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joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
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> > An interview with Noam Chomsky:
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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=28> 04 > > > > This idiotarian should have stuck to generational
> linguistics, where > at least his obfuscations could be
> academically concealed. > > > > > Also posted on the BBS here: > >
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http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=7;action=display;thre> ad > > id =27624 > > > > > [rhinoceros] > If I didn't know what a
> scholar and a gentleman you are, Joe, I could > have mistaken that
> for an ad hominem argument. > It's simply meant to point out that
> politics is not Chomsky's original area of expertise, but that to
> go into political commentary armed with the sophistry he has
> gained from his study of language and his ability to rhetorically
> sway people that he's gained from that expertise, ! regardless of
> whether his premises or conclusions are correct, has to be a
> bookselling and moneymaking move for him - certainly far beyond
> the money he could make selling books that concern realms of
> obscure academia where he has been conclusively superceded by
> Lakoff & Johnson. > > I don't know much about Chomsky - that's the
> first essay by him that I've read - but I don't see how he
> qualifies as an 'idiotarian', judging from what he wrote here.
> Care to elaborate?
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He never fails to blame the US, and to exonerate everyone else, for
everything that he considers bad; those things that happen that are
good in his estimation, however, always transpire in spite of, not
because of the US, according to his entirely predictable opinion.
I bought his e-book 9/11, and I cannot claim to have read a larger dump
truck load of bull manure this side of the King ranch (the world's largest
cattle ranch).
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