Noam Chomsky: 'Trump is the defender stabbing you in the back' - BBC Newsnight

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  • Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2018
  • The philosopher speaks to Newsnight on the eve of the 2018 US mid-terms.
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    Mr Chomsky tells Emily Maitlis that President Donald Trump's "rhetorical excesses" were undertaken to show "I'm really your defender ... I'm working for you, I'm gonna protect you... while quietly I'm stabbing you in the back constantly".
    The November elections will decide who controls Congress, but have also been seen as a referendum on Mr Trump.
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Комментарии • 821

  • @michaelnelson9328
    @michaelnelson9328 4 года назад +17

    I have been learning from Dr. Chomsky since 1988 right after I left the Army. He has been my inspiration and teacher all these many years, and I know I'm a better person for it.

  • @barbarac9805
    @barbarac9805 5 лет назад +82

    She needs to let Chomsky answer the question before she interrupts him to ask another.

    • @georginapearce7870
      @georginapearce7870 4 года назад +3

      She is vile

    • @thelaurels13
      @thelaurels13 4 года назад +3

      @Barbara C She’s your typical shitty BBC journalist.

    • @buzifalus
      @buzifalus 4 года назад +3

      It's not just her it's the media producers and managers who are fanatical and frantic against freedom of thought and freedom of speech. They only want speech in their narrow perception of it

    • @ishtlutz1261
      @ishtlutz1261 3 года назад

      Barbara C
      FO REAL. She better check herself ‘fore she wreck herself.

    • @stephenmonash821
      @stephenmonash821 3 года назад

      @@georginapearce7870 lol

  • @sarahlianabusharar3230
    @sarahlianabusharar3230 5 лет назад +384

    Finally ! BBC brings the actual living greatest intellectual alive who speaks truth. Only truth and doesn’t hold any punches.thank you

    • @domaversano764
      @domaversano764 5 лет назад +6

      Noam Chomsky has been on Newsnight countless times over decades. He's probably one of its most popular guests. By all means criticise the BBC, but do so with evidence.

    • @gregchurchill4883
      @gregchurchill4883 5 лет назад +7

      He hasn't been on that much considering the knowledge he has, and the bbc news is a biased organisation run by hacks. Look who they hire, their back round and various studies (LSE) into their bias.

    • @Horny_Fruit_Flies
      @Horny_Fruit_Flies 5 лет назад +7

      @Sentry Stout He's very smart in politics as well. He's been talking about politics for decades.

    • @Horny_Fruit_Flies
      @Horny_Fruit_Flies 5 лет назад +6

      @Sentry Stout Good job, you're preforming the basic human function of thinking for yourself, and yet you're flaunting it around like it's an achievement. That's also what I am doing, believe it or not, and I came to the conclusion that Chomsky is "very smart" in the realm of politics. If you don't think that he's smart in politics, perhaps you have some form of bias involved in your thought process?

    • @LowleyUK
      @LowleyUK 5 лет назад +5

      Nobody even listens to him. His gravelly voice puts everyone to sleep. People just say he's intelligent to virtue signal.

  • @robertcombs55
    @robertcombs55 4 года назад +27

    Chomsky; the most brilliant Man alive....

    • @saturiankhazard
      @saturiankhazard 4 года назад

      Read about Jacque Fresco...

    • @espojespo5
      @espojespo5 4 года назад

      He's up there for sure

    • @theweirdestsmartchannel1842
      @theweirdestsmartchannel1842 4 года назад

      R J sources

    • @bgraham928
      @bgraham928 3 года назад

      If he is so brilliant, can he explain how to make steel and melt silica without fossil fuels?

    • @77Avadon77
      @77Avadon77 3 года назад

      @@theweirdestsmartchannel1842 google chomsky criticisms and you'll see he's been wrong a LOT

  • @sailenkatel3436
    @sailenkatel3436 5 лет назад +173

    I interviewed Professor Chomsky a few years ago. While we spoke mostly on Linguistics I can't help but marvel at the erudition and the simplicity of this genius.

    • @tamasmengesha2598
      @tamasmengesha2598 5 лет назад +3

      Sailen, tha's great. Does the genius still believe the Cambodian genocide did not happen?

    • @sailenkatel3436
      @sailenkatel3436 5 лет назад +16

      Tamas I have read more about his Linguistics than his politcs so I am not qualified to comment on the point you raised. I disagree with Professor Chomsky on Israeli Palestinian conflict but it doesn't mean I can't admire his genius. Einstein theorised nonsense such as the cosmological constant and Aristotle thought women had fewer teeth than men! Doesn't stop any one of them from being some of the most enlightened humans of all time. I try to look at people at their best unless they constantly push their worst unto us.

    • @andcouncil1
      @andcouncil1 5 лет назад +5

      @Violette Wellington like your brain!

    • @tamasmengesha2598
      @tamasmengesha2598 5 лет назад +1

      @@sailenkatel3436 Sailen, thank you, I see your point. However: When thinking of the cosmological constant the physicist Einstein did nothing but his job and stayed more or less in the field he was an expert on. The opposite applies for Chomsky: He is a linguist but sells his thoughts on economics, politics or history as expert opinions, now even BBC calls him a philosopher. In my opinion, the outcome of that are oviously serious misinterpretations, errors, conspiracy theories and ideology camouflaged as science.

