The magazine where i work, the new yorker, had a case like this recently. Donald trump vengali, steve bannon was invited to speak at the magazine's annual literary festival. And everyone flipped out. The argument that was made about bannon is an argument that could as easily have been applied to maddox years ago. What's the point of giving someone like that a platform? I mean, what could possibly be learned from listening to them talk? Sure enough, what happens over the course of the next hour of dick cavitt show, exactly what you would think.