Outside the allowable range of publicly expressible opinion

[MsDoodahs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cceC3DeFcY

[SeanEdwards]

Chomsky makes me want to vomit. I'm glad that socialist prick doesn't get on TV.

[MsDoodahs]

He's 100% correct on the range of permitted speech, and it's appropriate (applicable?) to the Paul campaign.

I like hearing Greenfield SAY it.

:)

[johngr]

As someone says on another forum, Chomsky's own function (I agree he's controlled opposition) is to act as a "debate ceiling" on certain matters, particularly to do with Israel. The furthest possible permissible criticism of anything the actual power holders do (or is "theorized" they do) is whatever Chomsky articulates. He ridicules ideas that let the cat too far out of the bag.

According to the poster: "When people ask questions regarding the 9-11 attacks he’ll always dismiss them as “conspiracy.” The role of a debate ceiling is to never allow the debate to pass a certain level. The thinking being “if Chomsky [dismisses it as being to far out] it [couldn't] be true because Chomsky is a ‘radical’ who [is not afraid of telling] the truth."

This is a dated talk and the idea of "concision" constraining debate applies less and less as the internet takes over from the conventional media.

[johngr]

Chomsky makes me want to vomit. I'm glad that socialist prick doesn't get on TV.

Socialist critiques are certainly misguided in some ways but not entirely wrong. Their identification of the problem can often be spot on. They just have the wrong solutions.

[redpillguy]

Chomsky and Kissinger worked together in their younger days, to start a "grassroots" communist movement.