    • @oblodoblodob
      @oblodoblodob 5 лет назад +9

      @@tamasmengesha2598 @Tamas Mengesha it's an unusual caption but not inaccurate. I think he's now an emeritus professor so it may be more accurate to describe him by his current practice, which may be leaning a little more towards his philosophical work. He was trained as a philosopher under Goodman and his opinions have at times been the fulcrum of discussion of philosophy of mind, in particular, within the analytic tradition. Journalists and other detractors repeatedly dredge up this apparent position re Cambodia sometime prior to 78. It may have been grossly wrong but I believe he may have been repeating what informed sources were saying at the time. The world only became informed of what had happened after the Vietnamese entered. It's notable that an erroneous scepticism he exercised prior to the availability of knowledge in the 1970s is still brought up every time he speaks or writes anything. That sounds like an ad hominem to me and suggests people struggle with his ideas. I don't agree with him on everything, and he seems to have a combative streak that plays out in his field, but it seems to me if you value democracy and an open society he's doing a great public service in critiquing US power. He's also, in my opinion, one of the 20th century's best philosophers

  • @P.rusticus
    @P.rusticus 5 лет назад +77

    As I once heard stated, "he is our Modern Day Socrates."

    • @garywilson3042
      @garywilson3042 5 лет назад +6

      that is actually a very good comparison. Noam Chomsky will forever remind us that he was one of the greats, that is assuming we have a future, if the developed countries of the world stop polluting our skies, and put much more pressure on energy companies to switch to renewable sources.

    • @tonywords6713
      @tonywords6713 4 года назад +4

      Charles De Carpas Trotsky was alive in the modern era, dunce.

    • @steelyman08
      @steelyman08 4 года назад +1

      Absolutely. While the war rages on & on, Chomsky cuts through to the very core ~ way beneath the turbulent distracting surface. The media will always win, but it's good to have a sage about for those who need to hear a word of truth from time to time!

    • @steelyman08
      @steelyman08 4 года назад +3

      @@smartupworld The problem is that no one in power has to fear a Socrates anymore because nobody gives a damn. There is no threat from the teachings of wisdom today. The "youth of Athens" aren't truly interested anymore (unless it can get some likes on a social media site, etc.).

    • @MedullarisConus
      @MedullarisConus 4 года назад +2

      Oh please give me a break. People can be impressed with any babbling old fart with technical terms and a poetry certificate🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @jjjj5452
    @jjjj5452 5 лет назад +11

    let him speak, jeez

  • @glennm8337
    @glennm8337 5 лет назад +88

    Everyone knows Noam's answers are long winded. Could this interviewer shut up and let him speak?

    • @batkomahnoX100
      @batkomahnoX100 5 лет назад +6

      There are time constraints on live broadcasts and it is the job of the host to regulate the interview

    • @Baron-nv1ez
      @Baron-nv1ez 5 лет назад +6

      @@batkomahnoX100 They regulate it to their benefit.

    • @Frisbieinstein
      @Frisbieinstein 5 лет назад +3

      She's trying to be respectful. It's hard because of the intercontinental speed-of-light delay.

    • @goethicdesire
      @goethicdesire 5 лет назад +2

      He is ageing. Think his answers are short but he is taking lot of time which is understandable. The man is 90 now! He is still going to be precise than most people speaking on the show

    • @burdenonsociety1968
      @burdenonsociety1968 5 лет назад +1

      @@Baron-nv1ez nah she's got producers pushing her in her earpiece to move things along, she has very little control of how the BBC want the interview to go and at what speed. Just think she's got to listen to this guy while at the same time listen to her producers, it's not easy and definitely not done disrespectfully

  • @tomwebster7845
    @tomwebster7845 5 лет назад +5

    Could the commentator PLEASE let Noam finish the answer??????

  • @Rhythmicons
    @Rhythmicons 5 лет назад +12

    Never interrupt NC.

    • @stephenmonash821
      @stephenmonash821 3 года назад

      Unless you are a dizzy blonde looking for sound bites to build your reputation off the back of a genius

  • @nicholaskouyoumdjian9392
    @nicholaskouyoumdjian9392 5 лет назад +4

    What , the BBC interviewing Noam Chomsky. Can't believe it!

  • @martinobrien7110
    @martinobrien7110 5 лет назад +96

    A VERY WISE MAN , UNLIKE THE PRESIDENT .

    • @jeffbavolar7611
      @jeffbavolar7611 5 лет назад +10

      Martin O'BRIEN - is not hard to be wiser than Trump...

    • @jekonimus
      @jekonimus 5 лет назад +3

      but he is a stable genius????

    • @andypeterson2126
      @andypeterson2126 5 лет назад +3

      Well if he’s so wise then why isn’t he president ? Golly, it’s so easy to criticize from the sidelines, which Chomsky always does. However, to actually have to take on risk and try now that’s a completely different game! Now go back to hating Trump while us men actually work!

    • @martinobrien7110
      @martinobrien7110 5 лет назад +5

      @@andypeterson2126 TRUMP THE BRAVE DRAFT DODGER , AFRAID OF THE DRIZZLE .

