Posted on 04/22/2010 2:35:49 PM PDT by tatown
Money quotes:
"We need more Noam Chomsky’s willing to admit reality and fewer lamestream media elites with their biased heads buried up the President’s butt."
"While deranged Palin haters have used every low, cruel, misogynistic trick in the book to knock her down, we have warned that she deserves to be treated with respect even when we disagree with her policy views."
"Chomsky's statements will startle those who view he and Obama as two of the biggest living liberal heroes. They will be alone in their astonishment. Chomsky has merely admitted the obvious."
"Chomsky need not worry. The voting booth will save ourselves from ourselves. Democracy and the will of the people – and the right of the people to govern themselves as they see fit – will prevail again."
So Chomsky’s not a fascist? He’s just a Marxist?
Noam Chomsky is a libertarian.
Case in point are the Chomsky/Buckley conversations from the 1970s/80s, many of which can be found on YouTube today. Here are two guys that are polar opposites philosophically, and really didn't like each other. But, not a single debate or conversation that they engaged in included name-calling, demagoguery or ad hominem attacks.
It was just two intellectuals advocating their position in an incredibly articulate and intellectual way. They let their ideas speak for themselves. There's something to be said for that in today's era of bloviating, loud-mouth abrasive and sarcastic television that we're treated to today both on the left and the right.
I miss Buckley.
Can anyone name a fascist state that was defeated peacefully?
I didn’t think so.
“Where justice ends tyranny begins.”
“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to perserve or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.” stockpirate
As far as I can tell, those are all quotes from D.K. Jamaal. Hardly any Chomsky qutoes to be found in the article.
Hah... Surely you jest! Just look at his past history - please! Seems like the younger generation just gets stupider and stupider...
I've heard him described as a "libertarian socialist", which seems about as oxymoronic of a phrase as possible.
He's definitely a libertarian, or espouses libertarian ideals, when he speaks about foreign policy, but I'm not sure I'd describe his domestic philosophy as a libertarian one.
He seems like a classic redistributionists - very anti-libertarian.
Very interesting. The wheels are falling off the Obama bus. O & the Rats have only a few more months to pass legislation. Need the Senate Repubs to hold firm.
“Need the Senate Repubs to hold firm.”
No easy task when we are reliant on back(door) stabbing fools like Pansy Graham.
The lightbulb came on. Hope it doesn’t pop!
What’s that old saying about a broken clock?
They struck me as two people who are used to being under the strict rules of some Ivy League debating society, where the moderator would say " [snooty Haahvaahd voice] I'm sorry Mr. Buckley, that is an ad hominem attack . Two points will be deducted from your score."
lol!!
That was funny.
Whoa - our side couldn't have said it better...
Pigs be flyin’.
He’s a communist and thus an atheist. His insight lies in realizing once the islamists are done with useful idiots they’ll be coming for the non-believers like him with a vengeance.
Love the “Left of Center” quote - heh. Well, how about putting him left of the left - that would be more appropriate.
He was and still is a Communist leftist that seems to get lots of love from the left. Just how does he make up for this with this column?
He is so far left that he come close to the right’s attitudes. That’s okay though - after all, he is so far out there that even the leftist News tend to overlook him...
He is simply a Communist Kook that echoes the lefts opinions and thus he is quoted often. Any changes will be nullified quickly...
Obama bailout big car companies, big banks and big health industry forcing everyone to buy health insurance of pay a fine or risk jail. Not much of a socialist or capitalist there. More like a fascist or corporatist
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