pjmedia.com By Daniel McCarthy
On CNN, approving of murder is hardly any worse than voting for Donald Trump.
Indeed, voting for Trump may be worse, given how CNN senior correspondent Donie O’Sullivan framed this question to Taylor Lorenz:
“I’m sure you wouldn’t like to be compared to a Trump supporter,” O’Sullivan reassured her, “but some of how people cannot understand why people have sympathies for Mangione” — that’s Luigi Mangione, slayer of health care executive Brian Thompson — “strikes me as the same as a lot of media not understanding why people support Trump.”
Lorenz, a former Washington Post and New York Times reporter who’s now an online “influencer,” provoked every bit of the outrage she was hoping for with her sympathetic account of Mangione’s popularity on the radical left.
“You’re going to see women, especially, that feel like, oh my God, here’s this man who’s a revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart. He’s a person who seems like a morally good man, which is hard to find,” she gushed to O’Sullivan.
Lorenz is nothing if not an attention sponge. She may not have a major media gig anymore, but her journalism has always been more about making the headlines than reporting on them.
Yet her appearance Sunday on CNN’s “MisinfoNation: Extreme America” was as notable for O’Sullivan’s questions as for Lorenz’s aiming-to-shock answers…
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