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Caribbean-Latin America
Chomsky eager to meet Chavez
2006-09-24
Author Noam Chomsky, whose three-year-old book shot to the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez touted it at the United Nations, says he would like to meet Chavez, The New York Times reported Friday. "I would be happy to meet him," said Chomsky.
“The leftist author told the Times he is 'quite interested' in Chavez's policies and finds many of them 'quite constructive.'”
The American author told the Times he received "10,000 e-mails" after Chavez recommended his 2003 book "Hegemony or Survival" in remarks before the United Nations General Assembly.

Chomsky told the newspaper he would not use the same words - "alcoholic," "sick man" and "tyrant" - that Chavez used to describe President George W Bush. But he said he understood where the Venezuelan president was coming from. "The Bush administration backed a coup to overthrow his government," Chomsky said. "Suppose Venezuela supported a military coup that overthrew the government of the United States? Would we think it was a joke?" The leftist author told the Times he is "quite interested" in Chavez's policies and finds many of them "quite constructive."
Posted by:Fred

#10  You've gotta love a millionare non-materialist.
Posted by: Secret Master   2006-09-24 23:55  

#9  Finally found someone as looney as he is, it seems.
Posted by: gorb   2006-09-24 16:35  

#8  100 million dead from the 20th Century and still counting.

Between Stalin and Mao alone it is more than 100 million, add in the other players and it's even more.

He won't be a problem much longer.

He should have been dealt with a long time ago. It seems to me that if anything is going to change, it will have to be done at the citizen level in an extra-judicial manner. Just sayin'!

Posted by: Texas Redneck   2006-09-24 15:21  

#7  77 going on 78?
He won't be a problem much longer.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-09-24 14:24  

#6  "Chomsky eager to meet Chavez"

Let the lovefest begin. BTW: WTF post a picture of the Chomskymeister when he was about 32? He's 77 now, with another B-Day coming on December 7!

"Two worst things to happen to US? Pearl Harbor and Chomsky's birth." -- Christopher Hitchens
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden   2006-09-24 14:14  

#5  Chomsky is intrigued by Chavez's creation of the Dry-Erase Board Constitution. He thinks it would make it easier to accelerate social revolution through American courts if the Constitution was rewritten weekly in a Generalissimo's staff meeting.
Posted by: Super Hose   2006-09-24 14:10  

#4  Never trust a communist who owns a holiday home plus several cars and yachts.

There - fixed that for ya', SC9540.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-09-24 13:50  

#3  Never trust a communist who owns a holiday home plus several cars and yachts.
Posted by: Slomoth Crase9540   2006-09-24 12:17  

#2  I bought a tshirt when I was a young lad of 18 that said: "Kill a Commie for Mommy" It still works.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-09-24 12:05  

#1  Commies. I hate commies.

100 million dead from the 20th Century and still counting.
Posted by: Hupaving Flineng5859   2006-09-24 09:42  

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