We know he's recently lost his gigs in most of the old Conrad Black empire. He burned his bridges at the National Post when the Aspers/Matthew Fraser took over from his Lordness and founding editor Ken Whyte. (The latter has given him a sinecure at Maclean's where he's been writing rambling, self-indulgent prose.)
“Rambling, self-indulgent prose” which I think is a much fairer assessment of what the Zerb’s has written in her “Steyn in my Eye” post than anything that Steyn has written for MacLean’s magazine. And just in case we miss her point in the next paragraph - she goes the extra adjective mile in describing the stylistic substance of Steyn’s Globe and Mail column yesterday and I quote.
So guess where Steyn turns up yesterday, dominating the Comment page with a rambling, self-indulgent 1,500 words, more or less, under the headline "The Cost of Not whacking Saddam was too high"?
Let’s face facts; not even on her best day, when she’s at the top of her game, can she play in the same league as Steyn. She’s a pure bush leaguer whose best column will never measure up to his worst, and isn’t envy one of the ugliest sins to observe in the eyes of others? I'll take lust and greed over envy any day.
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Absolutely. Zurb has absolutely no business criticizing Steyn over his style. Next thing you know, she'll be dismissing Picasso for his "rambling, self-indulgent" colour and form. The gall of that woman.
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