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  • @babayabadabadu maybe I'm not a communist, like you are

  • briliant.bravo, chomsky

  • First of all, I cant believe anyone would upload a video if this quality. Must be the worst quality video Ive everseen on youtube. Second of all, I find it even harder to believe thís is the only version of this interview found on youtube. >_<

  • Noam Chomsky is a Marxist Communist self-hating piece of shit

  • @WhoaJ30

    Just like you but only with tons of more intellect and articulacy. Talking of shit, next to him, you strike as mouse poo compared to a big fat warm dump from an elephant.

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  • chomsky has some valuable points but when it comes to integrity it does not apply to him...a genius from the looney bin....

  • does anyone know what the hell is going on with the distortions in this video? they're beautiful.

    oh, and chomsky owns as usual

  • Chompsky is the type of guy that runs aways from fear and asks that someone else deal with the threat and when they deal with the threat he is the first person to critisize how that threat was dealt with. He is just one of these contrarian liberal morons and his main motive is to sell books. Once you get out of your university comfort zone chompsky you will soon realise that the world is not moral, it is very dark and horrible and we either deal with it or it deals with us you comfort zoned fool

  • @Soloman1001

    you completely misunderstand what Chompsky is saying. The point he makes is that the U.S. has had a hand in creating the threat in the first place, and that it is wrong for us to ignore that fact.

  • @jaybeebles

    What threat? Islam? The USA didnt exist during the Crusades. Have you researched the Islamic Crusades or Islam, its a rhetorical question, you obviously havent nor do you understand its true meaning. Its just a warning, you can either remain ignorant all your life or become enlightened. Islam has become empowered by Oil and the worlds need for it.

  • @Soloman1001 Baseless allegations just like Chomsky was speaking of in the video. No one can argue your suppositions if you don't supply examples.

  • @gcahn2

    What examples would you like, referring to what? try to be more specific otherwise you just appear like another inane idiot.

  • @Soloman1001 nice attitude. everyone that doesn't agree with you is an inane idiot.

  • @gcahn2

    Putting your inane ridiculous reply to one side or in the toilet where it belongs, i will say again, What examples would you like? What are you refering to? be more specific.

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  • Oh fuck. I love it when people try to get Chomsky. He's really at his best when he's being barraged by one of these dickheads.

  • Noam Chomsky is a walking advertisement for birth control.

  • what brilliant man

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  • @Soloman1001 Dolt!

  • @FastRita

    Ah ha, you are copying my word 'Dolt' from the Galloway video, obviously you have no imagination of your own. What is the connection with Galloway and Chomsky, I know, but do you?

  • @Soloman1001 YOU ARE A JOKE!

  • @chisler000009

    Fascinating, you are truly one Inane Cretin.

  • @Soloman1001

    I would be critical of Chomsky.....except for the fact that most of his critics (such as you) are total fucking jackasses

  • @SUpersaiyajinjerkbag

    Do you and @chisler000009 kis each others butts because you have just posted your inane cretinous vacuous babbling crap within 30 minutes of each other.

  • The interviewer (Tim Allen) has no obligation to ask only uncontroversial questions to Prof. Chomsky. On the same note, that doesn't mean he is anti-Chomsky, pro war, etc. Those criticizing him should watch him chairing the Doha debates.

  • lot of irrarational people out there ?? like the interviewer !!! ask a question and let the man answer..... looks like he is just trying to take cheap jabs

  • Yes, he's got no chance in a even debate with Chomsky, so he philibusters. What else can he do?

  • the best jewish i know. Brilliant!!!

  • Dick head comment.. (have you met every jew?) -I would doubt you have met 1.

  • Yes of course, but he is the only anarchist jew i know, the others are capitalists assasins

  • @ian19736 ...Then you need to do some google searches. here are some other names of anarchist Jews: Emma Goldman, Howard Zinn, and Franz Kafka. here is a list: en (dot) wikipedia (dot) org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_anarch­ists.

    btw, Karl Marx was surely not a capitalist and he was a jew.

