{"id":19936,"date":"2011-05-11T05:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19936"},"modified":"2011-05-11T05:41:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T11:41:47","slug":"chomsky-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19936","title":{"rendered":"Chomsky: Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Fisk&#8221; is to blogging what the T formation is to football; almost a historical artifact.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike the &#8220;T&#8221;, every once in a while a good fisk is a wonderful thing, if only to blow the carbon out of the old rhetorical cylinders.<\/p>\n<p>Sisyphus over at <em>Fraters <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraterslibertas.com\/2011\/05\/fish-in-barrel.html\">uncorks one on Noam Chomsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oneo of many highlights, with Chomsky in italics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush\u2019s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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\u2019s Martha\u2019s 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 \u2013 he is merely the mass-murderers\u2019 not-so-useful idiot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden\u2019s \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think the noted linguist understands the meaning of the word \u201cuncontroversially\u201d. No, it does not mean \u201cwhatever dumb ass notion Noam Chomsky believes\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Fisk&#8221; is to blogging what the T formation is to football; almost a historical artifact. But unlike the &#8220;T&#8221;, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19937,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19936\/revisions\/19937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}