On the Michelangelo Signorile Show, John Knefel discusses right-wing media calling the man who killed Jordan Neely a “hero”
Knefel: The level of support for Daniel Penny is “different than what we have seen in the recent past and I think it's very alarming”
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Knefel: The level of support for Daniel Penny is “different than what we have seen in the recent past and I think it's very alarming.”
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From the May 18, 2023, edition of Sirius XM's The Michelangelo Signorile Show
JOHN KNEFEL (SENIOR WRITER, MEDIA MATTERS): It's essentially ubiquitous in right-wing media right now that not only was [Daniel] Penny sort of like, forced into what he was doing, but that there is a full-on endorsement of his actions. You're not seeing very much hedging, of -- ‘this is a tragedy, any loss of life is tragic.' You're seeing, ‘we need more people to do exactly this kind of thing,' and that I think is different than what we've seen in the recent past and it's very alarming.