Posted by: McQ on Friday, September 22, 2006 And all this time Hugo thought he was shilling for a dead guy as he waved Chomsky's book around: At a news conference after his spirited address to the United Nations on Wednesday, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela expressed one regret: not having met that icon of the American left, the linguist Noam Chomsky, before his death.Heh ... Chomsky, reached at his Lexington, Mass. home said that he was still kicking ... working and writing. A very fitting end to Hugo's trip to the big city, wouldn't you say? UPDATE: So which is it: Chomsky or Gailbraith? According to Reuters, he lamented not being able to meet Gailbraith before he died: The dark-skinned, mixed race leader told New Yorkers to read Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain as well as modern thinkers like Noam Chomsky and John Kenneth Galbraith, lamenting he could not meet Galbraith before he died in April at age 97.What's with the "dark-skinned, mixed race leader" bit? And, of course, touting Gailbraith says a lot about Chavez's economic acumen (not to mention Chomsky and politics). It's the 1970s all over again. Well at least it will beat Fidel's Cuba, perpetually trapped in the '50s. |
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