Noam Chomsky: Big Business Dictates the Presidency

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/06/Noam_Chomsky_Philosophies_of_Language_and_Politics

"Campaign funding is a remarkable predictor of election, and also of policy," says linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky. He asserts that the Supreme Court is currently considering a lawsuit that would allow corporations to "buy elections directly, instead of indirectly."

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World-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky has been pushing change in language, politics and culture for decades. The controversial expert on modern language explains why "the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." - Commonwealth Club of California

Noam Chomsky, a professor of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, is the author of numerous books on U.S. foreign policy, including American Power and the New Mandarins, Political Economy of Human Rights (two volumes, written with Edward Herman), Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians, and Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World. His most recent books are Failed States and Perilous Power.

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[dihydrohydroxycodein]

Obama is a corporate whore.

[RainmanCT]

intellectually honest persons of any political persuasion should be able to spot the truth when they hear it. when chomsky goes we'll have lost the brightest and best.

[Borat911]

wow big fuckin news ... tell us something we don't know

[KrugmanTheKing]

@djs259

You're the one here making judgments before thinking and before knowing.

[KrugmanTheKing]

@djs259

Let's see... Chomsky is a professor and competent analyst who used reliable sources to show his points, bothering to document every detail and reference everything -- and, you barely ever see him taking a stance: most of the time, he's just making a description and he'll attack both sides on their mistakes calmly.

You leave a comment on youtube, totally unsubstantiated, and you pretend Chomsky is biased. Well, I think we have our answer: you are the one who's biased.

[djs259]

WRONG, it's the JOOZ that dictate the presidency, because they are the main controllers of capital in the world. Our buddy NOAM is well aware of this, but chooses to purposely obscure the fact to further his own radical leftist ideology.

[RSFO]

@gurper707 Certainly not anything like real libertarian socialism.

[dihydrohydroxycodein]

@mazuiface

I think Obama is a nice guy, probably. He once condemned the massive bonuses of the CEOs, managers. Later, in the business press they "threatened" Obama... withdrawing campaign fundings and so on. Later then, Obama shut his mouth and dignified the great "free market system" that the US has.

[gurper707]

We've been BLEEDING OUT since 1913, you all know what happened then.

So please stop bashing capitalism and don't listen to the people that do cause they either don't know what they're talking about or they're trying to decieve you, IMHO.

[gurper707]

about capitalism: the last 2-3 generations have never been able to experience REAL capitalism. What we have here is more SOCIALISM ALREADY. The BANKS are given money, the AUTO companies are given money, the MEDIA (specifically msnbc) was given billions 'secretly' lumped into the bank bailout, and all the big CORPORATIONS are basically given money because the pay almost no taxes, and get subsidies!!