    • @Baron-nv1ez
      @Baron-nv1ez 5 лет назад +12

      @@andypeterson2126 Chomsky wasn't lucky enough to be born into a billion dollar empire, also he lacks the Narcissistic tendencies that helped Trump become president. Donald Trump has been shameless enough to put Americans of different ethnicities against each other so he could become president of the United States. What a morally-bankrupt and sleazy piece-of-shit he his as well as his blind followers.

  • @stephendavies8510
    @stephendavies8510 5 лет назад +155

    One of the great free thinkers of the world always a pleasure to listen to him.

    • @craigtheschmeg3253
      @craigtheschmeg3253 5 лет назад +2

      Yeah, liberal worms and their SJW inbreeds get pleasure from listening to someone who promises them free stuff.

    • @artyblartyfartblast8465
      @artyblartyfartblast8465 5 лет назад +4

      Craig TheSchmeg if you wish to call the survival of both civilisation and the species free stuff that's up to you.

    • @craigtheschmeg3253
      @craigtheschmeg3253 5 лет назад +2

      @@artyblartyfartblast8465 Google Venezuela to get a view of your utopia. If it comes here, I for one will have no sympathy for those who voted for it here as they tear each other apart for scraps of rat meat and worms.

    • @Sludgee9
      @Sludgee9 5 лет назад +2

      Both he and you, are completely full of shit.

    • @zillsburyy1
      @zillsburyy1 5 лет назад +2

      Get a job you fucking bum

  • @percivalsweetwater9992
    @percivalsweetwater9992 5 лет назад +11

    Thank you, BBC. Here in the US, Noam Chomsky is essentially banned from PBS and NPR.

    • @pierreo33
      @pierreo33 4 года назад +2

      @Phoenix Because the US is a corrupt capitalism machine, always has been and always will be. Now I haven't got a problem with capitalism (every economic system has ups and downs) but when the leaders are corrupt, taking bribes from big corporations etc... there's your problem.

    • @rcchristian2
      @rcchristian2 4 года назад

      @Phoenix Politicians should have to volunteer for the job. One small point is that Clinton did eliminate the debt clock, just before Bush put us in to the Iraq war. They all just stuff their own pockets with the money of the American people.

  • @Atif_Ph.D._Kate_Bush_Fan_Club
    @Atif_Ph.D._Kate_Bush_Fan_Club 5 лет назад +107

    I’m Glad to see the Beeb giving the Professor some airtime.

    • @30eesh
      @30eesh 5 лет назад

      tats cause he's licking her pussy

    • @andcouncil1
      @andcouncil1 5 лет назад +1

      @@30eesh which you have never had!

    • @artyblartyfartblast8465
      @artyblartyfartblast8465 5 лет назад

      Atif Suleman NPR hasn't had him on once despite his status as the most quoted intellectual over decades.

  • @shoelessjoe428
    @shoelessjoe428 5 лет назад +4

    Mr. Chomsky hits the nail on the head as usual.

  • @np0804
    @np0804 5 лет назад +78

    he's pretty accurate

    • @lissaleggs4136
      @lissaleggs4136 5 лет назад +4

      Bit late though.
      Trump is an idiot, always has been. Just a Stupid greedy old man now.

    • @kelly980
      @kelly980 5 лет назад +11

      @discorperted What has this got to do with Obama? Chomsky had similar things to say about Obama.

    • @lissaleggs4136
      @lissaleggs4136 5 лет назад +1

      @discorperted
      Ya well he deserved what he got..
      Stuff happens around traitors..

    • @jacobtheboy
      @jacobtheboy 5 лет назад +3

      @discorperted what the living fuck are you talking about? You idiot!

    • @robertpirsig5011
      @robertpirsig5011 5 лет назад +1

      And the Understatement of the century goes to...

  • @theicyridge
    @theicyridge 5 лет назад +29

    How does anyone listen to Jordan Peterson when they could have Chomsky ?

    • @joeschmoe1193
      @joeschmoe1193 4 года назад +2

      Very easily. Chomsky is a phony. He's rich, worth millions, while championing a leftist dogma. All these leftists are phonies especially Bernie. They're all well to do and wouldn't dare give up the good life they lead for austerity. They expect you to lead an austere life while they enjoy it without boundaries. What would you rather be well off or on welfare? So tell them to take their message and shove it.

    • @tonywords6713
      @tonywords6713 4 года назад +1

      Joe Schmoe you realize a million dollars is nothing right?

    • @Lanterfantable
      @Lanterfantable 4 года назад +2

      @@joeschmoe1193 You thought about it. Not very well, but they're thoughts. Good job and keep practicing.

    • @espojespo5
      @espojespo5 4 года назад +1

      @@joeschmoe1193 Dimwit. Phonies don't dedicate their lives to their causes. You may not AGREE with them,but nonetheless YOU can shove cupcake. Joe Blow, happy to debate ya there ya tough guy...

    • @theicyridge
      @theicyridge 4 года назад +1

      @R J sound argument.

  • @Beery1962
    @Beery1962 5 лет назад +2

    I saw him speak a few years ago in Massachusetts. People call him the greatest intellectual of our time, and that is not hyperbole. The man is a genius (and not just in linguistics), and he's one of the very few who is able to cut through the propaganda and BS to see the world as it really is.

