The New Yorker<\/i> holds a festival every year.<\/p>\n
It’s you standard exercise in pseudo-intellectual mental masturbation, so all the deep thinkers, people like, “John Mulaney, Judd Apatow, Jack Antonoff and Jim Carrey.” (In case you are wondering, this is me mocking the whole enterprise.)<\/p>\n
Well, the editor of the New Yorker<\/i>, David Remnick, decided that it would be a good idea to invite white supremacist Steve Bannon, and the cancellations rained down like cluster bombs in Yemen<\/a>:<\/p>\n Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump\u2019s former chief strategist, will no longer appear as a headliner<\/a> at this year\u2019s New Yorker Festival, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, announced in an email to the magazine\u2019s staff on Monday evening.<\/span> \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n In Mr. Remnick\u2019s email to his staff, he said that even New Yorker staff members had expressed discomfort at the decision to invite Mr. Bannon to be interviewed at the festival. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Gee, you think?<\/p>\n How does someone who is too stupid to cut his own meat end up editing the New Yorker<\/i> anyway? <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New Yorker holds a festival every year. It’s you standard exercise in pseudo-intellectual mental masturbation, so all the deep thinkers, people like, “John Mulaney, Judd Apatow, Jack Antonoff and Jim Carrey.” (In case you are wondering, this is me mocking the whole enterprise.) Well, the editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick, decided that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,490,387,406],"class_list":["post-178729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-hack-journalism","tag-hypocrisy","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/span>The announcement followed several scathing rebukes and high-profile dropouts after the festival\u2019s lineup, with Mr. Bannon featured, was announced<\/a>. Within 30 minutes of one another, John Mulaney, Judd Apatow, Jack Antonoff and Jim Carrey said on social media that they would be pulling out of scheduled events at the festival. Right around the time when Mr. Remnick announced the cancellation of Mr. Bannon\u2019s participation, Patton Oswalt did the same.<\/span><\/p>\n