Where's the evidence that he misquotes more often than any other researcher [let alone deliberately]. Has someone compiled a compendium of his misdeeds?
Ian
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> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of kelley
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 5:57 PM
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> Subject: Re: Niiice kitty....
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> this was posted on the cypherpunks list. the respondent maintains that
> chomsky is well-known for misquoting or twisting quotes/sources. never
> heard that come up here in all our discussions... comments? cypherpunks
> is archived if you want more info.
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> kelley
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> > I've been reading Noam Chomsky's book on Kosovo and came across this
> > quote from a Cabinet note written by Churchill in January 1914
> > explaining the need for increased military expenditure (taken in
> > turn from Clive Ponting's Churchill, 1994, P 132):
> >
> > "We are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty
> > inheritance. We have engrossed to ourselves an altogether
> > disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We
> > have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the
> > unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly
> > acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less
> > reasonable to others than to us."
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> Chomsky is hardly a reliable source. He routinely fabricates or falsifies
> quotes. I suggest you check his alleged sources.
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> Chances are you will be unable to find his alleged source. In
> the unlikely
> event that you are able to find it, it will not say quite what Chomsky
> claims it said.
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