Alterman on Chomsky

[Doug Henwood]

Noam isn't perfect. Gosh, what a revelation. But the main reason 
people dredge up his imperfections is to discredit him (meaning his 
critique of U.S. imperialism). There's no other good reason to harp 
on what he did or said about Faurisson or the Khmer Rouge. As 
Christopher Hitchens himself once argued (and quite well).

Doug