So, Taylor Lorenz decided it was time to defend herself on Hannity this week. Instead of clearing up her mess, she doubled down and made things even murkier. This is the same woman who once collapsed into tears on camera because her public Twitter handle got shared—now she’s straight-faced, trying to convince America that a guy accused of assassinating a healthcare CEO is, get this, “morally good.”
Let’s make that crystal clear in case the liberal media manages to memory-hole the moment: Taylor Lorenz is out here openly talking about an alleged murderer in glowing, sympathetic language, and the usual elite crowd is either clamming up or lauding her like she’s some kind of moral trailblazer.
This is where we are in Joe Biden’s media America. “Journalists” have become radicalized mouthpieces, propagandists are now full-on apologists for violence, and apologists play the victim card whenever they’re asked to answer for their absurd takes. We’re all passengers in an out-of-control car—and the so-called “elite press” insists the real problem is anyone who dares call this madness out.
A Recap for Sane Americans
Let’s rewind for those in flyover country trying to make sense of this circus. Lorenz took a seat across from Hannity to do damage control for her jaw-dropping remarks about Luigi Mangione—the man accused (with plenty of evidence) of murdering UnitedHealthcare’s CEO. This wasn’t some accidental slipup. Lorenz literally turned to the camera and described Mangione as “handsome,” “young,” “smart,” “a revolutionary,” and most disturbing of all—“morally good.”
She spun her answer by saying these were words used by his supporters, as though echoing the delusions of “a deranged fan club” somehow makes it ethical. Where does this end? A glamorized documentary about Ted Kaczynski? The mainstream press will probably greenlight that next.
To his credit, Hannity pressed her over and over. Direct questions, repeated in plain language, about whether she condoned Mangione or the people lionizing him. Every single instance, Lorenz ducked, weaved, and babbled about the “healthcare system.” She sounded, frankly, “like Kamala Harris trying to explain quantum physics”—in other words, not even remotely credible.
Taylor’s Excuse: “Context” (A.K.A. Evasion Supreme)
Predictably, when the heat turned up, Lorenz shrieked that she was “taken out of context.” This is the left’s favorite defense, right alongside blaming “patriarchy,” “late-stage capitalism,” or whatever else fits that week’s narrative. But here’s the critical point: anyone who watched the full segment saw through the act. Taylor wasn’t distancing; she was romanticizing. Not reporting, but cheerleading. At one point she even posted: “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.” There’s no “context” in any universe that makes that quote—or the leftist media’s silence about it—acceptable, unless you’re submitting a column to Antifa Weekly.
The Press Has Lost Its Soul
What Taylor Lorenz did is just the latest, not the only, example of journalism’s embarrassing moral collapse. She is the symptom, not the illness. Whenever anyone on the Right so much as criticizes a controversial personality, the media whips up a firestorm: blacklists, deplatforms, and Congressional freakouts on a 24-hour cycle. But when a darling of the liberal commentariat sympathizes with a killer? Suddenly it’s all “nuance” and “misunderstood intentions.”
Just imagine, for a split second, that a conservative journalist used Taylor’s language about a criminal who attacked Planned Parenthood. Would that person get invited onto national news for therapy interviews and glossy profiles in The Atlantic? No—they’d be doxed, fired, and hounded into oblivion by the very same journos now spinning apologies for Lorenz.
It’s Always “The Fans,” Never Herself
Classic Lorenz: “I’m not saying this, I’m just describing what others believe.” Sure—like someone defending bank robbers as “virtuous rebels” while “explaining” their motivations. That’s not reporting; that’s advocacy. All while, as you pointed out, calling them “handsome, brilliant, and morally righteous.”
On Hannity, the same rodeo: “I’m just explaining the ideology.” No, she’s justifying. She’s aligning herself, and she’s doing it with a smug sense of moral superiority, acting like she’s the true underdog—while the American public gets gaslit.
Taylor Lorenz: Always the ‘Victim’
Let’s not whitewash her record. Lorenz has a documented past of persecuting conservatives and then sobbing on television the moment she’s held accountable. Remember her MSNBC meltdown after doxing the creator of Libs of TikTok? She expects sympathy for “harassment” while deploying mob tactics herself. She claims to be an “expert” on online extremism, conveniently ignoring the radicalism in her own backyard, and working tirelessly for institutions that run cover for the corrupt Democrat machine.
Now, she wants the public’s sympathy for “explaining” a murderer’s motivations. You can’t claim victimhood out of one side of your mouth and hand out “moral hall passes” to assassins with the other. That’s not journalism—that’s a sham.
If This Was a Trump Supporter…
The litmus test is simple: If a Trump supporter killed a figure on the Left and a conservative reporter described them as “morally good,” would they get Lorenz’s treatment? Would the “just describing what supporters feel” line buy them any mercy? Forget it—the media would erupt in a witch hunt. But when the story fits into the Left’s “evil capitalist, justified rage” narrative, Taylor gets prime time, Twitter clout, and softball press.
And the kicker? When Hannity asked whether she condemns violence against figures like Trump or Elon Musk, Lorenz snapped, “You’re going to ask me if I condemn Hamas next?” This is her defense? The same people who clutch their pearls over Trump tweets can’t bring themselves to denounce political murder if it breaks in their ideological favor.
What This Signals
This is what happens when corporate media trades truth for clicks and leftist ideology. Lorenz no longer has a compass guiding her; she’s chasing influence, and if the “morally good” line for murderers gets applause from her base, then the press will see how much further they can push the Overton window. The death of real journalism is happening live, replaced by influencer activism masquerading as reporting.
When supposedly “serious” journalists like Taylor Lorenz sound like cult recruiters, know that we’re at a new low—and it won’t stop here.
You Can Hate CEOs—But Not Murder
People can oppose the healthcare industry, protest CEO pay, even demand sweeping reforms. But the moment someone glamorizes bloodshed, turning accused killers into icons, all credibility is lost. Lorenz didn’t just lose the plot—she torched it on livestream, handing her fans the ashes for TikTok clout.
She wants to be seen as a real reporter, but what America is seeing is another liberal media victim gone off the rails—a meltdown on standby, with just enough ideological frosting to get another invitation from MSNBC.