Well, it turns out that a big plug on the OpEd page of The New York Times generates a fair number of visits to the site.
Who knew?
In case you haven’t seen it the lead-in in Paul Krugman’s column today said …
“Right now we’re debating whether the Republican Senate majority leader is a racist who yearns for the days of segregation or just a good ole boy who says a lot of things that make it seem like he’s a racist who yearns for the days of segregation.” So writes Joshua Marshall, whose talkingpointsmemo.com is must reading for the politically curious, and who, more than anyone else, is responsible for making Trent Lott’s offensive remarks the issue they deserve to be.
Actually there was another piece in The New York Post by John Podhoretz (“The Internet’s First 
Scalp” — where do they come up with those Post headlines?) which mentioned this site and others in making the broader point that the Lott story was a watershed for Internet journalism.
Let me just say thanks to Krugman and Podhoretz and a lot of other people who’ve privately and publicly said kind things about this site. It’s appreciated.
In any case, I’d certainly like to think that this site played some role in keeping this story alive while the bigs were ignoring. But I’m certain that the web generally — and particularly a lot of different weblogs — kept this story in front of people and forced attention to it long enough that it became impossible to ignore.
As long as I’m being given some of the credit, though, for getting this ball running it’s only fair for me to tell you that I have retained the services of a particularly muscular security consultant whom I’ve instructed to be on the look-out for any shellac-headed middle-aged men who might make a lunge at me with violence in their eyes or malice in their hearts.
Okay, I haven’t retained anyone yet. But, ya know, I’m thinking about it. So if anybody’s got any ideas, just put them out of your head!