  • Chomskys answers are spot on. But I think some people here are misunderstanding the journalists role. His job is to ask critical questions, to be a medium for some of the stuff people accuse chomsky of. By interviewing him in this fashion, Chomsky is allowed to answer these critics in a sound manner, however irrelevant and misinformed the criticism/questions may be.

  • Pure logic. Love it.

  • Douchey interviewer: "Then there's a lot of irrational people out there!"

    Chomsky: "I can't help that."

    Ha! I love Chomsky.

  • Damn.. Chomsky seems to know almost everything about every little conflict in the world. I really wish I had as much knowlage he does.

    He really seems to be the person with the most knowlage about international politics in the world. I can't think of any other name at least. :D

  • @Viconiuz haha right ,thats only the political sector..his main subject are Linguistics and philosofy, especially around it =)

  • it's good but so sad to see chomsky have to remind this pathetic bloke about how to have a "serious", intellectually relevant conversation

  • Yeay BBC for having Chomsky!

  • This journalists asking such questions are one of the principle causes we are in such a messy world!

    Go and fuck yourself, all of you hypocritic journalists, politicians and business leaders!

  • it's funny to see the Brit who;s interviewing him get totally blown outta the water. Did he think he could out smart Mr. Chomsky?

    he looked like a bloody fool to me

    indeed

  • Thank you Mr. Chomsky for bringing up the notion of personal responsibility and denouncing hypocrisy!

  • Noam, way to go

  • their faces are melting

  • Grande Chomsky!!! La responsibile sta però a tuttu noi!

  • "Irrational people would think that"

    "Well, there are a lot of irrational people out there!"

    CHOMSKY ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • bruce lee of intelect:)

  • WHAHHAHAHAHAA, duuuuuuude!!!!

    FUNNY AS HELL..

  • I have seen people from different backgrounds and believies nodding their heads agreeing with Chomsky.....brilian clearity of thoughts...that can eliminate or at least reduce the barriers. As always Chomsky !

  • what kind of an interviewer is this guy? He doesn't listen at all, so how can he even have an opinion let alone make statements...?

    Ludicrous.

  • Hypocrit is the right word. Chomsky said something I always tought about foreigh actions of western governments: we can't ask other countries to stop doing war when we do it ourself like hypocrits. At one time some years ago only Canada could have enough good reputation to be peacekeepers. Now this time has ended since chretien retired and because of Martin's and Harper's actions. And we now produce a lot of weapons here.

  • brits suck

  • So does your mom.

  • Love you Chomsky!

  • Chomsky is surely a national treasure of America. He is the most read and translated (next to the bible) intellectuals in American history today. I will surely mourn for the rest of my life after his death. We love you, Noam.

  • Regrettably and ironically Mr. Chomsky is only recognized as the foremost American intellectual outside of the U.S. In the U.S. he is systematically shunned, ignored, de facto blacklisted. Do we ever see him on network TV? Not even NPR.

    The one time I see him on Charlie Rose is the only time I've ever seen that show not hosted by Charlie Rose -what a coincidence.

  • And you think I ought to be surprised by that? You think that that fact is an argument against what Chomsky says? You think that that facts is evidence that everything Chomsky says is false? A person who answers yes to these questions is surely an idiot.LOL

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  • I love Chomsky.! I love his constant weaving of opinions/contradictions and lies into something that sounds like a coherent argument. Answer the questions with a question, then deny, then accuse the interviewer of misinterpreting the facts. I especially love the young gullible minds that gobble it up like alphabits. I wonder why Chomsky continues to live in a country that is the subject of all his critisicm?

  • "that's the kind of claim that no serious person makes about anyone" -- it's funny how you epitomize Chomsky's argument about Fred Haliday. What question would you say Chomsky adheres to your "model"?

  • give an example of a contradiction by Chomsky. you do realize the principle Chomsky uses is that you should criticize first what you can control and are responsible for. he lives in the US, he therefore criticizes the US first because that is called responsibility. if he lived in Cuba he'd have to criticize Cuba first, and so on. it's easy to point fingers at everything but yourself first. that's the "minimum moral integrity" he talks about.

