[BlueStateBlues]

Remember, Obama will accept his party’s nomination on August 28, exactly 40 years after the night of “the whole world is watching.” The score that night, Chicago Cops 165, Hippies 0.

[uglybiker]

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.

1968. The dawnig of the Age of Ex-Lax.

[RightWhale]

Sure, pick any year. Pick 1968. But, history began way before then.

[2harddrive]

Re-Create ‘68!

Thank you, Commander Limbaugh, for your valiant and successful execution of Operation Chaos!

[conservativeharleyguy]

The left's fascination with 1968 is becoming increasingly tiresome.

Hey Chomsky!!! No-one cares about 1968 anymore (at least no-one off-campus). In case you are still to stoned to notice, 40 years have slipped by.

The left is stuck in the past, and like when their worn-out copy of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida got stuck back then, they were either too lazy, too stoned, or too preoccupied with disrupting society to get off of their asses and move the needle to a new track. All that LSD has affected their ability to mark the passage of time.

Chomsky was marginal in '68, and is irrelevant now.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Amazing that this man sees the very thing that will destroy democracy as it’s savior.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"Reactionaries" feared too much participation of the masses

The masses? You mean the street and campus radicals and a number of draft opponents? Those who honored "their version of democracy" so long as it scotched true democracy?

With JFK/LBJ liberal shills using the "Fairness Doctrine" as a weapon against those of us (collectively known as the silent majority -- better, the silenced majority) who were aghast at the wall-to-wall MSM admiration of the "brightest generation ever" it's mind-boggling that some university employee would say [reactionaries] tried to repress democracy.

[rogue yam]

There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968.

Telling that the world famous genius linguist would plop down such a pregnant and central phrase right at the beginning of his piece and then never define it.

[Richard Kimball]

Chomsky was the child of Russian Jews, grew up during the depression, entered academia and never left. Like many academics, he lives in a world of theory, and never considers the actual possibilities of the ramifications of his theories.

He has a small academic Greek chorus, and appeals to other intellectuals who produce nothing.

The most interesting thing about Chomsky is that he detests a country which took in his family during the Russian persecution, and lives because the military he loathes keeps the Islamists from killing him.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The 60s radicals and the mainstream liberals were the guardians of democracy? Oh, yeah?

"The Good Guys, the Bad Guys and the First Amendment," liberal former CBS News president Fred Friendly documented how the Democratic Party organized campaigns in the 1960s to harass conservative radio personalities with the Fairness Doctrine.

[HectorOne]

In honor of 1968 we should strand all liberals on the moon.

[Southack]

"Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968."

Chomsky's an idiot and a liar. Poland in the 1980's would have had Solidarity against the CCCP whether kids rioted in Chicago or not back in 1968.

[Southack]

"The Pentagon Papers (the 7,000-page, top-secret US government report into the Vietnam War) are proof of this: right after the Tet Offensive, the business world turned against the war..."

Chomsky's an idiot and a liar. The Pentagon Papers are not proof that the business world turned against the war.

[Southack]

"But democracy is even stronger now than it was in 1968. You have to remember that, during Vietnam, there was no opposition at the beginning of the war. It did develop, but only six years after John F Kennedy attacked South Vietnam..."

Chomsky's an idiot and a liar.

[Southack]

"with the Iraq War, opposition was there from the very beginning, before an attack was even initiated. The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched."

Chomsky's an idiot and a liar:

[Jack Wilson]

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

Well, the protests, which I don't think were very massive, didn't succeed in changing anyone's mind.

I think Noam will be disappointed when he sees McCain do well running on a campaign of victory in Iraq versus the Chomsky-Democrat approach.

[Freedom4US]

“Reactionary” - he mis-spelled righteous indignation.

The average “voter” doesn’t fathom the depths of hatred that radical leftists have for America, and make no mistake, by definition Americans. If they did, they would never vote for them under any circumstances. Perhaps some have some inkling, but prefer to upset the existing order as a sort of entertainment.

One doubts the 60s generation of “peace love and dope” and “never trust anyone over 30” and “kill the pigs” and etc etc, ad infinitum ad nauseam will appreciate any new revolutions and the like. Their retirement is gonna be quite a bit different than they had envisioned. Woopsie!

[machenation]

THE Dr. Strangelove DVD tells everyone the exact time in the 60’s that the commies started to poison the minds of U.S. citizens. The movie it’self is not the issue for the commies but the N.Y. Times is mentioned in the extra material about the movie and actors. The dialog was about a movie critic calling the movie the worst unwatchable piece of celluloid ever made. I can't remember what details they were talking. However, the dialog continued to explain that the same critic reverses’ his critical disdain 6mos. later to praise the movie as a brilliant piece. If you watch the movie critically, you will see that all the military people are portrayed as incompetent children, who will kill everyone in the world for there own gain. The critic obviously at first saw a completely absurd story line but was forced to rewrite his view. At about the same time there was a string of movies about military incompetence. Off the top of my head two were, The Bedford Incident and Failsafe.