Bill Burr is treating the murder of a health-care CEO like a product review. This is seriously messed up. Luigi Mangione shot a man in the street. Burrâs complaint is that the companies didnât sit down and ask what they did to âmakeâ a killer do it. Thatâs backwards and disrespectful to the victim.
A CEO is not the president. Heâs also not a piñata. Burr mocked the companies for taking their faces off the internet and hiring security. Thatâs the minimum after someone gets gunned down for doing a job Burr doesnât like. You donât owe a shooter a listening session. You owe him a courtroom.
Health insurance is a mess. People get denied and bills wreck families. Thatâs a fight for law, markets, and votes. The solution is more competition in insurance and care so quality rises and prices fall. Itâs not a justification for putting a bullet in a stranger outside a hotel. Burr talking like the corpse shouldâve been the one to reflect is how Burrâs garbage keeps getting laundered as comedy. Itâs not funny. Itâs the opposite.
If the standard is âmaybe examine what youâre doing,â start with the shooter who decided murder was the play and then move to the people who defend him. Burr can roast corporations all day. He lost the plot when he made the victim the bad guy.