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Chomsky's Havana Lie
Nick Rizzuto, FrontPageMagazine.com,
January 19, 2005.
Noam Chomsky's speaking tour in Cuba's
police state in October 2003 featured yet
another Chomsky whopper that can now be
laid to rest. According to Reuters, "U.S.
linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky
said on Wednesday that President Bush will
have to 'manufacture' another threat to
American security to win reelection in 2004
after U.S. failure in occupying Iraq.' Chomsky
continued, 'They have a card that they can
play ... terrify the population with some
invented threat, and that is not very hard
to do.'"
In fact, the exact opposite happened. On
May 30, 2003, just five months before the
election, the national security level was
lowered from Orange (level 4) to Yellow
(level 3), where it remains to this day.
Also, the only places where the Orange level
alerts were reserved still observed after
August 4, 2004 -- Washington DC, New York
City, and Northern New Jersey -- the Bush
administration was soundly defeated.
Chomsky's prediction concerning the 2004
presidential election was part of pattern
of destructive fibs that are his stock in
trade -- from understatements about the
atrocities committed by communist nations
to his notorious (and unfulfilled) prediction
of an American-perpetrated genocide in Afghanistan.
On the other hand, Chomsky's followers hardly
notice. But that is hardly surprising. Members
of cults rarely check their beliefs with
the facts.
Nick Rizzuto is a co-founder of ConservativePunk.com
and has a degree in Public Communication
from the State University of New York at
New Paltz.
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