The New Yorker editor's excuse for inviting Steve Bannon to headline its festival works for every New Yorker cartoon

  1. Remnick’s line is close to a substitute for “Christ, what an asshole”, but not close enough. An alternative would be nice – because choice – but that isn’t it.
  2. So cute the way conservatives read the First Amendment as being a right to a platform or, put another way, private platforms are required to provide a space or outlet whenever requested.
  3. If Remnick felt a need to do a solid for Bannon, how about instead of rehabilitating him at a to do for the relatively wealthy – a per se limited audience – publish an old time New Yorker profile describing both Bannon’s good and bad. To his credit, Bannon has at least an awareness that things are very fucked and, to a degree, why. Problem is he’s clueless about a solution. More specifically, like every conservative, his solution is to exacerbate the problem.
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