Why Populism Trumps Political Correctness

It's the difference between a first and second rate schmooze

I recently attended the "new media" White House correspondents' dinner. It was "black tie," so naturally I wore a Hawaiian shirt and a black bowtie that I acquired morning of for ten dollars from a thrift store up the street. Of the hundreds of males in there, by my eyes I was the only one not wearing a tux. "New Media" my tookas! I thought. I conversed…