Ask Noam Chomsky
I secured an interview for Egypt Today with Noam Chomsky, a man that “between 1980 and 1992 (Chomsky) was cited as a source more often than any living scholar, and the eighth most cited source overall” on the 16th of December. I will be opening a forum here soon to allow readers to submit questions creating a pool of which I will pick a few to ask Prof. Chomsky. I will also be tapping five individuals to submit questions directly. More soon.
I am also waiting on Charles Johnson of LGF to answer a ten question interview he agreed to do. I figured that would help add a well rounded balance to Chomsky.
Did you apologize to Charles for the shot you took at him which turned out to be completely wrong?
And why do you want to interview Charles versus Noam, is Charles your sacrificial lamb to serve up in a skewed interview process and piece?
Why don't you ask Noam if he'll debate Dershowitz again live instead of sicking his disgusting rottweiler on him.
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Yes, as a matter of fact I did… the moment I found out; both personally and publicly. I kept the mistake available and added an update. I also echoed the statement in the LGF forum after Charles was nice enough to open the registration for me. You made the same mistake I did and didn’t check properly before making assumptions. Are you going to own up to it and apologize like I did?
“And why do you want to interview Charles versus Noam, is Charles your sacrificial lamb to serve up in a skewed interview process and piece?”
The interviews are separate and have nothing to do with one another. The balance is overall and comes from interviewing two different people form opposite leanings. Charles agreed to it and I already emailed him 10 questions he said he would get to when he got a chance. I also told him then (last week) about the Chomsky interview and how together, with his, the content of my blog would, in my eyes, be balanced.
"Why don't you ask Noam if he'll debate Dershowitz again live instead of sicking his disgusting rottweiler on him."
That is actually a good question in the midst of this comment. I am not going to ask Chomsky that but I do intend on referencing points he made.
Karim Elsahy (Comment this)
What a bunch of morons! (Comment this)
Are you going to own up to it and apologize like I did?
Yeah, no problem, I gladly apologize. It wasn't meant as an attack anyway.
Glad to see it was all upfront, and I'll be eager to see how the piece comes out and how in depth your questions and analyses are re both of them. "Balanced" is kind of a loaded word these days.
I am not going to ask Chomsky that but I do intend on referencing points he made.
Who made? Dershowitz regarding Chomsky? You know there was a recent post or article on Chomsky I think at Tech Central Station? on Chomsky's hypocrisies and in-consistencies etc...
Re OSM -
I was at it and met David Corn, Charles and Roger. Missed most of it so didn't meet a lot of the people I would have liked to.
Abu Sinan -
You think all you guys could take me? lol...
If it was a battle of wits I would concede before hand to the master, Sandmonkey. (Comment this)
Do you ever reply to questions and comments?
It takes a lot more effort and time to put up a new post than the 30 seconds to type a reply in the comments section?
Mike
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I read an argument by Dershowitz regarding Chomsky’s divestment petition . I think that is what you meant. Interesting read. And yes by “he” I meant Dershowitz. Ambiguous was it?
I find the terms hypocritical and inconsistent to be more loaded. I very much prefer flux and reaction to stagnant and stubborn reason. I made an argument here before that “The reasonable have the capability of change, while the unreasonable stay irrational, and hence, a waste of time and effort. What sometimes is viewed as flip-floppy is often intelligent response to circumstance. Likewise, what can be deemed as steadfast can often be nothing more than stubborn ignorance.”
Give me a flip flop over mule any day.
Karim (Comment this)
Here are the links to the messed up HTML
Link one. Chomsky’s divestment petition
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V122/N25/col25dersh.25c.html
Link two. Here
http://onearabworld.blog.com/292830/
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That's one reason a Senator outside of Kennedy hasn't won running for Pres. The Senate forces compromise and humility. So people can point to their record and accuse them of being 'flip flops'. I don't know where you go that I called Chomsky a "flip flopper" by the way.
I will describe why I lost respect for Chomksy below.
Btw, here is the article at Tech Central Station I mentioned on Chomsky.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1019055.html
By the way Chomsky and Dershowitz have an upcoming debate at Harvard. I read about it the other day.
Regarding Chomsky, my friend took him at Harvard and I've seen him speak.
I've had college professors in Poly Science whom I've disagreed with but had an impeccable amount of respect for because they always replied with well thought out logical answers that conceded points but made counterpoints and never resorted to demagoguery. I respected them not being defensive and more interested in truly getting the debate to a deeper level.
Chomsky whom I used to actually have some awe for just turned out to be a harsh idealogue whose logic is often outstandingly contradictory and often just couched emotional slogans or demagoguery. It's really was kind of dissappointing and sad to me when the bubble burst. He is harsh uncompromising zealot caught up in his own obssessions in my opinion and lately has become a book 'hore' which is even sadder in my opinion.
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1019055.html
Divestment from Israel is only a sure way to sure up Israel's support, by the way. It is a completely unfair and singlehanded focus on Israel as being exemplary of being among the worst if not the worst countries in the world, which it is far from. Why don't we divest from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia who have been (it could easily be argued) worse and are worse today towards the Palestinians?
However, if you support divestment that's your opinion and I don't want to divert on that track. And I didn't realize that the point of debate between Chomsky and Charles or Chomsky and Dershowitz was soley on divestment?
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http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/007060.shtml
http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/calendars/iop.nsf/index.html?ReadForm (Comment this)
since the arab world is free and happy and they are not part of this world the thats how people should behave, and that leaves something positive to discuss and maybe we'll learn everything about them and how they change evverybodies life in the world so i guess you have all that figured out because i do (Comment this)
عمري 22 طالب بالجامعة
طولي 179 وزني 56
ياليت واحد مبادل او سالب
يكون من جده و يكون اقل شي وسيم الوجه
و لا يكون دبه,, عادي لو نحيف
المهم انه احصل الرد بكره بالكثير على الموقع او الايميل
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