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MP3 Download: RBN Archive 2nd Hour mirror - 6.86 MB Webster Griffin Tarpley: ...now Barrie, I can't hold back any longer... I want to ask you about the thing that strikes me as one of the most relevant, most fascinating features of this book, and that is the detailed refutation and expose on the role of the "Left Gatekeepers" in general, and of Noam Chomsky in particular... and what I'm wondering is, as you're thinking about answering this question, in the Los Angeles conference, people saw this on C-SPAN, they saw you in those four C-SPAN broadcasts at the end of July, beginning of August, you were reading off a list of the gatekeepers, and I wonder, I'm not sure whether you have that in the book or if you have a copy with you ... Barrie Zwicker: Actually I've got my book open to that very page, and I did receive a lot of response from people who caught that little bit at the end of that marvelous panel of which you were such an important part... and lots of people have phoned me and said, "I really liked what you said, Barrie." Because I tried to be reasonable, and say that we should encourage the Left media to write articles and we should urge them, and we should cajole them, and then if they don't perform, then we should get after them, we should chase them, we should drop our subscriptions and so forth... escalate the thing. Noam Chomsky... this does appear to be one of the most fascinating parts of the book for a lot of people and I'm frankly even a little surprised myself at how well this is being received. I think that a whole lot of people had intuited that there's something wrong with Chomsky. That there's something strange, mysterious, contradictory, absurd, about his refusal to see that anybody other than Lee Harvey Oswald might have killed JFK, his refusal to become involved in looking into, whatsoever, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy and Malcolm X, and then, of course, although a lot of people cut him slack and were in effect in denial about Chomsky on those decapitations of the Left... but 9/11 came along, it's a Litmus test, I swear it's a Litmus test for every individual, every organization... where do they stand on 9/11? And of course he just proceeded to fail the 9/11 Litmus test entirely. And I think this has caused a lot of people to just say, to themselves, "There's gotta be something really wrong with Chomsky." And apparently I've articulated it in this 15,000-word chapter. And I do believe, that he is, an "agent of disinformation". Now, I don't say "disinformation agent", which would imply that he is on the payroll of the CIA, which is something that I cannot prove, and I do not necessarily believe. But he certainly is an "agent of disinformation". And there are many kinds of disinformation, he engages in about 20 different kinds of nasty propaganda techniques himself, especially in his public lectures... dismissive ness is one of the trickiest cards that he plays in his public lectures. He'll say things like, 'Oh well, we don't know who did 9/11, but it really doesn't matter,' and then he'll just go on! And that is a point where in a just, in an intellectually honest world, someone would say, "Hold it right there, Noam. Just hold it right there. WHY does it not matter, who did 9/11?" But of course when he's speaking before an adulatory crowd, they just accept this, he throws out these great dismissive phrases, and just continues on. And one of the tricks of his trade, is of course that he's written this immense number of books, he's incredibly prolific, I have 16 of his books myself, and in each of those books if you look toward the end, you'll find these massive numbers of footnotes, and he's renowned for tracking down these obscure facts from obscure journals and documents, and so people assume, when he's doing public speaking, that everything he says is equally well-researched, equally well-footnoted, equally valid... and it's not. He makes all sorts of just vague, sweeping generalizations, dismissive statements, complete mis-weighting of things, where something is very important he'll dismiss as unimportant and vice-versa. He throws up a smokescreen by way of always talking, and I don't disagree with him on this... it's an effective one, in any of his talks he'll talk about Granada, he'll talk about El Salvador, he'll talk about East Timor... no question, he was blowing the whistle on those for a long time, he harks back to them, but you know what? We don't need Noam Chomsky anymore to tell us about the death squads in El Salvador, we don't need Noam Chomsky to tell us about East Timor. We need Noam Chomsky to be on board, telling us about 9/11, and how it was done from the White House. And because he consistently steers away from the toxic core of what the oligarchy does by way of massive fraud, and therefore manipulation of the public for their Neocon agenda of global domination and resource theft, he in essence is working for them. I cannot come to any other conclusion. I'll just read you the last paragraph of this chapter;"Chomsky's recommendation that people practice intellectual self-defense is well taken, but, how many could dream that the person warning you is one of the most perilous against whom you'll need to defend yourself? That he is the Fire Marshall who wires your house to burn down? The Lifeguard who drowns you. The doctor with the disarming bedside manner who administers a fatal injection. If Noam Chomsky did not exist, the diaboligarchy would have to invent him. To the New World Order, he is worth 50 armored divisions."And I do believe that.
