Chomsky's #1 Book On The Charts Overnight! Thanks Hugo Chavez

[Jcrowley]

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Chomsky's book is #1 at 3PM at Amazon which is a good thing.



Bush critics unite: Chavez plug for Chomsky's book boosts sales
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 22 September 2006

Who needs publicists and expensive advertising campaigns when you have Hugo Chavez plugging your books? When Venezuela's leader spoke at the UN this week and described George Bush as the Devil, he also gave a resounding boost to a book by another outspoken critic of the US President, Noam Chomsky.

After Mr Chavez recommended that anyone wishing to understand "what has been happening in the world through the 20th century" read Professor Chomsky's 2003 work, Hegemony and Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, sales of the book soared. On Amazon.com's best-seller list, it leapt from 160,722nd position overnight to seventh.

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He added: "I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States, because the threat is in their own house. The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil, himself, is right in the house."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1696141.ece

[silverweb]

1. This is great!

Gracias, Hugo! You've brought a great man into the limelight and enlightened many who otherwise might never have read his book.

:woohoo:

[Jcrowley]

2. Headlines should read

Chavez Does America Great Service Gets Them To Read Chomsky.

[silverweb]

15. LOL

:thumbsup:

[immoderate]

3. I'd love to hear a comment by Chomsky!

He must be amused.

--IMM

[Imagevision]

4. Pelosi's favorite "thug" scores for Chomsky, that's deep!!!

[dkofos]

5. Some good may come from Chavez's comments yet.

At least thousands more Americans will have the chance to read the truth.

[johnfunk]

6. Eat Your Heart Out, Oprah!

[Cocoa]

17. he might have messed with the wrong person

take on Bush, ok, but challenge Oprah as book endorser? :scared:

[personman]

7. Excellent.

I took the opportunity to grab Chomsky's latest "Failed States: The Abuse of Power and The Assault on Democracy" and "Chomsky on Anarchism" while ordering my copy of Hegemony or Survival. I've wanted those books for awhile but finally pulled the trigger.

This should be a much needed dose of reality for some of the american people.

-personman

[KoKo]

8. Chavez becomes the Ann Coulter of the Left! Gotta love that!

:rofl:

[Jcrowley]

9. Big difference

Chavez speaks truth to Power while Coulter licks Power's ass.

Not to mention Chavez has an encyclopedic understanding of World History and Coulter has the history as fairy tale view of the world.

[robbedvoter]

11. Short, sweet and to the point! Nicely done!

Also, that shows how out of toucs our so called representatives are is they thought people in this country would be shocked by Chavez....

[silverweb]

14. Thank you!

Chavez is nothing like that vicious, lying hag!

"Chavez speaks truth to Power while Coulter licks Power's ass."

Beautifully put!

:thumbsup:

[happydreams]

10. HOT!!! K&R

Keep em' coming HUGO!

[sarahlee]

12. This is a great book

and this is good news.

Talking about good books, here is another:

In his new book, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, Jeff Cohen takes you inside TV news and the conservative biases, timidity and tabloidism that dominate it. Few media critics have been afforded an intimate, on-the-job view of the outlets they condemn, but Cohen -- who founded the media watch group FAIR -- spent years at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. He was a senior producer at MSNBC’s Donahue during the run-up to the Iraq war, and witnessed war-enabling bias and censorship firsthand. He tells all in a biting, humorous paperback taking aim at the entire rightwing hot-air brigade that Cohen saw up close: O'Reilly, Hannity, Buchanan, Novak, Falwell, etc. (Ann Coulter wouldn’t debate him.) The book includes a foreword by Jim Hightower.

MOLLY IVINS says: "Jeff Cohen's dissection of cable TV news is both irresistibly funny and civically painful. It goes from uproarious anecdotes to those that make you wince."

IF YOU LIKED "OUTFOXED," YOU'LL LOVE CABLE NEWS CONFIDENTIAL.

