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Name: Mike's America
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States

Currently living in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Mike has taken a keen interest in politics and government since his days as a young whippersnapper in Ohio. There, he organized College Republicans clubs, worked as a professional staffer on two statewide campaigns and was elected to the Delaware County Republican Central Committee among other achievements. In 1986 he began graduate studies in government at Columbia University where he specialized in National Security matters under the tutelage of former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Leaving New York in 1988 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become a White House Intern in the Political Office of President Ronald Reagan. With backing from the first Bush Administration he spent four years at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has lived on Hilton Head since 1996 where he writes, photographs and gardens.

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Monday, December 04, 2006

Flopping Aces Drawing Fire from NY Treason

Reader Alert: Mike's America friend Curt at Flopping Aces just had a big target painted on his blog by the New York Times, which sniffed that his audacity in questioning the phony tragedy reporting from Iraq was in some form or another "patently absurd," "menacing, and more damaging to a free press," or "agenda-driven, insolent, or both, but not legitimately curious."

Methinks the Times doth protest too much!

This attack on Flopping Aces and others like Chicken Hawk Express and Michelle Malkin who dare to question the journalistic integrity of the lamestream media is just the latest attempt to circle the wagons around what remains of the liberal media monopoly which has successfully sold the "all is lost, sky is falling" media view of U.S. actions in Iraq.

In light of the examination of our military and political strategy which is ongoing, should we not also examine the reporting and "agenda-driven" practices of the media which still retains a central role in shaping American public opinion?

Or is the media simply a one way street where any news reports showing events in a negative light are treated as gospel while those demonstrating success are ignored?

posted by Mike's America | 12/04/2006