Noam Chomsky on Citizen Radio - 01 04 2009 - MP3 - Godcanjudgeme

Just a reflection...

This was a really annoying clip! The two radio hosts, both ~25 years old, started by making a long and stupid introduction to the interview with Chomsky, where they joked around about how old he is but he's still so energetic and blah blah blah.

And then during the interview they sat giggling and gasping at every word he said. Not once did they question his statements or come with a counter argument. Well, if this kind of naïve leftist ass licking (bordering to religion) is going to save the world, I'd better start collecting cans and move to a bunker. Seriously speaking, I feel sad for Chomsky because this is a mockery of his intelligence. Instead, I say listen to his speeches once in a while, listen to debates with him and more than anything, read his books.

As an example, I uploaded this entertaining debate between Chomsky and Alan Dershowitz on the Israel-Palestine conflict:
http://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/5019/Noam-Chomsky-vs-Alan-Dershowitz-debate--Where-do-we-go-from-here-at-Harvard-29112005


Another one : this debate is from 1988, so the subjects are a little old, but at least this puts him to the test. He verbally destroys Richard Perle (name sound familiar?) who at the end of the debate is so humiliated he stops answering the questions. Well worth listening to.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/8409

transcript here for those with short attention spans:
http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1988----.htm




All that said, credits to GCJM for uploading every Chomsky file in the world I don't expect you to listen to them all before sharing as that would probably require cloning


// luft