Here's what I think of your little pitiful festival.
Posted on 09/03/2018 6:40:45 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The New Yorker on Monday disinvited former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon from the magazine's fall festival next month following outcry over his inclusion in the event.
Bannon's scheduled appearance at the annual festival sparked significant backlash Monday as a number of attendees, including actor Jim Carrey and comedian John Mulaney, said they were withdrawing from the event.
“I don't want well-meaning readers and staff members to think that I've ignored their concerns," New Yorker editor David Remnick said in a statement on Monday that was shared to the magazine's Twitter account.
"I've thought this through and talked to colleagues — and I've reconsidered. I've changed my mind."
Remnick said that he would not interview Bannon on stage during the event as previously planned, but said that "if the opportunity presents itself" in the future he would plan to interview the former Breitbart News executive "in a more traditionally journalistic setting."
Remnick noted that those objecting to the interview argued that Bannon would “propel further the ‘ideas’ of white nationalism, racism, anti-Semitism, and illiberalism.” But Remnick maintained that “to interview Bannon is not to endorse him.”
“By conducting an interview with one of Trumpism’s leading creators and organizers, we are hardly pulling him out of obscurity,” he said. “Ahead of the mid-term elections and with 2020 in sight, we’d be taking the opportunity to question someone who helped assemble Trumpism.”
In addition to Mulaney and Carrey, singer Jack Antonoff, producer Judd Apatow and actor Patton Oswalt were among those Monday who said they wouldn’t attend the festival due to the inclusion of Bannon.
Additionally, writer Roxane Gay said she pulled an essay she was writing for The New Yorker because she could not “wrap my mind around this Bannon thing.”
It was not clear Monday whether those who withdrew from the festival would reverse their decisions after Bannon was disinvited.
Apatow wrote on Twitter that Remnick’s decision to disinvite Bannon was “very good news.”
“There is no reason to have a hateful person at this festival. Thank you @NewYorker for listening and making an adjustment,” he wrote.
Earlier Monday, Remnick told The New York Times that he intended to ask Bannon difficult questions and engage “in a serious and even combative conversation.”
“The audience itself, by its presence, puts a certain pressure on a conversation that an interview alone doesn’t do,” he told the Times. “You can’t jump on and off the record.”
The New Yorker Festival will be held Oct. 5-7 in New York City. Political figures scheduled to speak include former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and David Hogg, the Parkland, Fla., shooting survivor who has become an outspoken gun control activist.
Censorship wins again.
“There is no reason to have a hateful person at this festival...”
...he hatefully declared.
Pathetic.
snowflakees are appearing early this year.
So much for “tolerance” from those that espouse diversity and tolerance.HaHaHaHaHa.....
illiberalism???
For a leftist, a “hateful” person is someone for whom they are filled with hate.
Here's what I think of your little pitiful festival.
Irony is lost on them.
As they say, oh the irony.
Peaceful coexistence with these people is not possible.
We should stop pretending it is.
L
There is no reason for Bank on to join this Child Molester festival.
Bannon
PING
New Yorker disinvites Bannon from festival following backlash
Are sales falling, and when they declare bankruptcy they will have a ready made excuse?
They apparently do not know their audience.
Would conservative organizations like Concerned Women for America or The Eagle Forum invite a disgusting liberal like Kathy Griffin? No, emphatically not. Would Focus on the Family invite to their gala someone antithetical to their mission, like Noam Chomsky or Ellen DeGeneres? No, absolutely not.
Then why did The New Yorker make the huge mistake of inviting someone who opposes every facet of their worldview and who actively campaigns and cheers against everything they believe in? I think the fault lies with Mr. Remnick not being thoughtful enough about how his core audience would perceive it. The New Yorker is every bit as much of a socio-cultural institution on the left as the ones I named above are on the right, and they would never commit such an apostasy.
Backlash from who..Commies??? Meanwhile Farrahkan was allowed to be at Aretha Franklin’s funeral, didnt hear any outrage there
Hey dont ya know the drill, we support Trump therefore we are Nazi’s
Do you consider that a bad thing?
This issue here is not why Mr. Remnic invited Bannon or whether he should have in the first place.
The issue is 'The Mob' forced him to withdraw the invitation.
Is that something you agree with?
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