Noam Chomsky to become new X-Factor judge

**ItsRobsLife** · 01-10-2010, 01:42 AM

Professor of linguistics and political campaigner Noam Chomsky has been confirmed as the new judge on TV talent show The X Factor. ‘Cheryl Cole was still recovering from malaria and we needed someone who could fill the intellectual void,’ said programme creator Simon Cowell, ‘Professor Chomsky is perfect and the audience just loves him.’

In his first outing as judge, Chomsky quickly made his mark. ‘Your act is part of a propaganda state promoting a culture-ideology of comforting illusion’, he told one hopeful young girl, before adding, ‘I’m saying yes.’

Chomsky then set about a teenage boy-band, describing them as ‘yet another example of pre-packaged ideological oppression whose lyrics systematically fail to demonstrate even a basic understanding of what happened to East Timor in 1975,’ he paused for effect, ‘But, I’m giving you a second chance…You’re through to the next round.’

Not satisfied with attacking the acts, Professor Chomsky then turned his critique on The X Factor audience. ‘You are all complicit in a hegemonic construct designed primarily to keep you from questioning what is really going on in the world,’ he told them, ‘You must learn to think critically and reject the pernicious cult of celebrity.’

It was at this point that the audience went wild, whooping, cheering and chanting
his name. ‘We love you Chomsky!’ they screamed as the 81 year-old professor sat at the table with his head in his hands.

The appointment of Chomsky has proved so successful that Simon Cowell is now believed to asking many more public intellectuals to become X Factor judges including Amartya Sen, Umberto Eco and Sinitta.

As the show continues each judge will get to manage their own favourite acts. ‘There is a lot of talent out there,’ said Chomsky, ‘but I have my eye on an anarcho-syndicalist Peruvian flute band who are really going places.’

However, some rivalry has already emerged between Professor Chomsky and fellow judge Louis Walsh. ‘I have the utmost respect for Chomsky,’ said Walsh, ‘but his greatest work was done more than forty years ago. In that respect he’s not much better than Geri Halliwell.’

**blue** · 01-10-2010, 01:56 AM

stupid is as stupid does

**crippen** · 01-10-2010, 07:36 AM

I propose Mr. T.!

**Boon Mee** · 23-01-2011, 11:17 AM

Here's a good laugh for your Sunday morning reading pleasure!

Commie Chomsky: The Republican Takeover of Congress Is “Death Knell of the Species:

"He explained those feelings led to November’s election results, and would have serious repercussions for civilization.

“All of this combines the latest election a couple of days ago,” he continued. “You could almost interpret it a kind of a death knell for the species. There was an article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, you know – not a radical rag exactly. They’re running through the new Republicans coming to Congress and they’re worried about them.”

Chomsky: November’s Republican takeover of Congress ‘a death knell for the species’ | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

**DrB0b** · 23-01-2011, 11:20 AM

So how many of TD's finest conservative intellects will fall for this one this time?

**Butterfly** · 23-01-2011, 11:28 AM

listening to his audio books and lectures, quite an admirable man

**DrB0b** · 23-01-2011, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by Butterfly

listening to his audio books and lectures, quite an admirable man

Yes. Even in the photo in the OP he's in sharper focus than the other judges

**Boon Mee** · 23-01-2011, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by Butterfly

listening to his audio books and lectures, quite an admirable man

If you are a college sophomore I guess. He's an overhyped legend in his own mind...

**Boon Mee** · 08-05-2011, 08:56 AM

He's at it again. I wonder what color the sky is on the world he lives on? Critical, rational thought? He can’t even manage it after Osama bin Laden is killed.

**alwarner** · 08-05-2011, 10:34 PM

I saw Chomsky at St Davids Hall in Cardiff. It was largely disappointing.

**GooMaiRoo** · 13-05-2011, 09:11 AM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

He's at it again. I wonder what color the sky is on the world he lives on? Critical, rational thought? He can’t even manage it after Osama bin Laden is killed.

I'm surprised that you know who Chomsky is since he's totally banned from the airwaves by America's corporate media. This is despite being voted (by fellow intellectuals) as the world's most prominent living intellectual. His expertise on both Middle East and Latin American politlcs is probably unmatched by any of the mass media's talking heads. But I suppose that America's airwaves are best reserved for such mental giants as Glen Beck and Ann Coulter.

