Tuesday, May 31, 2016

SiriusXM Suspends Glenn Beck Over Trump Comments

In response to  an interview Glenn Beck did with fiction author Brad Thor last Wednesday, in which he said Congress would not be able to remove Trump from office by “legal means” through impeachment, so Thor asked, hinting at assassination, “what patriot will step up and do that” if Trump oversteps his Constitutional restraints. Beck agreed with Thor.

SiriusXM issued the following statement:
SiriusXM encourages a diversity of discourse and opinion on our talk programs. However, comments recently made by a guest on the independently produced Glenn Beck Program, in our judgement, may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office, which we cannot and will not condone. For that reason, we have suspended The Glenn Beck Program from our Patriot channel for the coming week and are evaluating its place in our lineup going forward. SiriusXM is committed to a spirited, robust, yet responsible political conversation and believes this action reflects those values.

3 comments:

  1. Reminds me of what Henry II was supposed to have said, leading to the murder in the cathedral of Thomas Beck(et): "Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

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  2. Ahhh responsible political conversation. That means don't say anything that might get members of the public thinking assassination is a political tool and not the product of lone nuts.

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  3. ─ However, comments recently made by a guest on the independently produced Glenn Beck Program, in our judgement, may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office, which we cannot and will not condone. ─

    Indeed? So sweet. I am so moved by SiriusXM sudden and quite surprising, at least to me, preoccupation with the potential harm someone advocates against a particular candidate, even when that someone happens to be (conveniently enough) a guest on a *conservative* talk show. Just like a modern-day captain Renault.

    I guess it is never too late to feel moral outrage.

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