David Horowitz: Noam Chomsky’s Jihad Against America

San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center | 12-25-02 | by David Horowitz

[uplandgame]

HOROWITZ GOES HAYWIRE

David Horowitz, the ex-Communist and former Black Panther groupie turned stereotypical right-winger, has kicked off his pro-war "Think Twice" speaking tour of college campuses on a rather bizarre note. The "red diaper baby" who morphed into a neoconservative went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and gave a strangely disjointed and vehement rant – directed not only at the antiwar movement but at the Chancellor of the University, James Moeser, and the school itself: "I can't find words to express my contempt for the chancellor and this University for supporting these views." Pretty gracious, eh?

The whole article can be found here:http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j120501.html

[Stultis]

David Horowitz, the ex-Communist

You mean like your hero Milosevic? Oh, that's right, he's not "ex".

So did you have any comment on the article?

[Neophyte]

May I step into this skirmish over the Horowitz' article and Milosevic?

The latter is not my hero, but nevertheless deserves not to be stereotyped as an actual "Communist". Oh yes, he was a member of the Communist party, just like almost anyone else who aspired to be somebody in the former Socialist countries. But his advance from a mediocre obscurity to the leadership of that (ruling) party didn't begin before he switched to a pure nationalistic position.

Horowitz' article is an interesting and useful reading, though not too deep. There's no perfection in this world, so I was ready to let even the obvious bullshit as, I quote,

"efforts of the NATO allies to rescue impoverished Muslims facing systematic extermination and expulsion by Serbian ethnic cleansers"

go without comment.

Actually, I didn't know that Horowitz is an ex-Communist, but now when you enlightened me in this matter, the above mentioned quote has an excellent explanation.

So, if Milosevic is not "ex", Horowitz also isn't. Do you belong to the school which says that to be an ex-Communist is as possible as to be an ex-Negro?

[Stultis]

My bad, but I don't want to get sidetracked with all that. My only intent was to throw a quick tit back for uplandgame's ad hominem tat and suggest the focus should be on the article.

[Diva]

I suppose its putting it too lightly to say that Chomsky is "an enigma."

I first learned of Chomsky when researching reading problems. His linguistic theories are fascinating. What happened to the man?

[Shermy]

Thanks for the ping.

Writer omits Chomsky's skillful use of newspaper articles as "authorities" and the omission of other articles that contradict. He's a weaver, a constructor, of the anti-American narrative, and the giddy reception he gets, I suppose, is due to his ability to speak in English, and not academese. He is also clever in avoiding sloganeering, at least in the usual way it is published.

I don't think he's enamoured with LitCrit type talk and theories, a small plus.

He went to "Muslim" Pakistan, and India, because he knows where the action is. I think he failed there, by reading the articles from there.

[Diogenez]

His success consists of the fact that he has given high American academic creedence to the indictment of America by the terrorists. Photographs of protests led by Chomsky and Ramsey Clark are standbys in the Pro Terrorist Pakistani press and on the internet as well. Chomsky's hegira to Pakistan parallels Ramsey Clark's made deliver a similar diatribe against America The Terrorist made throughout Egypt just a few days before 9/11. Why does the American Public know nothing of these things?