‘Isn’t It Disgusting?’ Piers Morgan Berates Taylor Lorenz for ‘Swooning’ Over ‘Effing Cold-Blooded Killer’ Luigi Mangione
Piers Morgan berated Taylor Lorenz on Monday for fangirling over Luigi Mangione, the man charged with murdering health insurance CEO Brian Thompson, in a new CNN documentary in a conversation on Piers Morgan Uncensored Monday.
In the documentary, hosted by Donie O’Sullivan, Lorenz suggested that it was natural for women to swoon over “this man who’s revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who is young, who’s smart,” and “seems like this morally good man, which is hard to find.”
“To see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America,” remarked Lorenz. “As if we don’t lionize criminals, as if we don’t have, you know, we don’t stan murderers of all sorts, and we can give them Netflix shows. There’s a huge disconnect between the narratives and the angles that mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels.”
In a video featuring Lorenz and Tomi Lahren published on Monday, Morgan laid into the former.
“I was pretty aghast at the tone that you took in relation to Luigi Mangione because, as I pointed out on X, the guy is an effing cold-blooded killer. Somebody who executed somebody who’s a father of two, a business executive, and deserves nothing but public opprobrium, and to be despised for what he did, notwithstanding any arguments about the current state of health care,” said Morgan to kick off the conversation before giving Lorenz “a chance” to explain why she was “swooning over the guy.”
The independent internet personality responded by arguing that her words were being taken “completely out of context” and submitting that “we have a culture that lionizes killers” pointing to the examples of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Gypsy Rose Blanchard as examples.
“I think that once he starts opening his mouth and talking about his beliefs, I think we might realize he’s not as moral, you know, of a person, as we thought,” she added.
Morgan did not accept Lorenz’s defense of herself, and instead criticized both her and O’Sullivan for the “light-hearted” and “frivolous” tone they adopted in the documentary.
Later, Morgan continued his prosecution of Lorenz:
I just didn’t like the whole tone of it. You know, Donnie replied at one stage to you, “Yeah, I just realized women will literally date an assassin before they swipe right on me. That’s where we are we’re at,” and you both laughed. What I didn’t see — particularly from you, Taylor — was direct, unequivocal condemnation of this. You kind of just went, “Yeah, isn’t it-, This is weird, isn’t it?” rather than saying “Isn’t it disgusting that these women are viewing him in this light, isn’t it?” Because it reminds me, it reminds me, well hang on, it reminds me of when we had the Boston Marathon bombing and you have the Tsarnaev brothers, I was on air at CNN at the time, who were committing one of the most heinous acts of modern times in America, and what was their their reward for this? Rather than everyone hating these people, it ended up with them being the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. It was quite extraordinary! And then people again talking about, “Wow, aren’t they good-looking, aren’t they charismatic, aren’t they this, aren’t they that?” No! No, they are terrorists who bombed innocent people at a marathon. And I feel the same way about this guy Luigi Mangione. He’s not a handsome, charismatic, freedom fighter hero. He’s a disgusting human being who plotted and executed a cold-blooded execution of a father of two children. That’s what he is, and what I didn’t see from you, and you can call me the tone police all you like, but where was the condemnation of this hero worship? It wasn’t there.
Back in December, shortly after Thompson’s assassination, Morgan upbraided Lorenz for saying she felt “joy” after his death and laughing after being questioned about her comments.
Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored.
