By her own admission, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle was making a bad analogy on Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour when she tried to compare the reaction to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson to the reaction to Daniel Penny’s acquittal of manslaughter after he subdued a threat to fellow New York City subway riders. However, Ruhle still tried to make the analogy work as she wondered, “How concerned should we be” about Americans who “are celebrating violence?”
Ruhle began, “We saw Daniel Penny, his acquittal, and at the same time in a very, very, very different situation, but Luigi Mangione, the man who's now accused of the murder of the United Healthcare CEO. Two very different situations, but in both situations there's a person dead, and reactions that we are seeing are hugely celebratory in some circles, right?”
Yes, one is celebrating a cold-blooded assassination while the other is celebrating that a partisan D.A.’s attempt to criminalize defending others failed. If Ruhle wanted to discuss why people on the left can’t see these differences, that would have been worthwhile, but instead she attacked Vice President-elect JD Vance’s decision to take “Daniel Penny to the Army-Navy football game tomorrow.”
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