Andrew W.K. says the State Department judged by a book by its cover when they cancelled his Bahrain trip

W.K. says he was scheduled to fly to Bahrain on Dec. 1 and received his itinerary for the trip this past Monday. A mere six hours after he got the schedule, he got a call saying the whole thing was kaput, supposedly because the State Department decided W.K.’s party-centric persona “didn’t meet our standards” and was “not the best choice.” (The long-existing pictures of him with blood all over his face probably didn’t help.) Still, as W.K. writes on his blog, he “would have done a great job and represented our nation with dignity and pride,” concluding, "You can't judge a book by its cover."

As Pitchfork notes, this whole thing suggests a plot straight out of Homeland, albeit with less crying and more partying than usual.