Admiration for the man suspected of murdering the UnitedHealthcare CEO is not just perverse ... it's dangerous, Michael Moynihan tells TMZ.
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00:00You were shocked, as a lot of people were, at how much support.
00:07Obviously, when there are these cases, there are always a few people, and I think we tend
00:12to think, oh, they're the fringe who support things like this.
00:17But this doesn't feel fringe.
00:18This felt like a groundswell of people who feel like this was in some way a good thing.
00:24Yeah, I mean, it's astonishing to me that I'm the other side, that there has to be another
00:28side to oppose gunning down a father of two in midtown Manhattan because you don't like
00:34the industry he works in.
00:35No, it's terrifying.
00:36I mean, you know, I talked about this trend, there was supposedly a trend on TikTok of
00:41people reading this Osama bin Laden letter.
00:44And I said, you know, come on, this is like a few people.
00:46You're making a big thing out of it.
00:48It's a good news story.
00:49This is different.
00:50And we actually have numbers today.
00:52There was data, something that polled, and we found that, you know, more young people
00:58support the murderer whose name I care less to say than Brian Thompson, whose name is
01:04never said.
01:05By the way, people don't know his name.
01:06They refer to him as the health care CEO.
01:08Luigi's argument, which is paper thin and his manifesto was was ridiculous.
01:13And I couldn't believe that somebody who spent that much money going to elite schools couldn't
01:18put together a manifesto that made any sense.
01:21He obviously has some mental health problems, but, you know, you see this stuff, copycat
01:25stuff.
01:26But my you know, my issue here is that where does this end?
01:29Like where does it stop?
01:31We are in a really sick place.
01:32And that's usually kind of the universe of people on the like the religious right.
01:37That's never been like, oh, we're the society is sick.
01:40But it is a sick place where people are coming out and making justification saying, well,
01:44you know, this guy's industry, not even him so much.
01:46We don't know anything about him, but what he represents.
01:48I mean, do we do that to the head of Exxon because of climate change?
01:52Do we do it to the CEO of McDonald's, which increases health care costs by making people
01:57fat and live, you know, shorter times and demand more prescription drugs?
02:01The logic of it and the morality of it is so confused and silly that it makes me concerned
02:07that people actually believe stuff like this and where they'll take it next.
02:10We're elevating this guy and saying, I hope he believes these things without knowing that
02:14he does believe them.
02:16We're hoping that he has some coherent and cogent argument, which is a totally depraved
02:20way of looking at the fact that a man was gunned down in midtown Manhattan.
02:24I have a daughter.
02:25I just the first thing I think of, and if you have kids, it's the first thing you think
02:29of the moment that the mother of those children has to tell their kids that they will never
02:34see their father again.
02:35And you want to celebrate that person.
02:37You are.
02:38I won't say it on the show because it's profanity, but that's that's it's disgusting to me.