Tomi Lahren Suspended From Her Show After Sharing Pro-Choice Views
Images via The Blaze/YouTube
Glenn Beck’s The Blaze network has suspended 24-year-old conservative commentator Tomi Lahren after she voiced her pro-choice views, according to an initial report from The Daily Caller that was later confirmed by CNN and The Washington Post.
The report came three days after the controversial host revealed her take on abortion on last Friday’s episode of The View:
I am a constitutional, y’know, someone that loves the Constitution. I’m someone that’s for limited government. So I can’t sit here and be a hypocrite and say I’m for limited government but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies. I can sit here and say that, as a Republican and I can say, you know what, I’m for limited government, so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well.
The following weekend then saw a bizarrely slow tweet exchange between Lahren and The Blaze founder Beck:
Rule another label out. I am NOT a “constitutional”. I believe in LIFE, liberty and property. Just an old fashioned “constitutionalist.”
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) March 17, 2017
I have moderate, conservative, and libertarian views. I’m human. I will never apologize, to anyone, for being an independent thinker.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) March 18, 2017
Wait, libertarian views? Help me out on Trumpcare, stimulus, and executive orders. Trump is anything but libertarian. #intellectualhonestyhttps://t.co/jlt5sFvQMP
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) March 20, 2017
Lahren told CNN that she can’t comment on her suspension, though speculation is rising that she may not be much longer for Beck’s digital network. Her contract is said to be up in September, but we’ll see if this apparent feud won’t speed up her exit in the next six months.
While Lahren’s pro-choice comments and ideas about small government might seem to point to a certain intellectual consistency, know that her views (or at least their extremity) have certainly … evolved in recent years, specifically after she was hired to talk into a camera by Glenn Beck.
Tomi’s favorite hobby in 2016 was calling climate change “bad weather.” But in 2014, she said it was an agreed-upon scientific consensus. pic.twitter.com/0PkMPVNfMD
— Matt Gehring (@mattryanx) January 12, 2017
Tomi won’t mention the words “gun control” without blaming Islam. But she calls it a multi-dimensional issue here, with no mention of Islam. pic.twitter.com/evDEUVbdPc
— Matt Gehring (@mattryanx) January 12, 2017
To be fair, Lahren was only 21 or 22 in these videos, so she was at least a year away from discovering how much one can be paid by a media outlet to be furious for a living.