This happens to be an unusually corrupt administration, kind of like an Enron administration, so there's a tremendous amount of profit going into the hands of an unusually corrupt group of gangsters. You can't really have all this stuff on the front pages, so you have to push it off the front pages. You have to keep people from thinking about it. And there's only one way that anybody ever figured out to frighten people and they're good at it."

(Chomsky, Winter Solstice 2002, Issue 386, WAKE UP! WAKE UP! IT'S YER CHRISTMAS. SchNEWS, CHOM'PIN AT THE BIT)


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