CNN contributor Leigh McGowan is ‘exhausted’ with hearing stories about illegal immigrants committing crimes like killing American citizens.
he made the comment during a recent panel discussion on the network, when conservative contributor Brianna Lyman was trying to make a valid point about what the liberal media covers and chooses not to cover.
Lyman was using as an example, a woman in Massachusetts who was strangled by an illegal immigrant just last week. McGowan rolled her eyes in disgust at the mere mention of it.
FOX News has details:
A CNN panel erupted Tuesday after far-left podcast host Leigh McGowan called repeated discussions of Americans killed by illegal immigrants “exhausting” after a conservative panelist raised the strangling death of Massachusetts woman Brianna Connolly by an illegal immigrant.
The panel was discussing the death of Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian-born college student in Ohio whose family said he died by suicide Monday after being required to wear an ankle monitor after losing his Temporary Protected Status. Ohio State Highway Patrol said Bel died after walking into traffic on Interstate 70 and that the incident remained under investigation.
“Well, temporary does mean temporary, so eventually this individual may have been ordered to be removed,” The Federalist reporter Brianna Lyman said on the “NewsNight” panel. “I think it’s kind of insulting that we’re talking about this immigrant instead of Brianna Connolly from Massachusetts who was strangled last week by an illegal alien. Why is the focus never…”
McGowan interrupted Lyman as she mentioned Connolly’s killing.
“Oh my God!” she said. “It’s so exhausting. Over and over again.”
Lyman immediately responded by contrasting McGowan’s frustration with the experiences of victims’ families.
Watch the video:
Brianna Lyman completely wrecks Leigh McGowan on TPS.
“It’s insulting that we’re talking about this migrant instead of Brianna Connolly, who was strangled last week by an illegal”
“Oh my God, it’s so exhausting”
“It’s exhausting for you because your daughter wasn’t strangled.” pic.twitter.com/oG1T88YdHa
— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) September 2, 2026
That’s the smug liberal media in a nutshell.
Is there a better example?
Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.
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