The Greatest Intellectual?

The Guardian ^ | October 31, 2005 | Emma Brockes

[Hunden]

This was published by Al-Ghardiyan and is now posted by a pro-Chomsky website, in the apparent belief that his customary readers will not see through the obfuscations and lies in his replies to the interview, which led to its withdrawal from the Al-Ghardiyan website, and which are exposed here by the Anti-Chomsky Blogspot: http://www.antichomsky.blogspot.com/

Another comment was made on Frontpage Magazine by Marko Attila Hoare, an expert on Bosnia: http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20297

[SDGOP]

Barf

[Torie]

Without bothering to read the screed, being smart is not coextensive with having good judgment and wisdom, particularly if one opines outside one's field of expertise.

[goldstategop]

Intellectuals are stupid and their ideas harm society more than they benefit it. I've yet to hear of an egghead who knew his limits.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Rocko]

America's Dumbest Intellectual.

[RegulatorCountry]

Oh lord, not Gnome Chumpsky again. Last I heard, he was writing the foreword for some neo-Nazi screed in France.

[Para-Ord.45]

chomsky is nothing but a communist stooge and hack,

here`s why:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19446

"At the end of Chomsky’s story of his linguistics journey, he posits this new vista, upon the threshold of which he now stands:



“We are now moving to domains of will and choice and judgment…”



Will…and…judgment…and choice. Oh my!



Language as a matter of will? Language as a matter of choice? Language as a matter of judgment? This cannot be. For everything that Chomsky has ever advocated or argued for has been to support the notion of language as an organic function of the brain. As recently as 2004, he has famously compared the language function to “insect navigation.”



There is no will involved in organic functioning: the heart pumps blood even as we sleep.



Biolinguistics, Chomsky’s general theory, argues that the brain is wired to produce language according to certain genetically coded rules. Per Chomsky, there is no choice or judgment involved, any more than there is choice in the color of one’s skin or eyes.



Chomsky’s generative grammar, as its name implies, “generates” sentences according to fixed circuitry hard-wired into the brain. The will is irrelevant.



Descriptivism, the doctrine which Chomskyan linguists adhere to, admits of no judgment whatsoever. Descriptivists describe; they judge nothing. Thus, there can be no grammatical/ungrammatical divide.



In one sentence, Chomsky has wrecked his own train set; for it is impossible to claim that the “domains of will, choice and judgment” are outgrowths of biolinguistics, generative grammar, or descriptivism. They are as opposed to one another as intelligent design and evolution.



To adhere to descriptivism is to eschew judgment.



To embrace generative grammar is to exclude choice.



To accept biolinguistics is to reject will.



With one sentence, Chomsky has repudiated all of the major principles of Chomskyan linguistics "

[AmishDude]

He does have the distinction that he has no unexpressed thought.

[Para-Ord.45]

" He does have the distinction that he has no unexpressed thought. "

Hillbilly translation: ' He`s an anus with teeth . '

[FlingWingFlyer]

Chumpsky has bought into Communism. He can't be too ------- smart.

[snarks_when_bored]

Even though [Chomsky] went on to study at Harvard, he still, in a rare concession to the romance of outsidership, describes himself as "self-taught".

It's no excuse, of course, but it's an explanation.

[yarddog]

I had the privilidge of being at question and answer sessions with Dr. Edward Teller, twice at my college.

He was just about as brilliant when discussing politics as physics. A real conservative too.

[js1138]

Chomsky will eventually be as irrelevant in linguistics as he is in politics.

[RegulatorCountry]

"The Über-Moonbat!"

No doubt. He has claimed that there is nothing interently anti-Semitic about Holocaust denial, supports "Palestinians" and despises Israel and the United States.

[HHFi]

In his blinkered inability to see his own towering hypocrisy and his adamant refusal to let anything as pesky as a fact or an eyewitness dent his pet theories, Chomsky is, indeed, the finest example of a contemporary "intellectual" that I could imagine. He is an egomanical nitwit worshiped for his brilliance by people who are even stupider, in much the same way that fleas worship the dog whose butt sustains them.

[hosepipe]

"How do you tell a Socialist:- It's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an Anti-Socialist someone who understands Marx and Lenin"
___Ronald Reagan___

[RegulatorCountry]

"Man, where did you get the umlaat?"

I can't "format," but I began professional life as a typesetter, so I still halfway-remember my way around a keyboard, as relates to alternate characters and symbols, lol. On a Mac, you get an umlaut with Alt+u, and then u. Same with "e."

[RegulatorCountry]

"... in much the same way that fleas worship the dog whose butt sustains them."

Unless they're Chomskyites, in which case they plot to kill the dog.