At 02:48 PM 7/21/2006, you wrote:
>Today I came across two old bits on the net. One by some guy named
>Michael Berube at Penn State suggesting that Chomsky's words (on the
>invasion of Yugoslavia) a pack of lies (Berube doesn't offer much
>support for this claim) and then another by blogger Atrios (Duncan
>Black) who writes this:
>
> > In any case, Chomsky's problem is not that he's anti-War -- this
> > "war" is getting sillier by the minute - the problem is that he's an
> > idiot.
>
>Is this the face of the new left? I say that because Berube contrasts
>Chomsky to "real progressives" (I guess Berube's point being that he is
>part of the real progressives, while clearly Chomsky is some lone
>poser), and similarly from Atrios.
>
>This if bloody fucking depressing. Half-wit punks with a web site can
>actually suggest Chomsky, of all people, is an "idiot"?!!
>
>I wondered on Sivacracy whether words like 'nuts' were useful in such
>discussions, but I realize now I am pretty naive.
>
> --ravi
>
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