After conservative pundit Glenn Beck was suspended from SiriusXM radio on Tuesday, The Blaze founder responded by tweeting guest columns calling the satellite radio execs “cowards” and the decision to temporarily pull him off air “suppression of dissenting voices.”
Beck was suspended after a recent show on SiriusXM’s Patriot Channel where a guest wondered out loud if a “patriot” would have to remove a possible President Trump from office by any means necessary, which was broadly read as a reference to assassination.
Hours later, Beck posted a column from #NeverTrump ringleader Erick Erickson on his site.
Erickson accused the “brave, bold” SiriusXM execs of waiting for Beck to go on a pre-planned vacation before suspending him in a post headlined “SiriusXM proves to be run by cowards.”
“SiriusXM is caving to the outrage mob,” he originally wrote at The Resurgent. “Ironically, it is this very outrage mob that led Glenn Beck and [his guest] Brad Thor to explore the dark waters of Trump ignoring the constitutional checks and balances of his office.”
In a lengthy Tuesday evening post from “Glenn Beck Radio Show” general manager Dom Theodore, he said Beck would never advocate violence and The Blaze crew had already been battening down the hatches for “an assault on Glenn’s voice, and others like it.”
“For the past several months, Glenn has warned his audience, and anyone else willing to listen, that the current political climate is worse than anything he has ever witnessed or studied in American history,” he wrote.
Theodore said he’s been told Beck would be back on-air come Monday but “only time will tell.”
SiriusXM did not respond to a Wednesday request for comment.
