.
“Haven’t seen a single member of Congress acknowledge the rage seemingly everyone is expressing at the healthcare system. How hard is it to say ‘I don’t condone violence but people’s pain is real,'” Klippenstein wrote in one post.
Cuomo warned on Thursday that CEOs being targeted for assassination has historical context in other countries and it could be normalized here if the sentiments he’s seen on the “anonymous dumpster fire that is Twitter” go mainstream.
He said:
One thing’s for sure: there are a lot of people who are happy about this. Yes, hiding in the nice anonymous dumpster fire that is Twitter, but show these tweets celebrating his death, even people who call themselves journalists, Ken Klippenstein, Taylor Lorenz tweeting about how bad a man he was the day he died. People had similar tweets wishing Trump had been killed as well. Alright, I guess that’s par for the course these days, but don’t these people understand? Won’t someone in their life, if these are their real names, explain to them [that] you are worse than what you oppose when you celebrate murder as a justifiable end for disagreement over policy. I mean, what the hell is going wrong here?
Cuomo also advised anyone who follows Lorenz and others making these posts to “light them up” on these social media platforms.
“Really crazy, really crazy stuff, and the people whose names are actually theirs, if you follow and don’t light them up, you’re not doing your job as a citizen,” he said.
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