Noam Chomsky and the Manufacturing of American Dissent: 2 videos

[Jan Klimkowski]

One of the crudest, and most dishonest, pieces of CIA hackwork ever written.

Not for me.

Chomsky has always found the myth of Camelot, of JFK as some kind of leftist freedom fighter, preposterous. I agree with him.

Another glorious non-sequitur - it would appear to be catching - only this time compounded by a straw man. Who exactly is arguing that Kennedy was a left-wing freedom fighter?

Is Chomsky's account of JFK's relationship with, and attitude to, the CIA honest, Jan? Yeah or nay?

Is it honest or acceptable to present an account of that relationship which omits any mention of, for instance, the fact that Kennedy removed senior leaders of the CIA in the wake of the Bay of Pigs? That he drafted three NSAM which effectively stripped the CIA of responsibility for covert ops of any significance at much the same time? To state but two of the major developments of 1961 alone is to expose Chomsky as a barefaced liar.

I'm not a JFK researcher, and have never claimed to be. However, the myth of Camelot is a fundamental part of political discourse, and the relationship between JFK and the CIA is a matter of huge controversy, frequently shifting as new documentation is "declassified" and various parties fight over meanings and interpretations.

Chomsky may not have read the latest research on some matters on which he has opined in the past, and perhaps still does. Alternately, his interpretation of it may be different from yours.

Fwiw I disagree with Chomsky on many things. I think his "The Manufacturing of Consent" is incorrect in some aspects.

I don't consider that that means Chomsky is a "left gatekeeper" or a CIA asset.

Paul - fundamentally you seem to believe that differences of interpretation are the result of malign influences.

In my opinion, your interpretation of the assassination of JFK as a Secret Service hit and the Zapruder film as a complete forgery is probably not correct. If that makes me an intelligence agent in your opinion, then so be it.