Everyone deserves a robust defence, especially a 97-year-old in hospice who can’t respond, and should not be compelled to. I am in total agreement with Michael Tracey that Chomsky committed no moral crime, and I recommend his article “Chomsky Was Right About Epstein.”
In this episode, guest host Rameez Rahman and I cross-examine the tabloid-left show trial. We challenge the narrative, the “facts” as presented, and the motives of its witnesses, inquisitors and court reporters. We also reflect on what this sad display tells us about the Left. I, spoiler alert, take it to be a morbid symptom.
Chapters:
00:12:05 — Episode starts 00:15:54 — Rameez Rahman intro, and why he’s “on the defence” 00:19:50 — Tara’s take on the tabloid-left pillory of Chomsky, and why she’s “on the defence” 00:27:15 — Campists and Marxist–Leninist revivalists: axe-grinders and score-settlers 00:37:50 — Shane explains why he’s “on the defence” 00:40:24 — Cross-exam begins: tabloid-left show trial “witnesses” 00:45:52 — Alan MacLeod (MintPress / Bad Faith context) 01:13:45 — JFK, 9/11, and Biden/Trump 2020: axe-grinders and retroactive totalisers 01:20:02 — The pillory as morbid symptom and distraction: “Epstein X Files” logic 01:21:59 — Chomsky’s office manager Bev Stohl, and Valeria Chomsky’s statement 01:25:31 — Chomsky on conspiracy theories (video clip) 01:42:42 — Shane on Matt Kennard’s response 01:49:09 — What could Chomsky reasonably have known in 2015, and under what moral code is he culpable for not shunning Mr. E? 01:58:54 — Inquisitor Chris “Vyshinsky” Hedges 02:17:02 — David Miller's Manichaean Campist Politics 02:31:38 — Chris Knight’s Chomsky fantasy 02:36:15 — Gabriel “Pick-me” Rockhill 02:55:15 — Kevork Almassian & the “Epstein quilting point” 02:59:47 — CPGB-Marxist-Leninst paranoid fantasy 3:03:34 Final thoughts/exasperations about this late-stage cannibal Left.
Related posts/videos:
In Defense of Noam Chomsky Against the Tabloid Left & Stalinoid Political Snuff Theatre
The Last Epstein File Can’t Exist
Rameez’s Throwing Chomsky under the bus
