Chomsky on Newsworld Int'l NOW

[NashVegas]

And this is the news outlet Gore wants to buy and turn into MTV for politics.

:(

[snoochie]

1. Where is that?

Cable, satellite?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Digital cable and possibly satellite

If you can get it, watch it.

I will be most upset if Gore buys this station and changes its format. It's basically Canadian news with English-language reports from other countries.

[On the Road]

3. Is This the Charlie Rose Interview?

That was worth seeing. I hope the international news continues, but let's face it, Gore's network would have ten times the number of viewers.

[Gin]

4. Charlie was frustrated with Chomsky during that interview....

gin

[NashVegas]

5. No

One of the NWI guys.

I'll try to transcribe it later.

[NashVegas]

6. Transcript

CBC guy: we’ve talked over the years and they say ‘Chomsky’s an anti-American ...

Chomsky: it’s an interesting concept. suppose somebody in Italy criticized Berlusconi’s policies. would anybody call them anti-Italian? Try that on the streets of Milan and people will collapse in laughter. The idea that somebody’s an anti-American by criticizing government policies is a strictly totalitarian notion, borrowed from the totalitarianist lexicon, like in Stalinist Russia. Dissidents were called ‘anti-Soviet.’

voiceover while Bush lands on USS Lincoln footage:

It had never happened before. A US president flying onto an aircraft carrier in a Navy jet.

Chomsky: George Bush had landed in combat gear in a carefully placed scene with all the right television images. Again, any self-respecting newspaper would have collapsed in ridicule. The front page of the NY times reported that he gave a victory speech with a ‘powerful Reaganesque finale.’ to the war.

CBC - what were they referring to?

Chomsky - they were referring to Reagan’s speech explaining how the US was proudly standing tall after having conquered the nutmeg capital of the world, Grenada, where 6,000 US special forces succeeded in overcoming the resistance of a couple dozen middle aged construction workers.

bush clip: ‘in this battle we have fought for the cause of liberty. and for the peace of the world (applause).

CBC - in America you look at the situation in Iraq and you have elections coming up in I think a year today. And again, I quote from the NY Times today: the political challenge posed to President Bush after the deadly helicopter crash in Iraq - more losses etc - how to keep public opinion from swinging against him over Iraq, while not abandoning his quest to bring a stable democracy to that country.

Chomsky: that’s straight out of Stalin, that’s a free press if you like. Nobody’s forcing them to say that, they ought to be writhing in embarrassment for saying that. On what grounds do they believe George Bush is trying to bring a stable democracy to Iraq? The only grounds are: our leaders told us that. And we are so subordinate to power that we worship them and revere them and if they say something we repeat it without asking whether it’s true. Like is it true that he’s trying to bring a stable democracy to Iraq? Think about what they did in Central America, or like they’re doing in Uzbekistan (sp) or what they did in the Palestine case (mumbles). You’re not allowed to ask that. You have to worship the leader and repeat his phrases as if they’re necessarily true.

CBC: you used to not get air time, but now it’s different ...

Chomsky - with you.I’m talking to you, not CBS. Mostly in Europe

CBC - NY Times magazine this weekend ...

Chomsky - It’s interesting. Did you see the photograph with that? They sent a photographer down there, we took hundreds of pictures. Perfectly nice guy, we got along. At the end of the session, he said ‘would you mind taking your glasses off?’ I said ‘that’s ridiculous - it’s on me. Why take a picture of Robert Redford or someone. I never even take off my glasses when I go to sleep.’ And he said, ‘well just for fun.’ What pictures did they use? (no glasses) ... And, it’s trivial but symbolic. The point is it’s truth that’s insignificant. It’s not even a value.

[johnfunk]

7. What was the name of the NWI program on which NC appeared?

NWI rotates most programming every few hours on the weekend; many of us might be able to catch the repeat if we know which show.

[NashVegas]

9. International Newsfirst

It did recycle at least once in the afternoon. It was in the last 10 minutes of the show.

[theoceansnerves]

8. i wish i saw this

this sounds a lot better than the rose interview. rose was a complete blathering idiot, not letting chomsky respond, interrupting, making noises when chomsky was speaking, etc.