10-06-2010, 08:31 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Paul - you would not cite as a credible source someone with Schweizer's right-wing thinktank, Bush-loving, Reagan-worshipping, War on Terror-proselytizing, background in any other context than your hatred of Chomsky.
Four points here.
One, I take the truth wherever I find it: If Hitler insisted the world was round, you would, by your logic, be duty bound to discount it. I wouldn't.
Two, to follow your (situational?) logic would be to terminate the careers of pretty much every investigative journalist in the television age: Or do deep state revelations come from liberal vegetarians with impeccable records for political correctness?
Point the third I don't hate Chomsky. It's more contempt enlivened with a sense of wonder that he's got away with it for so long. I mean, wow!
Four: You can tell he did interview the Gnome because of the tone of the latter's reply to Schweizer's question about the ethics of his (the Gnome's) investment choices: “Should I live in a cabin in Montana?” That note of forced insousiance is authentic Chomsky when he doesn't like a question.
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Schweizer's piece was a crude, right-wing hatchet job.
I won't be taking it seriously.
A point with rather more credibility had you not immediately followed this post with another, longer, one on the same theme.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
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