C. Hitchens has departed from the left long time ago.
I don't think that he deserves this sort of attention. If we are to speak
about his political statements, they are far from being serious. Material
mistakes, argumenti ad hominem, and so forth. He is a new David Horrowitz of
US political milieu and my opinion is that his intention ( and, perhaps, the
one of the people behind him) is exactly to loose time in analyses of his
ridiculous attacks. Let's just kiss him good bye as far as political left is
concerned.
 @.
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. "
Bertrand Russell



----- Original Message -----
From: "frank scott" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] THE CHOMSKY-LACOUTURE CONTROVERSY


> There seems to be a concerted effort to get-nail chomsky, and much of it
> comes from lefties and pseudo lefties, more liberal than left, who seem
> to just hate the guy...this academic thing is much too long for me to
> bother with, especially after picking up the tone, and the ridiculous
> citing of Joan Baez...JOAN BAEZ?...and her full page ad in the NYtimes
> about (gasp-horror) political prisoners in Viet Nam...wow!
>
> as I recall, her expose was based on a prisoner who smuggled "secret
> information" out of the nam slammer...how? he stuck it up his butt!
> double wow!
>
> for the benefit of people who live in the clouds, I suppose it is an
> expose to find out that some leftist foreign movements were not composed
> of collegial debate teams from affluent western families who majored in
> philosophy and inactivity...for me, this is tired bullshit inspired by
> people who should have better things to do than relive -in part
> according to fantasy and bias - past history in order to "get" someone
> they can't stand because he is...smarter than they are? what the hell is
> going on? this is the most important stuff to deal with at this time??
>
> fs
>