'Free Luigi!' Bill Burr thinks a murdered father of two should have done some self-examination



Comedian Bill Burr made a habit in years past of poking fun of both the left and the right. However, he has increasingly been leaning left in his commentary.

In a Rolling Stone interview published on Tuesday, Burr complained about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, claiming whites are "not nearly upset as we need to be because we don't see ourselves going into the van."

'It's like, you're not the president. You’re just the CEO of a business.'

Burr — who is pro-abortion and previously criticized Florida's anti-mask mandates — also insinuated that the slaying of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which Luigi Mangione admitted to, was Thompson's fault. Burr then criticized the defensive actions taken by other major corporate executives.

"The response to the Luigi thing was not to be like, 'Well, hey, maybe we need to look at what we're doing if what we're doing makes some crazy person do this.' [Executives'] response was to take their faces off of the internet and get security."

"It’s like, you don’t think you need to examine? You know what I mean?" continued Burr. "It's like, you're not the president. You’re just the CEO of a business. Why do you need this level of security? Like, what is it that you're doing?'"

Health care executives and other Americans in the radical left's crosshairs might want more security because polling shows a troubling number of liberals support their demise.

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According to a CloudResearch poll conducted in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Thompson in December 2024, 25% of self-identified liberals were "supportive or very supportive" of the murder, and 68% said they felt at least some sympathy toward Mangione.

A recent Emerson poll found that 12.4% of Democrats said that "the actions of the killer of the United Healthcare CEO" are "completely acceptable," and 7.5% of Democrats said they were "somewhat acceptable."

This is hardly the first time that Burr has expressed sympathy with Mangione, not Thompson, who was a father of two.

Just days after Thompson was assassinated, Burr expressed satisfaction on his podcast that "f**king CEOs are f**king afraid right now," stressing they "should be."

Just weeks later, in early 2025, the middle-aged comic used his time on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to call for the release of Mangione, stating, "Free Luigi!" Kimmel laughed in response, though whether Burr meant the line as a joke is unclear.

In 2023, Burr's liberal wife made a lewd gesture to President Donald Trump at UFC 295.

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A growing number of women are siding with admitted killers — and the reason is darker than you realize



As thousands of women continue their support of Lindsay Clancy, and after Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea failed to stop female supporters from romanticizing him as a hero, Conservateur editor Bethany Miller has one question: “What is the state of American women today?”

This was the central question that underpinned her recent article “Lindsay Clancy, Luigi Mangione, and the State of American Women.”

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Miller joined the Blaze Media co-founder to unpack her theory about what’s causing a growing number of women to support confessed killers.

Miller explains that women’s disturbing advocacy surrounding people who have admitted to killing innocents is multifaceted and long-simmering.

“From the Millennial movement of the #MeToo and the therapeutic culture and ‘my truth is the only truth’ — this has been brewing for some time,” she tells Glenn.

These movements, Miller says, are the result of the divinely fashioned female psyche — with its bend toward empathy and relationality — being “weaponized” by “secular politics.”

“The left is capitalizing on [female instincts], manipulating women's lenses of empathy and of relation and using that to get them to respond empathetically in a weaponized empathy to what's happening with Lindsay Clancy,” she says.

“So instead of going, ‘Hey, what's black and white here? This woman killed her children, therefore justice must be served,’ they're saying, ‘Hey, actually, she struggled with postpartum depression, and she was anxious, and so let's blame the man,’ or, ‘I can see myself in her; therefore me condemning her is condemning myself.”’

Glenn was particularly struck by Miller’s argument in her article that women have been conditioned to allow their instinctual empathy to lead them to dark outcomes. In the piece, she wrote, “I see her becomes I understand her. I understand her becomes I cannot judge her.”

“The blurring of that line, I mean, that's what has ... women holding newborns and posting “Same, Lindsay” or pushing a stroller outside of her trial, chanting that she's innocent,” he sighs.

People must be able to tell the difference between understanding someone’s pain and agreeing with how they handle it, Glenn urges.

“Mental illness is real, and I can understand [Clancy] because my mother went through really bad mental illness ... but that doesn't mean I agree with her,” he says.

“Luigi Mangione — that is terrifying to me that they're practically throwing themselves at this [alleged] murderer because they're like, ‘Yeah, well, he's been abused by the system, and I've been abused by the system.’”

Another factor playing into this issue, says Miller, is women’s obsession with true crime and fantasy.

“This is the type of entertainment and narratives that they inherit and consume on a daily basis and that we've seen ... weaponize the way that they're thinking about these things,” she says.

Add to that social media and the dawning of the AI age, where what’s real is quickly becoming impossible to know, and it’s no wonder, says Miller, so many young people especially are struggling to differentiate between genuine reality and “digital reality.”

