Glenn Beck’s Media Empire Sued For Ignoring Star Host’s Sexual Harassment

A year ago, Sydney Watson was poised to be a new star in the heady world of right-wing media. She was a few months into co-hosting a show on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, an online video network and launching pad for big conservative personalities like Tomi Lahren and Dana Loesch. Watson had signed a multi-year deal with Blaze Media that she claims was worth nearly $1.3 million.

But Watson had a problem: her co-host, pugnacious Blaze pundit Elijah Schaffer. Watson thought Schaffer was setting her up to fail, insisting on “grossly misogynistic” guests and even joking on Twitter about how he wanted her to sleep with talk radio host Sebastian Gorka.

According to Watson, Schaffer was often drunk on set, slugging shots of liquor around recording time. Schaffer was obsessed with talking about “sex, often specifically gay sex,” in Watson’s account, and would talk about it frequently around her and their guests.

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