Skilled stand-up Invoice Burr isn’t taking Ben Shapiro’s feedback mendacity down.
Burr torched the conservative pundit this week for claiming he’s gone “woke” by condemning “greedy” insurance coverage CEOS after the December homicide of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO 26-year-old Luigi Mangione stands accused of killing.
“All he knew is if he put ‘woke’ on what I said, he would make more money,” Burr instructed The New York Occasions about Shapiro in an interview about his upcoming Broadway debut revealed Tuesday. “I don’t know who he is, but that guy is a jerk-off.”
Burr slammed the media following Thompson’s demise for criticizing those that empathized extra with Mangione than Thompson, seeing the late 50-year-old as a logo of an business that has typically denied individuals claims for pricey or life-saving medical remedies.
“None of these news programs are talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general public about this because of how these insurance companies treat people when they are at their most vulnerable,” Burr stated on his “Monday Morning Podcast” in December.
“I love that fucking CEOs are fucking afraid right now,” he added on the time. “You should be! By and large, you’re all a bunch of selfish, greedy fucking pieces of shit, and a lot of you are mass murderers. You just don’t pull the trigger. That’s why it looks clean.”
“Burr has become woke,” Shapiro wrote in an article for conservative information outlet The Each day Wire in December. “Over time, I think he became embarrassed that many people on the Right thought he was very funny, so he decided he was going to go woke.”
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Shapiro additionally claimed Burr desires CEOS to “live in fear,” which Burr had already denied by then.
“This is the thing, I’m not saying what happened should’ve happened,” stated Burr on his “Anything Better?” podcast in December. “But for [the media] to be like, ‘Oh, why would anybody want to do this?’ It’s like, they’re denying claims and people are dying!”
Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania on homicide and terrorism prices after a five-day search in December. He has pleaded not responsible and broke his silence earlier this month whereas awaiting trial on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, New York.
