Posted on 08/25/2009 2:10:52 PM PDT by Ebenezer
(English-language translation)
During a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in Caracas, American essayist and political analyst Noam Chomsky yesterday criticized the use of Colombian military bases by the United States Army.
"The U.S.'s justification to establish military bases in Colombia is narcotraffic. However, this justification is not very serious," the essayist said and added:
"There exists an intervention attitude under the pretext of narcotraffic."
President Chávez greeted Chomsky at Miraflores Palace, where he received "the warmest welcome".
"It was time you visited us and for the Venezuelan people to see and hear you directly," Chávez told the Professor Emeritus from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at the entrance to the presidential palace.
For his part, Chomsky thanked Chávez for his words of welcome and pointed out it is "exciting to see how, in Venezuela, this other possible world is being created and to see the man who has inspired this change."
"To talk peace and criticize those against it is easy. What's difficult is to create a new and different world," said the well-known leftist intellectual.
Chomsky’s been clinically insane for at least forty years.
Hey Noam,
You don’t have a clue as to what we do in Columbia. So quit making like you know.
A@@hole
Chávez had to settle for Chomsky. Jane Fonda wasn’t available.
We always used to call M.I.T. the Mental Institution for the Touched.
“Famoso ensayista estadounidense critíca su país en reunión con Chávez”
I can translate this:
The famous sayer is dense when he criticizes Sue, at the reunion with her pa, the con-artist Chavez.
parsy, who says Ole! Mexican ain’t that hard.
The torch has been apparently passed from Castro to Chavez - so now the Oliver Stones and the Noam Chomskys of the world have to make the pilgrimage to kiss Hugo’s hind end, instead of Fidel’s. Interesting times.
Wretched filth!
The sun will set in the western sky this evening, also water is wet.
Because I read those five wonderful articles by the Ukrainian writer and artist posted recently in the FreeRepublic, I know that Chomsky is operating with a lens creatted by Anfropov during the cold war: repeat after me: “America bad, Soviet Russia good. Now look at the news through that lens. Different, eh?”
You forgot to add “Dude” at the beginning of your “translation”.
Somehow Chomsky will find the strength to make the supreme sacrifice of returning to the imperialist hellhole called the USA.
Darn, I did miss that. It must have been a Mexican idiomatic colloquialism. Better translation:
The famous sayer is one dense dude when he criticizes Sue, at the reunion with her pa, the con-artist Chavez.
parsy, who now has it right
Chomski's accusation is NOT what the average soldier there thinks. Or thought, at least throughout the Bush administration.
libertarian/socialist?
Apologist for the serial killers of the Khmer Rouge.
Back in college I read “Syntactic Structures” for a linguistics class and it was interesting.
So I tried some of his “media criticism” and couldn’t believe it was by the same author.
Unfounded assertions, twisting of simple references, crazy leaps of “logic”, etc. Just horrible stuff. I don’t even mean politically (that’s another issue), but the sophomoric approach which you’d see on many Kos or DUmp polemics.
Really it’s unbelievable that he’s held in such esteem by the lefties.
Having read his “stuff”, I have no respect whatsoever for Chomsky *intellectually*, and that’s even before his whacky politics.
With “Mack Daddies” death care old Norm would be about toast.
If he thinks he has a friend in “Mack Daddy” he has really got to be insane.
Once his usefulness is over, under the bus he goes.
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