TMZ Gets Political

In late March, grainy photographs of the Republican South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham relaxing at Disney World spread across the internet. One of these images showed Graham gripping a pink-and-blue bubble wand inspired by “The Little Mermaid.” Graham had a dilatory air, as though he’d somehow drifted off to a distant place. The photo’s caption wagged that Graham’s “fantasyland” surroundings, in the “Tangled” section of the theme park, couldn’t be more “on the nose—Congress is living in one, with each side blaming the other for its failure to reach a compromise that would reopen the government . . . believing voters are buying what they’re selling.”