NOAM'S INCREDIBLE 11/22 ARTICLE ON TRUTHOUT. Few articles are so transparent in their purpose..DON'T

[Peter Lemkin]

"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them." - George Orwell

I think Chomsky decided back in the Sixties that LBJ was just continuing Kennedy's policies, and that was the end of it. Don't bother me with learning new facts, don't ask me to reevaluate anything.

Yes, a great quote by Orwell. Take a look in JFK and the Unspeakable [sorry can't find the exact pages now, but near the end] where Douglass documents how two of then top JFK assassination critics and researchers had an extended dialogue, in person at times, with Chomsky on Dallas...and he was, at first, engaged and interested; then at a certain point, he rejected all the information given that they gave him and he read and even discussed in depth with him. Since then he's maintained his current 'position' that it is not important, that the official version is sufficient and need not be questioned further, and that JFK was a Cold Warrior. Sadly, 'Chomsky' is not in the index. But it is there! I'll try to find the pages later and post.

So, it is NOT that Chomsky always ignored the facts nor that he didn't entertain [for several weeks or months] the possibility of Conspiracy, but he did - and then for reasons unknown, totally rejected what he had once started to embrace.