Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon will headline the annual New Yorker festival this year, according to a Monday New York Times report.
Editor David Remnick defended his decision to the Times.
“I have every intention of asking him difficult questions and engaging in a serious and even combative conversation,” he said. “The audience itself, by its presence, puts a certain pressure on a conversation that an interview alone doesn’t do. You can’t jump on and off the record.”
Some observers aren’t buying it, and argue that Bannon’s lack of role in the White House and demonstrated comfort espousing racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic perspectives through his old website, Breitbart, make him an unacceptable guest who is being given an extremely large platform.
Market penetration.
More Market penetration:
It’s all about eyeballs and eyeballs are fungible. Nazi eyeballs are as good as Leninist are as good as Quaker eyeballs.
ETA, I don’t how I got the Quakers into this. Maybe because the Mrs. made oatmeal this morning.
Remnick is very smart. Bannon will end up looking dumb. Racists must wither and melt in the full light of day.
All the “hard questions” in the world aren’t going to make a dent in this thoroughly disgusting propagandist by giving this moron a venue to spew his hate. By elevating one of the biggest white-supremacist bigots and anti-immigrant foes this country has seen in modern history, David Remnick is elevating a man that should be taken to the woodshed, not given a position of prominence. This is the best the New Yorker can do? Shame of them. This isn’t Time Magazine’s Person of the Year cover for shit’s sake. Times like these require thoughtful people to be elevated to cover the shitstorm we’re in, as John McCain’s funeral just demonstrated. At least old Johnny got that part right. Piss on David Remnick. He’s way off-base in reaching this boneheaded decision.
Well, two contradictory thoughts here.
Whichever, large quantities of disinfectant should be on hand, with full bio-hazard protocols in place.
Because drunken, disheveled Nazis in need of a shower just don’t get quite enough airtime these days?
Steve Bannon: White grievance incarnate.