After lurking for a while on this little schoolyard spat, here's my 5 cents.

Round 1: Chomsky fans have a backslapping party.
Round 2: AA joins the party and starts bursting their balloons.
Round 3: (somewhere between post 40 - 50), fairly reasonable discussion.
Round 4: AA getting a little snooty - implies (but doesn't directly say) that the Chomskies aren't too smart, and that he is some kind of hotshot academic.
Round 5: (post 50 - 70). The barbs fly in from both sides. AA cutting and pasting like a mad journalists assistant, and the Choms getting a little exasperated. This round culminates in the first direct insult from the Choms. Tactically this was a major mistake.
Round 6: AA climbs on his mountain of pastings and declares himself the winner.
Round 7: The Choms try to belittle this, but too late! The damage is done...

From that point on I kinda lost interest. It degenerated into mud slinging. I have to say all round that although the Choms did throw the first direct insult, it was preceded by some very unwarranted implied insults from AA (on the lines of insulting all lefties, all Chom fans etc.). Kinda sad to read all that.

All round I'd say the Choms got mugged by some very dubious arguments and then hit with a blizzard of cutn'paste nonsense.

My verdict: The match goes to AA, although he did use some dirty tricks.

FWIW - I don't like Chomsky much. He's a little naive - he should stick to linguistics.