I must say though, that what you have written is a somewhat contradictory paragraph. You say the man knows a ton of stuff but at the same time he has disdain for the facts? As much as we talk about him in here, the guy is still a mere mortal. That's a pretty high standard you are trying to hold him to. Do George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld not "leave out the parts" that tend to contradict their viewpoint? Why do you hold an inconsequential nerd to higher standards than you would the president of the United States?
Well said, and I think this again aptly demonstrates the hands-over-the-ears partisanship that's completely consumed American politics. Instead of simply being a categorizing mechanism, the political spectrum has become some sort of causal mechanism imposing itself on one's viewpoint and filtering out everything that doesn't fall into the right wavelength. Chomsky is leftist? I don't want to hear about him, he obviously has NOTHING valid to say. :wacko:
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