Ahoy, friends. I’m violating the first rule my father instilled in me to bring to you an assessment of George Kent’s sartorial choices in the midst of this impeachment imbroglio. I’m putting something in writing. Here goes. By now you’ve all watched the testimony or seen the pictures. George Kent, hair coiffed and combed, sits resplendent in gray suit and lavish bowtie. Bill Taylor, in dark suit and monochrome tie sits to his left, slouching to speak into his microphone and pressing his oversized glasses up the bridge of his nose. Each man is, in his way, an archetype of the disciplined, public-spirited civil servant. Each, with funereal seriousness, intones about his dread that, horror of horrors, the president asked the Ukrainians to look into what the Bidens were up to in Kiev.Yet Kent is a special breed. And I want to talk about his manner, his three-piece, and his bowtie.
