Galileo Galilei
04-11-2010, 01:34 PM
Noam Chomsky urges Madison crowd to reach out to Tea Partiers
Noam Chomsky made a connection with an unlikely radical in his speech at the Orpheum Theatre last night: Joseph Stack, the 53-year-old software engineer who flew a plane into an IRS building in Texas in February.
After quoting Stack’s manifesto, Chomsky said Stack was “basically right” in his critique of the American system of politics and capitalism.
But, Chomsky, the firebrand liberal who spent most of his life critiquing and attacking US hegemony and foreign policy, said the left is failing the country by not reaching out to those in the Tea Party movement, who are frustrated and fed up with American government.
“They shouldn’t be laughed at. It’s not a joke,” Chomsky told the packed theater. “Ridiculing the Tea Party shenanigans is a terrible mistake. Why are those voices of discontent being mobilized by the extreme Right?”
http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28780
Good work, Noam!
Noam Chomsky made a connection with an unlikely radical in his speech at the Orpheum Theatre last night: Joseph Stack, the 53-year-old software engineer who flew a plane into an IRS building in Texas in February.
After quoting Stack’s manifesto, Chomsky said Stack was “basically right” in his critique of the American system of politics and capitalism.
But, Chomsky, the firebrand liberal who spent most of his life critiquing and attacking US hegemony and foreign policy, said the left is failing the country by not reaching out to those in the Tea Party movement, who are frustrated and fed up with American government.
“They shouldn’t be laughed at. It’s not a joke,” Chomsky told the packed theater. “Ridiculing the Tea Party shenanigans is a terrible mistake. Why are those voices of discontent being mobilized by the extreme Right?”
http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=28780
Good work, Noam!