Pork Chop;
Please note what I said at the top;
You have NOT addressed issues, but simply presented an ad hom argument against Chomsky; exactly the low-brow moronitude I want to avoid.I would find it infinately preferable if people would READ the article (IF they are interested) and ADDRESS ISSUES in the article.
Secondly, it is common practise and a courtesy to other users of the forum if you give URL's of where any quoted material comes from; you obviously c&p'd your argument together. Give people the opportunity to see where you got your argument from. It allows people to fully check the accuracy and nature of your sources.
It is interesting that Horowitz et. al. have already been forced to retract an accusation they made in that article that Chomsky made up quotes http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=4146. I also found this interesting;
Witness the ongoing demonization of Noam Chomsky -- see, for instance, "Noam Chomsky's Jihad Against America" by Ronald Radosh and slavering Pinochet fanboy David Horowitz. I've taken Chomsky's foreign policy analysis with a grain of salt ever since I came to the conclusion that he was an apologist for the Sandinistas, after reading What Uncle Sam Really Wants . Horowitz and Radosh go the other way, blithely dismissing any thoughts that American or contra behavior in Nicaragua might have been less than sterling. Horowitz's writing generally isn't worth rebutting (if you're interested, there's a response here), but the assertion that Chomsky is America's Quisling isn't limited to FrontPage . I think it stems from Chomsky's prominence as an anti-American critic and his position (real or imagined) as the intellectual leader of campus radicalism (which seems to be something of a paper tiger, with a presence in the rhetoric of both right and left that vastly outstrips its real numbers and influence).
... but I digress; address the issues, or be ignored as a propgandist intent on suppressing opinion thrugh slurs rather than actually engaging in any meaningful debate.