Re: KathViner tweets about the fraudian's latest Assange hand wringing Archived Message
Posted by brooks on May 28, 2019, 10:11 pm, in reply to "Re: KathViner tweets about the fraudian's latest Assange hand wringing"
Chomsky was being polite and strategic. You don't accuse people of being well-paid liars for power to their face on national television, especially if you hope to obtain such a platform once in a while to disseminate more important truths about the way power works. He's also said repeatedly - when it didn't involve personal accusations - that "intellectuals lie". And that they're "very good at it". He's also said he didn't understand how the NYTimes editors, weren't "drowning in their own hypocrisy". But if you want to continue to cling to the interesting notion that those who staff the western corporate propaganda factories and cheerlead western imperial crimes and demonize its official enemies while propagating one fake narrative after another impervious to challenges or facts, are never pure cynics and grifters - such as one finds in every system of power in every state and in every age - no matter how much they enrich themselves by this activity, then please be my guest.
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