RightNation.US: Academic quotes (Criticism, not hate mail) - RightNation.US

I came onto your site a few weeks ago and noticed that you were preparing to add quotes by such academics as Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. I wondered why you decided to put statements by these two extremely intelligent men on a site dedicated to making fun of moron celebrities. It made me think that you really were not interested in making people look stupid, but you were only interested in attacking people who merely disagree with you. And if you are laughing at the fact that I am calling Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn intelligent, which I'm sure you are, you should know that both of these people have made significant contributions to their respective fields. Noam Chomsky is responsible for largely revolutionizing the field of linguistics and he has made great contributions to the philosophy of language, and philosophy in general. He also has published a number of books on history and U.S. foreign policy, although they are very biased to the left. Howard Zinn is responsible for writing A People's History of The United States. In it he tried to explain U.S. history through the eyes of the American people, not through the eyes of leaders. Sure this book is extremely biased to the left, but he writes well and the book has been very influential in the field of history. I also noticed that you have included quotes by Tom Morello, guitarist for Rage Against the Machine. He is also quite intelligent and I don't think that he belongs with people such as Streisand and Sheryl Crow. Although his quotes are extremely liberal, he does not make things up, and all of the factual statements he made can be proven true. Before the war, I didn't agree with these guys at all. I thought that we should go to war with Iraq to get rid of the WMD. But since we can't find those, I really don't think we should have been there at all. Furthermore, we know that the Bush administration skewed the facts, so why should we listen to anything they say? I find it hard to believe that they went to Iraq for oil, but they obviously didn't do it for WMD, since we haven't been able to find them.