Since they did not understand one another, each was able to sustain an illusion about the other, which was the usual beginning of love, if not truth. - Gore Vidal

Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity — much less dissent.

Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be
at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror,
but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means.
It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.