Noam Chomsky on "Antipolitics"

Chomsky discussing right-wing anti-government rhetoric.

Excerpt from "Class War: The Attack On Working People"

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[DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

@Madfoot713 that is false. the Tea Party movement is not "100% grassroots." Tea Party politicians are in office the same way that other politicians are in office - they were heavily funded by corporations.

OWS is demonized in the media; Tea Party is praised.

the Tea Party supports anti-politics and radical right-wing ideology in which everything is blamed on the one institution that people can potentially influence, while entirely ignoring the root cause of the problems

[Madfoot713]

@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk no just caps for emphasis

you're wrong, occupy has big money behind it too, george soros and warren buffet were paying people to protest... but it doesn't mean SHIT. george soros and david koch are bogeymen, if you want to look at the real bastards, it's the 1%ers who aren't talked about on the evening news. no one forced occupy or tea party to happen, they're both 100% grassroots, even though there's big money supporting them, it doesn't matter.

[DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

@Madfoot713 you mad? calm down.

it isn't "smear," it is just stating a verifiable fact - that the Tea Party movement is a corporate-funded, faux-grassroots movement, i.e. astroturf. the media does not "HATE" the Tea Party - it heavily supported it and portrayed them as patriots.

i am "brainwashed" for stating a verifiable fact?

there are /far/ more than than 200 people in the media...

Rand Paul received corporate funding just like the rest...

[Madfoot713]

@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 3. I can't believe you don't see that the Tea Party = astroturf smear is EXACTLY THE SAME as when they trash Occupy as being hippies and anarchists. The MEDIA HATES BOTH GROUPS. YOU'RE the one who's brainwashed by the corporate media, not me. Remember Erin Burnett's AWFUL & DISRESPECTFUL Occupy coverage? Imagine if she had a show during the Tea Party. Would she praise them as patriots, or would she say "Look at these racists in funny hats". I think it's the latter.

[Madfoot713]

@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk 1. I don't think there's that many TALKING HEADS. Maybe 100, but not HUNDREDS like you said.

2. Of course I do, although I will admit many of them will just be posers. For example, lots of Tea Party congresscritters got elected, but very few were honest, like Rand Paul and Justin Amash. The only way there won't be occupy politicians is if the occupiers don't vote, which would be stupid, since they're the ones asking for MOAR GOVERNMENT.

[DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

Congressmen*

[DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

@Madfoot713 You “don’t think there are even 100 people in the media?” Seriously?

So you think there will by OWS Congressman? Seriously?

Tea Party = astroturf. OWS = grassroots.

[Madfoot713]

@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk I don't think there's even 100 people in the media, let alone tea party shills. As for there being a good reason that there are no Occupy congresscritters, you're right - it's because the Tea Party is two years old and Occupy is only a few months. But Elizabeth Warren is looking more and more likely to be the first Occupy Democrat, and who knows who else will get elected in 2012.

[DeweyZinnChomskyFisk]

@Madfoot713 "so it the Tea Party" what? that isn't a sentence. Sean Hannity is only one of the 100s of corporate talking heads that supported the corporate-funded Tea Party movement and candidates and demonized the grassroots OWS movement. there is a good reason that there ARE Tea Party Congressmen and there ARE NOT Occupy Congressmen- the reason being that the Tea Party has massive corporate funding and campaigns. do you "understan?"

[Madfoot713]

@DeweyZinnChomskyFisk So is the Tea Party. I'm not talking about Sean Hannity, I'm talking about news media as a whole - Rachel Maddow compared Occupy to the Civil Rights movement, but that's not how most people covered it. Do you understan?