NP Another Left academic describes Chomsky's responses to 11/9 as"misguided"

[MalignD at aol.com]

I do, for the most part, try to ignore your strident blather--and I suppose 
it's a tribute to the democratic and all-inclusive nature of this list that 
someone as fatuous, banal, and boring as you is allowed the space you 
take--but everything and everyone  has its (his) limits. 

<<... put it up against the likes of Noam Chomsky, Linguistics professor at 
MIT>>
Impressed by credentials; the contrapositive (would it be?) of an ad hominem 
argument.  

One should know that expertise in one field is no guarantee of same in 
another (think of Shockley).
  
<<And his impenetrable calm, cool, and matter-of-fact demeanor makes him all 
the more convincing.  >>

To a bubblehead. 
 
<<As Chomsky said in one of his recent lectures, 'the police would never 
consider wiping out a whole neighborhood in the apprehension of a criminal if 
they knew him to be hiding in a certain part of town.'  >>

Whether Chomsky (or George Kennan or Tom Arnold) said it, it's an inapt, 
demoagogic comparison.

<<I even heard on my local news recently that the police department is being 
pressured to slow down their car chases, rely more on the helicopters, 
because the public started complaining their kids were getting mowed down by 
speeding cop cars.  >>

And this bit of regional arcana is relative to what exactly?

<<'How dare those little brown rag-headed bastards ask US/us for proof!'  
Can'cha just hear him? in that down-home Texas drawwwl?  You can almost see 
his bowed legs and the guns at his hip, even that brown tobacco spittle 
dripping from his chin.>>

For the above one can feel only embarrassment.

<<And it's obvious from earlier reports that the Taliban was willing to 
negotiate.  Had we sat down with them at the bargaining table, put the fear 
of bombs into them there instead of the battlefield, we may well have had him 
by now. >>

This is childish, ignorant, puerile.