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Originally posted by Thunderball@Oct 2 2004, 01:37 AM
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@Oct 1 2004, 05:55 PM
To be real blunt, I don't think Universities should be paying for people of the ilk of Michael Moore anyway... Universities are supposed to be places of higher learning, not someone who can manipulate facts. People like Noam Chomsky (though I don't agree with him), etc... scholarly people.
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You say that as if you don't think that Chomsky doesn't manipulate facts? That is the whole basis of his crack pot ideas is to misrepresent facts.
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I don't like him, and he does BS a lot, but he's still got more education, experience and respect on his pinky finger than Moore has in aggregate. That makes him a Scholarly voice to present... of course I think for every left wing nut, we should bring in a right wing zealot... you know, balance things out.
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Right or Wrong, Chomsky is one brilliant individual. He could absolutely destroy any poster on this board on any political topic of your choosing. Agree with him or not, I respect the hell out of this guy for tackling the issues he does.
He's a professor at MIT, obviously the system has some respect for what he's saying... unless MIT is a pro-liberal Kennedy think-tank. [/b][/quote]
He may be brilliant in an academic way, but i believe he is a no more than a spin master when it comes to politics. Seriously, I believe he is literally listed as a professor of linguistics and semnatics. Big deal.
I will say this however, he has the ear of a majority of youth in academia, but only because he oreaches a message they want to believe, not necessarily because its the truth. And thats OK too.
IMO of course.