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,” 
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:
<li><strong><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2015/12/22/mark-steyn-the-dc-appeals-court-and-congress/">Mark Steyn, The DC Appeals Court, and Congress</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2015/06/22/mark-steyns-newest-attack-on-michael-mann-and-the-hockey-stick/">Mark Steyn’s Newest Attack On Michael Mann And The Hockey Stick</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2014/10/17/mark-steyn-and-judith-curry/">Mark Steyn and Judith Curry</a></strong></li>
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Sounds like your typical Conservative media type…
From TDB link:
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.)
Seriously?
Per https://who.is/, it was registered by Starboard Ad Group, Saint Simons Island, Georgia. Seriously.
‘ an affiliate of the Conservative Review website’
https://www.conservativereview.com/
It’s on there, if you really want to click.
Sh*t, sorry:
https://www.crtv.com/
Pass.
And, of course, the site is rife with HTML errors.
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.
Except his has just won against CRTV and he never really “misappropriated CRTV funds ” since they did not pay him for the only month of the show and left him the tab…
Good call Bill. Apparently Steyn is a bit of a perfectionist, so perhaps the crew was unhappy with him. However, he has just won over a million dollars in his suit.
Except he has just won against CRTV and he never really “misappropriated CRTV funds ” since they did not pay him for the only month of the show and left him the tab…
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