One of the authors – a Chomsky peer – on that list is Oliver Kamm: a very vocal critic of Chomsky and his work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Kamm
January 26, 2005
Chomsky and the Vietnam War - a study in propaganda
In my comment about Noam Chomsky earlier this week, I advanced three propositions. First, his central political notion is not about Vietnam, or Timor, or Palestine: it is that the US is equivalent to Nazi Germany. Secondly, his handling of source material is dishonest. Thirdly, these characteristics are not recent developments, but date back to his earliest political writings. In this post I shall provide an example that illustrates all these points simultaneously. . . .
http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2...and_the_1.html
Another on that list is Samuel P. Huntington – an original source – that Chomsky purposefully misquotes:
A Frustrating Task
February 26, 1970
In response to:
After Pinkville from the January 1, 1970 issue
To the Editors:
In the space of three brief paragraphs in your January 1 issue, Noam Chomsky manages to mutilate the truth in a variety of ways with respect to my views and activities on Vietnam.
. . . . By omitting my next sentence—”Peace in the immediate future must hence be based on accommodation”—and linking my statement about the Viet Cong to two other phrases which appear earlier in the article, Mr. Chomsky completely reversed my argument. (Incidentally, the phrase “direct application of mechanical and conventional power” is not mine, but one which I quote from Sir Robert Thompson. Mr. Chomsky, however, does not see fit to recognize these distinctions of authorship.) . . . .
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/arch...strating-task/
And then there is the eminent scholar Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s analysis at:
http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/schlesinger.pdf
Here’s an excerpt:
Originally Posted by I B Hankering
Having taken a course from the now dead Sam Huntington, who I knew a little, I can tell you he wasn't well respected among his peers or colleagues. He was a gross exaggerator and polemicist in the mold of other Harvard morons like Nadav Safran, Henry Kissenger, Laurie Mylroie, and countless others. And that was well before he blew up what little prestige he had left by publishing "Clash of Civilizations," which spelled the end of his career.
Harvard's international affairs faculty is the most aweful and least peer-reviewed of any. MIT on the other hand has Lucien Pye, Stephen Miller, Stephen Meyer, and a host of real scholars [not political hacks and liars like Harvard] who's papers are all peer-reviewed.
MIT is the publisher of International Security, the world's foremost national security journal. Harvard has nothing.
As for the other toads you put forth [like the political hack Arthur Schesinger] who allege Chomsky lies, they are similar midgets and liars themselves.
Chomsky has been ACCUSED of lying by disreputable scoundrels, but has never
been proven to have lied about anything by any distinguished, peer-reviewed scholar.\
Chomsky is the founder of modern linguistics.
He is the Einstein or Fineman of his field.
He is without question the highest of academicians when it comes to integrity, whether you agree with his analysis or not.