{"id":15324,"date":"2016-05-31T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15324"},"modified":"2016-05-31T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T20:29:23","slug":"glenn-beck-booted-from-siriusxm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15324","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck booted from SiriusXM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/31\/media\/glenn-beck-suspension-siriusxm\/\">CNN coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glenn&#8217;s program crossed over the line last week when guest Brad Thor sort of encouraged someone to maybe assassinate Donald Trump.  It went far enough in the Glenn Beck &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying this, but&#8221; way &#8211; Glenn&#8217;s slimy way of insinuating &#8211; that John Malone&#8217;s company yanked his program from the Sirius XM Patriot channel, at least for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Beck&#8217;s &#8220;ratings&#8221; here have plummeted.  Beck is approaching the point in his behavior that reasonable people might see involuntary confinement as necessary.  That&#8217;s extreme, but so is his behavior, including his ongoing implications of suicidal thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>If this sticks, I would expect DirecTV (also controlled by Malone) to follow suit once the lawyers figure out how to break the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Malone is otherwise occupied with huge media and telecom deals.  As far as I know, he isn&#8217;t overtly political.  I can&#8217;t find him commenting on Trump one way or the other.  Once upon a time, he used to play golf with Rush Limbaugh, but I wouldn&#8217;t read a lot into that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN coverage Glenn&#8217;s program crossed over the line last week when guest Brad Thor sort of encouraged someone to maybe assassinate Donald Trump. It went far enough in the Glenn Beck &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying this, but&#8221; way &#8211; Glenn&#8217;s slimy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=15324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,15,176,144,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-american-politics","category-donald-trump","category-premier-clear-channel","category-siriusxm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15328,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions\/15328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}