Noam Chomsky

Professor Noam Chomsky was on Pacifica Radio this morning. Although I agree with many of his ideas, I very much dislike hearing this guy speak. I finally figured out why this morning.

Chomsky presents highly controversial ideas in a very low key tone of voice, pretending that they are completely middle of the road and 100% accepted by everyone. He is a professor of linguistics, and I guess he thinks this is an effective speaking technique.

When you pretend that something is not what it really is, I have a word which I use to describe this. Dishonesty. For a left wing intellectual to be basically dishonest in his speaking technique tarnishes the ideas that he is trying to espouse.

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