  • @robertsimon6674
    @robertsimon6674 5 лет назад +1

    wow .. brilliant !!!

  • @np4653
    @np4653 4 года назад +3

    Brilliant as always.

  • @alysfreeman11
    @alysfreeman11 5 лет назад +29

    One of the wisest men alive today. Listen to him.

    • @RatatRatR
      @RatatRatR 4 года назад +1

      He hardly even has competition for that title.

    • @wylieecoyote
      @wylieecoyote 4 года назад

      Hardly.. he is just another of the Left's talking heads that tell them what they want to hear. He has produced nothing and done nothing but advocate for Socialism. Trump guided the US economy to it's largest growth in 50 years, increased taxes brought into the Federal government by cutting the tax rate for those that drive the economy, which increases employment. Less unemployment means less benefits paid out, more tax paid and more consumers to make purchases. This is basic economics but the left either don't get it or just want the government to run and control business so they can skim as much money as they can.

    • @RatatRatR
      @RatatRatR 4 года назад

      Look -- you're dumb as fucking shit.

    • @Hayesaxib
      @Hayesaxib 4 года назад

      @@wylieecoyote Just a few questions. Who are you and how are you contributing to society or the world or even your neighborhood? Is this your contribbution? You sound ridulous. From the way you write, you sound like you didn't hear what the man said. You just went on the attack. How have you benefitted from the tax cuts for the wealthy (job creators)?
      Last question, how many Jobs have you personally introduced into the economy or do you just cheerlead for the 0.01%? I'm just curious.

    • @wylieecoyote
      @wylieecoyote 4 года назад +1

      @@Hayesaxib "Who are you.." ect. is precisely the problem. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I don't need to "be" anybody to have valid points. There are handicapped people that contribute in the best way they can, and that may be through reasoned opinion. The Left values identity politics to the point that people have to justify themselves through victimhood. It is truly despicable and has lead to tremendous death and suffering.
      Chomsky claimed that the evil "rich" people were "given" the "donar tax bill which was a gift to the wealthy". Total horseshit. It was their money to begin with. The government adjusted the high rates of the people who are paying 90% of the taxes to a lower rate to cause job growth because businesses can hire more people who in turn pay taxes and purchase things for their families. That caused job growth and the lowest unemployment in 50 years and largest gains in the stock market. The wealthy still pay huge taxes compared to everyone else and they drive our economy.
      The opening of new oil fields will not cause an increase of use, but it will lower the outrageous price we are being charged for oil, which is then, in some cases, used to fund terrorists. Reduced dependence on Saudi means the US can be firmer with them on human rights violations and other poor behavior they are responsible for. The US still puts a huge amount of research into clean energy. The Left rejects LFTR nuclear energy, which is totally fail safe using molten salt (Thorium) that is completely clean and safe and is the ONLY technology we currently have that can eliminate fossil fuels.
      The Left has a simple formula - take from the rich, skim most of the money and give the scraps to the people to make them dependent on government. Every country that follows this formula crashes. Go live in Venezuela and you will see why they are leaving to come to the US.

  • @lau_dhondt
    @lau_dhondt 5 лет назад +34

    Chomsky on BBC. Much appreciated.

  • @MrMLHoganjr
    @MrMLHoganjr 5 лет назад +3

    "Noam Chomsky, Philospher?" That's a new one. He's a linguistics professor.

    • @jacobtheboy
      @jacobtheboy 5 лет назад +1

      Without question he's a philosopher. I don't get what you're saying. Explain

    • @josephbragg5445
      @josephbragg5445 5 лет назад

      That aint what I heard we been hearing differently

    • @sregan5415
      @sregan5415 5 лет назад +3

      He's a linguistics professor and a political philosopher. He's been active in both for the majority of his life.

  • @daisylanter3504
    @daisylanter3504 4 года назад +1

    I mean I would say Chomsky’s a philosopher, but he is also a fantastic linguist who has contributed a great deal to the scientific community.

  • @jdtoddjazz
    @jdtoddjazz 4 года назад +1

    Brilliant and useful distinction between the actual constituency and the voting constituency.

  • @pwnstoohard
    @pwnstoohard 5 лет назад +7

    guys were reaching peak oil, this time for sure

  • @PaulJones-oj4kr
    @PaulJones-oj4kr 5 лет назад +2

    Trump's war on Venezuela for oil is disgusting. It's environmental statement is basically, "up yours."

  • @garywilson3042
    @garywilson3042 5 лет назад +5

    We really need to become more environmentally friendly, and in a hurry.

    • @sregan5415
      @sregan5415 5 лет назад +5

      It's not so much on the individual level - as he says, the big coal and gas industry have to stop heavily polluting NOW.

    • @freetobeme3943
      @freetobeme3943 4 года назад

      @@sregan5415 he doesn't say that it is on the individual level

    • @77Avadon77
      @77Avadon77 4 года назад

      Environmentally friendly is now code for communist regime. They want to ban everything that makes life easy and enjoyable

    • @garywilson3042
      @garywilson3042 4 года назад

      77Avadon77 shut up

    • @77Avadon77
      @77Avadon77 4 года назад

      @@garywilson3042 okay commie

  • @laurenceellis6256
    @laurenceellis6256 5 лет назад +2

    He’s aged 88, 89, or 90? (Can’t remember) How is this guy still alive?

