[lbo-talk] More Chomsky Mania at the Times!!!

[Jerry Monaco]

On 9/22/06, mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/books/23chomsky.html?hp&ex=1158984000&en=607733f05cceebfa&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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> U.S. Best Seller, Thanks to Rave by Latin Leftist
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> By MOTOKO RICH
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> But Alan M. Dershowitz, the lawyer and Harvard Law
> School professor, said he doubted whether many of the
> current buyers would ever actually read the book.
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> "I don't know anybody who's ever read a Chomsky book,"
> said Mr. Dershowitz, who said he first met Mr. Chomsky
> in 1948 at a Hebrew-speaking Zionist camp in the
> Pocono Mountains where Mr. Dershowitz was a camper and
> Mr. Chomsky was a counselor.
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> "You buy them, you put them in your pockets, you put
> them out on your coffee table," said Mr. Dershowitz, a
> longtime critic of Mr. Chomsky. The people who are
> buying "Hegemony" now, he added, "I promise you they
> are not going to get to the end of the book."
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> He continued: "He does not write page turners, he
> writes page stoppers. There are a lot of bent pages in
> Noam Chomsky's books, and they are usually at about
> Page 16."
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> Regardless,
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Do you think that Motoko is quoting Dersh for obligatory anti-Chomksy
"balance" or is he quoting Dersh to embarrass Dersh?  And who begins a
paragraph "Regardless,"?

Dersh is an idiot who has never met a linguist, except for Chomsky in his
whole life; he has never met anyone in the Central American Solidarity
movement who has read "Turning the Tide"; or anyone who read "Deterring
Democracy" or "Necessary Illusions" all the way through.....  Or perhaps he
is just an unoriginal liar, spouting cliches when he can't actually
plagiarise someone's work or take work from his students like any mediocre
professor.

Hitchens gets to some of you, but Dershowitz is one of those pretenders that
has always gotten to me.

JM
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