clocker bob wrote:Chomsky doesn't deny the manipulation of Central American and South American governments by US intelligence operatives. Why he doesn't label these operations as conspiracies, I don't know.
gramsci wrote:That would probably be because this all happened on TV in the bright light of day... i.e. it wasn't a "theory".
The necessary sentence deconstruction for the lying Gramsci:
In Bob's quote ( selected by Gramsci ), Bob asks why Noam Chomsky does not label the
manipulation of Latin American governments by the CIA ( not the direct military actions ) as conspiracies, because the policy decisions to meddle with the LA governments were made in secrecy and the actual meddling was carried out in secrecy. Bob's question has been established- here it is, compacted: Is it correct to view the manipulation of LA governments by the CIA ( as documented by Noam Chomsky ) as a conspiracy?
Then we move on to the first word of Gramsci's reply: That. That, in this context, is defined as "Noam Chomsky's descriptions of CIA interference in Latin America". There is no way for That to be in reference to overt US military action in Central America, because, as anyone can see, Bob made no mention of overt US military action in Central America. Moving on to sixth word of Gramsci's reply: This. This, in this context, is in reference to Noam Chomsky's descriptions of CIA interference in Latin America. There is no way for This to represent overt US military action in CA, because Bob made no mention of overt US military action in CA.
Then we move on to seventh through tenth words of Gramsci's reply: "all happened on TV". In that phrase, the word 'all' correlates with the the words 'that and 'this'- now we have a group of words all in reference to the same portion of Noam Chomsky's books- his descriptions of CIA meddling in Latin America.
Now we return to Gramsci deliberately lying about and misinterpreting his own words:
Gramsci claiming that Bob was referring to overt US military action in CA, and Gramsci claiming that he really meant foreign TV broadcast into the US ( in the early 1980's??):
Gee whizz America used it's power to affect the political situation in South American countries! Who would have thought!
The shock!
The surprise!
Give me a break, the rest of the world gets the BBC etc.
Gramsci ranting ad hominems cuz he knows he is in the vice grip of python Bob:
Why do you have to stoop to putting words in someone's mouth to build an argument. Seriously Bob, if one follows your argument above it looks like boarderline lunacy. You are aware you started the Chomsky line there and that you built everything you are getting heated up about in the above sentences in your head, without a single prompt from me? If you can't see that... well, I really think getting some help would be best.
More ad hominems and more deliberate distortion of his own reply by Gramsci. Here he says that he can't be wrong for claiming that the US media covered all this, because its not his fault that the US media is bad, so therefore, Gramsci can't be faulted for making erroneous claims about it ( amazing obfuscation right there from the G man ):
No it is not what I wrote, it is what you put in my mouth. As always you switch to a Gringo-centred world view, "America, america, america", you're like a broken record. Why should we give a fuck if Americans have a shitty media. I knew America was behaving like asshats in Latin America through watching mainstream news in New Zealand, BBC, TVNZ as a teenager.
Then Earwicker pointed Gramsci's lies out to him, and G man freaked out some more with more lies:
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
The fuck I said any such thing... try reading my posts instead of reading Bob's nonsense.
Bob said that America's behaviour in Latin America was some kind of secret. Bullshit.
Then he pipes up with Chomsky and now you're assuming I started some kind of debate about Chomsky's writing.
Weird.
Here's his worst lie yet- a complete misrepresentation of his original reply. Boldface is the biggest lie:
Umm. I'm still trying to figure out why you keep ranting on about about Chomsky. I said American intervention in Latin America is hardly news to most people and your only defence is that Chomsky wasn't on TV so people didn't know it was happening? ( Compare that to what he actually wrote -CB) Then proceed to attack me for not stepping into your retarded world. You're using the Chewbacca Defence.
Here Gramsci claims that I 'pulled Chomsky out of thin air', when Chomsky was the central focus of my quote- the quote that Gramsci himself replied to, to answer my charge that Chomsky described conspiracies in his books. So Gramsci can't even keep the new lies from lying about old lies- now he lies that Chomsky was never a part of this discussion, when first, he lied that Chomsky's theories were on American television. Whew... that is some rabbit hole shit there, G man!:
Sorry, I'm still trying to figure out why the hell you have turned my comment that US meddling in Lat-Am is hardly in the realm of a conspiracy theory into an argument that seems to have something to do with Chomsky?
The only mention of Chomsky I've made here is in response to you pulling him our of thin air and then using my refusal to be drawn into this tangent as some kind of admission of dishonesty on my behalf...
Go back to being a atheist comic book hero: