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CHAVEZ KILLS CHOMSKY?
According to the New York Times, Venezuelan genius Hugo Chavez is apparently unaware that BushCo’s flesh-mauling killbots have yet to catch up with Noam Chomsky:
At a news conference after his spirited address to the United Nations on Wednesday, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela expressed one regret: not having met that icon of the American left, the linguist Noam Chomsky, before his death.
Hmm. The Times could be mistaken. A Reuters report—man, it’s a real clash of the journalistic superpowers here—claims Chavez in fact referred not to Chomsky but to the very dead John Kenneth Galbraith:
The dark-skinned, mixed race leader told New Yorkers to read Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain as well as modern thinkers like Noam Chomsky and John Kenneth Galbraith, lamenting he could not meet Galbraith before he died in April at age 97.
We await clarification. Meanwhile, those who missed out on a Hugo’s Book Club sales boost are seething:
No one is more bewildered and, frankly, bummed by all of the attention suddenly being paid to Noam Chomsky than Andrew Bacevich.
“I’ve written a few books critical of US foreign policy, too,” said Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University. “Why couldn’t Hugo Chavez hold up one of my books?”
Ohh, So, maybe it was all a Rovian ploy after all!
If this does manage to kick off a canibalistic feeding frenzy among the various writers in the “Why Cant We Be Inbred Like the Eurotards?” wing of the moronocracy then… this would be even better than that other stuff he’s done that was way cool.
The only thing Lord Rove could do even cooler than that would be all the stuff he’s done that we just aint heard about yet, and the really cool thing he’s planning to do next!“President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela expressed one regret: not having met that icon of the American left, the linguist Noam Chomsky, before his death.”
Don’t worry mate, you didn’t miss much.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 09 23 at 02:54 AM • permalinkNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Tim you IDIOT! You were never, ever to mention BushCo’s flesh-mauling Rovian killbots!Oh, no, the emails are coming in. “Can we please have 4 of BushCo’s flesh-mauling Rovian killbots to shred Maureen Dowd into pulpy ooze before she can write another column?”
“Hey, great idea for the VRWC Council, as Chavez says Chomsky’s already dead, can we get some of BushCo’s flesh-mauling Rovian killbots to…”
“What a comedy video. Think about it. Philip Adams meets one of BushCo’s flesh-mauling Rovian killbots in a dark ABC studio…”
“We exchange TraceeeeeeeEEEEeeee Hutchins date with a BushCo flesh-mauling Rovian killbot…”
OOOh, yes, everyone remembers the trials. Nobody remembers PACO INDUSTRIES did the development and got the order for 200 killbots at $4 million a hit. Nobody knows that the only way the damned prototype worked was because they stuffed Wronwright inside it after getting him tanked on Sumerian Mead and told him the target had the very last wineskin of it - and did not want to share any. Everyone thought that the drunken singing accompaniment to the resulting extreme violence was amusing.
Well, folks, the killbots Paco made a fortune building are a bust. The Edsel of killbots. Some maniac let them see Farenheit 911 and they haven’t been the same since. Send them to wreck the Iranian nuclear program. Now its two years ahead of schedule. Get them to put some spine into the French Government. They just surrendered to freaking Hesbollah - and they are in Lebanon.
Positronic brains on those puppies are completely fried.
Lucky it’s henchman business to explain this little mess.
MarkL
Chief of the Minions#9 MarkL:
Some maniac let them see Farenheit 911 and they haven’t been the same since.
Is it O/T to observe that Michael Moore is a f*ckwit?
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 09 23 at 04:04 AM • permalinkFunny, we don’t usually hear about failures from Paco Industries. Are you sure this isn’t some Rovian bizarro super-duper reverse…er…thingy. God, I have so much trouble keeping up with all this stuff.
I just love free speech. Look at the entertainment we get for absolutely nothing. Who could write an idiot like this yahoo. Bless all the yahoos. Except for paying their salaries, of course. They should have to dumpster dive for their sustenance. And they certainly ought not to have any books published.
#3 phillip
Dark skinned?, Mixed race?
Whats all that about?Double-plus-good “oppressed minority” bone fides. Makes him practically immune to any substantive criticism.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 09 23 at 04:24 AM • permalinkGrimmy: Ouch!
JSchuler: Have to agree there; you just can’t have too much cowbell.
I think the Blairite Think Tank needs to try to understand a possible corollary to Blair’s Law. Perhaps call it the Bacevich Variation: That the convergence of idiocies invariably results in self-consuming destruction.
I smell government grant! (How much rum do we have left?)
# 15
Hahahaha. Good one.
Perhaps Loewenstein will read bed time stories for the Iranian President.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 09 23 at 04:38 AM • permalinkOT and breaking: Bin Liner dead.
ABC nooz brought this to my attention.
