Noam Chomsky at the United Nations 6/5/06 Part 3

[jsgdk]

CIA is the best funded terrorist organization in the world..

Hezbollah is more like freedom fighters who use terrorist tactics

out of desperation.. Theyre religious nuts imo.. but so are the

Israeli settlers.

[s0673451]

these are the rudest questioners of chomsky on youtube. it is clear they just want a punchy quote so they can write 'chomsky condemns hizbullah' in their rags the next day.

[USAneedsaChange]

hm, didn't Israel enter Lebanon because they were attacked by rockets or so from Lebanon? why should Lebanon have a "deterrent" against Israeli invasion when they themselves were the very reason that Israel entered in the first place?! Israel entered in the 70's, not right after 1948. I like Chomsky always, but I disagree here...

[ahmed337799]

Israel was not attacked by rockets in the 1970s, they didn't have any. he's talking about NOW, not the 70s.

[USAneedsaChange]

@ahmed337799 he talked about Lebanon I think(forgot because it was some days since I wrote this). and Israel was attacked by Hezbollah I believe for a long time, but I don't remember in what form they were attacked prior to entering Lebanon, but I think it was some kind of rocket back then too(not only from Gaza after 2001).

[ahmed337799]

@USAneedsaChange

hezbolla didn't exist before israel went in lebanon

[bilfo71]

@ahmed337799  hezbolla is a result of the natural human reaction from population that's been shamefully brutalized by the very people that are exponents of democracy

[ahmed337799]

@bilfo71

i wish more people think like you. these days it is impossible to be palestinian lebanese or similar without being influenced by radicalism because of the humiliation we suffer.

thank God for the revolution in tunisia, people are now using their anger and shame on productive goals.

[tuxedo55]

One of the last scientists whos knows how to school journalists instead of kissing theis asses.

[tuxedo55]

This video: 17.000 views

Video named "3 Year old crying over Justin Bieber": 21.000.000 views

Need i say more about this world?

[Ah4b]

Minor footnote: Watch 5:30 to see Chomsky getting angry.

[sunshineuklondon1965]

@Ah4b ha ha he OWNED the questioner - and yes, Chomsky, a supremely calm person does get a little angry because someone is trying to railroad him.

[MrLamotta86]

wow that dude got PWNED

[towneslives]

noamslap, anyone? hmm, not sure if it'll catch on

[annyms21]

Noam is a B E A S T.

[MrHowToDoIt]

Chomsky you little beauty!!!

"You wanna concentrate on some minor footnote in the whole story, and I suggest that we look at the whole story. Okay... turning to your minor footnote..."

What a douche. You, Mr. Reporter, are a minor footnote in the brilliance of his thought. Keep your mouth shut next time. You should stick to arguing with someone of your own intellectual ability...

Nim Chimpsky perhaps...

[surlagachette2]

@MrHowToDoIt Well that is a good sugestion. Chomsky responds to dum propagandistic manipulative questions the way they should. Otherwise you let the journalist control the discussion.

[davehutchinson67]

@Badwolf182 Amen...it's scary sometimes how smart he is...I want him to live forever...

[WastedTourist]

He fucking killed that power slave journalist! You don't mess with Chomsky!

[darin2483]

rofl. what an amaizng amount of propaganda we're confronted with. this guy's (the journalist asking the question) busy complaining about what ahmadinejad said about israel, quoting khomeini essentially. meanwhile israel is busy occupying/killing/raiding and stealing other peoples land by the day with U.S. support right in front of our eyes. what poor credulous fools we are.

[davef89]

fantastic upload chomskyan

[radjabov44]

Thank you. Damnit! we need more people studying the facts like Chomsky, we are all capable of this type of analysis.

[mcshobe2008]

@radjabov44 exactly

[adeadlysniper]

If I may say so, he got fucking pwned

[mjd1982]

love this

[saxengee]

I love the way the reporter through ALL his education tried to bring the cHom down to his own level of mediocraty.. only to be owned 100% by a different & tottaly rational and progressive train of thought...

take that & stick it in your goal mr toolman

[sirMusicboy]

Mr. Reporter, consider yourself owned. heh.

[adcashmo]

It's always so enjoyable to hear him speak. Such a contrast to politicians who evade answering anything directly or giving any evidnece.

