Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Jul 21, 2006, at 2:48 PM, ravi 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"?!!
>
>
> Amazing, isn't it? Berube's not a bad sort otherwise, and I don't know
> why he has to do this. But it seems like denouncing Chomsky is a way to
> be taken "seriously" by the mainstream - even when he cites impeccable
> sources (as on Yugo), and the denouncers can do nothing but say "Lies!"
> Or if not taken seriously, at least to differentiate yourself from the
> allegedly loony left, despite the fact that the relentlessly logical
> and informed Chomsky is about as un-loony as you can get.
>
> Doug
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