This, and many other lurid posts in this forum remind me, so much dear friends, of the Star Trek film where they go back to get a humpback whale and the Captain Kirk has to remind his crew that the US in the late 20th Century was a deeply paranoid time.
It is a time where a cartoon like Palin ( in reality much funnier than her Python namesake ) can be elevated far beyond her level of competence to actually be considered as a possible controller of 40,000 nuclear weapons.
Where an elected popular democrat such a Chavez, who gets majorities that puppets such as Obama and The Terrorist can only dream about, finally closes down a TV stations that keeps telling the military to overthrow and kill him..
Where propaganda is only carried out by the other side..