Bin Laden has died - report
23/09/2006 11:05 - (SA)Paris - A French regional newspaper quoted a French secret service report on Saturday as saying that Saudi Arabia is convinced al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan last month.
L’Est Republicain printed what it said was a copy of the report dated September 21, and said it was shown to President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and France’s interior and defence ministers on the same day.
“According to a usually reliable source, the Saudi services are now convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead,” the document said.
Typhoid
“The information gathered by the Saudis indicates that the head of al-Qaeda was a victim while he was in Pakistan on August 23, 2006, of a very serious case of typhoid which led to a partial paralysis of his internal organs.”
The report, which was stamped with a “confidential defence” label and the initials of the French secret service, said Saudi Arabia first heard the information on September 4 and that it was waiting for more details before making an official announcement.
No confirmation
Officials contacted by Reuters in Chirac’s and Villepin’s offices had no immediate comment.
A senior official in Pakistan’s interior ministry said: “We have no information about Osama’s death.”
Saudi-born Bin Laden was based in Afghanistan until the Taliban government there was overthrown by US-backed forces in late 2001.
Since then, US and Pakistani officials have regularly said they believe he is hiding somewhere on the rugged border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The last videotaped message released by bin Laden was in late 2004, but there have been several low quality audio tapes released this year.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 23 at 05:31 AM • permalinkYou had “Go Free Gebhardt” as a principal?
If his performance as a County Court judge was anything to go by, I’m guessing this was a man who never believed in students being given detention.
My colleagues at the Bar in the criminal area used to think they’d won the lottery if their client was up before “Go Free”.
His retirement was no great loss - it is only sad that the current Labor government in Victoria refuses to appoint anyone to the Bench who isn’t a card-carrying civil libertarian or fellow traveller of the ALP.
Slightly ot
remarkable article in the Australian in which for the first time some information on islamic jihad is revealed to readers by Mark Durie.
Creed of the swordSnufflupagus, that observation is never OT.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 23 at 06:20 AM • permalinkDavo, I guess that Mark better be getting himself a nice set of crusader bodyguards right about now, then.
A most remarkable article, and one that warms my heart.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 23 at 06:30 AM • permalink#19, Nilknarf:
I hope that’s not true. It if it, then my fantasy of seeing that **** dragged out by his beard, sheared, castrated, breast implanted, dressed in a skirt, wig and made up like a $.50 whore and then placed in gen pop to be the joy toy for the more violent of the offenders…
I’ll never have that video clip of him crying like a sniveling little sissy. I want that video clip. I went and got me a DVD burner just to make sure I can copy that video clip.
#21 I think the system preceded Gebhardt, but at Geelong College there was a points system (one for overdue library books to four for missing sport, etc.) where if you reached four points in a week you had a two hour detention on Friday. This did in fact make it very difficult to get a detention unless you were an extraordinary miscreant and only half a dozen or so out of 550 students would get one in any particular week. There were expulsions while I was there, but the headmaster—yes, there was both a headmaster and a principal—was a harder man.
Hey, wonder if there’ll be any fallout from these provocative words from Treasurer Peter Costello.
Gates of Vienna posted a couple days ago that
“The Cycle of Warnings Has Ended”
Which implies that the AQ has reached out to their go to mouthpiece Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir again via phone and the word is…
WMD attack comming to US. Material already here, smuggled across from the Mexico border. The murderers among us are just awaiting the final “go order”.
This time the names of the perps will be in the David, Peter, Jimmy groups. No mussie names.
Also the AQ says that all mussies should leave the US asap.Here’s the source that Gates of V. sites:
Northeast Intelligence NetworkI have no clue how accurate these guys tend to be or if they’re running off some agenda or whatnot but they do have what they claim is a transcript of the conversation at the link above.
Grimmy the Gates like to ensure that they can count on their sources. If they have any doubts, they will say so.
As for your fantasy about Osama, well, I can think of better things to dream about than a homicidal, religious nutjob.
Mmmmmm Johnny Walker for starters.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 23 at 07:46 AM • permalinkSlightly OT, but we were talking about moonbats afterall. You just have to check these guys out, it’s hilarious:
G20 convergence
The 2006 G20 meeting of finance ministers, reserve bank governors and heads of the World Bank and IMF will take place in Melbourne on November 17-19. This will be the most significant gathering in Melbourne of people responsible for pushing corporate-led globalisation, neoliberalism and capitalism since the World Economic Forum in 2000.Global corporate capitalism is a ruthless system — a system with scant regard for the interests of humans. It has co-opted and corrupted our political leadership, and the leadership of many other nations. Our action should be seen as a vote of no confidence in this leadership, an act of defiance and resistance, and a demand that our democracy return to valuing the interests of humans and the environment above all else.
