TPM Reader ML wonders what kindling to the fire may have been added by the McCain/Graham visit to each which, remember, President Obama greenlighted …
As a person who worked on national security issues in the federal government for many years, I will certainly comment. If you are representing your country abroad on official business, you have to be very mindful that you are not on the hustings in Iowa. You must measure your words with excruciating exactness. When I saw senators McCain and Graham commenting from Egypt on CBS News, I told myself “boy, this is not good.”
Patrick B. Pexton, former Washington Post ombudsman, has one piece of advice for new owner Jeff Bezos: fire Jennifer Rubin. In a briskly indisputable judgment he says “She’s just plain bad. She doesn’t travel within a hundred miles of Post standards.”
For some time I’ve been a fan of the artist and illustrator Molly Crabapple. I’m not quite sure how to describe her style. The Guardian once described it as “equal parts Hieronymus Bosch, William S. Burroughs and Cirque du Soleil.” She once described it herself as “Where’s Waldo for Perverts.” To place it in the most general terms, much of her work has the feel of high-end contemporary graphic novels. In any case, recently I got a PR email saying she’d just been down to Guantanamo Bay to draw the detention facility and the court proceedings. And I thought, wow, that seems like such a culture clash or coming together of two worlds, Crabapple on the one hand and the tight, hyper-secretive, militarized scene down at Gitmo, I’ve just got to hear more about how that went. So TPM’s Catherine Thompson interviewed her about it (she also wrote a long graphic essay for VICE) and she was kind enough to share several original sketches from her time down there. Here’s the piece which I’m thrilled we’re publishing.
So today we have a great-grandmother (#16) who works for the City of San Diego accusing Filner in addition to a another woman (#15) who says that among other things “he made an inappropriate movement on my body.”
