"When this government is faced with any critical message, its instinctive reaction is to bully and intimidate the messenger."

Is this:

(a) Ultra-liberal social commentator Noam Chomsky on the Valerie Plame leak or;

(b) the Washington Post on the Soviet blackout of ABC over the Shamil Basayev interview.

Hmmm. It's so hard to tell!

If you guessed (a), you're a winner.

Anyone remember when we got really pissed at al Jazeera during the war because they would broadcast statements made by anti-US forces?