**Boon Mee** · 13-05-2011, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by GooMaiRoo

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

He's at it again. I wonder what color the sky is on the world he lives on? Critical, rational thought? He can’t even manage it after Osama bin Laden is killed.

I'm surprised that you know who Chomsky is since he's totally banned from the airwaves by America's corporate media. This is despite being voted (by fellow intellectuals) as the world's most prominent living intellectual. His expertise on both Middle East and Latin American politlcs is probably unmatched by any of the mass media's talking heads. But I suppose that America's airwaves are best reserved for such mental giants as Glen Beck and Ann Coulter.

You forgot Rush Limbaugh...

**Boon Mee** · 13-08-2011, 08:33 AM

This gibbering lunatic passes for a great intellect on the Left.

**Begbie** · 13-08-2011, 10:06 AM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Here's a good laugh for your Sunday morning reading pleasure!

Commie Chomsky: The Republican Takeover of Congress Is “Death Knell of the Species":

Did you even bother to read the article ? You left the main point out of your quote.

He was referring to the fact that most of these tea party morons don't believe in global warming and will do their utmost to quash all attempts to find solutions.

**Boon Mee** · 13-08-2011, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by Begbie

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Here's a good laugh for your Sunday morning reading pleasure!

Commie Chomsky: The Republican Takeover of Congress Is “Death Knell of the Species":

Did you even bother to read the article ? You left the main point out of your quote.

He was referring to the fact that most of these tea party morons don't believe in global warming and will do their utmost to quash all attempts to find solutions.

Not many right-thinking folks believe in the so-called MMGW fiasco either.

**Begbie** · 13-08-2011, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by Begbie

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Here's a good laugh for your Sunday morning reading pleasure!

Commie Chomsky: The Republican Takeover of Congress Is “Death Knell of the Species":

Did you even bother to read the article ? You left the main point out of your quote.

He was referring to the fact that most of these tea party morons don't believe in global warming and will do their utmost to quash all attempts to find solutions.

Not many right-thinking folks believe in the so-called MMGW fiasco either.

In this context, "right-thinking" meaning morons who vote for people of right wing politcal views.

**Marmite the Dog** · 13-08-2011, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by Begbie

He was referring to the fact that most of these tea party morons don't believe in global warming and will do their utmost to quash all attempts to find solutions.

Why is it 3rd World politicians like to try and silence those in pursuit of the truth?

**Boon Mee** · 13-08-2011, 10:38 AM

Global Warming Link to Drowned Polar Bears Melts Under Searing Fed Probe

It's a scam: “Power, money, authority and recognition come with listings on the endangered species list,” Ramey said.

Myron Ebell, director of energy and global warming policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said that the government is expected to “spend trillions of dollars to save the world from global warming on the basis of what a few scientists say.”

Global Warming Link to Drowned Polar Bears Melts Under Searing Fed Probe - HUMAN EVENTS

**Neo** · 13-08-2011, 03:53 PM

Competitive Enterprise Institute... as if you even need to look,
another Exxon, Ford, Pfizer funded 'don't think' tank.

The kind of scum that are selling our future for a short term profit.

**barbaro** · 16-08-2011, 05:27 AM

Post #4 by Boon.

He makes sense in that interview.

**KAPPA** · 17-08-2011, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Here's a good laugh for your Sunday morning reading pleasure!

Commie Chomsky: The Republican Takeover of Congress Is “Death Knell of the Species:

Except it isn't just us

Commie, is so ineffectual a slur for Mr Chomsky. So.. 50's I think a professor at Princeton renown for intellect , which I admire too, is really scraping the plate on this judging gig
However maybe it is a good thing as at least alternative policies can be heard and then discussed as opposed to the corporate schills.

I'd like Al jazeerah in Thailand. It is a superior world wide news service to BBC or CNN

**david44** · 17-08-2011, 05:48 PM

Little known fact is his cordon bleu Souffle and his 1956 Helsingfors Olympiad medal exhibition event macrame for metapysicians an epistemological approach.

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