Chomsky: Fish
By Mitch Berg
The “Fisk” is to blogging what the T formation is to football; almost a historical artifact.
But unlike the “T”, every once in a while a good fisk is a wonderful thing, if only to blow the carbon out of the old rhetorical cylinders.
Sisyphus over at Fraters uncorks one on Noam Chomsky.
Oneo of many highlights, with Chomsky in italics:
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.
I would answer myself that I would be strongly against it, because I am on the side of America and not al Qaeda-Iraq. If Taliban commandos landed at President Obama’s compound and assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic, I would be strongly against that, because I am on the side of America. If anti-linguistics terrorists landed at Noam Chomsky’s Martha’s Vineyard compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic, I would be strongly against it because Noam Chomsky is not a mass-murderer – he is merely the mass-murderers’ not-so-useful idiot.
Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s …
I don’t think the noted linguist understands the meaning of the word “uncontroversially”. No, it does not mean “whatever dumb ass notion Noam Chomsky believes”.
Read the whole thing.
May 11th, 2011 at 7:37 am
Isn’t “Chomsky” one of many synonyms for “Dumbass”?
May 11th, 2011 at 9:25 am
Now it is.
May 11th, 2011 at 10:41 am
Chomsky understands perfectly well the uses of language.
There is no “crime” that Bush is guilty of that Obama is not guilty of as well; yet Chomsky’s readers will accept accusations of unnamed “crimes” against Bush and will not accept them against Obama.