Their ‘vision’ is priceless:
Street theatre to build momentum and awareness of the convergences, focusing on themes of promoting inoculation against neoliberalism and the Greed20 Virus, and infection control to contain the spread of the contagion of capitalism.Street theatre? I sense the evil hand of Rove!
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 09 23 at 08:12 AM • permalinkNo one is more bewildered and, frankly, bummed by all of the attention suddenly being paid to Noam Chomsky than Andrew Bacevich.
“I’ve written a few books critical of US foreign policy, too,” said Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University. “Why couldn’t Hugo Chavez hold up one of my books?”
This sounds a bit like Iowahawk at his best
This just put on the MSN news
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=62629
Bin Laden crapped himself to death, typhoid
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 09 23 at 08:22 AM • permalink#35 Thank you for your correction, Wally. My bad.
Even worse, I’m jober as a sudge. Had one dirnk in the last 4 months.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 23 at 08:24 AM • permalinkRubbish Bin Liner may have died of typhoid. Lovely, slow way to die, from the sounds - your internal organs getting paralysed and all that. You catch it from ingesting faeces, so he either ate his own shit or someone else’s.
Do you think he’d recently tried a dirty Sanchez on his arse-buddy Ayman al Zawahiri?
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 09 23 at 09:44 AM • permalinkMark Durie used to lecture in linguistics at Melbourne University about 20 years ago.
Same subject as Noam Chomsky (nominally a professor of linguistics), but he knew a hell of a lot more about the subject matter he was being paid to teach. Great guy, too.
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 09 23 at 09:49 AM • permalink#26 Not only is today Rosh Roshanah, it is also the beginning of Ramadan.
Hit the bastards while they’re hungry!
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 09 23 at 09:53 AM • permalinkDark skinned?, Mixed race?
Whats all that about?Everyone knows that conservatives hate dark skinned, mixed race people, just like we hate gays and Joooos. That’s why the Left always makes a big thing of it when anyone fits any of these categories; they know it will turn us against them regardless of their views.
This sounds a bit like Iowahawk at his best
That’s what I thought it was before I clicked the link. Just goes to show that you can’t parody these clowns.
Fucking traitors. Slag their country to make a dirty buck. I bet if you asked them to list what they love about America, the first (only) thing would be “the right to dissent.”
#31 I don’t think the Al Quaeda warning is genuine. These guys wouldn’t want American muslims to leave town because they don’t give a fuck how many people they kill or what religion they are. If any muslims die, then they’re martyrs and are going to go to Mohammed’s Halal Brothel in the sky and enjoy their 72 raisins.
Posted by Oafish and Infantile on 2006 09 23 at 10:03 AM • permalinkThe retired professor also added he was “quite interested” in Hugo Chavez’s policies.
“Personally, I think many of them are quite constructive,” Chomsky said. “I would be happy to meet with him.”
Translation: “I’m an amoral, ivory-tower-cloistered intellectard who didn’t learn a goddamn thing from my Khmer Rouge fiasco.”
Bin Laden didn’t die of typhoid after all.
Posted by Humblogger (the Younger) on 2006 09 23 at 10:29 AM • permalinkOOOh, yes, everyone remembers the trials. Nobody remembers PACO INDUSTRIES did the development and got the order for 200 killbots at $4 million a hit.
Does anyone else think PACO INDUSTRIES sounds like the successor company to IG Farben? I wouldn’t be surprised if Halliburton is a subsidiary. All probably owned and controlled by Bush, Cheney, and Rove, with Paco carrying out their orders.
Or maybe Paco is simply a 21st century robber baron trying to amass a fortune from this so-called War on Terrorism.
I think I will go tell on him to Karl.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 23 at 10:54 AM • permalink#11 Funny, we don’t usually hear about failures from Paco Industries.
You also don’t hear of any successes. Because there aren’t any! *
(recalls hiring the Perky Alert Care Officers company to guard the precious mead storeroom, only to find the iron-and-oak door swung wide open and the casks gone!)
* Well, except for the Israeli mini-missile that cuts a perfect hole at the top of ambulances.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 23 at 10:59 AM • permalink“I’ve written a few books critical of US foreign policy, too,” said Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University. “Why couldn’t Hugo Chavez hold up one of my books?”
Translation: “Won’t somebody please pay attention to me? PUUUUHHHHH-LEEEEEEEZE?”
Otherwise, I’m with Dave S—Bacevich would fellate Saddam Hussein for a book review.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 09 23 at 11:41 AM • permalinkDave S.
The retired professor also added he was “quite interested” in Hugo Chavez’s policies.
“Personally, I think many of them are quite constructive,” Chomsky said. “I would be happy to meet with him.”
Especially the one about imprisoning his political opponents. (Chomsky: Democrats, are you listening?)
Translation: “I’m an amoral, ivory-tower-cloistered intellectard who didn’t learn a goddamn thing from my Khmer Rouge fiasco.”
