Fox News host Sean Hannity tells lefty journo Taylor Lorenz there seems to be a missing chip with her over Luigi Mangione remarks

Fox News host Sean Hannity told controversial journalist Taylor Lorenz “there seems to be a missing chip with you” Wednesday as he assailed the former New York Times reporter for her bizarre comments about accused CEO shooter Luigi Mangione.The conservative media personality sparred with Lorenz in a tense back-and-forth over her questionable remarks about the violent death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, and demanded to know if she condemned fans of the 26-year-old Mangione.“Will you say that anyone that’s praising this guy doesn’t have a soul, a conscience and a heart?” Hannity asked Lorenz, who offered a bewildering response.“I don’t believe in things like religious things like souls and all these things,” she said.When Hannity repeated the question, Lorenz also went off topic. “I believe that every one of the 70,000 Americans that die each year because of lack of health insurance also has a heart,” she said.

 Hannity kept prodding her with the same question, but Lorenz deflected each time.“When you talk about souls, that’s not really my specialty.What I do specialize in is extremism,” Lorenz before Hannity cut in with an “obviously.”Earlier in the primetime interview with the ex-Washington Post columnist, Hannity confronted Lorenz over her past statements about the high-profile murder.The technology reporter previously said she felt “joy” about the assassination of the married father and this week she attempted to rationalize the legions of Mangione supporters. “You’re gonna see women especially that feel like, ‘Oh my God, here’s this man who’s a revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart, he’s a person that seems like this morally good man,’ which is hard to find,” Lorenz said on CNN.Lorenz claimed Wednesday night she never said she felt joy over the death, but felt joy “that the brutality of our healthcare system was finally being acknowledged.”“I beli...