The press soft-pedal’d the stories during all the Bush years; thus now, Prince is reduced to trying to silence witnesses since he has no more Dick Cheney get-outta-jail-free cards.

Why is nobody up in arms? Because Americans find the news unpleasant, because they don’t pay attention until the turd lands in their personal punch bowl. Because as George Carlin said, “It’s called the ‘American dream’ cause you have to be asleep to believe in it!”