  • @jackaljade
    @jackaljade 5 лет назад +8

    For anyone who's watching the video and reading the comments lauding Chomsky, and can't understand why people are saying what they are... Unfortunately, Chomsky has become old and his mind isn't as fast as it used to be, that's clear to see... To really understand why people in the comments regard him so highly, read his books or watch some of his old videos, which you'll find plentiful right here on RUclips.

    • @abbeysomethingnormal7830
      @abbeysomethingnormal7830 4 года назад

      jackaljade
      The interviewer is a typical teleprompter reader w attitude and an agenda.

  • @navigator3744
    @navigator3744 5 лет назад +4

    The only one telling it like it is …

    • @allisnotwhatitseems.
      @allisnotwhatitseems. 4 года назад +1

      The Peace Project there are many but not as calmly articulated.

    • @navigator3744
      @navigator3744 4 года назад

      @@allisnotwhatitseems. Chris Hedges? Glenn Greenwald? Dr. Anthony Fauci? Bill Moyers? Paul Krugman? Jim Anderson? John Englander? Guy McPherson? Would you agree with those? If you know of any others that qualify, please list a few; I would like to listen to what they say.

  • @MrTobyjansen
    @MrTobyjansen 4 года назад +1

    He who knows and knows that he knows, he's a wise man seek his advice. Noam Chomsky.

  • @gertraudmariaspicer5290
    @gertraudmariaspicer5290 5 лет назад +2

    Dr. Noam Chomsky, the voice of reason calling out from a wilderness of greed, ignorance and stupidity. Thank you Dr. Chomsky!

  • @trainsofvancouver1087
    @trainsofvancouver1087 5 лет назад +8

    BBC Presenters: When you have one of the greatest living academics on your programmes, please let them finish their thoughts before jumping on their last few words.

  • @ddd-ly3rv
    @ddd-ly3rv 5 лет назад

    Being obsessed with lack of content is meant to be good for advertisers because you spend more time looking at the adverts. No one remembers the adverts at half time in a good sports game.

  • @vdhklove7638
    @vdhklove7638 5 лет назад +1

    don't forget to change the speed to 1.25 and enjoy

  • @anavale7024
    @anavale7024 4 года назад

    Sera q tem legendado em português?

  • @hilalahmad7286
    @hilalahmad7286 5 лет назад +1

    Trump is knowingly turning a deaf ear to these environmental concerns. How disgusting!

  • @etchalaco9971
    @etchalaco9971 3 года назад

    NC does not need to be asked for examples. He immediately gives them to you bc he believes you should ask for them

  • @KingBernie
    @KingBernie 4 года назад

    Come on @BBC. It's Dr. Chomsky or Prof. Chomsky, not Mr.

  • @lindawitherspoon446
    @lindawitherspoon446 4 года назад +1

    Quit interrupting the man!!

  • @jdtoddjazz
    @jdtoddjazz 4 года назад

    Reporter: "Come on, hurry it up, old man, I don't have all day."

    • @pierreo33
      @pierreo33 4 года назад

      You have ADD

    • @jdtoddjazz
      @jdtoddjazz 4 года назад +1

      My dear Pierre, you obviously don't recognize sarcasm.

    • @aapp953
      @aapp953 3 года назад

      Gtfoh

  • @thejoin4687
    @thejoin4687 5 лет назад +1

    Riderless horses on Chomsky's Camelot.

  • @friggenmcswiggen7784
    @friggenmcswiggen7784 5 лет назад

    I sometimes wonder if he would've been held in such high intellectual regard had he been called "Dave Smith" or "Percy McDonald".

    • @aapp953
      @aapp953 3 года назад

      Then pitty the lack of brain cells you contain sir.

  • @kylef8703
    @kylef8703 4 года назад

    What the fuck is up with the news anchor? She keeps hunching over and squinting her eyes like she is expecting a certain answer from Chomsky . Lol

  • @guinnesstrail
    @guinnesstrail 5 лет назад +2

    I’m with Chomsky, I don’t believe in sanity clause.

    • @charliemorris2338
      @charliemorris2338 4 года назад

      Grown-ups need to believe in Jesus like children need to believe in Santa Claus.

  • @BruceHarms
    @BruceHarms 4 года назад +1

    Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist...

  • @user-bq9wy9kx3y
    @user-bq9wy9kx3y 6 месяцев назад

    Just starting to think this myself.

  • @jackaljade
    @jackaljade 5 лет назад +129

    A true heavy weight, old school intellectual... Not like these faux supposed intellectuals we have today, like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Sam Harris.

    • @Horny_Fruit_Flies
      @Horny_Fruit_Flies 5 лет назад +3

      @@arunkeshavadas7171 As well as his debate with Matt Dillahunty.

    • @quinnishappy5309
      @quinnishappy5309 5 лет назад +2

      its sad that youre creating a bad error, linguistically for what is deemed in your mind intellectual might absolute, predicated on their being a intellectual that rules over the rest. In my opinion, you are better to say, that they are lesser intellectuals than chomsky. It is again in my opinion therefore structurally wrong to say that are not intellectuals at all or fake; (or I think you meant pseudo intellectuals) by evidence of their books, talks and understanding with others, this is not what the evidence shows us to be.