[elguanteloko]

"Such a contrast to politicians who evade answering anything directly or giving any evidnece."

Ah! that is exactly what I thought, too. I am with you on that one, bro.

[JSparkleZ2]

And that people is the difference between talking points and education...

[KapitanHaddock]

Excellent!

[djboony]

haha yeah that was a basic international affairs lesson to some jumped up hack there, real pleasure to watch.

take that established order of things!!

[Pistolero24]

He just SCHOOLED that journalist as to which entities are subject to international laws...

I would have committed hara-kiri had I been in that poor guy'S shoes...

[HRINGNUN]

haha LOL

[docfin63]

wrong again about israel/palestine-ck it out!

the gaz has always been a desert-what an azz!

hezbollah/hamas is islam/mulim and funded by iran- this guy is so naive, its laughable-he is so anti- american, -israel, -democracy, -republic, -freedom--it is unbelievable that anyone would listen to this guy in seriousn thought. he is an egghead socialist/utopian/naive-it boggles the mind to think who would want to hear what he says!

[mdoob11]

For the weak minded, ad hominems supersede arguments. Thanks for the vacuous rhetoric...

[docfin63]

TY for your comment I obviously attacked his ideas- i didn't say he is ugly, wears glasses, wears a tweed jacket, combs his hair on the left, etc therefore he thinks this way- it is so obvious he hates all the written above it seems the liberals who defend him only attack with no argument, personal attacks, "big" words, and no thought. Thanks for the ad hominem attack on me if you wish to discuss the issue post a better, more concise thoughtful comment otherwise keep your attacks to yourself

[mdoob11]

Your attack on his ideas is my point... attacks should be supplemented with evidence or logic. You just made idiotic, empty statements of slander against Chomsky. I presume you misunderstand "ad hominem". Please lrn2wikipedia.

More pertinently, what is your point in alluding to funding? Israel is funded by the US...

The point is in Iranian-American relations, the United States is the belligerent, bellicose, antagonist, whilst Iran is the victim.

[docfin63]

Have u watched hisother videos? thisguy cant geta fact right middleeast, globalwarming, iraq, iran israel, bush/cheney et al, --he is wrong onall of them btw "slander" is using the spokenword the correct word is libel--wiki it urself thisforum donot lend itself to listing all the actualfacts, mystatements clearly say to ckitout 4 urself funding -r u high? hez/hamas r funded by iran-did i stutter? the us hasgiven $ tomany countries Iran- a victim? readthe history "whilst"? wiki+pretentious!

[kazakstanr00lz]

well in fact Iran is the victim, the united states supported an Iranian dictatorship, after their democratically elected PM decided to nationalize their oil industries, the Iranian people discovered the power of religion to finally overthrow this dictatorship, which created such a support for theocracy in Iran look up operation ajax

[docfin63]

sure, good point- its only 50 years ago- i certainly dont believe everything the US gov does is good- actually i dont like much of what it does- but that does not take away from the fact that this guy cant get facts right at all

[Redcarpet01]

Like what?

[passenger9411]

What facts do Chomsky get wrong?

[Ullbritt]

LoL you can tell he gets pissed off when his voice starts to shake. Then you know someone is about to get completely demolished.

[godw1thin]

So true - its like he's got five or six or ways to bitch slap someone and he tries to articulate them all at once.... He finally resigns himself to one response and destroys opposition.

Good call, though. "Completely demolished," indeed.

Check out his interview w/ Evan Solomon on CBC right after 9/11 - it reinforces your observation.

[godw1thin]

"And I'm sure you didn't care about it..." Check and mate.

I don't think I've ever seen a reporter or questioner challenge Noam and not get his or her ass handed back to them in a high hat.

[damage9000]

"... and if you did, let me know"

[Ullbritt]

haha so true

[alwayswilling1232000]

LOL good one.

[rsuthe00]

chomsky-5; peons-0

[Ullbritt]

lol peons :P I love that word

[louie22pr]

He is a great man. And hopefully one day we can understand the whole picture and that International Law exercises it's power to curb foreign invaders and the plummeting of the worlds resources.

