Washington Decorum: Note to Google co-founder Sergey Brin:
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2006-06-12 17:04
Billionaire-ness aside, Senators and Representatives generally view the informality of wearing jeans and tennis shoes on a lobbying visit to the Nation’s Capitol as disrespectful to both the institution, the process, and to them. Dressing like you don’t care what others think -- communicates that exact point.
Even billionaire wannabe, Anna Nicole Smith had the good sense to dress formally and respectfully when she visited Washington recently for her Supreme Court appearance on the legality of her potential inheritance.
That's pretty lame, Scott Cleland.
Wow Scott. A new low.
There you are, accepting all that money from all those telecoms to combat the ever-growing threat of fairly-priced net connectivity (and to smear the Google founders - it would seem) and the best that you can do today is three lame sentences about how Brin wore jeans to Washington? Like that somehow undermines his side (the people's side) of the net neutrality argument?
Judging by the tired standard-issue dark Wal Mart suit that you sport in your little Precursor thumbnail portrait it appears that YOU (unlike Brin) must be a man who cares what others think. And when I say others, I mean the phone and cable companies who pay for you to write this crap to try to stop a good law from being passed (one that actually protects people, not just makes big companies more money at the expense of individual consumers).
And because you care what others think, Scott, you dress just like everybody else, right? Dark suit. Tie. Receding hair. (And although your photo doesn't show them - I'm betting black shoes and white socks. ) What should your readers extrapolate from that? Because all I get is - Scott Cleland is just like everybody else. Except with weaker arguments for a less noble cause.