How’s this for fun?<\/p>\n
I got noticed by one of Rachel Maddow’s writers and producers on Twitter this afternoon. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
A few months ago, Maddow hired Steve Benen, formerly of Washington Monthly<\/i><\/a>, to work on MaddowBlog<\/a>. I’d followed Benen’s work on WM<\/i>‘s “Political Animal” blog for a number of years, and when Maddow hired him away, I started reading MaddowBlog. (I actually have a bookmark that gives me just Benen’s work<\/a>, so I can pretend that it’s just like reading “Political Animal.”)<\/p>\n Benen doesn’t blog just a little. Benen blogs a lot<\/i>. And his political blogging is timely, insightful, and thorough. As political bloggers go, he puts everyone<\/i> to shame with his output. He manages quantity and<\/i> quality. Simply great stuff.<\/p>\n This afternoon, Benen posted an article about how John Boehner is one of the least powerful Speakers of the House<\/a> in American history. This has been a frequent refrain of his over the years, and today Benen brought the tale up to date.<\/p>\n I decided to share the article on Twitter, and when I did so I riffed on Benen’s original headline — “The wrong guy to talk about ‘leadership'” — and added some @ tags to Benen, Maddow, and John Boehner himself — From @SteveBenen<\/a> & @maddow<\/a>, why @SpeakerBoehner<\/a> is entirely the wrong guy to talk about “leadership” on.msnbc.com\/I6JQfF<\/a> (link to Tweet<\/a>)<\/p>\n To my surprise, Benen did a modified retweet<\/a> of this. He snipped out Rachel Maddow’s link, but left in my adverb and the link to his article. I suspect that retweeting me was easier for him than posting the link himself. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I think this is quite cool, actually.<\/p>\n First, it’s a good article. I think people should read it because Benen says some interesting things about Boehner’s political impotence.<\/p>\n Second, it’s just nice to be noticed sometimes.<\/p>\n Go me! :banana:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How’s this for fun? I got noticed by one of Rachel Maddow’s writers and producers on Twitter this afternoon. \ud83d\ude42 A few months ago, Maddow hired Steve Benen, formerly of Washington Monthly, to work on MaddowBlog. I’d followed Benen’s work on WM‘s “Political Animal” blog for a number of years, and when Maddow hired himContinue reading “On Being Noticed by Rachel Maddow’s Producer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[172,3919],"class_list":["post-6243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-john-boehner","tag-rachel-maddow","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}