Everybody knows Pol Pot, that hero of the proletariat, got a raw deal…
::spit::
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 09 23 at 12:51 PM • permalinkPlus, despite all Chomsky did for him, Pol Pot never reached out with a book plug. Ungrateful bastard.
Tyrant blurbs on Chomsky books - we could only hope:
“His chapter on the depradations of oil companies is brilliant. The latest edition, that is, with the “except for Citgo” addendum.” - Hugo Chavez.
“A Jew-hating Jew, an anti-American American, a wealthy hater of the wealthy - Chomsky puts the “useful” and “idiot” in “useful idiot” and sticks a cherry on top! Estupendo!” - Fidel Castro.
“When we say to him, “Noam, we promise to kill you last”, we mean it. He’s that good!” - Ahmed Ahmadinejad.
“I would command my people to read it, if I hadn’t liquidated the literate.” - Pol Pot.
The dark-skinned, mixed race leader—excuse me??! Some might conclude that Reuters seeks to rationalize Hugs raving lunacy.
It figures that Chavez would be a Chomsky (and Galbraith) admirer, and visa versa. Perhaps Noam, seemingly eager to engage the architect of so many constructive policies, can join the next Sheehan/Belafonte pilgrimage to Caracus. Maybe they can all do a book together. Maybe Michael Moore can adapt it to film.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 09 23 at 03:47 PM • permalinkDammit, Tim, I’m shredding and mauling as fast as I can! But I swear to God, it’s like being appointed Official Fool Killer at Woodstock…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 09 23 at 04:22 PM • permalinkwronwright—Frankly, I’ve been skeptical of PACO products since I tried their Particle Acceleration Concealable Ordnance and it set my pants leg on fire…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 09 23 at 05:08 PM • permalink“The dark-skinned, mixed race leader” translated from the newyorktimese means “Don’t you dare criticise him, you racist!”
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 09 23 at 06:00 PM • permalinkOr the Sundaymorningheraldish, a subdialect of Newyorktimese.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 09 23 at 06:01 PM • permalinkAs much as I don’t like to negate a marketing opportunity for Paco Industry’s “Killbots” TM, just ignore these effing idiots of the leffintty world. I just had enuff man, I will not waste another milligram of soma in contradicting them. I shall treat them with the derision they deserve, and not address their arguments, as they dio to us.
News just in: “Anti-war “peace” demonstration in the UK”. My elder sister was talking about the last one she went to, about 3 years ago, anti-Bush, and how it was just like the old times against Vietnam.
I had two responses:
1. It wasn’t like Vietnam and
2. Why would you want that, when everything the US said about the regime in the North transpired and there were mass, forced, migrations and “reeducation” camps and starvation?But, ideology ttrumps reality for the left.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 09 23 at 09:09 PM • permalink#15
Antony Loewenstein has just sent a perfume scented signed copy of his book to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
What is this “lowesteem”?. I am confounded.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 09 23 at 09:20 PM • permalink#18 Debra,
I have heard this report earlier. I am suspicious. Firstly, the French are involved. Secondly, the French are involved. Thirdly, we have heard from noone else.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 09 23 at 09:27 PM • permalink#71 to add to my above comment, I suspect he is now in a hospital in Paris, being treated by bum-boy Chirac.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 09 23 at 09:29 PM • permalinkThat any word of bin Laden merits the coverage it’s getting is ridiculous. So he’s “a little bit dead”.
In keeping with this absurd post-modern concept of limited warfare, where 200 Taliban standing cheek by jowl are not taken out because they are “at a funeral”, where Nasrallah and 100’s of thouands of his rabid followers are not destroyed as they gather to celebrate a “Divine Victory” in an already bombed out suburb of Beirut…
I mean, what is the significance, really, of this “news” from the French?
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 09 23 at 10:10 PM • permalinkPoint taken, WimpyC. As you say, it comes from the surrender-monkeys.
I found it noteworthy in that the ABC news was bleating about it. I wouldn’t have thought they’d be advertising anything like this ever.
Personally, I’ve suspected that he died a while back. As mentioned above, he should be the one making the announcements, not the second-in-command.
Of course, it could be handy to keep pretending he’s stealing our oxygen as it gives the infidels something to run after while our chains are being yanked.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 24 at 01:46 AM • permalink. . . where 200 Taliban standing cheek by jowl are not taken out because they are “at a funeral”, where Nasrallah and 100’s of thouands of his rabid followers are not destroyed as they gather to celebrate a “Divine Victory” in an already bombed out suburb of Beirut . . .
(left hand holds strongly onto right hand)
Must ... not ... activate ... orbital ... laser cannon.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 24 at 05:24 PM • permalink
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Well, I heard that Chavez thinks Bacevich’s books need more cowbell.