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Noam Chomsky

By lex, on May 10th, 2011

Chris Hitchens treats him roughly.

(It’s no use excerpting Hitchens; he’s like a seven course meal, and must be taken sequentially.)

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May 10th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Gratuitous slap

16 comments to Noam Chomsky

  • Jeff Gauch
    May 10, 2011 at 8:13 am

    Noam Chomsky is the archetypal proof of the argument from authority fallacy. Even back in 2000 it was painfully obvious that he was a reflexive idiot to anyone with more than 3 brain cells bumping together in the void behind the eyes.

  • RonF
    May 10, 2011 at 8:16 am

    Early in my freshman year at MIT during the Vietnam war I saw a poster for a “teach-in” about the war being led by one Noam Chomsky. I went. He was seated on the floor surrounded by adoring fans during his lecture. I remember thinking that the man was paranoid to a fault about conspiracy theories and never went to another one. I was against the war, but that doesn’t mean I thought it was because of greedy capitalists.

  • Mike Myers
    May 10, 2011 at 9:15 am

    Chomsky gets a well deserved rogering on the op ed pages of the Wall Street Journal this morning. I guess they’re piling on along with Christopher Hitchens.

    • Bill the Shoe
      May 10, 2011 at 1:49 pm

      Chomsky, you may recall, originated the phrase, “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”– gramatically correct but utter nonsense. I will presume that his article was also gramatically correct.

  • Joe in N Calif
    May 10, 2011 at 9:55 am

    The Chomskys, Moores, Alinskis, and Ayers all seem to enjoy the benefits of the evils they whine about. Have to wonder why none of them turn over 95% of their income to others. Or why haven’t they formed, and finance a socialist town where they can put their pontifications into action and show us poor, ignorant reactionaries the glories of a True socialist community.

    • Scott
      May 10, 2011 at 12:26 pm

      For the same reason that Old Joe Biden clears a cool $350K, has $5K in charity contributions, yet tells the rest of us that paying more taxes is “patriotic”. When they say “charity begins at home,” I don’t think they were talking about contributions — but in hypocrit Joe’s case, I will ask for an exception. It isn’t about money, or about easing suffering. It is ALL about power, and who wields it.

      • Spade
        May 11, 2011 at 5:42 am

        I had a prof in Grad School that loved Chomsky. He was ranting one day about trust funds and crap and I pointed out that Noam Chomsky had trust funds for his kids so they can’t be all that bad or Chomsky would be a hypocrite.

        Prof said that it wasn’t hypocritical to take advantage of the things everybody else had, even if you spoke out against them.

        Yeah.

  • G-man
    May 10, 2011 at 10:06 am

    In my father’s home town in the upstate there lived a man suffering from a severe lack of mental capacity. But he would sit out in front of the barber shop and pontificate for hours about most anything. And he always had an audience. Coming out of the barber shop one summer day after the required crew top cut, I asked Dad why people listened to Ronald if all he ever spouted was lunacy. My Dad answered “son, every now and again even a fool sounds intelligent”.

  • Casey
    May 10, 2011 at 11:32 am

    If you really want to ruin your digestion, read the comments on Hitchens’ post. There are some truly marvelous examples of pure stupidity, including one dolt who repeats the “jet fuel can’t melt steel” line.

  • ZipprSuitdSungod
    May 10, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    If the ragheads ever do decide to send a commando team after “W”, they better send more than 40 jihadis….Texas is one of those parts of our country where the people REALLY LOVE their guns…..and aren’t afraid to protect themselves and their neighbors.

  • RPL
    May 10, 2011 at 3:40 pm

    I’m going to have to use the following quote as an unattributted one; I paraphrase:

    These people spew their flatulently confident assertions from the nasty, noisy, uniformed bowels of their thoughts.

  • David Curp
    May 10, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    That Chomsky is so highly regarded in many academic circles speaks to how much rot exists there. But it should not be surprising that the man who defended the Khmer Rouge thinks as he does about Al Qaeda or Osama.

    • Joe in N Calif
      May 10, 2011 at 5:12 pm

      Strange how so many on the left support the groups that would kill them off first if they ever got power.

      Of course, anything has to be better than the American way, right?

  • Paul L. Quandt
    May 10, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    Chomsky is one of a number of people who would be greatly inproved by the addition of an Indian beauty spot.

    Paul

  • Ron Snyder
    May 10, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    Watching and listening to a Christopher Hitchens discourse is an event not soon forgotten. Mr. Hitchens reminds me of WFBuckley in many ways.

    So sad that he is challenged with Esophageal cancer.
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