Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03242010.html

Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to recognize it...Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is off limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded “anti-American,” “anti-[Semitic]” or “conspiracy theorist.”