Noam Chomsky is Blogging
Somehow the Earth just seems a little unbalanced, and I can’t quite put my finger on why the thought that the “Favourite Leftist Academic to Hate” has set himself up a blog makes me lose all bodily sensation (at least for a second).
I had a similar reaction when I saw that Jimmy Carter was “blogging”, but for different reasons… besides which, Carter’s blog didn’t have the trappings of your typical blog.
The comments section can be rather funny, and at times they can be rather infantile. I know I shouldn’t laugh at some of the more infantile stuff (and I know I should laugh at some of the satire from his critics), but the following I found amusing:
I am very confused by this. I am at this site to look for a nice Garden Noam to put in my front lawn. I am going to put a red Garden Noam next to my bird-bath.
But this website has a bunch of articles with poor grammar (I should know I’m an English teacher) written by a schizophrenic. WHERE ARE THE GARDEN NOAMS FOR SALE?
But he overdoes this joke by posting it several times, only able to add this to a later post:
NOAM, I AM WRITING AN EMAIL TO A FRIEND TELLING HIM THAT THE HOLOCAUST DIDNT HAPPEN. PLEASE WONT YOU “FORWARD” THE EMAIL.
(I could annotate the joke, but I’m not clear on the details of Chomsky’s accidental praise of a Holocaust Denier.)
WARNING!!! THIS SITE IS NOT, repeat NOT, RUN BY NOAM CHOMSKY, BUT IS A FASCIST CIA FRONT TO INFILTRATE THE LEFT.
READ QUICKLY BEFORE THIS POST IS DELETED BY THE CIA. Please use a proxy to hide your IP address AS IT IS BEING RECORDED!
COINTELPRO is an acronym for a series of FBI counterintelligence programs designed to neutralize political dissidents.
Counterintelligence goes beyond investigation; it refers to techniques used to neutralize enemy agents.
Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO’s of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against radical political organizations. In the early 1950s, the Communist Party was illegal in the United States. The Senate and House of Representatives each set up investigating committees to prosecute communists and publicly expose them. (The House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy). When a series of Supreme Court rulings in 1956 and 1957 challenged these committees and questioned the constitutionality of Smith Act prosecutions and Subversive Activities Control Board hearings, the FBI’s response was COINTELPRO, a program designed to “neutralize” those who could no longer be prosecuted. Over the years, similar programs were created to neutralize civil rights, anti-war, and many other groups, all said to be “communist front organizations.”
THIS “BLOG” IS JUST COINTELPRO CIA PRETENDING TO BE CHOMSKY. THEY ARE TRYING TO GET YOUR IP ADDRESS SO THEY CAN SEND YOU TO GITMO!
THIS “BLOG” MUST BE STOPPED!!!!! FUCK CORPORATE MEDIA!!!!
Anyway, for your… Noam Chomsky’s blog for you
Maybe Howard Zinn is thinking of starting a blog. (Actually, I would go for that one, without the smirking you see me with toward Chomsky.)
Update: the Comments section of Chomsky’s blog have been turned off… within the past hour.