Manufacturing Dissent

The linguist from Lexington is back, giving aid and comfort to people who value consistency and moral equivalence more than pragmatic politics. I don't recommend the material for people who do not intuitively distrust everything about the United States.

As usual, Noam is a master of unattributed, passive sentence constructions. It takes skill to regularly deploy assertions that begin with phrases like "It has been suggested ...", and still enjoy the reputation of an academic.

Perhaps a helpful undergrad can show the professor how to use hyperlinks. He sometimes sources his assertions to leftist think-tanks, but you are otherwise left to piece together your own conspiratorial counter-narrative. It's a lot of work, but some resources do exist.

Chomsky's influence is deep and wide. The hot ticket towards the DNC chair is promoting a PowerPoint slideshow that links facts with supersition to explain the nettlesome Republican media conspiracy. (Actual policy that connects with voters must be passe.)