    • @batkomahnoX100
      @batkomahnoX100 5 лет назад +5

      @@arunkeshavadas7171 Interestingly enough Sam Harris tried to debate Chomsky and even published their email exchanges in order to give himself some credibility and exposure. Sam Harris is not an intellectual the way Noam Chomsky is

    • @TimezUp23
      @TimezUp23 5 лет назад +3

      Noam Chomsky is perfect for leftist Marxist. He is great at validating their confirmation bias.

    • @batkomahnoX100
      @batkomahnoX100 5 лет назад +5

      @@TimezUp23 Care to explain which bias? Chomsky's ideas are very well supported by logic and evidence

  • @steelyman08
    @steelyman08 4 года назад +2

    A true philosopher. Never froths at the mouth or leans to one side or the other. Just straight down the middle road, calm as you like.

  • @WhateverMan35
    @WhateverMan35 5 лет назад +2

    Noam Chomsky: Unless we end fossil fuels very quickly, the prospects of organised human life are very dim
    China, India & Germany: I'm sorry, what did you say. I cannot hear you over our coal fires trololololol.

    • @bgraham928
      @bgraham928 5 лет назад

      Unknown Unknown A very good point!

  • @jimmyofa6774
    @jimmyofa6774 5 лет назад

    Let's make the world a better day

  • @humanperson5153
    @humanperson5153 4 года назад +1

    Noam Chomsky for president.

  • @erronblack1
    @erronblack1 5 лет назад +1

    Dear lord, the host's questions are terrible.

    • @Beery1962
      @Beery1962 5 лет назад +1

      Sadly, this is the best we can expect from the corporate media. As Chomsky himself says, the corporate media set the acceptable bounds of discourse (and everything Chomsky says is going to be out of bounds), so of course their questions will seem stupid when asked of a person who cannot be bothered to waste time talking about irrelevancies. Thankfully, even at 89 years old, Chomsky is way too smart to be sidetracked.

  • @anthonytaylor3580
    @anthonytaylor3580 5 лет назад

    Thanks to Cambridge analytica, steve bannon; formerly known as donnie little hands's right hand man and strategist and wikileaks we now have the menace of the dumpster in office.

  • @erichvonmolder9310
    @erichvonmolder9310 5 лет назад

    Wow, a real honest thinker. BBC what happened, you sick putting on a Chomsky?

  • @waindayoungthain2147
    @waindayoungthain2147 5 лет назад

    My idea of the U.S. The most incident to see is a sanctuary to get benefits. I wish to seek help with sustainable development, calm, and the National was their ways. I hope for Venezuela people also.

  • @cmasseylynch
    @cmasseylynch 4 года назад +3

    surprised to see newsnight are actually talking to Chomsky,you get a little star for that bbc,but only a little one.Too little too late .AND BBC need to learn how to stop interrupting all the time....emily matis ...your huge ego is showing .

  • @aapp953
    @aapp953 3 года назад

    Sad but true. There is just no arguing with this man he is by far one of the most credible sources alive today as far as information goes history present not just in USA but globally he is full of knowledge. He has no poltical motive so what can anyone accuse him of?

  • @chinhau8702
    @chinhau8702 3 года назад

    Americans bewared...

  • @PaulJones-oj4kr
    @PaulJones-oj4kr 5 лет назад +7

    Why do BBC interviewers, like this chick, maintain the nasty, rude, habit of talking over and interrupting their interviewees, especially someone as brilliant as Chomsky? Reprehensible.

    • @adminharrisjonesconsulting724
      @adminharrisjonesconsulting724 4 года назад

      This ‘chick’. Talk about reprehensible...

    • @davidsejour4718
      @davidsejour4718 4 года назад

      Because she doesn’t have Chomsky intellectual level and doesn’t understand so she feels the need to ask an other question. Simple

  • @abdiismail4546
    @abdiismail4546 5 лет назад +2

    Legend. Unfortunately, no one around to replace him when he inevitably passes.

  • @ahmadrama9802
    @ahmadrama9802 5 лет назад

    Only a hundred thousands views, while Justin Pepper can make hundreds of millions of views.

  • @davidsejour4718
    @davidsejour4718 4 года назад +1

    Bad interviewer , she definitely doesn’t have the intellectual level of Chomsky , doesn’t understand the answer and feel the need to cut him and ask an other question.

  • @ZoloftSmoothie
    @ZoloftSmoothie 5 лет назад +1

    today Dec 7 2018 is Prof. Chomsky's 90th birthday. Happy birthday Prof. Chomsky!!!

  • @garywilson3042
    @garywilson3042 5 лет назад

    We need an incentive for renewable energy companies to expand and monopolise the industrial sectors of all developed countries, otherwise as Chomsky said, we will meet our ends as a species, and everything humanity has accomplished will mean nothing.

  • @jbug13158
    @jbug13158 5 лет назад +8

    Oh there was a movement exactly like this ...in the 1930's ask Poland.

  • @rcchristian2
    @rcchristian2 4 года назад

    Why couldn't Noam Chomsky be president??

  • @allisnotwhatitseems.
    @allisnotwhatitseems. 4 года назад

    David Bowie said - I’m afraid of Americans........

