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Bill Burr criticized over claim healthcare CEOs should reflect on Mangione’s motive, not added security

September 26, 2026 | | Print Article

Comedian Bill Burr’s take on insurance executives’ response to one of their own getting gunned down in the street prompted a stark reminder: “Murder bad.”

Given favor for things like abortion on demand, sterilization of the youth, and euthanasia of the sick and elderly, you’d think the left would have already peaked as the culture of death. Instead, it looks to be only hitting its stride as, in the same week Sunny Hostin virtue-signaled support for Lindsay Clancy with her own claim of being a holdout juror to a murder, it wasn’t the alleged murder of Brian Thompson that Burr took issue with, but rather the assassinated UnitedHealthcare CEO’s peers.

During an interview with Rolling Stone to promote the new film, “The Social Reckoning,” where Burr portrays a character described as a member of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s legal counsel, the story was compared to his own on-stage performances about “lack of accountability, how the media works, the way tech is taking control of our lives.”

On the subject, the comedian saw fit to suggest health insurance companies review policies given Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of Thompson in December 2024 related to his own insurance woes.

“I mean, if you look at all of this stuff, like the response to the Luigi [Mangione] thing, was not to be like, ‘Well, hey, maybe we need to look at what we’re doing if it makes some crazy person do this.’ Their response was to take [executives’] faces off of the internet and get security,” said Burr. “It’s like, you don’t think you need to examine this? You’re just the CEO of a business. Why do you need this level of security?”

Moments earlier, he suggested the way executives behave is equivalent to people trying to “escape Russia in the ’80s” and “they all seem to function like the CIA, which is really sort of, like, indicative of, that you’re kind of doing something wrong.”

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While Mangione pled guilty to federal charges of interstate stalking resulting in death and stalking through use of interstate facilities resulting in death — with a sentencing scheduled for December — his attorneys have endeavored to clear him of state murder charges, claiming the effort amounted to double jeopardy.

Reacting to Burr, the Manhattan Institute’s Nick Ohnell Fellow attorney Rafael Mangual told Fox News Digital, “The only way to understand the comedian’s comments is as an endorsement of brutal and extrajudical violence as a legitimate means of expressing one’s frustrations with corporate behavior.”

“The fact of the matter is that Brian Thompson was a victim of a cold-blooded murder. Full stop,” he added. “Luigi Mangione isn’t a hero or a martyr. He shot a man in the back for no other reason than that he objected to the business he was in.”

“Expressing anything other than condemnation of such an act is to open an enormous can of worms that Burr clearly hasn’t contemplated. His remarks reveal that he hasn’t grappled with the most basic questions. For example,” continued Mangual, “if homicide is on the table as a way to express various gripes, where do we draw the line? Who decides which lives are on the table? What pain is someone deeply offended by a comedian allowed ot inflict as a result?”

Adding further perspective to the unhinged take from Burr, former Los Angeles Republican mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt was among those reacting on X where he wrote, “‘After the Lindsay Clancy murders, no toddlers around the country asked ‘maybe we need to look at what we’re doing if it makes some crazy person do this’…I mean…it was postpartum, which she only had cuz she had them‘ You people have lost your f*cking minds. Murder bad.”

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