Reply #63: Granted, I can agree with you . . .

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re one's work going along as one can do it - handle it -- and Chomsky certainly had enough
to do to wake Americans up to the corporate-media/power, ruling elite control of nation's
wealth and resources, on and on --

As mentioned elsewhere, when Chomsky not only denied a 9/11 conspiracy but wrote a book
defending against such challenges -- it chilled me on him.

HOWEVER, my anti-Chomsky argument goes to this level, and includes Bill Moyers, to name
another ....

And, it mimics the Betty Friedan call-out of Simone de Beauvoir who wrote "The Second Sex"
when she was criticized for having written a book - "Feminine Mystique" which was pretty
much saying what de Beauvoir's book had said --

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/still-the-second-sex-simone-de-beauvoir-centenary-13373379.htmland

and Friedan's reply was that HER book had gotten females up off the couch to do something about
it --- de Beauvoir's hadn't!

And later Friedan's criticism of Gloria Steinem . . . which I HEARTILY agree with . . .
being that she was an interesting author but not a political leader - and certainly not an
international political leader.

I think that's the way to look at this -- who is getting anyone up off the couch to do something???!!!


And you also make a great point here . . .

Really bitching about Chompsky now, after we have had a powerful and active corporate friendly wing of the democratic party calling the shots for about 20 years, seems absurd to me.

however, Americans have been trained/taught to think capitalism is everything, including being
synonymous with democracy -- and that this is "conspiracy-free" America!
How much longer will it take them to see that Ruling Elite/corporate money has bought our "people's"
government, Congress, elected officials and corporate-press?
And TV has played a large role in that -- if it doesn't happen on TV it's not happening?
Is that still true?

Nader has been working on the selling of government for 3 decades or more --
Greider -- but that's reading!
You're not going to see them on TV!

The power of right wing propaganda repeated over and over and over again on TV is hard to beat
with a book.