The book has won praise from Robert Greenwald, Tim Robbins, Studs Terkel, Bob McChesney and others.

BARBARA EHRENREICH: "A deliciously funny expose."
HOWARD ZINN: “Future historians will have this book as a primary text."
AMY GOODMAN: "Read this book and fight for change."

Website:
http://cablenewsconfidential.com/

[Jcrowley]

16. Transcript and Audio Version

Noam Chomsky on Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest For Global Dominance
“If you repeat it loudly enough it will become the truth” - MIT institute professor of linguistics and author Noam Chomsky speaks out on U.S. hegemony, controlling the domestic population through fear and the historical parallels of current U.S. foreign policy.

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Well, that illustrates one of the dilemmas of dominance that I had in mind. one problem is how do you control the domestic population. The great beast, as Alexander Hamilton called the people. They're always a problem. The beast is always getting out of control. One of the main problems of governance, I'm sure you study this in all of your political science courses, is how do you keep the great beast in a cage?

That's particularly difficult when you're dedicated passionately to carrying out policies that are in fact going to be very harmful to the mass of the population, and to future generations. Then it's difficult, and only one effective way has ever been discovered by the people in office now, or anyone else under those conditions, and that is inspire fear. If you can do that, maybe you can get away with it. And for the people in office now, it's second nature. It's important to remember this.

It's kind of striking that it hasn't been discussed extensively, but if you think for a minute, the people -- the present incumbents in Washington are almost entirely recycled from the Reagan and first Bush administration. In fact, from their more reactionary sectors, or else their immediate teams, especially that administration. They're following pretty much the same script as the first 12 years they had in political power. In both domestically and internationally. You can learn a lot about what they're doing by just paying attention to what happened in those 12 years. They were in fact pursuing policies that were highly unpopular. Reagan's policies were strongly opposed by the population, but they did keep voting for him. Mainly out of fear. They continually pressed the panic button every year or two. I'll come back to that. Reagan in fact ended up in 1992 being the most unpopular living U.S. president next to Nixon. Ranked slightly above Nixon, well below Carter and even below the almost forgotten Ford. But they did manage to hang on for 12 years, and they're following essentially the same script. Well, except with much more arrogance and commitment and optimism, feeling they can do things that they couldn't get away with then for various reasons.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15052.htm

:hi:

[Joanne98]

13. Ask him to promote this. American Methods: Torture and the Logic

of Domination. America kills it's own people!

http://www.amazon.com/American-Methods-Torture-Logic-Domination/dp/0896087530

[TahitiNut]

18. The paperback is #1 and the hardcover is #9 !!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_ts_h/103-5212659-1427801

[DavidDvorkin]

19. Damn, how do I get him to mention one of mine?

I'd send him copies of all of them, but I suspect he's already been inundated with books from American authors. It's probably too late.

:)

[tomreedtoon]

20. I'm happy for Chomsky, I guess, but I don't like his stuff.

I find him boring, overwritten and pretty relentless. I can agree with him on some points, but he's just so damn insistent on proving his point like he was in freshman logic class.

That might appeal to people who like to believe logic and pure reason will win the day. And there are several of those would-be Vulcans here on DU. But I am more comfortable with writers who frankly admit that they go to the bathroom every day like I do.

Put it this way. If I were to sit down with Al Franken, Bill Maher or Bill Clinton at a party (yeah, like there's a chance of that) I'd have a really interesting conversation that I'd remember for the rest of my life. And if my die-hard Republican co-worker would listen in, he might change his views on some issues. If I were to sit down with Chomsky, after five minutes I'd be trying to remember if I had a dental appointment I had to get to really fast. And my co-worker would fart and walk away.

Still, I'm glad he sold some books. Pretty soon, nobody who writes will be able to make a living at writing, since everything will be available free on the Internet and copyright will be dead, so I'm glad Chomsky got one of the last best-sellers out before the whole system collapses.