“The View” co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin faced backlash from her fellow panelists on Friday after she publicly condemned the “far left” who celebrated the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. .
Former Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz, left-wing journalist Ken Klippenstein and other left-wing figures have been accused of the assassination of 50-year-old Thompson, who was shot to death outside the Midtown Manhattan Hilton Hotel on Wednesday. was publicly ridiculed. Co-host Joy Behar appeared to deny that the far left was celebrating the CEO’s death, quickly pivoting to criticizing the Republican approach to health care policy.
“I was also very upset. I saw prominent figures on the far left celebrating this, and we have lost our collective conscience,” Griffin said, adding that Behar told him they were not politicking. I asked him how he knew he was a leftist. “This is something that’s online and we’re not going to amplify it and say who’s who because it’s brutal and hateful and evil. If we want to bring about change in this country, this country It’s a democracy: organizing, working, going out and engaging with people. Speak up and vote for your representatives. Violence is never the answer, and even if you have a problem with a company, a company, or an entire industry that has had problems for decades. It’s scary to single out specific individuals.”
“Then don’t vote Republican because you want to defeat Obamacare,” Behar said.
Co-host Sunny Hostin claimed that mocking Mr Thompson’s death was a “reflection” of the public’s anger at healthcare and the amount of money his company made.
lorenz I wrote She posted an article on UserMag titled “Why ‘We’ Want an Insurance Executive to Die,'” in which she argued that Americans are guilty of “our barbaric health care system” and “millions of sins.” “I’m tired of insurance executives allegedly causing pain, suffering, and death to people who don’t deserve it.” ” (Related: ‘The View’ co-host tries to explain Biden’s Hunter pardon by blaming Trump)
“People’s hatred of insurance company CEOs is very justified, because these executives are responsible for untold amounts of death and suffering,” she wrote. “I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the people in power that enable it. Again, not so that we can kill them, but so that we can change the system and those in power that enable it. So that we can start holding people accountable for their actions.”
Left-wing journalist Ken Klippenstein continues to criticize Thompson and UnitedHealthcare harshly regarding X and Substack. He defended a joke that went viral about the assassination in a report Wednesday. postsaid they were criticizing “the greedy health care system that he personifies.”
As someone with United Health Insurance, I just want to say: █████ █████. https://t.co/O6qqeeLYfL
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 4, 2024
Anthony Zenks, a Columbia professor and director of education at the Safe Center, said: said He will mourn the deaths of the 68,000 Americans who “die needlessly every year” at the hands of Thompson.
Griffin argued that Obamacare, passed in 2010, created monopolies in the health care system. Hostin responded that Obamacare is the closest thing to universal health care and expressed concern that Health and Human Services (HHS) candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would dismantle the health care system.
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