Right-Wingers Like Steven Crowder Need Billionaire Funders Because Their Ideas Are So Bad
Right-wing demagogue Steven Crowder recently turned down a $50 million offer from Ben Shapiro’s billionaire-funded media organization, calling it a “slave contract.” If only these guys showed as much concern for the conditions of ordinary workers.
Steven Crowder on his show Louder With Crowder in 2015. (Wikimedia Commons)
Conservative commentator Steven Crowder used to work for Glenn Beck’s company, The Blaze. Late last year, before The Blaze let him go, he was in negotiations to switch over to one of their competitors — Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing’s the Daily Wire.
Last week, Crowder released a video denouncing the terms the Daily Wire had offered him as a “slave contract.” Boreing hit back with a long response going through the details of the offer. Among other things, he revealed that the “slave contract” would have given Crowder $50 million over four years. Crowder, Boreing revealed, wanted more than twice that figure.
The feud escalated from there, with Crowder gleefully publicizing a phone conversation he’d secretly recorded with Boreing a week before, and Shapiro responding with a long Twitter thread, and . . . well . . . you get the idea.
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