[bootleg42]

Noam slapped the shit out of those two reporters. Seriously, most of the "educated" college people can be the dumbest ever and it reflects in the media.

Great shit Noam. Now it's up to us to create a more democratic society.

[beebobox]

all though i agree on the face of it, he sure as hell seemed to slap them silly.

but dont forget that as a group reporters aren't all stupid or all intelligent.

you could also ponder if they asked those questions as a devil's advocate to get him to talk about these issues.

in hope of having the other reported, report what he says as a result of said question.

but i doubt this is the case here though :)

[cradrum]

in the knoam.

[antoniorossiz]

I love Noam.

[mouf21]

Chomsky must feel that everyone around him is so dumb. These reporters are so biased and ignorant.

Chomsky is the man

[stirrrrrr]

Reporters are biased but not dumb. They have a mission, as NC has pointed out, to follow the policy of the powerful states.

[guessone]

Asking a dumb question to smart man is the best way to get a thorough explanatory response.

[Nightversionn]

uh, I love this man

[Takillah]

The questioners are very rude! and i feel like they want him to say that what they think is correct!

I feel bad cuz, men like him, should be given a little more dignity and respect when addressed.

[icedoutstreetgangsta]

SMACKED DOWN by Chomsky!!

[tooyjfwn]

chomsky is at his best when he's schooling some retard journalist

[jeffsensei]

I enjoy when people try to argue with Noam....it's funny...

[polymath7]

@jeffsensei Yes, it's like watching balloons attack a cactus.

[MrHowToDoIt]

@polymath7

Nice videos on your profile man.

Just watching a couple Pinker and Weinberg vids I haven't seen yet.

[NuevoNumeroNueve]

The coxcombical jackanapes at the front suffered a trouncing from Chomsky.

[MshrF]

"The coxcombical jackanapes at the front suffered a trouncing from Chomsky."

Lol, too true. Idiotic journalists demand to be humiliated.

[boing3887]

SERIOUSLY that guy went quiet. what a fucker. i wonder who the guy is, imma kick him in the chin.

[mykalwhite1]

"or like the united states, and britain... radically violate international law" oooo smack down biotch. go noam go!!

[donttrustany1]

05:30-06:01 tells us alot about the world.

Noam serving that ignorant journalist made my day.

[kabbinet]

Mine too.

[tokotokotoko3]

indeed :)

[salim201]

great upload

[NathanZackery]

Does that guy flip him the bird at 3:38/3:39?

[historywillabsolve]

he is america's greatest intellectual. i heart noam.

[layishevik]

International law only applies to war losers and weak states like Serbia. It shouldnt apply to powerful states that use aggressive war to privatize oil fields in the middle east after falling out with dictators they supplanted in power. What is the world turning to when Arabs start believing they should control their own oil or Palestinians start thinking they have human rights. Human rights are for those with advanced military forces that can define law and enforce it at their own behest.

[salim201]

agreed, except 'human rights' is an artificial concept, can only be self-granted and self-enforced

[internationallawman]

Isn't that true of all legal forms? The point of the UN charter etc. is to "self-grant" and "self-enforce" human rights, checks on aggression, and so on, among the member states.

Of course out of the crooked timber of humanity nothing straight was ever made. And might makes right. Until it doesn't.

Si se puede, amigos.

[Psycarne]

All concepts are artificial.

However for a concept to applied universally we must adhere to definition.

[salim201]

one last time, this is what it is.. No concept can be applied universally, there are no general principles, all ideals fail the crucial test of application. I see zero point in int'l law apart from a hollow idealistic framwork for western liberals to lecture third world countries about, failing to apologise for not recognising those same human rights while they were rapaciously colonising and pillaging those same nations. Morality is artificial, corrupt and blasphemous my friend

[modernmariorc]

I wish I had the work ethic like Chomsky..

[Alexopolux]

then adopt it!

[Ullbritt]

we need more people like him because he will be dead soon I guess :(

[slurppypurr]

Gotta love how Chomsky calls out the reporter as a tool of powerful nations, LOL

[silversalvo]

you have to admire the man. At his age going through something like this, most would've called it quits long time ago. He still have that fighting spirit. I only wish i could be as passionated about something as he his :)

Thanks for uploading these Chomskyan.