Chomsky on rose p6.wmv

2003

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Chomsky
• Rose
• Interview
• Iraq
• War
• Politics

[tokotokotoko3]

Rose did not understand a single word. Compare this bulls* to interiews from the 60ies. Seriously the quality and intelligence of talkshow hosts went down to a fraction.

[ckeeler13]

Quite right. Rose is like many people in that they can't get by their own institutional indoctrination to begin to understand what someone like Chomsky is saying. His words can't be understood.

[BelfastAtheist]

@tokotokotoko3

You talk as if it were coincidental.

[introduire]

What is even more revealing is 7:17. Who provides sponsorship for his program? The Coca Cola company who has sanctioned the murder of hundreds of workers in Guatemala, Colombia and Turkey. In these contries since the 1970's, workers that have tried to create unions in the Coca Cola bottling plants have either been murdered or beaten. So flagrant have been the abuses that the Coca Cola company have offered to settle with the victims's families. Corporate stooge! Watch the Coca Cola case.

[cogitheum]

We went the hour, he says. Like it's a prize-fighting challenge to see who can go 1 hour with Noam Chomsky.

[urcritic]

I was cringing every time Rose opened his mouth - how frustrating to have a moron interrupt Chomsky like that

[ramsey121kamar]

@fctchk I totally agree. Its hard to keep the standard narrative going with

Chomsky in the interviewee's chair. It's ironic (and sad) that the

pressure to NOT have him on the show in so great, and yet what Chomsky

is saying is what probably most of the population agrees with - just

not the top 2% of the population. Reminds me of Luke Skywalker's father in Star Wars..."Join the dark side..."

[fctchk]

"I get more emails about 'please have Mr. Chomsky on this program' than anyone could ever imagine." -perhaps the only reason Mr. Rose had him on. Chomsky, who the world considers the foremost (if not only) US public intellectual, has only 1 other (equally, if not more, adversarial) appearance on the show -and in Rose's absence.

Compare to 51 appearances by Rose's friend and war criminal Henry "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" Kissinger.

Rose knows on which side his bread is buttered.

[erik28com]

@Camcolito It would be a disaster. O'Reilly would just filibuster.

[Camcolito]

I'm not from the US so I don't know this host. In my opinion he did a pretty good job. The most important thing is he let Chomsky speak and didn't interrupt him and he asked the kind of questions that the general public probably would have asked Chomsky had they not been familiar with him, and then he let him answer. There was disagreement from the host but very little smirking or scoffing, which is pretty standard.

I'd kill for a 5-hour mediated face-off between Chomsky and Bill O'Reilly.

[Dymdez]

One thing we can say in favor of Mr. Rose - He had Chomsky on. That's a lot to ask for, and thanks for it.

[ramsey121kamar]

I respectfully disagree. I think Charlie Rose understood every word. Charlie Rose is a smart man. I'll speak for myself and say he's smarter than me. I think that Charlie is just one of the Elites in the country. He's also subject to corporate interests and the taste of power. Did he ever invite Chomsky back? Not that I know of.How many people who speak like Chomsky has he had on the show. Its always Tom Friedman or some other establishment figure. As much as I like Charlie he's "one of them"