Product Description

Peter Collier and David Horowitz have assembled a set of provocative essays that analyze Noam Chomsky's intellectual career and the evolution of his anti-Americanism.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #386305 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

About the Author
Peter Collier has written well-regarded biographies of the Rockefellers, the Kennedys and the Fords. David Horowitz is the author of Radical Son, The Politics of Bad Faith, Left Illusions, and other books. He is the President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture in Los Angeles, California.

Customer Reviews

Nothing I haven't heard before...
To be honest, you don't need to buy this book. You've heard it all before, whether conservative or liberal.

The bias in these reviews is blinding - use of the term 'anti-american' to describe someone who disagrees with the government is typical, shortsighted, and frankly a little pathetic. Try going to Italy, and telling someone on the streets of Rome that because he dislikes Berlusconi, he is 'un-Italian', and watch him roll around on the floor with laughter. The idea that disliking a leader and seeing fault with the sytem makes you a 'traitor' of some kind, IS laughable.

Other typical conservative attacks are obvious too - someone who recognises Israel's illegitimacy is 'anti-semitic', a 'nazi sympathiser', even a 'holocaust denier'

The arguments used in the book are no more compelling than those used by the reviewers. The venom, and fear-driven hate are evident throughout, and little to no evidence is used in support of their rebuttals. The slightest digging into the listed sources immediately shows the transparency and shallowness of the arguments used by the authors.

As I said at the beginning, you don't need to buy this book.

If you're conservative, you've probably already denounced Chomsky as a 'red', and this book would serve only as self-gratifying trash.

If you're a fan of Chomsky, you'll know his opinions already (most of which THIS book gets completely wrong, whether intentionally or accidentally it's hard to tell), and the arguments they use against him will be debunked with 5 minutes of further reading.

Either way, it's a waste of money. Save the 11 quid (or 20 when i bought it...)

Chomsky Chomped
I first heard of Noam Chomsky when I was reading Psychology at Cambridge, and came across his wonderful work on deep structure.

The Anti Chomsky Reader however reveals another side of the great academic. A complete stranger to self-doubt, and apparently lacking any shred of human warmth or humour, Chomsky's towering intellect is matched only by his arrogance and duplicity.

The essays collected here by Collier and Horowitz, reveal how Chomsky mercilessly manipulates the evidence, systematically ignores the facts, and traduces his opponents to support his bizarre political theses. The various contributors all come to the same conclusion; whether he is writing about America, the media, the Middle East, or sadly, even linguistics, Chomsky simply cannot be trusted to tell the truth.

Well-written, entirely convincing, this is a systematic and merciless expose of a man blinded by his own IQ. It will have Chomsky's chums frothing at the mouth and biting the carpet. Enjoy!

Chomsky's lies and hate in his own words
I have to be honest, I used to be a big fan of Noam Chomsky in my student days. I read Pilger, Chomsky, Finkelstein and every other leftist writer. I indignantly denounced `Amerikkka' and capitalism, and protested the `fascist junta' of Blair and Bush..

However, as one gets older, you read more, study history, learn more, and eventually grow up. I wish I had read this book, and Paul Berman's Terror and Liberalism much sooner, so I wouldn't have wasted so much time. You live and learn, I guess,

Noam Chomsky says he does not peddle in conspiracy theories, he engages in `institutional analysis'. He claims to help `ordinary people' see through the `lies and propaganda' of the `elite media'. Chomsky's investigations help connect the dots that show how the people who `own' the United States manipulate its domestic and foreign policies to the detriment of everyone else.

In this superb book, Peter Collier and David Horowitz have brought together nine previously published articles intended to expose Chomsky and demonstrate why he's the foremost anti-American intellectual and propagandist around.

Professor Chomsky made his name as an MIT linguist turned 1960s antiwar protester. In his `anarchist' universe, America - not Communism, Baathism, al-Qaida - is the moral monster, and to attack it is morally just. He has been promoting this nonsense for decades and has become the intellectual guru, not just of the naïve college idiot, but of the liberal/left intelligentsia. He was recently voted the `World's No.1 public intellectual' and is the guru of the anti-capitalist, anti-war Left.

The Anti-Chomsky Reader is so valuable for this very reason. It simply and concisely destroys the lies, falsehoods, misrepresentation and distortions, which Chomsky propagates. Beyond the Woody Allen like features, and his calm and cool manner, is a man who can convince millions of decent people that America and Israel are `terrorist states' and that we are all `wage-slaves' of the capitalist system. If anyone else had made the ridiculous claim that the US was trying to commit `silent genocide' in Afghanistan, they would be laughed out the room. Chomsky claims exactly that, and students and leftists nod their credulous heads and sit in awe of their messiah.

If anyone else had said, "I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust. Nor would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the Holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and violence.", there would be outrage and condemnation. But not for our Dear `talk truth to power' Leader. Chomsky's championing of Holocaust denial is well-documented by Werner Cohn in his contribution to this book.

Chomsky's has a rich history as an anti-Israel propagandist - his references to `the genocidal texts of the Bible', and to `points of similarity' between Israel and Hitler's Germany is well documented in this book.

In a devastating contribution "Whitewashing Dictatorships in Communist Vietnam and Cambodia", Stephen Morris rightly excoriates Chomsky for his support of Ho Chi Minh and Pol Pot, and his disgraceful attacks on critics who were documenting the Communist genocide in South East Asia.

In `Chomsky and the Media: A Kept Press and a Manipulated People,' Eli Lehrer debunks the conjurer's magnum opus Manufacturing Consent, which describes the media as being `with rare exceptions... culturally and politically conservative;' where special interests manipulate the press to hoodwink the people; and as Lehrer says, "decisions to publicize certain stories and downplay others are made in ways that 'serve political ends' of America's ruling classes." This is of course ridiculous, if you actually look at the liberal bias in the Amercan press generally, and their investigative reporting for decades - from Watergate onwards.

This is a fine collection by two former Marxists turned conservatives, who know Chomsky's methods, tactics and totalitarian mindset perfectly. I would encourage even Chomsky's followers to read this book (as the one-star reviewers clearly haven't) and read the Professor in his own hate-filled words.