At Last, A Successor to Jesse Jackson

Back in the 1980s, when The New Republic described Jesse Jackson as “the great ambulance chaser of American politics,” it was Jackson who would insert himself in every foreign crisis he could.  He sprung a downed airman from Syrian captivity in 1984, and then got on the phone with various Lebanese terrorists trying to mediate the 1985 TWA flight 847 hijacking and hostage crisis.  (He was unsuccessful that time.)

At last!  We have a successor for Jackson—Dennis Rodman.  From today’s headlines:

Dennis Rodman to Kim Jong Un: ‘Do Me a Solid’ and Free American Kenneth Bae

SEOUL, South Korea — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the North.

“I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea or as I call him `Kim’, to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose,” Rodman said on Twitter. He later called the tweet a direct response to a Seattle Times editorial that dared him to ask Kim for the release if the two are really buddies.

Oh why not.  From my memory of the Rodman in the NBA, he could defend better than the Obama administration.  Just in case you’ve forgotten:

 

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