http://rsf.org/index2014/en-index2014.php
Despite the First Amendment, the US snuck in at #46 on that list.
But while it would have been hypocritical for the US to appear, (Canada, Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and most of the EU rank higher), the hypocrisy of it all clearly wasn't the reason that Holder skipped the photo op.
It shows Canada as blameless as Greenland, while coloring the United States piss yellow.
Yet the Canucks landed on Mark Steyn for "insulting Islam". They obviously deserve a deeper shade of yellow than the US.