Well, that didn’t take long. SiriusXM is leading the charge in vigilante censorship by suspending Glenn Beck over a segment he had with Brad Thor. Beck is being purged and silenced for what a guest said on his show. Neither Brad Thor nor Glenn Beck called for the assassination of Donald Trump. For accurately likening Trump to a South American-style dictator and for positing a scenario where ‘if’ Trump violated the Constitution, it would justify removal from office, Trump’s acolytes are branding that a death threat. It’s a death threat alright… against free speech.
THOR: He is a danger to America and I got to ask you a question and this is serious and this could ring down incredible heat on me because I’m about to suggest something very bad. It is a hypothetical I am going to ask as a thriller writer.
With the feckless, spineless Congress we have, who will stand in the way of Donald Trump overstepping his constitutional authority as President? If Congress won’t remove him from office, what patriot will step up and do that if, if, he oversteps his mandate as president, his constitutional-granted authority, I should say, as president.
If he oversteps that, how do we get him out of office? And I don’t think there is a legal means available. I think it will be a terrible, terrible position the American people will be in to get Trump out of office because you won’t be able to do it through Congress.
BECK: I would agree with you on that and I don’t think you actually have the voices we’ve been talking about and we’ve been talking about this off-air for a while. I think the voices like ours go away. I don’t think we are allowed – especially if things, and I believe the economy is going to go to crap, even if Jesus was in office. It’s going to naturally reset. It has to.
SiriusXM is suspending Glenn Beck for a week of broadcasts relating to a conversation Beck had with author Brad Thor last week. They are suspending him during the same week that Glenn went on vacation. That’s just despicable and cowardly. If they think it will cow Beck, Thor or any other real conservative, they are delusional in the extreme.
This is guilt by imagination… the event never happened and is made up. I guess any excuse will do… the Trump lynch mob is using words like ‘implied’, ‘hinted’ and ‘insinuated’. Do you people see what you are doing? Really? You are doing everything you have accused the left of forever, only worse, because you are aggressively doing it. Worse yet, they know it is a lie. Beck has never advocated violence and the last time I looked, calling someone out for acting like a dictator was not a crime. Either these ‘so-called’ conservatives never heard the exchange or they are so brainwashed by the Trump movement, they are twisting everything they hear and see that isn’t pro-Trump. As Dom Theodore, the GM of the Glenn Beck Radio Show pointed out, this viral hatchet job is based on 49 seconds out of a 15-minute interview that gives no context of the hypothetical posited from by Brad Thor, a thriller writer.
SiriusXM is a private company and they have every right to do this. But we also have a right to boycott them and I will never, ever listen to them again. I understand quite a few others feel the same way. If you are sooo in the tank for Trump that you feel safe abridging someone’s constitutional right to free speech, then as far as I’m concerned you are a propaganda outlet and a Marxist one at that.
Here is what SiriusXM said:
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.
That’s rich coming from a station that showcases Howard Stern who explicitly talks about sex all the time. It would seem that what they won’t condone is any stance against Trump. But filth, hey… go for it.
Both Glenn Beck and Brad Thor are terrified of what Donald Trump will do. I’m right there with them. Beck predicted that if constitutional conservatives and those who stand against Trump don’t hang together, we will most assuredly all hang separately as per Ben Franklin’s quote. And he was right. It’s begun already and Trump is only the nominee right now. I expect he will win the presidency and then the real silencing and purging will begin.
Constitutional conservatives and those taking a principled stand against Trump are being kicked out of groups and purged from social media interactions. We won’t be silenced, but that won’t stop the onslaught. Beck predicted every bit of this. SiriusXM is either a coward or bought and paid for by the Trump campaign or both. The outlets pushing this garbage should be ashamed of themselves. They are acting like brownshirts for Trump. Glenn Beck and Brad Thor did nothing wrong and have absolutely nothing to apologize for. Both sides of the political aisle are now enemies within and have gone dark and evil. I fear this is only the beginning.
I love you guys. Really. But the anti-Trumpism from you, and Trevor (and Beck and Klavan and Shapiro and surprisingly Sowell) is sickening, at at this point, completely irrational. I get it. I feel your pain. I’m with you. He’s far from ideal, but he is not the anti-American anti-freedom candidate you portray him as.
I can point to five, maybe ten, FIRM positions that qualify him as being “on the right,” and when measured on orders of magnitude, those positions are striking a strong chord with the American people. In addition, he backs it up with a swagger and confidence, and quite frankly, and in-your-face attitude that is sadly needed at this point to counter the Alinsky tactics of the Left. I just loved it when he used the politically incorrect term “anchor babies” or called Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” and was scolded by reporters, yet he refused to cede ground in the war of narrative control. It just didn’t happen with other candidates, and if they even tried, it would not have been effective.
The reality is, we are so steeped in communists after nearly 16 years of Clinton/Obama (Soros & Co.) we’ve got to do everything in our power to oust these saboteurs from power at the executive/administrative level. They are ubiquitous in Media/Government/Academia and have had a firm grip on the narrative since 2009. You (my wonderful warrior friends) are ostracizing yourselves from nearly everyone else on the Right, as your definition and/or credentials of what is a “true” conservative is becoming an ever narrowing circle of compatriots.
Look at all the stalwart conservatives that have jumped on the Trump train: Horowitz, Hanson, Palin, Gingrich, Cain, Sessions, Issa, Gowdy, NRA, Border Agents, Carson (a righty favorite) and so many more. Are they no longer conservative? Are they all brainwashed? Or do they see a true opportunity to win, not just by the slim margins of 2000 & 2004, but in YUGE numbers to overwhelm the voting fraud that is built in by the leftist gangsters. (e.g., through voting machine and computer manipulation, massive fake voter rolls, the abuse of absentee ballots, and the wave of illegals that can vote in countless jurisdictions without voter ID.)
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Thank you, Edward. From my observation, evidence clearly indicates that Donald Trump is mentally ill. See the suggested #NPDTrump items (here listed in reverse order) and presently linked atop the right-hand sidebar. He is a danger to lives around the world, the integrity of the United States of America, and potentially to our very existence as the USA.