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Bill Burr Explains Why He’s OK With CEOs Fearing for Their Lives After NY Shooting: ‘A Lot of You Are Mass Murderers’
Bill Burr said he doesn’t have a problem with health insurance CEOs fearing for their lives after the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week.
On the morning of Dec. 4, Thompson was shot and killed outside a Hilton in Midtown Manhattan. The gunman was reportedly waiting outside for Thompson before firing several shots at him with a silenced handgun.
After a days-long manhunt, a suspect — 26-year-old Luigi Mangione — was identified and arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday.
Online, the targeted assassination has actually been celebrated by those frustrated with the U.S. health insurance industry. That praise has been met with harsh condemnation from both the media and elected officials.
Burr, however, see things differently. Speaking on a recent episode of Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast, the comedian said:
You know what’s annoying me
about this kid who killed this
CEO? None of these news programs are talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general public about this because of how these insurance companies treat people when they at their most vulnerable, after we’ve all given them our money every fucking month, and now we finally need you and all you do is deny us; and then these pussies and all of these things are taking the pictures of their CEOs off their websites. You know, I gotta be honest with you, OK? I love that fucking CEOs are fucking afraid right now. You should be! By and large, you’re all a bunch of selfish greedy fucking pieces of shit; and a lot of you are mass murderers. You just don’t pull the trigger. That’s why it looks clean. That’s why these people look — “Oh my god, he was just, you know walking into a hotel.” It’s like, OK, well what was his job? What did he do? What was the results of it?