Passing Noam on My Way Out – Part 1

Somehow lefts that would, on a rainy day,  apply the Chomsky/Herman lens to a bag of Doritos are incapable of applying it to establishment lefts at the margins, even when these people are on commercial television. Understandable, really,  since I don’t think Chomsky gets how Chomsky applies to Chomsky either.

This line ruffled some feathers. I recall that one person cited it just before telling me I should kill myself, more than a full year before Glenn Greenwald incited the troll fever of 2013 by telling me I should kill myself too.

In the months that passed I’ve concluded that I  grossly exaggerated the extent to which the internet left applies the Chomsky/Herman…