>There's something going on here. It may well be just Chomsky
>thinking, "Look. These holocaust deniers are being oppressed by the
>Establishment. They are the underdogs. They need my help--even if I
>have to shade the truth to give it." It may be some form of
>insanity--a failure to understand the rules of how to communicate
>using English, and of what words mean. It may be something else.
It may be? Anyone who's read the guy, listened to him, or communicated with him in any nontrivial way would find your Safire-like rendition of his inner voice completely incomprehensibly ludicrous.
Doug