Chomsky still alive, but not taking calls

Boston Globe ^ | September 22, 2006 | Mark Shanahan

[ConservativeStatement]

No one is more bewildered and, frankly, bummed by all of the attention suddenly being paid to Noam Chomsky than Andrew Bacevich.

"I've written a few books critical of US foreign policy, too," said Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University. "Why couldn't Hugo Chavez hold up one of my books?" Why, indeed. Thanks to the Venezuelan president's surprise endorsement of "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance” during a vitriolic address at the United Nations, the paperback edition of Chomsky's 2003 book has catapulted to No.1 on Amazon.com's list of best-sellers, ahead of such eternally popular authors as John Grisham and Lemony Snicket. Suddenly, the left-wing linguist who taught for years at MIT is a celebrity.

[ConservativeStatement]

Liberal lunacy exposed. Maybe Chavez had Chomsky in Howie Carr's death pool (local reference).

[Zeroisanumber]

Idiotic political theorist/Brilliant linguist. Have to take the good with the bad, I guess.

[Right Wing Assault]

Why couldn't Hugo Chavez hold up one of my books?

Send him one, a$$hole. He probably will.

[bnelson44]

Chomsky's been dead for a long time now.

[Right Wing Assault]

Hey, Chompski, look at what these people have to say about Hugh-go:

http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200609221833

[Diogenesis]

MIT Profs gone bad.

[muawiyah]

That's a shame ~ that he's not taking calls that is.

[Lizavetta]

Okay. I admit I'm not the brightest, nor the cleverest, nor the most up to speed on things.

But can someone please explain to me why A FREAKING LINQUIST is quoted, referenced or otherwise paid attention to at all? As if his political opinions matter.

He's a linguist, for God's sake.

[Diogenesis]

THE REAL DEAL:

[AmishDude]

Brilliant linguist

Pfft. That's like saying "a tall midget."

[muawiyah]

Right, organic wool and cotton ~ shamus(sp?)

I think that's what they call the form of cloth that Deuteronomy says has death as an appropriate punishment.

Now do you understand the cartoonist's clever joke?

[DoughtyOne]

Oh Normmmmm, Hugo the blinking idiot and devoted fan on line six.

[IrishRainy]

Maybe they should read "Do What I Say - Not What I Do." It exposes Chomski for the fraud that he is.

[RedRover]

What makes him a brilliant linguist? I'm not trying to pick a fight, I'm curious. I find him difficult and unrewarding to read on any subject, and his theories on linguism seemed to me to be warmed over Jungism (language as as an innate kind of collective unconsciousness). But maybe I missed the boat.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Gnome Chomsky seems to get interviewed on C-SPAN every couple of months.

[endthematrix]

Chomsky is nothing without Kissinger or Vietnam...I think he devotes the first 100 pages of every book on them.

[dighton]

But can someone please explain to me why A FREAKING LINQUIST is quoted . . .

Swedish mafia.

(Sorry, couldn’t help it).

[Nateman]

Brain dead perhaps. He's 77 so the rest will follow soon.

[Howlin]

He's a socialist and an anarchist.

He doesn't believe labor should be PAID.

He is also a Holocaust denier, among many, many other things.

[Howlin]

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