Roller Dave
Chomsky is a marxist hack.
BTW, that's a very nice Ad Homonym you got going there
And you are a hypocrite. Attacking someone with an ad hom and then criticizing someone for an ad hom leaves no logical alternative. Or do you not understand the term?
What I object to is that this fool basks in the title 'greatest living scholar' when he is best known for his 'work' outside his field, in the realm of opinion.
Well, for a start, that's a straw man. Please prove he "basks in the title 'greatest living scholar'"; other people calling him that is not proof he 'basks' in it. It proves you have chip on your shoulder, if anything. And you know what about linguistics exactly? Please, give us some benefit from the breadth of your knowledge and tell us who IS the world's greatest linguist?
And, if you are a clever as you seem to think you are, where are the fallacies in his argument, say over 9/11?
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The wiki article cited shows that in a career of several decades, Chomsky has made a few mistakes in quotation which have been admitted, and in the area of theoretical lingusitics has a few people who disagree with him, and has been subject to what was normally little more than character assassination by the attack dogs of the right.
As the most fervent critics of Chomsky support a political regime that was either totally incompetent in its assessment of the reasons for war or deceitful in its presentation of facts to garner support for a war, I really don't know what point they are trying to make - maybe that they lick the ass of their policial love whilst if defecates in their face, and then turn their besmeared face to criticize others of supposed faults?
But as they support a regime that has used repetition to convince the public of lies (who else are responsible for so many Americans still believing falsehoods over WoMD?) using the repetition of attacks (most of which are rebutted) is straight out of their political masters style book.
Political masters? Well, yes, unless you are in the top 20% of earners in the US, whether you like it or agree with it or not, you are provably supporting regimes that benefit you economically little if at all whilst the top 20% get richer. This is a fact. That certainly makes you look like servant to me.
And just as there have been forelock pulling supporters of the status quo in the past, so too are there today. It's just they have been sold a far more sophisticated set of lies than the feudal or early idustrial system relied upon.
Don't worry, I don't expect you to agree with me, LOL...
