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Jack Abramoff is being tried in the court of public opinion as much for his wardrobe as for his criminal activity.
He showed up for his arraignment wearing a really cool black fedora and overcoat which looked like they had been designed for a Sergio Leone spaghetti western.
Since we are living in an age of adolescent conformism, where the wrong ring can sink you, the news media went into a screaming rage because he had not been dressed in casual Friday attire.
Maureen Dowd, who is not exactly a model of sartorial urbanity, began one of her usual sarcastically insulting pieces (doesn’t she have any other rhetorical devices?) with a lead paragraph railing about the hat and coat. The Washington Post ran a whole editorial piece about it. Ditto CNN, CNBC etc.
I realize that freedom of expression is totally dead in this country, not because of the government, but because the CheezWhiz TV announcers and the general population at large have laced themselves into a such a medieval corset of conformism and political correctness that you can get tarred and feathered for wearing a coat that threatens somebody’s milquetoast sensibilities.
Go into any clothing store and you’ll see that all the attire has morphed into a mind-numbing blur of sorority rush week.
One sports announcer spent five minutes of air time making snide digs about Pat Riley’s hair, which he likes to keep slicked back instead of air-blowing it into a freakin’ bird’s nest.
This preppy look has got me down in the dumps. I dig Italian suits and pinky rings. The first thing my girlfriend, Magpie, did when I moved in with her was to wait until I went out and then throw out all my suits, along with my double-breasted grey tweed Italian overcoat with the shoulder epaulets.
Shit! The political correctness gang is not kidding around! Now I look like a freakin’ Ken Doll too!
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Posted on 1/7/2006
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