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MSNBC propagandist Stephanie Ruhle took issue with former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny joining with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance at Saturday’s Army-Navy football game.

Penny was acquitted last week in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, a homeless criminal who was threatening to kill straphangers on an uptown F train in New York City. Vance invited his fellow Marine to join them at the game, where he received a hero’s welcome. Penny, who looks noticeably thinner than he was on the fateful day he intervened to protect his fellow subway riders, appeared to be relieved in the photos shared online.

Found not guilty by a Manhattan jury after being charged with criminally negligent homicide, Penny can now try to get on with his life. However, in the eyes of Ruhle, his very presence at the annual Army-Navy game was little more than a celebration of violence.

“We saw Daniel Penny, his acquittal, and at the same time in a very, very, very different situation, but Luigi Mangione, the man who’s now accused of the murder of the United Healthcare CEO,” Ruhle said on Friday. “Two very different situations, but in both situations there’s a person dead, and reactions that we are seeing are hugely celebratory in some circles, right?”

“What we’ve seen in the last few years, right, we see the media divide us, we see that, you know, sex sells, but anger and hate sells even more,” she continued. “How concerned should we be, though, that the American people, groups of the American people, are celebrating violence? Like, ‘Violence, that’s the solution, that’s what everyone should be doing these days.’ How concerned are you that this is where we are in this celebratory moment?”

Ruhle posed the biased question to liberal actor and musician Stevie Van Zandt, a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band who starred in The Sopranos as Silvio Dante.

“Very concerned. And of course, our hearts go out to the family, the Neely family,” Van Zandt replied. “Nobody should die in these situations. But I hope it starts to emphasize the trouble we’re having with the mental health, ignoring the mental health problems, not only in our city, but which is considerable, but in our country.”

The irony here is that the MSNBC star speaks of a good Samaritan in the same breath as an alleged assassin who shoots a man in the back.

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on Elon Musk’s free speech platform X:

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