Troll Trolled

James Joyner · Friday, March 26, 2004 · 7 Comments

Michael J. Totten reports an amusing event in the blogosphere: Noam Chomsky starts a blog, including a comment section. He’s so overwhelmed by trolls his first day, he shuts down the comments section. Heh.

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Kevin says:

Friday, March 26, 2004 at 08:20

That was the only part worth reading. Pity.

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akim says:

Friday, March 26, 2004 at 15:58

Aw. I think Chomsky can’t type – maybe he should use audio-blog software or something :) It’s been pretty lame so far.

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Dodd says:

Friday, March 26, 2004 at 17:21

Dissent is patriotic!

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Bithead says:

Friday, March 26, 2004 at 18:57

Tood bad; Chomsky could have actually LEARNED something.

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DANEgerus says:

Friday, March 26, 2004 at 21:22

Comedy… but not really a surprise… the same reason there is not Leftwing talk radio… because there is no reasoning with opinions formulated out of myopic emotionalized elitism.

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Little Miss Attila says:

Saturday, March 27, 2004 at 05:05

I guess you’re trying to say he’s not sticking to linguistics? Very unfortunate.

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Arguing with signposts... says:

Monday, March 29, 2004 at 08:42

Signs of the apocalypse no. 13451235
Noam Chomsky has a blog. Okay, so it’s not *really* Noam Chomsky *on the blog,* but he’s doing the thinking: This blog will include brief comments on diverse topics of concern in our time. They will sometimes come from the…

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