“Beyond just the gender wars, discernment is something we're losing as the American public,” she warns.

To hear more, watch the video above.

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GHOUL NATION: Pop culture's decade-long descent into cruelty and bloodlust



Once upon a time, displaying the bloodied head of a U.S. president could get you canceled. And it did.

This was before cancel culture was a thing, a time when Americans had a shared sense of decency and found obviously heinous acts ... heinous.

Earlier this year, 'Saturday Night Live’s' Weekend Update teased a Trump assassination joke that roiled the crowd.

No need for context or explanations. The culture at large acknowledged certain unwritten rules of behavior that should be followed. Now, those rules are fading if not gone entirely. And we can track that descent, seen across the political landscape, from a pop culture prism.

Head case

Comic Kathy Griffin thought she was being clever by holding a pretend President Donald Trump head up high, ISIS-style, for a 2017 photo shoot she shared on social media.

The reaction was swift, furious, and uncompromising. Griffin had gone too far.

Few, if any, ran to her defense. She apologized and watched her D-list career shrink to the size of a thumb drive. Those were simpler times, when doing the right thing meant putting political tribalism aside when needed.

Love Trump? Loathe Trump? It wasn’t important. This was beyond the pale.

Something similar happened in 2015 involving another GOP leader. Word leaked that Will Ferrell was mulling a big-screen "comedy" about a dementia-addled President Reagan doddering around the Oval Office. The reaction was swift and furious and not just from the former president’s grown children.

Ferrell backpedaled, claiming he had never officially signed onto the project.

Even Madonna, who forged her brand from outrageous behavior, did a hasty retreat in 2017 when she shared her dream about blowing up the White House (with a certain leader inside, presumably) during a Women’s March event.

The pop superstar apologized for a good reason. Her thoughts were unbecoming of a celebrity of her stature.

That was then.

The cruel kids

Today, political culture is infinitely worse. Cold. Cruel. Violent, even.

Political pundits like Hasan Piker can cheer on the deaths of landlords, say America deserved 9/11, and praise Hamas over Israel after the Oct. 7 atrocities. Not only is he not shunned by polite society, but Democratic politicians scramble to appear beside him.

Major publications fawn all over him too. Big-city mayors can cozy up to terrorists and voters look the other way.

Ghoulish. It’s not happening in a vacuum. Pop cultural institutions are similarly ghoulish, celebrating violence while their audiences clap like seals.

Last year, DNC spokesman Jimmy Kimmel found something deeply funny about Tesla dealerships coming under vandalism attacks. The company’s owner, Elon Musk, had sided with President Trump during the 2024 election cycle and helped trim government fat from the workforce.

For that, he must be punished.

"People have been vandalizing Tesla vehicles, new Tesla vehicles. Please, don't vandalize, don’t ever vandalize Tesla vehicles."

The host said it with a sarcastic glint.

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Cheering chaos

Later that year, Kimmel leaned into some seriously Fake News, alleging that Charlie Kirk’s killer was part of MAGA Nation. The only credible suspect at the time was a young man who loathed Kirk’s politics, a far cry from a typical Trump supporter.

Kimmel and his writers knew that. We all did. The hosts said it, anyway, earning a week’s suspension from his ABC bully pulpit and becoming a free speech martyr to the press and the left (but we repeat ourselves).

Earlier this year, “Saturday Night Live’s” Weekend Update teased a Trump assassination joke that roiled the crowd. Faux co-anchor Michael Che noted that the president had recently taken in a Broadway-style show.

“I think that’s cool that the president is going to the theater. I mean — what’s the worst that could happen?” The show’s hard-left audience cheered.

Late-night shows were occasionally caught by surprise at how vicious their audiences had become. They learned it from watching them, of course.

Baying for blood

Consider when Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” fame told his audience about Luigi Mangione’s arrest on charges he murdered a health care CEO by shooting him from behind.

The crowd booed in response, as if they wanted the killer to remain free (to kill other CEOs, perhaps?).

“Look, I’m sorry, guys,” a stunned Stewart said in response, like Dr. Frankenstein looking in horror at his creation.

Kimmel found it hilarious that some of his young, female staffers were Luigi fangirls in not-so-obvious disguise. He should have been ashamed of the revelation and kept it quiet.

Not Kimmel.

Just days ago, multiple late-night hosts mocked President Trump for hiding in a catering truck after the Secret Service learned of a possible threat on his life.

These threats are increasingly common in Trump’s second term. One would-be assassin came within inches of murdering the commander in chief at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally two years ago.

For late-night clowns, the latest assassination threat was merely a chance to torment Trump, not acknowledge the dangerous world we live in. Even the low-rated Jimmy Fallon, who isn’t as cruel as his competitors, mocked the moment.

