Another one, Entity 5 writes:
This is a calumny. I have personally checked hundreds, and I do mean hundreds--probably over 500--Chomsky citations to original texts and documents, and have never found any error that was not an obvious typographical error, a misprint or something like that. One can always argue about meaning and context, but the person who says that Chomsky is a fabricator is ignorant or lying. --.sig
Entity 4 wrote:
<< this was posted on the cypherpunks list. the respondent maintains that chomsky is well-known for misquoting or twisting quotes/sources. never heard that come up here in all our discussions... comments? cypherpunks is archived if you want more info.
.sig
<fowarded> --
I've been reading Noam Chomsky's book on Kosovo and came across this quote from a Cabinet note written by Churchill in January 1914 explaining the need for increased military expenditure (taken in turn from Clive Ponting's Churchill, 1994, P 132):
"We are not a young people with an innocent record and a scanty inheritance. We have engrossed to ourselves an altogether disproportionate share of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have got all we want in territory, and our claim to be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence, largely maintained by force, often seems less reasonable to others than to us."
Chomsky is hardly a reliable source. He routinely fabricates or falsifies quotes. I suggest you check his alleged sources.
Chances are you will be unable to find his alleged source. In the unlikely event that you are able to find it, it will not say quite what Chomsky claims it said.
--digsig
</backwarded>