How Right-Wing Radio Stoked Anger Before the Capitol Siege
Posted on AllSides February 10th, 2021
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Two days before a mob of Trump supporters invaded the United States Capitol, upending the nation’s peaceful transition of power and leaving at least five people dead, the right-wing radio star Glenn Beck delivered a message to his flock of 10.5 million listeners: “It is time to fight.”
“It is time to rip and claw and rake,” Mr. Beck said on his Jan. 4 broadcast. “It is time to go to war, as the left went to war four years ago.”
A former Fox News host, Mr. Beck had speculated...
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