<div>On 9/22/06, mike larkin <<a href="mailto:mike_larkin2001@yahoo.com">mike_larkin2001@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/books/23chomsky.html?hp&ex=1158984000&en=607733f05cceebfa&ei=5094&partner=homepage">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/books/23chomsky.html?hp&ex=1158984000&en=607733f05cceebfa&ei=5094&partner=homepage </a> U.S. Best Seller, Thanks to Rave by Latin Leftist By MOTOKO RICH 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. "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. "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." 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." Regardless, </blockquote></div> 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