The New Yorker "Does Not See" Steve Bannon As A Threat!

Sloppy Steve won't be a headliner at The New Yorker's festival.

Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and former CEO of Breitbart Media was slated to be a speaker at The New Yorker festival. Outrage ensures. Many famous entertainers warned the publication that his appearance will result in a boycott.

The controversial figure is a part of this white extremist movement known as the alt-right.

He was forced out of the White House after he leaked damaging information about Donald J. Trump and his allies to the junk food media.

Bannon also was forced off Breitbart media when the company backers Robert and daughter Rebecah Mercer stopped funding him and the right wing tabloid.

Breitbart is suffering after Sleeping Giants ran a grassroots campaign to pressure advertisers to drop the right wing tabloid for its years of promoting a racist agenda. The company had to restructure its funding.

Bannon was going to be a headliner. But today, the invite was pulled.

The CEO of the New Yorker put out this tweet.

A statement from David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, explaining his decision to no longer include Steve Bannon in the 2018 New Yorker Festival. pic.twitter.com/opayiw5GQ2

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 3, 2018

Several people who were supposed to take part in the festival, including comedian John Mulaney and filmmaker Judd Apatow, said they wouldn't attend if Bannon was there. Other prominent people, including Chelsea Clinton, tweeted that the event would be giving Bannon another platform for his ideas. New Yorker writer Kathryn Schulz tweeted that she was "beyond appalled" at Bannon's inclusion.

In his letter, Remnick said that the point of this type of "rigorous interview" is to "put pressure on the views of the person being questioned." He insisted to "interview him is not to endorse him." 

But Remnick said that he has realized there is a "better way to do this" and reconsidered the interview. He also acknowledged that festival guests, unlike those interviewed on radio or for a print story, are paid an honorarium, along with money for travel and lodging.

This year's guests include Emily Blunt, Zadie Smith and Sally Yates, who Trump fired as deputy attorney general after she refused to back his initial ban on travelers from Muslim countries. The ban was advocated by Bannon, a senior White House adviser at the time.