Liberal commentator Brianna Joy Gray surprised British journalist Piers Morgan and guests on his show by admitting she has none. Sympathy for slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
During Tuesday's segment in “Piers Morgan Uncensored“, the host pressed the critic on whether she felt for Thompson, who was shot in the back and killed by an assassin waiting for him outside a Manhattan hotel last week.
“Right. So, to be clear, you have no sympathy for him after his execution?” Morgan asked.
“I personally don't do that,” Gray admitted in a controversial moment reported by The Daily Caller.
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Liberal commentator Brianna Joy Gray, second from right, told British journalist Piers Morgan, far left, that she had no sympathy for slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Gray raised Morgan's direct question when she began discussing the “resentment” Americans feel toward powerful health care companies and CEOs like Thompson.
Suspected killer named, 26-year-old Ivy League graduate Luigi Mangione“Luigi is just a vessel through which people express their deep frustration with the American health care system,” Gray said.
She continued: “The question is, if you do not want murders like this to happen – for assassinations like this to happen in the street – then I am someone who does not believe in the death penalty and does not condone these punishments.” Types of Vigilante Violence In both cases… you have to get to the root of why there is this deep well of tragedy, despair and anger in the United States of America.
Suspecting that Gray's statement was evidence of cruelty toward the man who was killed, Morgan asked, “But just to be clear… Do you feel any sympathy for Brian Thompson and his family?”
The interviewee equivocated a little, saying that it was more about his job than personally.
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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning of last week. (Image source: Businesswire | NYPD Crimestoppers)
“I have boundless compassion for any individual in their personal capacity. As CEO of UnitedHealthcare, I'm afraid I'm with the overwhelming majority, the partisan majority of the American people, who say, 'I save my compassion for the most vulnerable.'”
Morgan asked her the same question again, prompting her to frankly admit that she had no sympathy for the deceased CEO.
“Well, well, at least you're being honest,” the host replied.
He then made some comments, pointing to Gray's ideas as evidence that liberals are hypocritical in their appeals to empathy.
“I mean, I find this amazing. You have to remember that the left is supposed to be the party that cares the most,” Morgan said. “They all have the hashtag ‘Be Kind.’ They are the caring, kind people, and they can’t even get it into their hearts to say they find an ounce of sympathy for a man who was just lynched, who is the father of the children, who is the husband of a loving wife, etc.”
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Morgan had a similar exchange with former Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz earlier this week.
“I believe in the sanctity of life and I think that's why I, along with so many other Americans, felt joy,” Lorenz told Beers during Monday's episode, describing her feelings after Thompson's death.
She quickly retracted the word “joyful,” but the host pounced on her and asked, “How could this make you happy? This man is a husband, he's a father, and he was gunned down in midtown Manhattan. Why would that make this fun?” Are you happy?
“And the tens of thousands of Americans he killed!” I fired again. “And also the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans, who have died because greedy health insurance managers like this push a policy of denying care to the most vulnerable people.”
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