Chomsky, Epstein, and JFK
The anti-imperialist titan of the Left and defender of the Warren Commission was also a pal of Jeffrey Epstein. What does that tell us?
James DiEugenio tees up Noam Chomsky, as glimpsed in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Then, of course, there was his mystifying transformation on the assassination of President Kennedy. As Ray Marcus revealed in Martin Schotz’s book, History Will Not Absolve Us, Chomsky was very interested in the evidence for conspiracy that Marcus showed him when he visited Chomsky at MIT in the sixties. What was originally scheduled as a 45-minute meeting stretched into something like three hours. In the next decade, he signed a petition to form the House Select Committee on Assassinations to reinvestigate the JFK murder.
But something happened to Chomsky. David Barsamian began to promote him for the Pacifica network, which then had a much larger following than it does now. From there, he became the official banner carrier for the left. He was actually recognized as such by no less than the New York Times, which once called him ”…arguably the most important intellectual alive today.” (2/25/79, article by Paul Robinson). One does not get those kinds of accolades by making the JFK assassination a major talking point.
Read DiEugenio’s provocative take here.
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So Chomsky joins the ranks of others in America's fake Left: AOC (who recently lost the ability to speak when asked about a war with Iran and a war over Taiwan), Liz Warren (who stood up to cheer for Trump's war with Iran at the SOTU), and Bernie Sanders (who tried to sheepdog us into voting for Hillary Clinton after the DNC cheated him out of the nomination). Is this really a surprise to anyone who followed Chomsky closely? No.
Another James DiEugenio glorified high school book report.
The Chomsky-Epstein relationship indeed is stomach-churning. So too Chomsky's intellectually flawed rejection of the scientifically demonstrated -- to the degree of metaphysical certitude -- JFK assassination conspiracy.
Nearly as revolting are DiEugenio's off-hand direct and implied dismissals of the balance of the Chomsky canon -- self-serving, simplistic smears absent a scintilla of intellectual depth and insight.
DiEugenio is best appreciated as a library rat with a good memory and a writer of Trumpian eloquence.