  • right. So when he endorsed the Khmer Rouge in trying to build the kind of society that he believes is 'just' and then oops...after they slaughter over a million of their own people, he finds a way to blame US policy for that. Really? Of course he currently denies ever supporting it. Too bad for him, these records don't go away. People are easily swayed by a gentle voice/and an intellectual tone. But who has time to teach/challenge every sheep not to follow its chosen shepherd?

  • shut the fuck up. don't talk down to me.

    The Khmer Rouge is definitely a fair criticism of Chomsky being contradictory.

    But you must admit US policy is to blame in part, we spent millions supporting the regime, and fought for them in the UN.

    Now Chomsky never directly supported the regime, he did act as an apologetic for it, for some time, until it was well beyond a doubt that the regime was committing "the great[est] act of genocide in the modern period," to quote Chomsky himself.

  • Do you underestimate us... What a DUMB question, who on earth would say : Yes, I understimate it, I'm wrong....

  • yes, give your reasons. and have them systematically destroyed by noam chomsky.

  • this dudes knows his shit

  • What were they even thinking trying to debate him anyway. Chomsky's to good.

  • you hafta remeber its important to ask these questions becuz these are exactly wat critics will say bout him, so by answering these questions it foils critics at least to these type questions

  • BBC doesn't have a chance against Chomsky.

  • Chomsky owns him lol. As always.

  • "I can't help that." guess bein' brilliant 'n havin' to live in 'Merica, one would need such a statement.

  • I think Chomsky makes very good points. We would all be thinking more like he does if our media took a serious look at ourselves and exposed the hypocrisy of our govt and the elites.

  • unfortunately, many of the US people have supported illegal actions such us the invasion of Irak, the violations of human rights @ Guantanamo, the creation and use of weapons such the anthrax, the intromision in many internal matters of MANY countries, the support of criminals like Ferdinando Marcos, Pinochet, Batista, Musharaf, Noriega, Husseim..so, those attitudes logically generate hatred and attacks... the thing is to change and accept the others, the US way of live is not the only one...

  • The interviewer is powerfully good, but Chomsky is overwhelmingly good

  • You're unnaturally good, I'm overwhelmingly good, everyone else here is surreptitiously good, and YouTube is dangerously good.

  • Noam Chomsky IS the sharpest knife in the kitchen.

  • "Lots of irrational people out there!"

    "I can't help that."

    Oh, man.. Noam.. You are so great.

  • Naom Chomsky has an outstanding intellect that matches his courage. Incredible human being.

  • Chomsky is an intellectual, but so was Karl Marx.

    Being an intellectual does not mean you are right by any measure of the word.

    He may be right this time, but he has fumbled quite a few times in the past.

  • Karl Marx proposed an alternative theory, which firstly needed trying and testing and secondly, he was advocating a certain socio-economic system. But chomsky is not doing that, all Chomsky is saying is 'dont have one set of policies for yourself and another set for others'. thats pure hypocricy, driven by nationalism and racism.

  • There's no greater moral bankruptcy than muslim countries that persecute + murder non-Muslims simply because they are non-Muslims.

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  • Karl Marx, if you care to read his volumes of "das capital" and "the communist manifesto," and simultaneously analyze any communist state that has risen to power since then, you will see that the theory was never realized and each regime that claimed to be communist was somewhat morphed to accomidate strict authority. Furthermore, ironically, the same can be said about capitalism when reading Adam Smith and Montesque.

  • Pure Communism still bestows too much power upon single entities. (in this case the state)

  • Unfortunately, so does capitalism

  • 1776

  • O rly? When has he ever "fumbled"?

  • He is the man, he is a hero, yep.

    Agreed!

  • Noam - you are my hero....

  • noam is the man

  • warmperson2007 said "The frame basically says that liberal democracies, which are mostly capitalist states, are as much objectionable as totalitarian tyrannies because they supply the elements of coercion."

    If that's the case, why do the people who make this argument ALWAYS choose to live in the liberal/democracy/capitalist states?

