The AIM trigger may not have a political motivation. There is lots of bad website management out there, and lots of entry points for devious hackers and crackers.
As an original co-founder of AIM, I’m interested in whether the left is using Google to block access to conservative sites.
Cliff Kincaid runs AIM now, and has for many years. He is a good investigative journalist and knows how to run his organization.
Have other conservative websites, esp. those concerned with the Left and the Media, been experiencing similar troubles? I heard rumors that the Drudge Report and a few other similar sites have had access problems in the past.
PS: AIM was founded out of the McDowell Luncheon Group (aka the Council Against Communist Aggression), a liberal anti-communist labor-based group (Marx Lewis, Hatters Union, Art McDowell, etc).
Over the years our anti-Wash Post and NY Times projects concerning their pisspoor, biased reporting on the Vietnam war, evolved into the creation of Accuracy in Media as a separate project, then organization. It was led by the late Reed Irvine for many years, then by his son Donald, with Kincaid being brought in around 1979 to help do the investigative work, and he has been with it ever since.
Because of AIM, another group was created to go after anti-Israel reporting in the Wash Post, NY Times, etc, and was named CAMERA (Committee for Accurate Middle East Reporting in America), of which I was an editor, speaker, and writer for a number of years.
Like AIM, we kicked a lot of leftist media ass, getting numerous corrections as well as a few admissions of bias in their reporting.
Today, we have the excellent Media Research Center (Brent Bozell and the gang), Campus Reform, Palestine Media Watch, Investigative Project on Terrorism, the lovely, asskicker Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugged, and other patriots who carefully watch the leftwing media and expose their biases and deliberate distortions, misinformation and even Soviet disinformation (Jack Anderson’s Washington Merry-Go-Round syndicated column was one successful KGB target - i.e. the halfassed story on the KGB/CPUSA run Tricontinental Information Center, and Anderson’s covering up for the Marxist nature of all three factions of the FSLN (Sandinista Liberation Front) of the 1980s).
I’m putting this comment out for those of you kids who don’t know about the patriotic (conservative and liberal) pioneers in the fight against leftist bias in the media, esp. since the 1960’s.
As a correspondent in Vietnam and Cambodia during the war, I saw examples of biased writing first hand, which is why I was so glad to have a small hand in helping to create AIM.
Others involved in the creation of AIM included Herb “I Led Three Lives” Philbrick, the former FBI undercover operative; Bernie Yoh, former Chinese Nationalist general in the fight against the Japanese, possible CIA agent (Bernie just smiled when asked about his many trips overseas), a key aid to Gen. Lansdale in fighting the Viet Cong/Viet Minh in the Mekong Delta; Glen Siegal, Vietnam veteran; Marx Lewis, labor leader; Abe Kalish (the man behind the scenes for information and writing); a Mr. Moore, legal advise; the elder Ben Ginsburgh, US Senate committee attorney and legal advisor; Chuck Lucom, former Govt official during WW2; and many other unsung heroes.
It has been a long fight folks, but some of us oldtimers are still in it for the duration.