The charges of "self hating Jew" and accusations Chomsky "blames America for everything" are typical and unsurprising. And, given the deep stupidity of many of the so-called 'war bloggers' (who've been deprived of a lot of thunder lately due to the 'long, hard slog' of Iraq and major Bush admin embarassments and need a target) it's not surprising some of these jackasses would do things like fill up as much space as possible with "jew" or just random text -- acts which are borderline insane (and not joking crazy but just crazy).
Even so, I was surprised to read inept, know-nothing 'critiques' of Chomsky's linguistic work.
The number of people who truly understand Chomsky's ideas in his primary field, well enough to intelligently dispute all or parts of it, is very small indeed. Yet this dosen't stop a fair number of the diehard Chomsky haters from simply declaring, based upon their hatred, the "idiocy" of generative grammar. One poster even claimed a "right wing linguist" had "debunked" Chomsky's work -- a funny and disturbingly thick-headed assertion for many reasons.
This behavior goes beyond the realm of political debate or ideology and into areas explored by the psychoanalysts and those inspired by their best insights such as Zizek.
DRM