Chomsky News Network

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu May 30 09:37:48 PDT 2002


Michael Perelman wrote:


>Kelly's question about what Chomsky might have said is very important.
>Chomsky has a few seconds to refute decades of propaganda. Either he has
>to genuflect to the propaganda, negating his message, or whatever he says
>will be discredited in the eyes of most people. True, if he were to be
>able to repeat his message several times, it would take on more force.

It never hurts, and isn't entirely disingenuous, to damn the leaders and flatter the masses. Which partly contradicts what I just said about the masses of creationists and market nuts, but 1) that's why it's not entirely disingenuous, and 2) the place is full of contradictions anyway.

Doug



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