Could we possibly have more irresponsible, untrustworthy, detestable broadcast journalists than we have now?
CNN Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins supported the assassin of UnitedHealthCEO Brian Thompson in the “Twitter/X” post above, directing readers to a site set up by the shooter’s lawyer that featured a prominent link to a GoFundMe for the murderer’s defense. Luigi Mangione, who strains the use of the term “alleged” as he was caught on camera shooting the victim in the back and arrested with incriminating evidence on his person has become the darling of the sickest of the sick among progressives. Leftists ranging from Elizabeth Warren to the most unhinged of my Facebook friends have rationalized Mangione’s cowardly crime as “understandable.” “You can only push people so far. And then they start to take matters into their own hands,” slimed Warren (BOY she’s horrible!) Mangione faces charges of first-degree murder in furtherance of an act of terrorism.
After the disgusting tweet attracted appropriate criticism ( “This is @CNN — pimping the GoFundMe for a left wing assassin,” tweeted Ace of Spades, completely accurately) Collins took it down–this is known as “subsequent repairs” in negligence law—and then employed manifest deceit to defend herself. “In no way did I share a fundraising link for him,” she protested.
No, she posted a link to a website that had the fundraising link displayed at the top of its page. Her claim that the fact the website existed was “newsworthy” does not explain or excuse her promoting it on social media. Jorge Bonilla on Newsbusters rightly asks what the reaction would have been to a Fox News journalist who posted the address of a site that linked to a GoFundMe for J-6 rioters.
The Trump White House has opened the long overdue debate over whether openly biased, partisan, unprofessional and untrustworthy journalists should continue to have press credentials at White House briefings. I would expand that discussion to whether people like Kaitlan Collins should be recognized as journalists at all.
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I don’t know what’s scarier…that they believe they’re right to do these things or that there are people out there who agree that they are right to do them.
How hard is it not to scapegoat someone. That is what Mangione did when he shot him.
The CEO of any insurance firm is paid to provide a service. The price the service is dependent on the costs of the service. In healthcare, insurance rates are a direct function of the outlays it has contracted to make. Consumers should appreciate the fact that insurers have the clout to help prevent the medical community from stripping every dime out of the sick or injured. Now you can argue that just being insured decouples the consumer from the pain of paying the doctor or medical specialist which drives up the prices doctors charge and the cost of training them. But that has nothing to do with the prices insurers charge or the profits earned.
Warren criticizes the health insurers but is silent on any critique on the fees charged by the medical community that insurers reimburse for their insured.
Kaitlin Collin’s is scapegoating the CEO just as Mangione did. If we want to bring down health insurance premiums then we have to reduce our demand on doctors and hospitals. We cannot run to the doctor for every runny nose and we need to take charge of our own health by modifying our diets and exercising more. That’s our responsibility.
Chris, I’m pretty sure the kid is paranoid schizophrenic. He’s going to need to make an insanity plea. Anyone, and I mean anyone, who tries to rationalize or excuse his behavior is an absolute moron.
I recently saw this Kaitlen Collins woman referred to as the new Jim Acosta. Sounds about right. She’s an embarrassment to anyone with Irish blood. Like me.
And speaking of embarrassing Micks, Margaret Sullivan at CBS is an absolute harridan. I can’t imagine she’s going to last long chairing CBS Evening News. She makes Norah O’Donnell look like Einstein. (What is it with all these Irishy chicks on TV news?
They are attractive. That’s it.
If we want to bring down health insurance premiums then we have to reduce our demand on doctors and hospitals.
Why can not states institute limits on how much people can charge for medical services?
The state does not need to implement price controls.
All that is necessary is to require medical facilities to accept all insurances that meet the state requirements. When doctors can refuse to take a given insurer the insurer loses some negotiating strength. Because health services are virtually price inelastic (pay the price or suffer major consequences) the medical facilities have all the power.
The other option is to increase the supply of doctors by establishing public health training facilities to to compete with the private schools of medicine. Instead of sending millions – if not billions – to the private universities who pay faculty like Elizabeth Warren 600K a year we could endow such training facilities and charge more modest tuitions that do not require huge professional fees to pay back their medical training loans.
I would be willing to fund the latter with tax dollars.
The military offers to pay full tuition in exchange for active duty as a medical officer.
The GoFundMe account has raised more than $470,000.
Didn’t Go fund me kill the money raising campaign for J6r’s. I know they stopped one campaign. The family can pay his legal bills and the money raised should be returned.
The insurance executive’s family should sue the killer’s (extremely well to do) family for negligence for failing to get their kid appropriately medicated and cared for and confined.
They did. Fascinating are the comments and posts in support of this shooter.
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I stand corrected. It is not a GoFundMe account; it is an account set up on GiveSendGo, which now stands are over $483,000.00:
Goal:
USD $1,000,000
Raised:
USD $483,591
Campaign created by The December 4th Legal Committee
Campaign funds will be received by Tom Dickey Law Offices, P.C.
Give15729
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Leftists ranging from Elizabeth Warren to the most unhinged of my Facebook friends have rationalized Mangione’s cowardly crime as “understandable.
Here was an example someone else posted on Threads.
https://www.threads.net/@zc2125034/post/DDcJyXTpAKj
Theres no logical stopping point.I read someone else make this comparosn.If it was okay to murder him, that what about drunk drivers who cause a crash that kills someone else?
“My daughter was killed 10/30/22 by a drunk driver. Claire Wenzel, Forever 26. Her drunk driver spent 2.5 months in jail. I’ve got a lifetime sentence without my precious daughter.”- RNMomOf11
Why don’t their victims’ families get to murder THEM?Do we REALLY want to go there?
I have two questions
How common is support for Luigi Mangione? I read many social media posts supporting him, but there is no indication it is more than a fringe belief.
Why are not retaliatory murders against drunk drivers far more common than they actually are? As a matter of fact, I can not recall even a single instance oif such a murder happening anytime in human history. You would think there would be a few thousand such cases all over the world.
“‘You can only push people so far. And then they start to take matters into their own hands,’ slimed Warren…”
You would think her “words of wisdom” would give pause to the members of the Totalitarian Left, but likely will not.
Actually, that’s pretty much how Trump got back in the White House. But her party thinks its because we’re all racist and sexist.