I didn't mean to endorse the guys source, just the act of being changed/led by something he read.
LOL, I know that. And you are correct...it is not a crime to be influenced by things you have read.
I know that two of the most influential books on me were “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers and “Treason” by Ann Coulter. (With my citing of Ann Coulter, I could imagine the heads popping off of some people in disbelief for castigating this football player for citing a “heavyweight” like Chomsky, and me citing a “lightweight” like Ann Coulter)
But for me, in many cases it was not the actual content of the books that were most significant for me, but for the way they prompted me to evaluate the status, history and, ultimately, the validity of my own premises and what I had absorbed over my life from the schools and media.
The way I see it, this guy is doing one of two things: he is either citing Noam Chomsky to appear intelligent, or he is absorbing the dogma of Noam Chomsky and his ilk without critically analyzing it.