MoDo celebrates Easter with what she always does: a turn at stylish whining.
Good Riddance, Carrie Mathison
Attacking the Carrie Mathison character, played by Claire Danes, refers to the lead character in the "Homeland" television series. Here's the core sentiment, dressed up as a logical argument:
“The problem is that [corporate media] portray most women in such a one-dimensional way; whatever the character flaw is, that’s all they are,” said Gina Bennett, a slender, thoughtful mother of five who has been an analyst in the Counterterrorism Center [at C.I.A.] over the course of 25 years and who first began sounding the alarm about Osama bin Laden back in 1993.One can take exception to characterizing Claire Danes as a "centerfold model." whyat, implying that she's a dumbass with big tits?“It can leave a very distinct understanding of women at the agency — how we function, how we relate to men, how we engage in national security — that is pretty off,” Bennett said. She was sitting in a conference room at Langley decorated with photos of a memorial for the seven C.I.A. officers — including Bennett’s close friend Jennifer Matthews — who were blown up in 2009 by a Jordanian double agent [at Camp Chapman] in Khost, Afghanistan.
Agreed Sandra Grimes, a perky 69-year-old blonde who helped unmask her C.I.A. colleague Aldrich Ames as a double agent for the Russians after noticing that he had traded up from a battered Volvo to a Jaguar: “I wish they wouldn’t use centerfold models in tight clothes. We don’t look that way. And we don’t act that way.”
Claire's gracefully flat chested and absolutely lovely. IB from Lycée Français de Los Angeles, two years at Yale drama. A film "Juliet" for the ages and IQ=140.
Which altogether put her at the center ring of my notion of the female intelligence stratosphere. Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, more for great brain.
The big point: that Dowd avoids any mention of torture.
It's not just the obvious misfire with the title. A phony attack on Claire Daines doesn't count for much.
MoDo glorifies the C.I.A.'s Jennifer Mathews -- dead at Camp Chapman in Khost -- but she carefully avoids addressing what that C.I.A. crew had been doing through the years.
MoDo gives a clear miss to American torture and to the fact that the hunt for bin Laden was stymied for years.
That C.I.A. crew are seen today, officially, as American heroes. That is the government line. After all, the 7 of them were killed by an al-Qaeda suicide bomber. Their C.I.A. bosses in Pakistan are never mentioned.
Heroes, yes to the trumpets; but of torture? Not a word.
Still, a somewhat different opinion exists. That will be presented below the fold, if you are interested. Also a skosh more about Claire & Friends....