Looks like Filner will be resigning this afternoon. For me, coverage has been way too "rah rah" advocacy, there has been some impartial reporting of facts but too often reporters have taken his removal up like a popular public cause like toys for tots or Christmas dinner for the homeless. The accusations against Filner are really bad. Life is so simple, really: if you wouldn't want someone doing something to you, don't do it to anybody else. How hard is that? Politically the guy is very good, not only was he a Freedom Rider in Mississippi, he spent time in prison for helping Blacks to register to vote. But the personal conduct, ugh. Still, nobody died. Nobody will ever answer for all the useless deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, except a handful of former officials don't dare travel outside the country on pain of arrest for international war crimes. The media could have done better. Filner should have done a LOT better.