Hollywood collectively warned us about Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. He would be cruel, they cried, unlike any prior president.

And, yes, President Trump has thrown some pretty sharp elbows over nearly six years in office. Hollywood, sadly, has proven to be far worse, echoing a societal race to the bottom.

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Luigi Mangione expected to plead GUILTY: NYT report



The man who allegedly murdered a health care CEO on the streets of Manhattan is expected to plead guilty Friday to federal charges, according to the New York Times, citing "two people with knowledge of the matter."

Luigi Mangione has become a cause célèbre among anti-capitalists and others who blame corporations for all of the ills of society after he allegedly shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the head and killed him in December 2024.

Mangione could still change his mind at any time, including during the hearing.

Mangione is currently charged with two federal counts of stalking resulting in death, and New York state has charged him with second-degree murder, among other charges. He is facing life in prison after the federal charges were narrowed to preclude a death penalty sentence.

The Times reported that Mangione is considering pleading guilty to federal charges, a move that, if successful, will likely prompt his attorneys to argue that the state charges constitute double jeopardy because they stem from the same incident.

If the 28-year-old pleads guilty, his sentencing would likely still be up to a judge, but his attorneys could argue for a lower sentence. In a federal trial, he would not be allowed to argue that his mental state led to the alleged crime, but he could reportedly do so at the state level.

The Times report notes that Mangione could still change his mind at any time, including during the hearing.

Attorneys for Mangione and the Department of Justice declined the Times' requests for comment, though Jamie McDonald, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, did confirm to the Times that a court conference is scheduled for Friday.

"That’s all we can say at this time," McDonald told the NYT.

The shocking murder of Brian Thompson was captured on surveillance video and resulted in a nationwide manhunt for the killer, whose face was allegedly captured when he pulled down his face mask to flirt with a teller before the killing.

Mangione was later spotted in a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, by another fast-food customer and did not resist when police arrived to arrest him.

In his backpack police allegedly found cash, a fake ID, and a gun similar to the gun used to kill Thompson.

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Among the evidence prosecutors cited to prove his culpability is a 26-page manifesto in which the suspect explicitly confesses to the heinous crime.

"I do apologize for any strife or traumas, but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming," he allegedly wrote.

Some Mangione supporters have taken to wearing green hats in the style of Luigi of the Super Mario Bros. video game.

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The Left’s Assassination Cult Welcomes The Fangirls Of Accused Killer Luigi Mangione

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Mamdani gives ‘Mangionistas’ press passes after the fangirls celebrate CEO killing: ‘His children are better off without him’



Zohran Mamdani’s office has made it clear that it's all about free speech, especially when it comes to the Luigi Mangione fangirl group the “Mangionistas.”

Mamdani’s office granted press passes to Abril Rios, Ashley Rojas, and Lena Weissbrot, who cheered on the alleged murderer outside the courthouse — and had some choice words for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

“His children are better off without him,” one of the Mangionistas said. “They need to learn to not be like their dad.”

“I’m standing on business,” another one said. “F**k Brian Thompson. I don’t give a flying f**k. Millions of Americans suffer every single day.”


“If you guys are OK with someone like Brian Thompson being around and being a part of our society, that says more about you as a person because you look absolutely monstrous defending someone like that,” she added.

“I’m pissed off about this, Dave,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere tells co-host Dave Landau on “Stu and Dave Do America.”

“They say they don’t care about this guy dying because they think the children are better off without him,” Stu says.

“Here’s what I don’t get,” Dave chimes in, saying that the “Mangionistas” who “want you to go kill a CEO of a health care company” are the “same people that want you to believe everything that a drug company tells you.”

“Wear a mask and lockstep to every single thing you were told during COVID. So explain that. Like that’s the part I don’t understand. You’re the reason every business shut down, because you believed every single thing that they had to say,” he says.

“But then you’re also on the side of the moron who came from a very, very rich family, and you’re completely OK with that,” he adds.

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'I Don't Give a Flying F— He Died': NYC Mayor's Office Gives Press Badges to Luigi Mangione Fangirls Caught on Tape Celebrating CEO's Murder

The New York City Mayor's Office gave coveted press badges to a trio of "journalists" who celebrated the murder of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson outside a court hearing for his accused killer, Luigi Mangione, on Monday.

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Left to Their Own Devices

Perhaps the greatest challenge every current affairs author faces is the inevitable decision of where to draw the line. As events continue to remain all-too-current, they must decide where to finally freeze time in place, put down the pen, and decide that no future "current" events will be included. Then, they must embrace the inescapable sense of anxiety over the universe of future events that, as a result, won't make the cut.

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