After internet outrage, New Yorker disinvites Steve Bannon from festival

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When The New Yorker announced that Steve Bannon — the man who mainstreamed white nationalism as a former Donald Trump adviser — would headline its New Yorker Festival, the internet responded with a collective, “Are you kidding me?

Then, celebrities slated to appear at the event started pulling out on Twitter. 

I’m out. I genuinely support public intellectual debate, and have paid to see people speak with whom I strongly disagree. But this isn’t James Baldwin vs William F Buckley. This is PT Barnum level horseshit. And it was announced on a weekend just before tix went on salehttps://t.co/oYk1llNgvV

— John Mulaney (@mulaney) September 3, 2018 Read more…

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Bill Murray, yes, Bill Murray portrays Steve Bannon in hilarious ‘SNL’ cold open

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Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough hate-flirting and talking over their guests on “Morning Joe” was a welcome way to return from Saturday Night Live’s holiday hiatus, especially with a big reveal under the Steve Bannon Grim Reaper cloak.

Mika (Kate McKinnon) and Joe (Alex Moffat) made everyone as uncomfortable as ever with their wholly inappropriate double entendre and tone-deaf interview an with African-American studies expert (Chris Redd) who couldn’t get a word in edgewise.

But the real fire and fury, so to speak, came with SNL alum Fred Armisen’s surprise appearance as author Michael Wolff, whose explosive tell-all book Fire and Fury has had Washington tongues waggling over salacious – and possibly erroneous – details about the Trump White House. Read more…

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Sirius XM faces boycott from celebrities over Steve Bannon’s return

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Steve Bannon might be looking forward to his return to radio, but celebrities like Seth Rogen, John Leguizamo and Melissa Etheridge are promising a boycott.

According to CNN, the former chief strategist for President Donald Trump has rejoined the Sirius XM radio team as a host on the Breitbart News Daily show on conservative station Patriot — and folks are fuming.

Announced last Tuesday, the executive chairman of alt-right website Breitbart News Network has returned to Sirius XM as a regular host along with editor-in-chief Alex Marlow. Bannon has previously hosted the Breitbart News Daily show which premiered in late 2015, and he covered the 2016 GOP nomination. Read more…

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