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Crew: Mark Steyn Was Abusive and Obnoxious

By gregladen on March 15, 2017.

Mark Steyn is well known to readers of this blog as the intentionally obnoxious Canadian version of Rush Limbaugh who is being sued by our friend and colleague Michael Mann, author of the recent "The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy," for defamation. Steyn is also the author of a terrible book attacking all the climate scientists. Steyn has gone after a lot of pro-science people, including me, and I heard a rumor that he likes to crush kittens. OK, maybe he doesn't crush kittens, but he is explicitly and intentionally (I assume), as part of his act, an unmitigated ass.

Recently, he started a show on CRTV, which is a right wing on line radio show of some kind. Then, they canned him. Then, he sued to keep the show on while a breach of contract suit was proposed, giving as the reason for the stay that he felt obligated to protect the show's employees, who would be hurt but ending it.

Then, the show's employees came out and said what they think about Steyn.

Of Steyn's implied relationship to his employees, "It's bullshit, frankly. They all hate him," says one perso in the know.

These employees claim that Steyn ruined the show by being a jerk to everyone, verbally abusing them, calling them names, etc. He had them run personal errands, and misappropriated CRTV funds on personal purchases.

The Daily Beast has the story, well documented and clearly laid out, here.

Steyn has been the subject of discussion on this blog numerous times:

  • Mark Steyn's Latest Trick
  • Mark Steyn, The DC Appeals Court, and Congress
  • Mark Steyn’s Newest Attack On Michael Mann And The Hockey Stick
  • Mark Steyn and Judith Curry
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    By Brainstorms (not verified) on 15 Mar 2017 #permalink

    From TDB link:

    For some crew members, their experiences on the show were all the more disheartening given their previous admiration for Steyn, his ideas, and his skills as a political commentator.

    Wake up and smell the authoritarianism. Better late than never. Let's hope this is a microcosm.

    CRTV? What the eff is CRTV.

    (Summons the almighty Google.)

    Cameroon Radio Television is a major radio and television broadcasting company in Cameroon.

    Seriously?

    Per https://who.is/, it was registered by Starboard Ad Group, Saint Simons Island, Georgia. Seriously.

    By Brainstorms (not verified) on 15 Mar 2017 #permalink

    Cameroon Radio Television is a major radio and television broadcasting company in Cameroon.

    Pass.

    And, of course, the site is rife with HTML errors.

    By Christopher Winter (not verified) on 16 Mar 2017 #permalink

    Oppositional/defiant disorder, guaranteed. It's clinical psych shorthand for "arsehole," someone whose responses to others are always nasty and anti- and fault-finding. Probably also narcissistic as hell, but that's an easy call for whitey-righties.