CNN Debate on "Terrorism" Chomsky v. Bennett

Counterpunch ^ | May 31, 2002 | None

[joesnuffy]

Note To Chomsky...love it or leave it....on second thought just leave

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Noam Chomsky is really Henry Kissinger in drag, right?

[Mr. Bird]

Even in a transcript, Chomsky comes off as an hysterical lunatic. How and why he receives any more respect than a babbling fool escapes me.

[boris]

Look up the chomskybot for some revealing fun.

[RollingThunder]

Unfortunately, yet again we see the ranting of Noam Chomsky. Those of us who have see this before know that his only claim to fame is to bash the USA and its citizen's. Bill Bennett handled the situation with the knowledge of Chomsky's Anti-Americanism. This is what all of us should learn to do and use against people like Chomsky. Show them for what they really are. People who hate this country, but use the freedom that we have for their own agenda's.

[chachacha]

Another example of the USA, aka (Al Queda) college system. Do parents really know that professors like this are teaching their children.

Lets ask Mr Chumpsky what the difference is between his terrorist teachings in American schools and those that teach terrror in the Middle East.

[RooRoobird14]

Even in a transcript, Chomsky comes off as an hysterical lunatic.

AMEN, this transcript shows what a seething, drooling psycho-wack-job Chomsky is.

I've never seen Chomsky speak live. But based on this transcript, it sounds like Chomsky makes Alan Dirtbagowitz seem like Little Mort Meek on Zoloft and Valium.

If it's that bad, Norm, then just get the h*ll out of this country. You're a disgrace and a traitor. JUST SHUT UP AND GO LIVE IN CUBA!!!!

[Snowy]

Pardon me, but doesn't anything with "Chomsky" in the title require a "three bag barf alert"?

[steve-b]

We have liberated Eastern Europe in the last few years from communist tyranny

Reminding Chimpsky of his grievance against America is just going to piss him off more.

[steve-b]

doesn't anything with "Chomsky" in the title require a "three bag barf alert"?

"Chomsky" is short for "three bag barf alert".

[Tony Niar Brain]

I agree with Chomsky. Too many Americans have severe cases of "my child can do no wrong" syndrome when it comes to their home. The good we've done does not negate the bad, and we should not be suprised when what goes around comes around.

[Benrand]

Norm is so much smarter than the rest of us obviated morons.

We can't see that he hints and plays coy with facts, like the oft trotted out "US arms" stand up bit.

[daviddennis]

Well. Um. Interesting reading, there. Did anyone else notice that they were so different in their views, that they seemed physically incapable of answering the other's arguments?

Just because I have a sadistic streak when it comes to folks like Chomsky, I'd love to see his discourse as to why America is the greatest country in the world.

I have read enough of Chomsky to know that Bennett is right: His books do in fact attempt to justify the attacks, despite his statement at the beginning that they cannot be justified. At the same time, you will not see that done explicitly. Chomsky is a specialist in Semantics, which is the formal studiy of the literal and emotional meaning of words. As a result, he is an expert at writing strings of words that mean literally one thing, and emotionally quite the opposite. Thus, you won't catch him saying out loud that 9/11 is justified, but he will have said it, all the same. His text has to be read with the precision associated with rigourous study - which is exactly how it is not intended to be read!

If you ever look at Chomsky's work, he is very capable of shocking. His favourite technique is simply to consider the bad things we have done, without reference to the bad things our opponents have done. So, when talking about the Israelis and Palastinians, he would talk about savage Israeli attacks on innocent Palastinians, while omitting the Palastinian suicide bombings that provoked them. This can make any nation with a military look bad.

Unfortunately, these two people are so different in their world views that it's virtually useless to have them in the same room together, which in one sense is a pity; I think it would be quite a show to see each one actually have to answer the others' question directly.

D

[driftless]

What went around?

[Snowy]

"Chomsky" is short for "three bag barf alert".

Ok, let's see if I have this right. If I were to post Chelsea's honeymoon pictures, I would post thusly? "Chelsea's Honeymoon Pictures... (Chomsky alert)", or should I leave out the word "alert"?

Clymer, Dashole = a$$hole

Any others?

[Steve_Seattle]

What the hell are these atrocities in Turkey that he is talking about?

[max61]

Wow, two complete a$$holes(Chomsky and Bennett) on the same show. What a waste of time.

--max

[Aleksandar Vojvoda]

Wow, two complete a$$holes(Chomsky and Bennett) on the same show. What a waste of time.

It should have been titled "the Virtue of Gluttony",or maybe "William Bennett:My Life And Times At The Government Trough".