The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky

FrontPage Magazine ^ | David Horowitz

[headsonpikes]

Bump the public horsewhipping of Noam Chomsky, pathological liar.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Noam's been spending too much time on American college campuses. It shows.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Does Chomsky live in a dirt hut or a mansion bought with money made in America?

[Big Bunyip]

noams belong at the bottom of the garden.

[woofie]

These guys should go over there and apolgize for us,hug their fellow haters and see what happens

[Diogenez]

Good post. Chomsky is epitomizes the lies, distortion and hate that the intelligensia mobilize in their attempt to sieze power for themselves in behalf of those they deem clients. Their "higher morality" is a lie and they cover up the murder of some 70 million "recalcitrants" in this century alone by these "forces of progress" whom they represent.

[Texas_Jarhead]

BUMP back at ya on the whoopin.

[rockfish59]

chomsky should be tried for sedition and hung in public!

fu**in commies all!!!

[beckett]

For Chomsky, everybody is an idiot except him. The guy is a colossal bore as well as a pathological liar. He should be tried and convicted of aggravated soporific offenses and sentenced to ten years in a cell with Gore Vidal, each man required to take notes while the other speaks in rotating four hour shifts, sixteen hours a day.

[borkrules]

This guy is the living embodiment of the domestic enemy.

For those of us who cannot enlist, or are not otherwise "on the front lines" of this war, he and his ilk should serve as our primary target in our effort to assist the effort.

We don't really have any choice. Much as the terrorists have vowed to take the battle to our streets, Chomsky promises to bring disruption to our political culture and will. They are licking their canine chops, eager to recreate the late 60's and early 70's.

This time, they are in for a bit of a shock.

[beckett]

Horowitz made an error in this column, which has already been corrected at the FrontPage website. Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers is on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, not the University of Chicago.

[general_re]

FYI, I posted the full-text of Chimpsky's original statement back when it was first released, so you can read it for yourself here. Get some type of receptacle and have it handy, though - it's as bad as Horowitz makes it out to be (but I beat him to it, ha!)

[headsonpikes]

"...aggravated soporific offences..." LOL!

He always puts me in mind of a paranoid edition of the boring teacher played by Ben Stein in 'Ferris Buehler's Day Off'.

[untenured]

Prof. Chomsky is absolutely adored by many faculty on my campus, and I assume on many others. Just yesterday some of his remarks about the attacks were invoked on our campus e-mail. I seldom pay attention to those conversations, but because they involved postmodern cultural relativism (one of the most pernicious ideas of the last quarter-century IMHO), I felt compelled to respond. The good news is, I got a number of supportive e-mails from colleagues. The bad news is, none of them had wanted to themselves confront the leftist groupthink that is ruining our universities.

Prof. Chomsky's arguments on my campus are often trotted out by those who are as leftist as he but aren't capable of making the argument themselves because they aren't as smart as he is. I am glad to see Mr. Horowitz comprehensively expose him.

[sargon]

Chomsky's exposure of U.S. foreign policy is brutal. He obviously puts his own ultra-leftist perspective on things, but the hard facts are still there.

Notwithstanding that, this piece by Horowitz, and the other one by Hitchens, are both excellent and serve as a strong and well-deserved repudiation of Chomsky. I think Noam needs to take a good long look in the mirror at himself. He could be a great mind if he wasn't such a rabid Marxist.

This sentence illustrates Chomsky's foolishness quite clearly:

"The primary victims, as usual, were working people: janitors, secretaries, firemen, etc. It is likely to be a crushing blow to Palestinians and other poor and oppressed people."

The World Trade Center had far more financial prefessionals and businessmen than any of the above groups, yet these victims escape mention. This is a very telling omission. Apparently, these "capitalists" don't count to Chomsky.

The criticism of Chomsky is richly deserved...

[Egregious Philbin]

David Horowitz and Noam Chomsky deserve each other, as one can often say about polemicists. They are also both tone deaf in their writing on the World Trade Center attack, with Horowitz saying America is "soft" and Chomsky barely pausing to remember the victims before condemning the U.S. Both are followed blindly by their supporters, and only a small group of people actually read their work.

The differences begin at their level of scholarship. (It should be noted that Chomsky's scholarship in linguistics will outlast his political writing - indeed, he is one of the most important figures in the field.) Chomsky's political writing is well-researched and detailed. You may not like the conclusions he draws from these facts, and you may be able to extrapolate a different angle from them, but you they are not outright lies. For example, it is quite true that Saddam Hussein and Iraq has U.S. support up until they invaded Kuwait. Whether you see our break with Iraq and Hussein as a defense of Kuwait or mere political opportunism is a matter of spin.

I also cannot believe that Horowitz would be so two-faced as to use the bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan against Chomsky! In any other instance he would use it to blast Clinton! As Christopher Hitchens, the kind of intellectual Horowitz can stomach (for being as polemic as himself), convincingly shows in his book "No One Left to Lie to," the "reasons" for Clinton bombing that plant were specious. A success in that their was only one initial casualty, the nightwatchman, but a failure in that no proof has ever been found that chemical weapons were produced there, and a tragedy as the plant supplied more than 60% of the pharmaceuticals in Sudan. Thus the death toll was quite high, and the timing of the attack did in fact coincide with the Monica thing. Horowitz' argument falls flat when you realize he would just as easily spin the facts in a different direction if it would suit his purposes.

Horowitz has cried wolf too many times. That he brands everyone a traitor or commie makes him seem more and more ridiculous, and shows a lack of faith in America and his readers. Isn't America strong enough to live with its dissenters? Shouldn't we try to learn from the critic of our policies as well as the supporter?

[Benrand]

Noam bought his mansion, I'm sure, with a dollar that is backed up by the ability of the US to defend itself and gained from being insulting and rude to adoring young PhD candidates at Universities across the country.

I have a question...if we deserved bombing for our bombing, don't the bastards who did this deserve bombing, as well??? I mean, that's what he's saying...