  • That's because your 'liberal democracies' have made the lives of ordinary people so miserable elsewhere that anyone would rather live in the master's house rather than the slave's house. very simple. I have lived in these countries where the US supports criminal dictators and refers to them as 'moderates' just because they serve US interests. a nation that has no leadership skills should not be a leader.

  • "a nation that has no leadership skills should not be a leader"

    LOL..okay einstein keep at it with your butt-faced hypocrisy the USA should not be a leader and what Saudi Arabia should? Russia should? Iran should? You are, indeed, pathetic.

  • Exactly. The world needs a country to stand up and act as the arbiter. America is, sadly, the only country suitable.

  • You say that because you live in America :D

  • I say this because I've spent thousands of hours on the topic.

  • & what were the alternatives?

  • There's no solution :)

  • Damned if you do, damned if you don't-eh?

  • If one leads by example, the US sure lacks credibility to lead. The world don't need leaders, it needs cohesive international institutions and laws to assure fairness, curb interventionist agression, diplomatic peaceful relations and common decency amoung nations.

    The cold war rethoric and mentality is no longer valid, if it ever was to begin with.

  • Noam chomsky is brilliant.

  • Chomsky is the man!

  • chompsky ma main man

  • Chomsky is the type of person who reads six papers a day, to keep himself onformed of what's going on in the world. He then forces all the information into a frame of interpretation like a real scientist. The frame basically says that liberal democracies, which are mostly capitalist states, are as much objectionable as totalitarian tyrannies because they supply the elements of coercion. One roblem: this rigid frame excludes all sufferings that don't fit in it, like for example 2nd Congo War.

  • Tim Sebastion is irrational, and he basicly admits it at 0:33.

    Chomsky put this British propagandist in his place.

  • HAHAHAHA! Chomsky: I can't help that.

    Yeah this guy was acting like a tool the entire time.

  • aye thats all on the BBC now a days on the tele I hate propganda it puts things in me head it could even put shyt in noam's mind

  • hardtalk is a ridiculous show. they just pretend to have hard pressing and honest journalists. it's sophistry.

  • Of course. It takes a Chomsky supporter to see that the lack of insight into a comment is not blind-minded retoric but a valid point. Good job wfarnaby. Keep the insight at bay. Don't listen to Chomsky's reason, but only those parts that you agree with.

    A time will come when all the most brilliant points cannot stop the bloodshed. And the blood will be greater for the all those that choose peace without resolution. It cannot exist (for long).

  • You are entirely correct, ginganz13. But a silk purse cannot be made from a sow's ear, as the old saying goes. And so, alas, rationality, critical thinking, and ethical behavior will - until the bitter end - only appear as the oasis in the desert. Chomsky is one such, refreshing, oasis.

    "What's lofty about minimal moral integrity?

    He is taken seriously because..."

  • What's lofty about minimal moral integrity?

    He is taken seriously because he qualifies what he says with evidence. That is what this conversation is at pains to point out. Your criticism is invalid by the same reasoning.

  • No - I criticised your criticism, that is not attacking you, only your reasoning.

    If you say it was a poor debate you need to say why.

    Noam correctly showed that the interviewers hypothetical questions were against international law as well as failing elementary moral principles - personal views has little to do with it.

  • How can you people worship Chomsky? Yes, he is very smart, but if you really listen to what he says, it is a very narrow view he has, and depends on multitutdes of conditions, such as not questioning the authority of motives of the United Nations which, like every institution, should be questioned. Nor does he provide any context for actions in Central America, just seems to be a simplistic "America was there, bad things were done so America is bad." Grow up, and stop idolizing this guy.

  • he has a very narrow view: states are power centers that act in investors interests. try to put the actions of the us's involvement in central america in context and tell me that it's reasonable. you're right though, i do idolize him!

  • "I can't help that"

    LMAO that was hilarious!

  • This is a man of discipline, he never shouts, raise his voice, always calm even under pressure, always finds something to come back with and win. I think he would be an excellent lawyer if he wanted too. I need to study this man.

