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Chomsky on Ice

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Posted on Feb 5, 2008

By Mr. Fish

Chomsky

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By Douglas Chalmers, February 8 at 12:49 pm #

By republicanSScareme, February 6: “I think it refers to the idiotic comments Mr. Chomsky made regarding a 9/11 investigation. He said “Who cares?” whether 9/11 was committed by the Bush Administration or who killed John Kennedy...”

Agreed! See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoDqDvbgeXM&search= conspiracy at about 3.55min+

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By Gipsy, February 7 at 12:58 pm #
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Mr. Fish,

How about a cartoon image of Obama at the mast of the boat of Earth? And Bush and Cheney being pushed off the plank in the background?

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By sheman, February 7 at 10:16 am #
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these cartoons were especially dumb today. blah!

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By weather, February 7 at 1:39 am #
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All that we need to know about the darkness of Israel is to ask Rabin’s widow.

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By Expat, February 6 at 10:09 pm #

^ I was wondering; oh, and Groucho, by a long shot.

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By Mr. Fish, February 6 at 7:24 pm #
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First off, I firmly believe that Chomsky is, all by himself, the Beatles of all smart guys; the John, Paul, George and Ringo of genius.  The ice that he’s skating on does not represent anything.  The cartoon is simply a gag.  The idea that Chomsky’s world renown might eventually lead him to an ice show struck me as funny and sometimes a joke is all a truthdigger needs.  After all, which Marx inspired more freethinkers to develop both an irreverent disdain for authority and a radical notion of self-determinacy in the face of an ever-present bourgeois super-structure that attempts, daily, to mute humankind’s instinctual passion for truthful self-expression, joy and camaraderie:  Karl or Groucho?

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By republicanSScareme, February 6 at 4:28 pm #
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I think it refers to the idiotic comments Mr. Chomsky made regarding a 9/11 investigation. He said “Who cares?” whether 9/11 was committed by the Bush Administration or who killed John Kennedy.

Chomsky looked and talked like a complete idiot in the interview and it appeared that maybe he had taken a long ride with some Zionist Mossad agents.

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By Kakalina, February 6 at 3:54 pm #
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Is this a reference to Christopher Bowman?

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By weather, February 5 at 6:16 pm #
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to confront the truth and does so w/precision.

The kind of ice Noam skates on doesn’t need a Zamboni, its deep and keeps itself clean.

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By peaceful_abc, February 5 at 12:51 pm #
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Will some one please explain this Cartoon. I did not
get it.  Did chomsky say something controversial?
Or did he talk from both sides of his mouth? And
what did he say?

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