just a little taste of chumpski

[Jon Ford]

Bob is worse than ever in his name calling in the little piece below (so 
Comsky is a "chumpski" and I'm a stupid weevil and a twaddle meister (well 
Bob, it takes one to know one , doesn't it? nah nah nah na nah nah). Bob has 
the audacity to to bring in David Horowitz, a self-promoting (note his 
recent 2 page paid advertisment in newspapers across the country attacking 
slavery reparations) "left-right" switch hitter with tremendous animosity 
toward Chomsky. The little quote from Horowitz is typical of his misuse of 
innocent quotes like Chomsky's gfairly obvious rephrasal of the domino 
theory) to give an excuse to name-call
Chomsky as one who spews "Marxist" rhetoric. I direct everyone's attention 
to a piece by Christopher Hitchens (one of Bob's idols, so he can't possibly 
by a weevil or twaddle meister) examining the history of Chomsky slander in 
the British and American press. And all this because the poor guy doesn't 
like US foreign policy. tisk tisk.

I'll give you one paragraph where Hitchins dispenses with the pathetic 
Horowitz and his sloppy hatchet-job scholarship; here's the URL for this 
long, thoughtful article,"The Chorus and Cassandra"
<http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/other/85%2Dhitchens.html>

"David Horowitz and Peter Collier were wrong, in the syndicated article 
announcing their joint conversion to neoconservatism, to say that Chomsky 
hailed the advent of the Khmer Rouge as "a new era of economic development 
and social justice." The Khmer Rouge took power in 1975. In 1972, Chomsky 
wrote an introduction to Dr. Malcolm Caldwell's collection of interviews 
with Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In this introduction, he expressed not the 
prediction but the pious hope that Sihanouk and his supporters might 
preserve Cambodia for "a new era of economic development and social 
justice." You could say that this was naive of Chomsky, who did not predict 
the 1973 carpet-bombing campaign or the resultant rise of a primitive, 
chauvinist guerrilla movement. But any irony here would appear to be at the 
expense of Horowitz and Collier. And the funny thing is that, if they had 
the words right, they must have had access to the book. And if they had 
access to the book.... Well, many things are forgiven those who see the 
error of their formerly radical ways."

Jon




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>From: "telebob x" <telebob98@hotmail.com>
>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: just a little taste of chumpski
>Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 04:56:26 +0000
>
>Jon you are such a twaddle meister. You really make me laugh...you really
>do. You are as predictable as weevils in old flour...
>
>Bob
>
>
>Actually I DO like what David Horowitz says about Chomsky- yes, I said
>it....I like David Horowitz, Lino Graglia, and lesseee- P.J. O'Rourke and
>Bruce McCall...and the late Michael O'Donaghue...I like them...they are
>right....and you are wrong and you are stupid to boot....hahahahaha
>
>http://acidlogic.com/im_dougandmike.htm
>
>You big pussy. :-)  aaaaahhahahahahahaha   ha
>
>from Chomsky-
>
>"Communism was an expansive system that ruined nations and enslaved their
>citizens. But Chomsky dismisses America’s fear of Communism as a mere
>"cover" for America’s own diabolical designs. He explains the Vietnam War
>this way: "The real fear was that if the people of Indochina achieved
>independence and justice, the people of Thailand would emulate it, and if
>that worked, they’d try it in Malaya, and pretty soon Indonesia would 
>pursue
>an independent path, and by then a significant area [of America’s empire]
>would have been lost." This is a Marxist version of the domino theory. But
>of course, America did leave Indo-China – Cambodia and Thailand included --
>in 1975. Vietnam has pursued an independent path for 25 years and it is as
>poor as it ever was – one of the poorest nations in the world. Its people
>still live in a primitive Marxist police state.
>
>After its defeat in Vietnam, the United States withdrew its military forces
>from the entire Indo-Chinese peninsula. The result was that Cambodia was
>over-run by the Khmer Rouge (the "reds"). In other words, by the Communist
>forces that Noam Chomsky, the Vietnamese Communists and the entire American
>left had supported until then. The Khmer Rouge proceeded to kill two 
>million
>Cambodians who, in their view, stood in the way of the progressive "good
>example" they intended to create. Chomsky earned himself a bad reputation 
>by
>first denying and then minimizing the Cambodian genocide until the facts
>overwhelmed his case. Now, of course, he blames the genocide on the United
>States."
>
>Chumpski  indeed!
>
>tele
>
>
>
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