The political devolution of Alexander Cockburn

alexlocascio at juno.com alexlocascio at juno.com
Sat Oct 24 06:10:51 PDT 1998


On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:09:03 -0400 Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes:
> When Chomsky makes a gaffe, he never
>acknowledges
>it. His stubborn pride would be the only explanation for refusing to
>admit
>his error in judgment in writing the preface to a book by holocaust
>denier
>Faurisson.

Lou, this was a great piece, but the above statement simply isn't true. Chomsky never wrote a preface for Faurisson's book. What he did was write a short essay about freedom of speech, which was then appropriated by Serge Thion to be used as a preface.

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