[lbo-talk] Whereas Lance is attacked by one of David Horowitz's minions

[Lance Murdoch]

He wishes I read the book from cover to cover.  I took it off a shelf
in Barnes and Noble, read Werner Cohn's chapter (which is obvious from
the review, I even quote him from the book), skimmed the rest of it,
saw that there was nothing new there (Chomsky is a holocaust denier!
Chomsky supported the Khmer Rouge! Chomsky is a self-hating Jew who
hates Israel!), and put it back on the shelf.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17506

Chomsky's Book Burners By Tom Nichols
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 30, 2005

[...]

But to judge from some of the reactions to the appearance of The
Anti-Chomsky Reader, the anthology edited by David Horowitz and Peter
Collier (and to which I am a contributor), Chomsky's defenders seem
just a tad jumpy about any effort to scrutinize the work of what is
supposed to be one of America's most important thinkers.

I found several readers engaged in what are sometimes called
Amazon.com "Star Wars." There are currently 92 reviews posted, with a
good portion of them critical of the book, and their tone and content
are revealing.

[...]

A reader named Lance Murdoch seems to at least have read the table of
contents, but it's not clear he read the book. "Thankfully," he
writes, "this is nothing but mindless mud-slinging, hyperbole and meat
for the dittoheads, with no real critique of Chomsky, but what else
would one expect from Horowitz?" Again, how about the rest of us,
Lance? (And how did Rush Limbaugh's listeners get dragged into this?)

Some readers were a little more honest.