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Noam Chomsky: Philosophies of Language & Politics

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Noam Chomsky Likens Right-Wing Media to Nazi Germany

03 min 18 sec

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Linguist Noam Chomsky expresses concern that American listeners are consuming the "crazy content" broadcast by right-wing media outlets as "substantive" -- answers to why the rich liberals running the country do not care about people in the flyover states.

What comes to mind, Chomsky says, is late Wiemar Germany. "There were people with real grievances...the Nazis gave them an answer."
Noam Chomsky Says Big Business Dictates the Presidency

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"Campaign funding is a remarkable predictor of election, and also of policy," says controversial political activist Noam Chomsky. He asserts that the Supreme Court is currently considering a lawsuit that would allow corporations to "buy elections directly, instead of indirectly."
Chomsky: US Supported Indian, Pakistani Nuclear Programs

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Noam Chomsky divulges the issues of nuclear proliferation which are overlooked or ignored in the mainstream media.

Covering the nuclear weapons programs of Iran, India, Israel, and Pakistan, Chomsky says "it can't be that the news bureaus don't know it; there's more that isn't discussed."
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Lamont Cranston

Posted: 10.11.09, 07:19 AM

SNS, Schlessinger is just mad Chomsky doesn't faun over the Camelot myth. burke, watch it again. The "indignation" (what?) was that they had been abandoned by 'the left' - no one had gone and engaged them despite pretty common ground, leaving them ripe pickings for demagogues and corporate PR. Their political activism, such as it is, is to unwittingly protect the very same institutions that are responsible for their terrible situation. So your argument is a little hollow.

burke

Posted: 10.10.09, 04:48 PM

Disregard everything I've just said. It was Nixon, Nixon did it. It's why we can't have nice things anymore.

burke

Posted: 10.10.09, 04:46 PM

So let me get this straight, Chomsky is indignated not that the public and audience are under the influence of an entity which according to him fuels their anger and gives them reasons for political activism, instigates them and they act like sheep (the Limbaugh & Savage segment); no he is indignated that these people are not representing the left and their activism which he confuses with ideology is not on his side. I have seen many of his talks and have read his essays but I see something troubling here, judging from D. Rushkoff's recent blunders, and other confusions; that media theorists just cant keep up with the current progress in information. Chomsky is from a generation when things were more black and white, he should re-think everything. He sounds too much like a bizarro Limbaugh: the right-wingers, Reagan did it , Reagan did it. It's 2009 ffs.

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FORA.tv Staff

Posted: 10.10.09, 01:50 PM

I think that Kennedy's historian and friend Arthur Schlessinger summed it up in saying of Chomsky that "it has long been impossible to take anything he says seriously" and adding "One can only conclude that Chomsky's idea of the responsibility of an intellectual is to forswear reasoned analysis, indulge in moralistic declamation, fabricate evidence when necessary and shout, always at the top of one's voice." That pretty much nails it.

earthborg

Posted: 10.10.09, 01:13 PM

In Tyler Durden we trust.

Lamont Cranston

Posted: 10.10.09, 04:26 AM

Thats an interesting take on some vague ideas about Universal Healthcare or some nebulous suggestions of progressive taxation turbobrain, some questions: Where were these angry people during Dubyas taxcuts for the rich, PATRIOT ACT, the invasion & occupation of Afganistan and Iraq for just four examples? If its nothing to do with any rightwing agenda, then why are the groups organising this funded by and the people organising and speaking in the media from the same rightwing think tanks/policy groups paid for by the healthcrare industry or rich folk who think they dont have to pay taxes? Its hard to not see a connection.

turbobrain

Posted: 10.10.09, 02:54 AM

I think the idea that people are responding to extreme right wing media is off the mark. People are angry because the government is running right over them with no consideration for ethics or the constitution. People should not tolerate this and should fight back, this is what we are seeing. It is not organized by the right wing media. It is called the liberty movement! And it is all over the country.

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