• About Kathy Shaidle
  • Kathy Shaidle: Privacy policy

5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

How dumb can Noam Chomsky be in the fewest number of words?

September 12, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Think I’ve found it:

I always liked Noam Chomsky’s crack to me when Christopher [Hitchens] announced in Grand Street that he was a Jew: “From anti-Semite to self-hating Jew, all in one day.”)

***
I’m no expert on Hitchens, but I’m racking my brain for examples of his a) “anti-Semitism and b) “self-hatred,” Jewish or otherwise.

The “all in one day” is a cutesy, rhythmic piece of hyperbole that simple makes it all worse.

Is everything Chomsky utters like this?

That is: Clever sounding but factually suspect upon a few seconds’ closer inspection?

More from my site

  • Synthetic fibers + body hair: Adam Carolla explains why foreigners smell PLUS female UK rioters should ‘get raped’ (bumped)Synthetic fibers + body hair: Adam Carolla explains why foreigners smell PLUS female UK rioters should ‘get raped’ (bumped)
  • Norway: ‘With all this solidarity, why did nobody try to stop the killer…?’Norway: ‘With all this solidarity, why did nobody try to stop the killer…?’
  • Jim Goad: ‘Last night I may have witnessed the death rattle of what remains of the American patriarchy’
  • Bill to strip ‘hate speech’ provisions from Human Rights Act passes third reading (UPDATE: Mark Steyn takes note!)Bill to strip ‘hate speech’ provisions from Human Rights Act passes third reading (UPDATE: Mark Steyn takes note!)

Filed Under: conservative blog

« 6 Million® — I’m surprised Bernie Farber hasn’t complained about this
If you send your kids to an Ontario public school, you are guilty of child abuse (video) »

Archives

Copyright © 2026 · Magazine Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in