  • the title of this video should be: How To Get Fucking Schooled By Noam Chomsky...period...guys a legend...period

  • why do these jerks even try to argue with chomsky with these shitty shitty arguments?

  • i agree with you.

  • Proof of reptilians!

  • automatic beards, random diagonally cascading titanium flesh cloaking panels, blood collage emanating from the mouth, goatees pixelating at a rapid rate, it's francis bacon meets predator!

  • shapeshifting reptiles!

  • mother of god make it stop!!!

  • this man deserve a noble peace prize nuteral man simple modest smart and most importantly fair minded yo dont find men like him alot nowdays

  • Chomsky also has an uncanny recall of documented evidence and examples.

  • Noam is great. He makes me proud to be of the same species.

  • Yes!! Nicely put!! And makes one feel relieved he's not of the other species:)

  • I want Chomsky to live forever too. He is unbeatable in any debate!!!!

  • i like how guys try to out debate chomski and then get completely owned ...(like this clown)i have never seen any one back up his points as well as chomski does...he is the most thorough debater on the planet ....his content and logic are astounding

  • I really do too, there are so few people like him.

  • I want Chomsky to live forever

  • Typical jewish academic man

  • Tim Sebastian: "There are a lot of irrational people out there"

    Noam Chomsky: "I can't help that"

    Priceless, I love Chomsky

  • oh man..i just love you!

  • Chomsky is a brilliant man. I appreciate no other human being's intellect like his own.

  • Chomsky.... the man. I loved reading his books.

  • Fred Halliday is a joke anyways. His reading of Said's Orientalism is sad and makes you wonder how scholars find jobs.

  • He's indeed a verbal Bruce Lee. Chomsky just owns this guy. So much fun to watch.

    Funnily, the only good Chomsky interview the BBC did was somewhere in the 40's. The interviewers after that are all just stupid.

  • Even if he were irrelevant, he'd still be right.

    He uses things called common sense, basic morality, unbiased observation, and universal perspective. All that's really overrated though, when you could just blindly put your faith in your own country and the people that you happen to like. Very fashionable, closed-mindedness is.

  • Well Said, aewester

  • You know i hate to be an ass, but this seems like one of the those unqualified accusations of the sort Chomsky speaks about in this interview

  • He'll be standing next to Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Jesus.

  • Noam Chomsky is not a religious leader and I would say he has much more intelligent and well developed ideas than MLK, Gandhi, and Jesus.

  • Don't forget Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin :)

  • Chomsky will meet his critics at the evolutionary bell curve. Its gonna take a while. Its a tortoise and the hair kind of thing.

  • paulwebb1! You again! What do you do, go around to all the chomsky vids and pick fights with the 'chomsky-hippies'?? HAHAHAA! You must have a real hard-on for old noamy, eh? Well, anyway, glad to see that aewester has been bitch slapping you around all over this post. He really made you look like an ass you know... Maybe one day you'll have the good fortune of being thrashed by ol' noamy himself - haha!

    And to aewester: Good show old boy! Balanced and articulate throughout. I salute you sir!

  • "He will not be bullied.

    He will not be intimidated.

    He is a fearless, formidable, totally independent voice.

    He does something quite simple, but highly unusual.

    He tells the truth. Noam Chomsky."

    Harold Pinter presenting Prof. Chomsky at St. Paul's Cathedral, Dec. 2002. (google video)

  • man i am laughing so hard i have tears in my eyes. he is the voice of ignorance that is why he isn't respected by anybody. if he would be on news networks or have a high profile job in the government.

  • He is respected by millions and millions of people accross the world paulwebb. He simply isn't propped up by the current institutions of power and their media organizations. This is painfully simple and obvious, and because he isn't does NOT mean he isn't one of the world's most respected intellectuals.

    I'm done speaking with you. Statements like "that is why he isn't respected by anybody", "have some common sense" and "freethinkers= broke college students" are ridiculous. Reread my comments

  • yeah only a hand full of broke liberal rejects like this guy. everybody that matters laughs at this guy. commments like "May 25, 2005 ... Noam Chomsky insisted that al Qaeda at its most atrocious generated no terror." are why he is a moron with no credibility or respect. he is so out of touch with reality.

