You apparently missed it (from Mr. Stephens in the NYT today) --
Now Twitter Edits The New Yorker-- but we already debated white supremacy.
The venerable magazine hands the reins to the digital mob.
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If speaking truth to power isn’t the ultimate task of publications such as The New Yorker, they’re on the road to their own left-wing version of “Fox & Friends.”
The Confederacy lost.
We debated it again.
The Nazis lost.
We debated it yet again.
Jim Crow lost.
But if you really are so cut off from the real world that you believe white supremacy is somehow underrepresented in the public square, I would urge you stop listening to Seven Days to Better Bowling or whatever retro self-help hokum you are using to shape and tone your critical thinking --
-- and instead listen to Conservative Hate Radio or watch Fox News at any time of day or night, anywhere in America, at any point over the last 20 years.
Why do we have keep explaining this shit to you?
Honestly I'm tired of trying, so take it away Margaret Sullivan:
Enough, already, with anything Steve Bannon has to say. We got it the first time.
No one wants a festival of ideas to turn into a cozy chat among like-minded friends. That’s pointless.
But also utterly pointless is the notion that Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, might have something new or valuable to offer.
That’s why it was a thoroughly lousy idea for the New Yorker magazine to offer a high-profile perch — an onstage interview by top editor David Remnick — at next month’s annual festival to the deposed Svengali.
There is nothing more to learn from Bannon about his particular brand of populism, with its blatant overlay of white supremacy.
While we’re at it, there is also nothing more to learn from the die-hard Trump voters in what I’ve called the Endless Diner Series — the media’s recidivistic journeys to the supposed heartland to hear what we’ve heard a thousand times before about blind loyalty in the face of all reason.
There is also nothing more to learn from proven dissemblers, like Kellyanne Conway, who keep being invited onto the top news shows to shamelessly spout whatever falsehood serves the Trumpian moment.
Yes, it’s time, well past time, to stop lending the media’s biggest and most prestigious platforms to this crowd of racists and liars.
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PS, shut the hell up, Podhoretz.
Remnick wanted to make Bannon a villain but in the liberal world now you silence the bad guy rather than defeat him— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) September 3, 2018
Behold, a Tip Jar!
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They act like we've never heard that shit before, or if we did, we didn't understand it the first time.
-Doug in Oakland
I recall Bannon telling Chris Hayes in an interview that he has NO difficulty raising money. He knows plenty of right wing screw balls who would fund him to do anything that was anti humane.
They long for the middle class to return to the Arena where "to the death" was fought for the elite rulers.
Dam liberals took that pleasure away. Took away their God given right to stand, hold out their arm. Give thumb's up or Thumb's down over life or death.
That feeling of exciting power over life made them feel so alive.
Yet the argument becomes inevitably out of reach from reason. Never to conclude.
"When Truth is not truth", RRudy
"Alternative Facts", KellyAnne
"God is Conservative" General republican populace.
"Climate Change is a hoax", Sen. James Ingoe
I ask anyone who discusses Climate Change with INhofe. Over man's contribution to it. "they ask him to perform a test to prove who is is more correct".
* Have him seal up air leaks to his garage. Place as many plants in that garage, leaving room for his car. For his participation first hand. Inhofe in that sealed garage, gets in his car (windows down) start the car (with a full tank of gas). Stay their until his God steps in and stops it?
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