If you want a good illustration why the mainstream media are losing the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans, read this post on InstaPundit today.

Make sure you expand the post and read the email from the guy who attended an Association of the US Army meeting at Ft. Hood, TX. The success stories regarding Iraq that were recounted by the visiting general have never seen the light of day in the MSM, nor will they.

But it really doesn’t matter anymore. Emails like the one sent to InstaPundit, and the thousands of others going to family and friends from servicemen in theater, are getting this message out. Bloggers like InstaPundit, Strategy Page, and all the milbloggers currently writing are making the mainstream media as useless as teats on a boar hog, as they say in South Alabama.