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Peak_Oil Donating Member (666 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:58 PM
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Watching Chomsky vs WF Buckley Video... Devastating!
Body blow! Head blow! Body blow! Uppercut!

How does the man do it? He just destroys Buckley time after time. His easy command of factual material is just unbelievable. He's more machine than man.
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Postman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:59 PM
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1. Is it a DVD or on TV?
n/t
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:00 PM
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2. Chomsky's small, but he's wiry!
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Old Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:00 PM
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3. Where is this?
A must see! Tell us more tell us more!!!!
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Peak_Oil Donating Member (666 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:25 PM
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8. Oh, dude.
It was just absolutely amazing. Pwn3d! Nothing left of buckley but a tweed jacket and a well-chewed pencil with a puff of smoke hovering above it.

Chomsky just took every hit, rolled it around like an Aikido master and used its leverage against his opponent. Always the gentleman, Chomsky never breaks a sweat or gets personal. He just stays on point and levels his guns at WFB and lets him have it. The extent to which he can rattle off years, names, cities, people, movements, which army was in which city on which year, when the refugees were moving North and when South, where all the funding came from to arm each side, it's just unbelievable.

Buckley squirmed, wrestled with himself, tried to crack a joke and it bombed, knew he'd been had and could do nothing about it... cornered like a starving rat and getting mean. He was going to be on camera against the Flash combined with the Hulk for another ten minutes and he was going to look like a jackass the whole time.

Buckley dodged and ducked from war to war, and Chomsky just kept 10K candlepower of Knowledge on his ass. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats, I'd see it again and again.

Oh my god.

You gotta see this. It's subtle, but the silences are deafening.
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Old Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 09:01 PM
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10. LOL
The best blow by blow commentary ever!
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Old Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:06 PM
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4. Is this the 1969 Firing line interview
in Manufacturing Consent?
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:18 PM
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6. buckley threatend Chomsky
at one point, buckley said 'i'll come over there and beat you to death' or something along those lines....Noam was startled by the nakedness of buckley's character, which buckley usually kept hidden behind fancy intellectual pretentions...
i assumed everybody on earth had seen the clip.....
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hellbound-liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:10 PM
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5. I found a link to the Firing Line debate as well as some great
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:20 PM
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7. where is the "free video"..?
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Peak_Oil Donating Member (666 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:26 PM
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9. Kazaa.
I've emailed back and forth with him a very few times. He has always given his permission to copy and distribute his material. Not sure whether that covers this piece, but I don't really care. Chomsky says it's OK to use his speeches, I'm going to use them.

Head to Kazaa, search Buckley Chomsky, and get ready to watch somebody's head explode.
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