CNN Special’s Delusions a Recipe for More Political Violence

We can debate the wisdom of CNN’s decision to suspend elementary journalistic ethics and give Taylor Lorenz a platform from which she laundered her neurosis into the respectable discourse. When she’s not fantasizing about former President Joe Biden’s death, the onetime mainstream reporter now spends her days broadcasting her fear that those who do not wear surgical masks in all public settings are out to kill her. Her capacity for sound political analysis is, to say the least, questionable.

What’s less debatable is that CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan believed that Lorenz provided valuable perspective. Through an eerily permanent forced smile, the pundit said she found it “hilarious” that anyone would be hypocritical enough to object to the perverse cult that accreted around United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged murderer, Luigi Mangione. “This is the United States of America,” she said through wry chuckles, “as if we don’t lionize criminals.”