Washington DC Escorts: An Unpardoned Interruption
Written on February 24, 2010 – 8:00 pm | by hookerlooker
Sports commentators regularly mock the fashion choices of male athletes, telecasters and coaches. But this isn’t the same as going after Bill Belichick for his grey hoodies, because Bill Belichick doesn’t live in world where constant, intense, unremitting physical evaluation is the norm. This is doubly true of television “journalism.” I deeply suspect that if Kornheiser were subject to the sort of aesthetic standard that will dog Hannah Storm for the rest of her working days, he would not have a career right now.
Leaving that aside, there is something unserious about ESPN’s pearl-clutching given Kornheiser’s own history, and given ESPN’s history, all documented by Shafer:
What’s probably appalled ESPN is Kornheiser’s literary reference about Storm being “a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point,” a reference that probably went over the heads of 99 percent of his listeners. Is Kornheiser referring to Chapter 13 of The Catcher in the Rye, in which Caulfield hires a prostitute but makes the procurer promise not to send him “any old bag”?