[Vision2020] I'm Waiting, Dave! Re:Chomsky Quote

[David M. Budge]

I'm still looking.   But if I'm wrong, I will retract it.  But I will 
not retract my disdain for Chomsky regardless of your admiration of his 
"logic."

db

Tbertruss at aol.com wrote:

>
> Dave et. al.
>
> Perhaps I missed the quote by Noam Chomsky, which you declared you 
> were going to supply, that declares Chomsky "endorsed Pol Pot," as YOU 
> phrased it, in 1975 after the fall of Saigon.  You have posted 
> voluminously to V2020 since you made the assertion just mentioned, and 
> I have not plowed through every word of your posts, so it is possible 
> I overlooked the Chomsky quote.  If so, I apologize in advance.
>
> Some individuals on V2020 engage in the annoying and confusing 
> practice of answering several people at once in one post, with one 
> answer to one individual buried down towards the bottom of the post, 
> with no indication in the subject heading that the subject being 
> answered is addressed after they addressed someone else's post first 
> towards the top.
>
> If I overlooked it, could you repost it please with the proper subject 
> heading indicating the post references our brief (all too brief, 
> considering Chomsky's brilliance and importance as a profound thinker 
> and writer about our modern political/social/economic/media 
> environment) discussion about Noam Chomsky and his alleged endorsement 
> of Pol Pot.
>
> If you have not supplied the quote and cannot, I expect a retraction 
> posted on V2020 of your denigrating dismissal of Chomsky based on a 
> false statement posted by you regarding Chomsky's stand on Pol Pot.
>
> Below read your post where you stated you would supply the alleged 
> quote in discussion, and the post where you first made the assertion 
> Chomsky "endorsed" Pol Pot.
>
> "We" are waiting!
>
> Ted Moffett
>
> Subj: [Vision2020] Re: Noam Chomsky 
> Date: 2/11/2005 1:44:40 PM Pacific Standard Time
> From: dave at davebudge.com <mailto:dave at davebudge.com>
> To: Tbertruss at aol.com <mailto:Tbertruss at aol.com>
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>, 
> auntiestablishment at hotmail.com <mailto:auntiestablishment at hotmail.com>
> Sent from the Internet (Details)
>
> Ted, I too have read almost everything that Chomsky has ever written.  
> I'll find the quote.  He said it in 1975 after the fall of Saigon.
>
> And yes, I detest his logic.  He proclaims himself a anarchest, but he 
> is really a communist.  He reconstructs both his history and others.  
> He's a fraud and I'll address this in full when I have some time.
>
> db
>
> Subj: Re: [Vision2020] Re: Robin Hood 
> Date: 2/11/2005 10:55:30 AM Pacific Standard Time
> From: dave at davebudge.com <mailto:dave at davebudge.com>
> To: auntiestablishment at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:auntiestablishment at hotmail.com>
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>
>
> Thinking about my little dear one.  I will remain ever vigilant Joan, 
> but I worry much more about really hard "street literature", full of 
> impurities and historical reconstruction, like Katrina Vanden Houvel 
> at The Nation,  Cornell West, and the really scary ghost of Stalin; 
> Noam Chomsky (hey, anybody who ever endorsed Pol Pot qualifies as 
> "really scary.") 
>
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