  • @Baron-nv1ez
    @Baron-nv1ez 5 лет назад

    Is Noam Chomsky considered a liberal or conservative?

    • @Octaslash08
      @Octaslash08 5 лет назад +2

      Neither, according to Chomsky himself he's an anarchro-syndicalist and a libertarian socialist.

    • @Baron-nv1ez
      @Baron-nv1ez 5 лет назад

      @@Octaslash08 What side of the political spectrum does he lean more towards? It has to be one. I'm an independent but lean a little more towards the right-wing of the political spectrum.

    • @Octaslash08
      @Octaslash08 5 лет назад +1

      He leans left, in DC sense Chomsky is off the spectrum it just goes to show how far to the right the Overton window in DC is, for example you might lean right but in DC you'll probably still considered left. Even the so called liberals in DC may be to the right of you.

    • @bhbluebird
      @bhbluebird 5 лет назад

      he sounds like "anti-bullshit" to me.

    • @jackarmstrong5645
      @jackarmstrong5645 4 года назад

      Chomsky says he is a conservative. He believes in honesty and fairness and caring about society. Things that American conservatives used to believe in. Now all they believe in is getting rich quick.

  • @NickRowsell
    @NickRowsell 4 года назад

    God help us when this most perspicacious of objective thinkers goes ...

  • @adamf8711
    @adamf8711 5 лет назад

    Get him on at 3am when everyone’s asleep. Then get the crazy’s on or special scripted correspondents on at prime time

  • @nottiredofwinning3736
    @nottiredofwinning3736 5 лет назад

    Never thought I'd see this guy become a war monger. What a hypocrite.

  • @imtiyazhusen5576
    @imtiyazhusen5576 5 лет назад +4

    Chomsky is undoubtedly a great philosopher & social critic 👌

  • @ryanbetter7661
    @ryanbetter7661 5 лет назад +2

    Love this mans thinking. Noam Chomsky the legend.

  • @tomwebster7845
    @tomwebster7845 5 лет назад

    Could the interviewer PLEASE let the f*******G interviewee finish the question??????

  • @aesop8694
    @aesop8694 4 года назад

    This interviewer needs to learn the Native American Indian Proverb,
    "Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf"
    I have heard that women have the ability to multitask but I doubt very much that they posses the ability to talk and listen at the same time.

  • @revpgesqredux
    @revpgesqredux 5 лет назад +8

    Appreciate how he avoids hyperbole and fearmongering. Noam P. Chomsky is the best. Orangemanbad for sure.

    • @thecrusader6790
      @thecrusader6790 5 лет назад +1

      Keep listening to your master thought slave!
      We choose to say no to Open borders, mass illegal immigration and bad economic deals!
      We choose economic, cultural and border security!
      TRUMP2020

  • @jimmyofa6774
    @jimmyofa6774 5 лет назад

    Sounds good. What year was he president according to him

  • @TheVaccineMachine
    @TheVaccineMachine 5 лет назад

    Noam is nuts

    • @aapp953
      @aapp953 3 года назад

      Yeah he is. Funny how the smartest people in the country will disagree with you and the people who cannot graduate high school will agree with you

  • @hasanyigitsonmez655
    @hasanyigitsonmez655 5 лет назад

    Chomsky + BBC = what the fuck is going on at USA

  • @whiteshadow59
    @whiteshadow59 3 года назад

    Do you think Donald Trump is bad? Yes I do.

  • @SwampYankee85
    @SwampYankee85 4 года назад

    Uh...

  • @gamos6698
    @gamos6698 4 года назад

    She doesn’t have any mates.

  • @freekmusbach8722
    @freekmusbach8722 5 лет назад +1

    Brilliant mind and how right hè is!

  • @jriendeau05
    @jriendeau05 5 лет назад

    He would destroy ben shapiro, lol ben is the only "smart" (fast talking with big words) republican out there

    • @jackarmstrong5645
      @jackarmstrong5645 4 года назад

      Chomsky destroyed William F. Buckley. Shapiro is a gnat compared to Buckley.

  • @Frisbieinstein
    @Frisbieinstein 5 лет назад

    Noam still roolz!

  • @scotthullinger9955
    @scotthullinger9955 4 года назад

    Two words: HOG WASH.

  • @duncanbleak3819
    @duncanbleak3819 5 лет назад +6

    Chomsky absolutely on point.
    As usual.

  • @MeanmnachAodh
    @MeanmnachAodh 4 года назад +1

    Glad to see Prof. Chomsky still appearing healthy and sharp. I tremble for a world with Noam no longer in it.

  • @bubbercakes528
    @bubbercakes528 3 года назад

    Mr. Chomsky is correct. Trump blunders about like a drunken toddler while hoping that no one will notice what he and his cronies are doing in the background. Trump is a master of the “slight of hand.” Why is is that we cannot have intelligent people like Mr. Chomsky in office. Americans vote for people they want to have a beer with instead of people they are afraid are smarter than they.

  • @Peter-wp5vb
    @Peter-wp5vb 5 лет назад

    What is Noam Chomsky personally doing to help mitigate the negative effects of climate change?

