1986--Noam Chomsky vs. John Silber

"Really? I control the American press?" ahahahahah The way he said that was real.

That's the most visibly frustrated I've ever seen Chomsky.

Sibler, "you're lying again!!!" Chomsky, "I didn't even say anything yet..." Fucking gold.....

I love Chomsky final "Yeah, okay" XD

Frightening that this Silber was in a position of authority in a learning institution. He argues like an angry 15 year old.

This debate is a good example why Noam is so important. During the war against the people of Nicaragua there were few other sources to get the truth.

That moderator was quite lame in allowing Silber to go postal on a guest.

I know he would detest the title but I can't help saying that Noam Chomsky is a hero, an intellectual hero who fought for the truth in the face of vast repression.  I love the man with all my heart! 

I did some background reading on Silber, and I wasn't surprised to learn that he left a trail of alienation and revulsion throughout his life. He bullied and shouldered his way to the top of an elite institution, but Chomsky - like a laser - focuses on the documented facts and on the hypocrisy of spokespersons for imperial violence. This is a priceless clip and, as always, I'm astonished at how Chomsky maintains his focus and composure in the face of countless interruptions, nonsequiturs, and personal attacks. What a legend.

Chomsky is loved in Nicaragua for standing up for there country. When chomskys wife past away the Nicaraguan people planted a forest in her memory.

Even Silber liked that Luxembourg analogy. (;

Chomsky is like Messi playing against a weekend warrior.

Silber says to Chomsky that he wanted correct him "while you're still around." (5:17) Silber exudes boiling rage, violence, authoritarianism, and fascism, arguing for increasing an illegal US terrorist war against Nicaragua and continually trying to silence Chomsky's voice throughout the segment.  You can almost see Silber wanting to hit him or have some goons drag him out.  Does anyone think the "while you're still around" statement was kind of a veiled death threat?  Chomsky was only 58 here.  Nowhere near a point of dying of old age. 

This is precisely why Chomsky was all but banned from all major cable networks – he's exceedingly more intelligent than his interviewer and his panel opponent. The right (wrongfully) accuse him of being too far left, but this could not be more wrong. He simply questions institutional thinking – on both sides of the ledger.

Ever notice when people are on the defensive with Chomsky...they start freaking out, talking over him.....I've seen it so many times.

Lol Chomsky at the end: "yeah ok."

Noam Chomsky - "...really I have control of the american press? are you mad brah?" lol

John Silber debates like a bully and a barabarian. Actually his facial expressions, his body language, his agitation and his outbursts of temper and name-calling are classic indications of a debater who is insecure in his position and senses that he is on thin ice.

World famous intellectual Prof. Noam Chomsky debating with some john silber.

Chomsky is like a bottle of scotch whiskey. It aged so well!