does this sound like America to you?

it sounds more like a third world dictatorship to me.

The NYT stuffs NASA staffers complaining that political appointees pressured them to, in the Times' words, "cut the flow of news releases" on global warming and other touchy topics prior to the 2004 presidential elections. Bureaucrats also complained about one order this summer to do a search-and-replace from "global warming" to the fuzzier "climate change."