A short interview with Noam Chomsky, including transcript and video stream (Realplayer, low bandwidth). Jeremy Paxman, conducting the interview, is obviously trying to do what he can to hit Chomsky with the "tough questions", in notable contrast to his extremely subservient interview with Tony Blair before the war started...personally, I'd appreciate it if Mr. Paxman would secure another interview with Mr. Blair and ask some real questions this time.
If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals, he'd be hanged. So too, mind you, would every single American President since the end of the second world war, including Jimmy Carter.
The suggestion comes from perhaps the most feted liberal intellectual in the world - the American linguist Noam Chomsky. His latest attack on the way his country behaves in the world is called Hegemony or Survival, America's Quest for Global Dominance.
Jeremy Paxman met him at the British Museum, where they talked in the Assyrian Galleries. He asked him whether he was suggesting there was nothing new in the so-called Bush Doctrine.
Full text at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3732345.stm
Video available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40175000/rm/_40175639_chomski_interview_19may_vi.ram
The suggestion comes from perhaps the most feted liberal intellectual in the world - the American linguist Noam Chomsky. His latest attack on the way his country behaves in the world is called Hegemony or Survival, America's Quest for Global Dominance.
Jeremy Paxman met him at the British Museum, where they talked in the Assyrian Galleries. He asked him whether he was suggesting there was nothing new in the so-called Bush Doctrine.
Full text at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3732345.stm Video available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40175000/rm/_40175639_chomski_interview_19may_vi.ram
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one more thing
24.05.2004 09:36
reposter
Paxman is a ****wit
24.05.2004 13:54
1. That the US should invade Iraq with NO link to 911
Dur...WHY IS THAT Jeremy?!!!
2. That Bush had dealings with Saudi royals before and during 911...
Dur...WHY IS THAT Jeremy?!!!
Jeez the guy is a moron...
Captain Wardrobe
paxman is a w*nker
24.05.2004 22:19
to give Colin Pillinger a hard time...
poor sods had enough to deal with!!!
he also licked the arse off Davis frum
the moronic Bush spreechwriter...
I thought for a moment he would call him eddy-baby
[like that sketch on monty python]
Captain Wardrobe
interview
25.05.2004 09:21
The "questions" Paxman asked were the stupidest ever. He was obviously avoiding the issues because there is no way that Jeremy Paxman is that stupid.
He kept pretending to miss the point in order to dodge the issues raised by Chomsky.
Furat Al-Samaraie
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do you know the reason why no-one gives environmental issues the time of day?
30.04.2005 21:38
If you want peope to take notice of what you say, you have to be able to communicate.
Calling someone a w****r just because your not getting your own wayis childish - and who will listen to children?
Paxman is fair - he wil cross examine ALL his interviewees with the same vigour. He asked questions to allow chomski to get his points accross.
I like chomski - i aggree with him, and probably with you about most things, but if you dont grow up, no one will ever take these issues seriously.
m. castle