Gutfeld! Monologues - The Left Goes Crazy For Luigi

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

As seen on Gutfeld! Comedian Tom Shillue guest hosts and delivers a monologue on how insane some Leftists are behaving while they defend Luigi Mangione, the alleged United Healthcare CEO murderer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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and holiday shoppers are filling up Fifth Avenue, but there are other signs the Christmas spirit is alive and well in New York City. For instance, instead of chalk, the police are outlining bodies with festive garlands. Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner is considering a run for New York City Council. Yeah. That means citizens over 18 may once again get to. to vote for him, and those under 18 might get this in their DMs.

Caitlin Clark acknowledged her white privilege in Time magazine. Hopefully this move will lead to more African Americans having the opportunity to play pro basketball. The Unabomber's brother expressed concerns that alleged assassin Luigi Mangione may have been influenced by Ted Kaczynski. He also expressed concerns that people will always refer to him as the Unabomber's brother. Cher has reportedly fled her Malibu home as wildfires raged nearby. It's a smart move since plastic has a low melting point. A British member of Parliament has argued against a proposed law banning marriage between first cousins.

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Here was his reaction to the Daniel Penny verdict on Monday. Hooray for Daniel Penny and those heroes who risk everything to help others. And a more than deserved F you to Alvin Bragg. That's how you do it, Greg. And kudos on only swearing once, Greg, unlike Dana Perino. We'll be back with more Gutfeld. Hawaii starts with the music we play on our islands, playing the moment you step on the plane.

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Call out the BS and move on. This week started with great news on two fronts. Daniel Penny's acquittal and the capture of the infamous suspected CEO assassin. The opening of a tale of two cities reads, It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. I quote from the Dickens classic because sometimes it feels we're living in a tale of two narratives. After the news broke on both those big stories,

the inevitable social media opinions followed suit. On the Daniel Penny acquittal, New York City Council member Tiffany Caban said this. Jordan Neely deserved better than the violence of being denied access to stable housing and health care and then dehumanized for it. But then astute readers gave her a bit of a fact check via X's community notes feature. They pointed out how Neely got a plea deal after punching a 67-year-old woman in 2021 and actually did get free access to housing and health care. but he bolted from the facility after just 13 days. And like clockwork, Tiffany locked down her ex account so only her followers can see her posts.

Too bad for us. Then, after the made-for-social media outbursts from Luigi Mangione while in police custody, we have a lot of armchair Marxists celebrating the murder of a CEO as kind of payback for capitalism. Meanwhile, you've got people hawking, merchandise, glorifying an accused killer. And then there's the always rational journalist Taylor Lorenz on Pear's Morgan Show.

Why would you be in such a celebratory mood about the execution of another human being? Aren't you supposed to be on the caring, sharing left where, you know, you believe in the sanctity of life? I do believe in the sanctity of life. And I think that's why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately, you know, because it feels like... Serious? I mean, joy of a man's execution? Maybe not joy, but certainly not, no, certainly not empathy.

No, definitely not empathy. But something with path in it, sociopath, psychopath, path. Pathetic, maybe. But it seems that it's not difficult to find people sympathetic to the idea of executing CEOs. Right, Liz Warren? Look, we'll say it over and over. Violence is never the answer. This guy gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of United Health.

But you can only push people so far. And then they start to take matters into their own hands. So is violence bad or not? I guess it all depends on who's getting hurt. I don't know where the line is for Liz, but I'm assuming it stops before you get to politician. And then you've got talking heads on CNN who lamented the suspect's newfound fame

and a host who couldn't resist asking the graphics guy to, quote, take down the banner so they can see Luigi's abs. The man accused of killing United Health Care's CEO going viral. Images of Luigi Mangione seem to captivate the attention of online masses. So much of, you know, the clips we were watching at the top of this segment are driven by the fact that this is an attractive person. We've got to drop the banner to show why. The guy, he did drop the banner.

When you see the reactions to these two very different events, it can give one pause. We have people calling for vigilante violence after the penny verdict, and we're seeing an assassin celebrated on social media. One might think, how can I possibly be sharing the planet with these people? But the evidence is everywhere that most people see through this foolishness, and that is a reason to celebrate. People like Taylor Lorenz are outliers. Just like the trolls who are talking about how cute this newly famous murderer is, those

same people would be calling out his toxic masculinity the second he criticized Obamacare. You can look at these posts online and think the modern world has absolutely lost its mind. But we have to remember, this has happened before. We do romanticize killers. It happened with the Menendez brothers, the Boston bombers. Even John Dillinger had a fan club back in the 1930s. People are captivated, titillated by murder. But in the end, most of us can tell the difference between a hero and a villain.

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