Radio host and political commentator Glenn Beck honored Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk Wednesday by displaying the late Rush Limbaugh’s golden microphone while he guest hosted “The Charlie Kirk Show.”
An emotional Beck presented the golden microphone and placed it in front of Kirk’s empty seat where he previously hosted his show. Beck said that Kirk was a “narrowcaster” who held a wide variety of different talents.
“I think it’s appropriate that it sits in front of Charlie’s microphone. What I would’ve said to Charlie was you were thinking too small. I want to be Rush Limbaugh someday, I’m a broadcaster, Rush was a broadcaster. But Charlie was a broadcaster and a narrowcaster. Charlie was a pastor and a priest and listening to the way he could argue and think differently, he was a rabbi as well. And one of the best.”
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Limbaugh once recounted the first time he met Kirk at a golf course in 2018, stating that the Turning Point USA founder was “very wise” and that he “carries the personality [and] the charisma.”
“This is the kind of guy that you can see really becoming big in politics as he gets older. He just carries the personality, the charisma,” Limbaugh said.
Kirk’s show has been guest hosted by his friends, Andrew Kolvet and Jack Posobiac, Vice President J.D. Vance and Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles and Matt Walsh. Vance gave a passionate speech at the conclusion of his episode, highlighting that political violence has disproportionately become a far-left issue.
“This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, one side has a much bigger and more malignant problem and that is the truth we must be told. That problem has terrible consequences … And now the most influential conservative activist in generations, our friend Charlie, has been murdered. It doesn’t come from nowhere,” Vance said.
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Kirk will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom for being a “champion of liberty and an inspiration to millions.”
Kirk’s suspected assassin, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, subscribed to left-wing and transgender ideology, authorities said on Tuesday. He was in a relationship with his trans-identifying boyfriend, Lance Twiggs, a male who identified as a girl.
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As a business-owning conservative all of my life, I knew who Charlie Kirk was, but thought of him only in terms of his much younger (than me) audience. That’s no slight to either him or myself. As an almost daily fan of Rush, I appreciate what he had to say about Charlie. As a Christian, I refuse to harbor hate for anyone. And with what I sometimes see coming from the Left, I have to struggle with that and it’s my cross to bear. I refuse to allow hate into my heart simply because someone else has it in theirs. Keep your poison to yourself.