SiriusXM Suspends Glenn Beck for Brad Thor's Comments on Trump; …

Source: Reason | May 31, 2016 | Jesse Walker

SiriusXM Suspends Glenn Beck for Brad Thor’s Comments on Trump; Brad Thor Responds to His Critics

Glenn Beck’s radio show was suspended after a guest was accused of calling for Trump’s assassination. The guest says his words were misconstrued.

SiriusXM announced today that it is suspending talk show host Glenn Beck for a week, following an interview last Wednesday in which a guest made comments that the company felt “may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office.”

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Several people took this as a suggestion that someone should kill Trump, an interpretation Thor strenuously denies. “It’s not a defense of assassination,” he told Reason today. “I don’t even want to see a dictatorial president assassinated. We are a republic—a nation of laws—and the greater good would be served by the despot standing trial.” And if there’s no trial? “Safeguarding the republic against a dictatorship is a topic of conversation that dates back to the Founders,” he says. “If we had to unseat a president without the backing of the Congress, we would need a patriot along the lines of George Washington to lead the country from tyranny back to liberty.”

Thor’s appearance on the Beck show is embedded below, with the relevant section starting shortly after the four-minute mark:

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