02-08-2018, 08:29 AM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Noam Chomsky, when Oliver Stone's film came out, was one of its most vociferous critics.
He denounced the film in public, in private, in a magazine piece and he even wrote a book to counter it.
He denied that 1.) A plot to kill Kennedy, and 2.) JFK was withdrawing from Vietnam.
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Chomsky has said the two topics he won't touch are the JFK
assassination and 9/11. Yet he wrote a book about 9/11 (comprised
of essays and interviews and published shortly after those events), and
his JFK book is an obvious if somewhat oblique attack
on Stone's film and clearly designed to counter it. So I guess
he means he won't address the ongoing issues in either case. Chomsky
once "joked" that his salary since 1955 has been paid
by the military-industrial complex (he apparently was
referring to working for MIT, where he is now emeritus, but . . .)
If you haven't seen the Ali G interview with "Norman" Chomsky, check
it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIM1_xOSro