Glenn Beck’s GM Lashes Out at ‘Viral Hatchet Job’ That Got Beck Suspended

Radio host and multimedia entrepreneur Glenn Beck was recently suspended by Sirius XM over comments that were made by a guest, author Brad Thor. The Glenn Beck Program General Manager Dom Theodore isn’t taking the suspension lying down, however, and has come out swinging at what he calls a “viral hatchet job” based on “fabrications.”

According to Sirius XM, Beck was suspended over comments Thor made that they said “may be reasonably construed by some to have been advocating harm against an individual currently running for office.”

Theodore said he wanted to respond on the vacationing Beck’s behalf “so that the unfortunate fabrications surrounding his interview with Brad Thor don’t spread any further,” adding that “As every listener of the show knows, Glenn has never — and will never — advocate violence.”

He then went on to call the story surrounding the suspension a “viral hatchet job” that “gives no context of the hypothetical posited from by Brad Thor, a thriller writer,” and proceeded to list various times Beck has not advocated violence:

Glenn is on the record, repeatedly, expressing concern for all people, especially the President of the United States. With every scandal at the Secret Service, Glenn has implored his audience to pray for the safety of the President and for the restoration of the Secret Service’s judgement and abilities. And to answer the question before it has been asked: No one from any governmental agency, Secret Service, police force, etc., has been in contact with our company about this story in any way, shape, or form.

The problem is that Beck wasn’t suspended for advocating violence, he was suspended over comments his guest made about Donald Trump. “This is serious and this could bring 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…” Thor said. “If Congress won’t remove him from office, what patriot will step up and do that if he oversteps his mandate as president?”

At the end of Thor’s comments, Beck said “I would agree with you on that,” and went on to talk about “voices like ours” going away under a Trump presidency. If Theodore knows what the “fabrications” are, or what “context” would change the plain meaning of Thor’s hypothetical, he isn’t saying.

That is not to say that Sirius was right to suspend Beck, but their stated reason is not a fabrication.

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