Chomsky and Free Speech

[Dennis]

> Doubtless, as Justin says, the Faurrisson affair has been done
> to death, but,, as is my way at times,
> in the interests of beating a dead horse, a useful polemic
> on the affair by Pierre Viadal-Naquet is at
www.anti-rev.org/textes/VidalNaquet81b
> Michael Pugliese

"Useful" in what sense, Michael? Vidal-Naquet makes several false
allegations against Chomsky (the standard "minimizing" Khmer Rouge crimes
for one), and relies as his source on whether Chomsky threatened a lawsuit
against the "Biographical Companion to Modern Thought" one Geoffrey Sampson,
who invented the whole thing and published it in The New Criterion. Sampson
also wrote the "Biographical" entry on Chomsky, which included the KR smear
that Vidal-Naquet takes seriously. Cockburn took Sampson apart over this in
the Nation and revealed him for the fraud he is.

Again, Michael, "useful" how?

DP