alsis38 wrote:
"Chomsky.... should shoot off his mouth in any and all venues in which Kerry or someone with access to his inner circle might stumble across them"

Yeah, well... it's not like Chomsky lives in a cave, or took a vow of silence or something. His writings appear in newspapers, journals, and/or magazines around the world on a routine basis. (Except in the US.) And he is rumored to have written several dozen books on foreign policy, domestic policy, and political theory. (And a bunch more on linguistics.) There's more than a couple feature length movies about him, probably available at the local independent video store... And in all of these, it's not like he's refraining from speaking his mind, nor even being subtle.

So what do you expect to happen? Maybe in the middle of a national campaign, Kerry would've suddenly announced that, having discovered the writings of Noam Chomsky, he now recognized that our entire economic system is a corrupt corporate-welfare state designed to ensure the continued power and dominance of an elite class who despise democracy? That it's propped up by endless systematic theft, brutality, oppression and murder of the peoples of the "third world" and was founded upon the genocide of the original peoples of this continent?

What did you want Chomsky to say that he did not, in fact, say?

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Steven, you throw strong criticism at "professional petty-bourgeois intellectuals."

To whom are you referring?