Chomsky & Maher ... what a Great Combination ... /sarcasm
Posted on 11/10/2004 7:26:49 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The Chomsky Debate
HBO | November 10, 2004
This transcript is from HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher, Episode 43, which aired November 5, 2004.
Guests: linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky, comedian D.L. Hughley, columnist Andrew Sullivan, and former U.S. Representative Pat Schroeder.
MAHER: Okay. Earlier today, I spoke with Professor Noam Chomsky, who teaches linguistics and philosophy at MIT. His latest book is Hegemony or Survival. I told him earlier, I have never had a guy requested more of me in 12 years of doing two shows. I swear to God, every kid wants Noam Chomsky. And we got him today. Please welcome Professor Noam Chomsky. [applause] [cheers]
So, Professor, I’m not kidding. Over the last 12 years, on three different networks, people especially young kids request you. When I first did it, I didn’t even know who you were. All right, let me ask you this. It seems to me that the most religious people are also, at least in this country, the most super-patriotic. Isn’t there an inherent conflict there? I mean, if you’re truly religious and you believe in God I mean, Jesus is not an American, I assume [laughter]
NOAM CHOMSKY [via satellite]: Just the favorite philosopher of America.
MAHER: Isn’t it impossible to be truly Christian and also to love one country, even if it’s your own, more than every other country?
CHOMSKY: Depends how you understand your religion? Religions have taught all sorts of things in the past, from the most horrible to the most elevated. So you pick and choose.
MAHER: Yeah, but Christ doesn’t say, “Love your country.” He doesn’t say, “American life is more important than other life.” And I would imagine that that’s what a lot of people who call themselves Christian in this country believe. [applause]
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Chomsky is a favorite of kids looking to rebel. I know that was the case with me! Then I actually started looking into his claims and that was that.
This transcript just proves the point that Sullivan voted for Kerry purely becuase of the gay marriage thing. He articulates quite well the dishonesty and hypocrisy of the Left.
He's sort of a mirror image of the guys who say that the Jews are behind all that's wrong in the world. As for me, I'm absolutely convinced that MIT professors are behind all the evil. They've killed 28.5 million people since yesterday, what with all their inventions, and their patents that keep the good stuff from the hands of the common folk who need it. Not only that, but how many elephants, and how many giraffes, and how many prothonotary warblers, are kept from living in Massachusetts because of MIT's never-ending greed for space on their campus. It just makes me sick.
Maher is also a member of the Useless Idiots' Hall of Fame.
SULLIVAN: --but I’m saying is I didn’t vote I didn’t support Kerry on the grounds that I disagreed with removing one of the most disgusting tyrants in human history.
Really? I read it as he didn't vote at all even though Kerry did support the "gay marriage thing."
"Okay...this article is transcript is exactly what you'd expect it to be:"
Yes, no debate. The guy refuses that kind of venue.
He's the only one believing still that "sanctions" killed anybody.
Even slips in that Bush I "authorized" Saddam to kill Shiites.
A very smooth propagandist.
He said he did.
They are practically drooling on themselves to finish each others sentences. Such a love fest.
I don't normally watch this dumb show, but I flipped by it the other night and I tell you this: Andrew Sullivan was on FIRE; he blew both of them out of that studio.
Chomski once called William Buckley a "crypto-nazi". Buckley then called him a "queer" and threatened to knock his teeth out on live television!
Had trouble getting the butt plug out on election day.
As a court reporter, I can tell you it's ALL in the transcription:
It should have been:
SULLIVAN: --but I’m saying is I didn’t vote -- I didn’t support Kerry on the grounds that I disagreed with removing one of the most disgusting tyrants in human history.
I saw it; he voted.
We can do without that.
SULLIVAN: --but I’m saying is I didn’t vote I didn’t support Kerry on the grounds that I disagreed with removing one of the most disgusting tyrants in human history. And I do not believe that the United States in on a par
I'm sorry, I must be completely misreading this part of the transcript. Or maybe it's confusing because they keep talking over each other.
If I'm wrong I certainly apologize.
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There it is again!
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