>On 4/20/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> doesn't Noam C. know that Ali G. is a satire?
>
>Steven Pinker describes Chomsky in one of his books as "a
>pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from
>the Cookie Monster". I would not be surprised at all if he had never
>heard of Ali G.
When I last interviewed Chomsky, I quoted something Jon Stewart had said on The Daily Show. It was clear from his reaction that he had no idea what I was talking about. And only a few minutes earlier, he'd complained about "all the young people" who get their news mainly "from late-night TV."
Doug