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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.
It would take you years to check five hundred Chomsky citations. His citations are at best obscure and hard to find, at worst impossible to find. Almost every Chomsky citation that I have checked was at best somewhat misleading, and at worst a lie. Chomsky's citations are usually false in one of three ways, sometimes false in all three ways at the same time. 1. Chomsky misrepresents the authority of the sources. For example in "Distortions at fourth hand" quoted in full in http://www.jim.com/jamesd/chomsdis.htm he represented Hildebrand and Porter as an independent review of evidence from impartial sources, whereas in fact they were merely mouthpieces of the Khmer Rouge. He represented Ponchaud as merely the mouthpiece of US imperialism, while in fact Ponchaud had interviewed hundreds of refugees, and collected hundreds of first hand accounts of Khmer Rouge terror. 2. Chomsky misrepresents the content of the sources: For example Chomsky represented the testimony of murder, torture,and terror collected by Ponchaud as second hand, when in fact it was first hand. 3. Chomsky claims sources that just cannot be found. In particular the article "Distortions at fourth hand" first leads up to the purported citation of "repeated discoveries that the massacre reports were false", and then proceeds to draw all sorts of conclusions from the alleged falsity of these massacre reports. Without this alleged citation, his article, appearing a few months after the photos of the massacres north of Aranyaprathet had horrified the world, would have sounded like the banal totalitarian propaganda that is, would have sounded no different from the vast pile of totalitarian propaganda that had become so painfully familiar throughout the twentieth century. This alleged citation is the very key and center of the whole article, and no one can find it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG FPdykYK0P9Z3AdZh1bYxf6jZLGkO8dWr4JrqFPRz 4/zYVs4LADvz0S920cVAl2OSu3k/RRIrZM0+o3UFI