chomsky

[billy]

Obviously that 2% comment has little relevance to the US as such.

which was my point some of his comments had little or no relevance, they were just use as a scare tactic, something he accuses others of doing.

After re-watching the full interview, the reference to 2% had very little relevance to the speech. It was a comment made at the very end of the hour long lecture, possibly intended as a warning of how quickly things can change, and if anything was shown out of context in the OP's original link (this one >> http://www.progressive.org/wx041210.html ).

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I have been busy for the last 2 days cataloging my entire text archives of Chomsky's books, lectures, interviews, debates and articles.. I have at least another 2 days work ahead of me to complete just the text files. That's before I get to work on the audio and video files.

It was a welcome break to listen to a full speech for a while.

My eyes hurt.

for me i think it was really misleading.
it's just the same when they use a certain kind of music to enforce whatever they're saying.

often they'd sound like shit if it wasn't for the angry or soothing sounds that are used to set the mood.

sorry but i think words should stand on their own with the bolstering of some inane quote that holds little relevance.

lets also slip into the speech that 7 million jews were killed.

these slip-ins they put in speeches and often at the end of speeches are used for a reason.

a lot of people will walk away from it thinking nazi and be disgusted (the mood with they're trying to instill into us about those they don'y agree. the word and meaning having been planted as the last image of those being decried. it doesn't matter if it way off left field it's used on purpose. when it is i tend to take everything else with a pinch of slat. if a speech needs that kind of re-enforcement i look on it as weak to start with.

limburgh does it a lot, (he prefers racist though i think he jas used the nazi reference and more) fox news loves to do it. even cnn use the tactic.

in the old days it was called propaganda. in this day and age its use belittles us all.