  • If you are foolish enough to assert that everyone "who matters" laughs at another person, I'm totally done with your 6th grade level judgements, opinions and demonstration of values.

    Go spread your thoughtlessness somewhere else. Hopefully someone else will be as frustrated as I am with you.

  • Dear Paul.

    Your intelligence is lacking and all who read these comments see how dumb you are.

    I've had good laugh, thanks for it.

  • get at him noam!!! you can never underestimate us freethinkers!!!!!

  • free thinker is another word for liberal ignorance. it gets people killed thinking that way.

  • I love Noam Chomsky so much. he is very rational for a human beings lol. its funny how he stays calm regardless of the interviewers quite aggressive mood. If we only had more people like professor Noam Chomsky then things would get better in my opinion.

  • no he is a sad and pathetic man with no back bone.

  • Give us an example of him not having any "backbone" paulwebb.

    I haven't seen him proven wrong or forced to waver in his views and opinions once. But I'm perfectly open to why you think this has happened to him, even after hearing your stupid, ad hoc accusations.

    So please, fill me in...

  • okay for one he thinks that the Israeli/palestine conflict is Israels fault and that Israel should give back control to palestine. well the olso agreement was a prime example that giving land for peace doesn't work with terrorists. The fact that he has been asked time and time again about religion and he makes no stand for or against. He claims to be a jew is he ashamed or no back bone?????

  • You're an idiot.

    For one, he doesn't say the Israel/Palestine issue is Israel's fault. He says that Israel should agree to a two-state solution based on the 1973 border agreements.

    Two, it's not about negotiating with terrorists. It's about allowing the Palestinian people to have undivided land and having their government control it.

    Three, give me an example of him "not standing for or against" religion. I'm wondering why this matters AT ALL, but I'd still like to hear of an example.

  • you are about as dumb as a load of bricks. did you even read the oslo agreement and how big a failure it was. a two state union would only fuel violence. the 1973 agreement was a joke. if palestine would be good and cooperate Israel might think about it, but palestine always has to cause problems and them get there teeth kicked in. they don't want peace. he has been asked about religion and he keeps avoiding it all together. type in on youtube noam on religion it comes up man.

  • You are impossible to argue with. If Palestine would be good and cooperate?!?! Is that a joke? From a basic philosophical perspective, why should Palestine cooperate with Israel, rather than Israel cooperating with Palestine? Because Israel is "better"? Haha. That'll get you nowhere.

    And you say I'm as dumb as bricks?

  • now now. you are putting word in my mouth. i didn't say Israel was better you are saying that. i said they are a constant problem and they cause the fighting. look at who starts it and try not to be so ignorant.

  • How will a two-state solution cause more violence?

    All I can think of is that the Israelis will be pissed that the Palestinian people are actually getting what they want, causing more Israelis to kill Palestinians with their U.S. military technology.

    But Israel would still be "bette" and "correct" right?

  • you just keep putting words in my mouth. Israel pays for their military technology. so what is your point about that. Israel unlike arab countries don't just kill to kill their is always a reason. Israel doesn't deal with terrorist. in protecting yourself it is an eye for an eye.

  • How can you sit there and make the generalization that Arab countries always kill just to kill? Or am I putting wrds in your mouth?

    Try not to be so ignorant?!? Tell me, who started the conflict centuries ago. This game of "he started it!!" is a childish way to live.

    I have a question for you. Why didn't Israel accept Hamas' offer to negotiate a cease fire a couple weeks ago?

  • simply they don't make deals with terrorist. what is so hard for you to understand about that. seriously come on have some common sense.

  • You are being incredibly manipulative. Why in fuck is it "common sense" not to negotiate with "terrorists"? Because the U.S. and Israel's governments say they dont?!? You are very narrow minded.

    The only differences between Hamas terrorism and U.S./Israel terrorism are that Hamas openly denounces the Israeli occupation and calls for rejection of it, and that we have deemed Israel's actions illegal and those of Hamas illegal. They both commit violence constantly, Hamas is just open about it.