Glenn Beck Wants Us to Stop Calling Charlie Kirk a ‘Conservative Activist.’ Here’s Why

For all of us covering the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we have described him in several ways—as an activist, an influencer, a commentator. All are technically accurate. But on his BlazeTV program Friday, Glenn Beck argued that none of those labels do justice to Kirk’s true legacy. Beck insisted there’s a far more accurate way to understand what Kirk was fighting for. 

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“We must stop calling Charlie anything other than a civil rights leader,” Beck declared. “We need to plant that stake deep. It is time that we point out that what he was doing was not politics.”

Beck argued that Kirk’s mission was larger than partisanship: “What he was doing was trying to stand up for people’s civil

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