More on Chomsky (Not Apologizing This Time)

I continue to get heat from Chomsky supporters for my (yes, ill-tempered) post the other day. Richard W. Symonds writes,
I still question your view that he did not "deliver" his "$5 lecture" - it was not advertised as a lecture - as you will see here : http://nchomsky.meetup.com/105/boards/view/viewthread?thread=2637079 As I read it, that evening lecture went as advertised - except he wanted his audience to ask questions after Pinter - he diidn't give a formal 'lecture' as such..but that's his style, I understand.
Norman Finkelstein has also criticized me, for trying to make my bones by being mean to Chomsky, something he says a lot of people on the left do. Finkelstein says I should have shown more grace.

Just to stand up for myself for a second, let me say that: a, the guy had a bad night, and I said so, justly. Alas I was also a 7-letter word that begins with a about it, and I apologized for my tone. Enuf.

b, Chomsky was wrong about Walt and Mearsheimer last year. He was wrong because he does not seem to have a sociocultural or psychological bone in his body, but tends to (fudging that one; I haven't read him) see everything in Marxist terms, always talking about the corporations. And so he would finger Cheney's evil Halliburton backstory, ignoring the fact that Cheney also had a long AEI backstory, in bed with neocon intellectuals who obviously influenced him (his wife worked there, too), and whom he then moved into the White House en masse, and whom he and Bush then listened to; and Chomsky thereby immunizes a powerful ethnic-religious lobby of any role in the Iraq disaster.

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the wise king (not verified) says:

fantastic; the pigs are all wrestling around in their filth.
i should be amused,
but
i'm disgusted.

Sam H (not verified) says:

Phil - I think Finkelstein is right - Your behavior is shameful. You seem to be more worried about whether Rowan Berkeley thinks your a false flag than you are about the truth.

whose water are you carrying now? (not verified) says:

From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the liberal media watchdog:

American Conservative was co-founded by Pat Buchanan, Peter ''Taki'' Theodoracopulos and Scott McConnell, who serves as editor. When McConnell was a New York Post columnist in the mid-'90s he suggested a brand of apartheid might be the solution to U.S. race problems (10/11/95):

I do believe that American race relations would not be the worse for acknowledging that blacks and whites have between them the power to develop alternatives to living together. Indeed, it seems to me possible that the very act of considering seriously such alternatives would, in and of itself, bring a rapid halt to some of the more flamboyant rhetorical and behavioral excesses now flourishing in the black community.

McConnell would later be named the Post?s editorial page editor, before being fired in 1997 for writing a series of anti?Puerto Rican columns?but only because they reportedly threatened Post owner Rupert Murdoch?s business prospects (New York Daily News, 9/17/97). Sailer is just one of the racist writers McConnell has published in American Conservative (see, e.g., Robert Stacy McCain, 5/19/03; Sam Francis, 6/7/04).

bill Pearlman (not verified) says:

Ah I see it now, Cheney has an AEI back story, and of course Bush is just a dupe of his. Then of course Cheney is himself a pupet dancing on the strings of the JEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at the AEI. But, wouldn't we of the Jewish cabal be better at covering our tracks than this. Is it possible that the AEI itself is a front, for who, who knows. But inspector Phil should get on this case right now.

Rowan Berkeley (not verified) says:

Phil, in the first place, I think the emotional cultism around Chomsky substitutes for the capacity for moral thought, which Jews generally avoid like the plague. This is because, as I have said before, Jewish culture has developed solely on a clientilistic base, i.e., people are taught what the rich sponsors of the certified 'Jewish Genius' has to say. This is a squalid fact and follows from the hair-shirt nature of 'Jewish identity', about which a normal Jew will agree that if it isn't hurting (perceptibly constraining his capacity for moral thought) it isn't 'working'.

Chmomsky claims to be an anarchist rather than a marxist, but the fundamental error is unchanged, and a very useful error it is for people whose rich men are all bankers rather than industrialists - it follows Marx by blaming all 'exploitation of man by man' on induistrialists, rather than, for instance, bankers. From this in turn comes its theory of imperialism, which blames 'the military-industrial establishment', obtusely arguing that world devastation is normal behaviour for such 'capitalist warmongers'.

This is why I say the man is the greatest misleader of Jews since Shabbatai Tzvi.

anonymous (not verified) says:

So, this is what Tartini felt when listening the Devil!

Should I break my violin, Mr. Rowan?

Rowan Berkeley (not verified) says:

I admit that playing the role of Devil's Advocate is fun :-)

bill Pearlman (not verified) says:

Just a thought, Howard K Stern sounds like a Jewish name, if he killed Anna Nicole Smith, ( and certainly we Jews are the devils spawn and are capable of anything ) Is it possible that he Is a NEOCON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( or should I say Jew zionist warmonger ) and further is it possible that this is all a plot to gain control of her estate and funnel the money to Israel, the ADL, and AIPAC. Phil should really train his investigative powers on this one.

Anonymous (not verified) says:

Just a thought (following the trend) what kind of analysis should we expect from Chomsky the day "jewish rich men are all big breasted blonde douagiere killers rather than bankers?" :-)

Zaid Khalil (not verified) says:

Chomsky is part of the problem in the US. If there is anyone that I hold responsible for the failures in the US left regarding US policy vis-e-vis Israel, it is him. Especially since the build up to the invasion of Iraq, where he along with his acolytes supressed the history and actions of its planners and their ties to the Likud. It is nothing short of criminal in my opinion.

RWS (not verified) says:

The inaccuracy of the last comment "is nothing short of criminal in my opinion"

Joe (not verified) says:

Or maybe just the devil

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