There's no doubt it was aces for them, but the media culture of today is far too quick to crown genius and lament absolute incompetence, completely ignoring the luck factor that so often plays a part in personnel decisions.
Had some more critical reporters actually looked at how often luck plays in, you wouldn't have personality cults built around incompetent dipshits like Scott Pioli.
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"When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”--Abraham Lincoln
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