Alterman on Chomsky

[dave dorkin]

Which last paragraph are we talking about? Noam as a
anti-Semite? Please...Brad has consistantly opted for
distortions of Noam's statements in favor of
implausible secret motives whereas where Larry Summers
was concerned, he did back flips to reconstrue the
"inappropriate" comments. Why should Noam spend any
more time on this BS? Faurisson had a right to
publish. Period. Noam said this and has been on record
about anti-Semitism since before most on the list were
able to read and write. The rest is simple propaganda.
Wiesel is a real falsifier as a look at his denial of
the Armenian holocaust will attest with no need for
ambiguous mind reading.

--- eric dorkin <eric_dorkin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>  That's bull....I think Brad deserves an answer. 
> Either that he misquotes NC or that there is an
> alternative explanantion.
> There is no one less justified in using an ignorance
> defense than NC.  He never speaks publicly about
> things unless he "knows" what he is talking about. 
> To the extent that he did research before he wrote
> (Brad's quotation) he did it poorly (unlikely) to
> the extent he did no research, he was sloppy (also
> unlikely).
> So, is it arrogance?  What?  NC knows better than
> any person alive the ability of the media to
> marginalize dissenting voices.  
> As for the Khmer Rouge, I am agnostic at the moment.

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