    • @zhiracs
      @zhiracs 5 лет назад +1

      Personal change does fuckall. The only hope for mitigation is global-scale effort, including the end of capitalism outright.

    • @Peter-wp5vb
      @Peter-wp5vb 5 лет назад

      Max Devo hey genius, guess what comprises the world? INDIVIDUALS! Tell me how we can achieve “global scale change” without personal changes? Or is this just the excuse you’re making to justify not taking action to help solve the words problems?
      (I know the answer, don’t worry)

    • @zhiracs
      @zhiracs 5 лет назад

      @@Peter-wp5vb We cannot leave this up to individuals because people like you won't do shit unless told to do so. You have no idea what I do off the internet so don't talk to me about not doing anything. I doubt I'll see you at any of the five General Strikes next year.

    • @Peter-wp5vb
      @Peter-wp5vb 5 лет назад

      Max Devo I’m a vegan who drives a Tesla and hold about 20k in Tesla stock, plus many more things, all at the age of 23. YOU have no clue about what I do, so try taking your own advice.
      You might not see me at any strikes, but you’ll see my, and people’s who I influence, monetary hits at the quarterly results of oil companies, traditional auto makers, meat-producing ag companies, and so much more. Your activity at strikes has questionable and often unquantifiable affect.

    • @zhiracs
      @zhiracs 5 лет назад +1

      So you readily admit to being a bourgeois leech and the spoiled brat of a rich mommy and daddy who thinks playing the capitalist game does anything. To add insult to injury, you follow an unsustainable diet which necessitates mass deforestation and exploitation of overseas labor. You are the problem, worm. You will not survive.

  • @ginosmovies
    @ginosmovies 4 года назад

    "Stabbing in the back" ?, I've followed Philosopher Chomsky for may years, great philosopher, activist, geopolitical critique, but the comment of "stabbing in the back"? I am having a hard time dealing with this comment. President Trump may be a lot of things but not that; His greatest strength and weakness is exposing the elites and academia for what they really are...... in my humble opinion.

    • @TheEndingAbyss
      @TheEndingAbyss 4 года назад +1

      Who did he expose? I see tax cuts that have an 80% benefit to rich people over regular people. I see he wanted to change the health industry to give people more fair prices but gave up immediately after 1 meeting with pharmaceutical CEOs(Obama basically did the same thing so democrats aren't off the hook here). He ran on not cutting social security, medicare/medicaid, and reaffirmed that 2 weeks ago, then cut them last week.
      He's right, Trump is a backstabber to his voters, only some of you don't realize you're getting fucked over.

    • @ginosmovies
      @ginosmovies 4 года назад

      @@TheEndingAbyss: Who did he expose? how about Hillary and the Clinton Foundation?, the Fake Russian collusion, how corrupt that the FBI, CIA top leaders are. just to name a few.
      On Healthcare, it was a start, he knew he wasn't going to win it on the first round. Remember President Trump was not only going up against the Democrats but also his republican people who at that time didn't see eye to eye.
      And seriously would you be better off under Hillary Clinton?

    • @TheEndingAbyss
      @TheEndingAbyss 4 года назад +1

      @@ginosmovies Where did he expose the Clinton's? That was Wiki leaks who Trump said he loved as a source, then after he got elected pretended he didn't know what it was.
      What happened to him hiring a special prosecutor to get her locked up? As soon as he was elected he was saying "oh I don't want to hurt them" and gave that up immediately.
      Fake Russian collision, yup, the red scare the right started decades ago still runs deep today, color me surprised. It wasn't fair when the right did it, and it's not fair that the left is doing it.
      Trump didn't expose the FBI and CIA, everyone has been calling them corrupt for a REALLY long time. Pointing out what everyone already knew based on the fact that the trust in them polls very unfavorably isn't exposing anything.
      Where exactly did you see me say Hillary would have been better, disagreeing with Trump doesn't automatically make me a supporter of the other side. I wanted him to prosecute her traitorous ass but he backed off.

  • @tharonkennedy203
    @tharonkennedy203 5 лет назад +4

    humanity will be at a loss when he passes.. love this guy!!

  • @charliemorris2338
    @charliemorris2338 4 года назад

    Hope he survives until Trump is ejected from office and due to modern technology he is immortal unless everything on earth is destroyed.We need more than ever before.

  • @DastardlyHandsome
    @DastardlyHandsome 5 лет назад +1

    Poor guy is really starting to slow down. I know he is healthy for a man his age, but these interviews are difficult to watch compared to 30+ years ago.

    • @sregan5415
      @sregan5415 5 лет назад

      He's still amazingly on the ball for his age. He might speak more slowly but shows no signs of senility.

  • @urbanfolk4949
    @urbanfolk4949 4 года назад

    most bbc female news people have man faces.

  • @garyengland9549
    @garyengland9549 5 лет назад +4

    Hello hello knocks on wooden head .. no cars in the last ice age . And America's in better shape than it has been for years .

    • @andcouncil1
      @andcouncil1 5 лет назад +1

      you're having a fucking laugh!

  • @JA-pn4ji
    @JA-pn4ji 5 лет назад

    Main issue is Trump!

    • @jeffbavolar7611
      @jeffbavolar7611 5 лет назад

      J A - unfortunately he is not the main issue. He is just a conman a distraction..