Like most bloggers I've spoken with over the years, I usually have a pretty good idea of which O'Toole File posts are likely to generate a little interest around the ’Sphere and which ones aren't. Every once in a while, though, I guess wrong, and a piece that I truly expect to help kick off a larger conversation just, well, dies, as this one on the potentially pernicious effects of campaign finance reform did last September.
Some posts are just slightly ahead of their time, I guess.
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Tell me about it. A blogger with less than the traffic of say a DailyKos can mostly hope to put spin on an existing scandal or break an obvious scandal. Anything that does not fall into one of those two categories faces pretty steep odds of gaining much traction at random. Remember my post about how Woodward's book shows Bush and Rumsfeld distracted CENTCOM with rushed plans for Iraq for the same four week period when Bin Laden escaped from Tora Bora? It still frustrates me how few people know about that.
Kerry still brings up the old stuff, calling for Rumsfeld to resign, but leaves out the best evidence why he should.
Say your job was to guard the bank, and someone walked out with all the money because you had decided to distract the security guards with rushed planning for the gas station that night? Sure, they might have pulled it off anyway. But you'd still be out of a job. I can tell you that much.
Posted by: Mike Kasper | March 4, 2005 06:03 PM