Chomsky on Palestine

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Sun Apr 7 14:55:03 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "ravi" <gadfly at exitleft.org>

Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> To some extent, Michael Moore has. Is it because of his humor or because
> his politics are not as threatening as those of Chomsky?

-his politics and his rhetoric i would guess (and this is mostly a guess) -are indeed less threatening than chomsky's

Come on- the obvious difference is that Moore has used movies and TV to reach large audiences-- his book popularity is based on those movie/TV fans turning to his work. The brilliance of Moore is figuring out how to make left politics entertaining to large numbers of people, something rightwing radio hosts have traditionally done a far better job of than left politicos.

-- Nathan Newman



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