Taylor Lorenz Defends Fangirls of ‘Revolutionary,’ ‘Handsome’ & ‘Morally Good Man’ Luigi Mangione

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O'SULLIVAN: “Taylor Lorenz is an independent journalist who spoke up for people who felt the murder had justification.”
LORENZ: “Thousands of Americans die because CEOs like this one and others deny essential life-saving care to Americans. I think it's hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone standing a murderer when this is the United States of America. As if we don't lionize criminals, as if we don't have, you know, we don't stand murderers of all sorts, and we give them Netflix shows. There's a huge disconnect between the narratives and angles that mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels. And you see that in moments like this. And I can tell you, I saw the biggest audience growth that I've ever seen because people were like, oh, somebody, some journalist is actually speaking to the anger that we feel.”
O'SULLIVAN: “The women who got her outside court in New York.”
LORENZ: “So you're going to see women, especially that feel like, oh, my god, right. Like, here's this man who's a revolutionary, who's famous, who's handsome, who's young, who's smart. He's a person that seems this like this morally good man, which is hard to find.” (Laughter)