I used to have great respect for Chomsky. Used to.

The prominent linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky called it a “most valuable experience” to have maintained “regular contact” with Jeffrey Epstein, who by then had long been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, according to emails released earlier in November this month by US lawmakers.

Perhaps the most telling of the Chomsky-related document in question was a letter of support for Epstein attributed to Chomsky with the salutation “to whom it may concern”. It is not dated, but it contains a typed signature with Chomsky’s name and citing his position as a University of Arizona laureate professor, a role he began in 2017, as first reported by the Massachusetts news outlet WBUR.

“I met Jeffrey Epstein half a dozen years ago,” read the letter of support from Chomsky that was reviewed by the Guardian after its Republican House oversight committee release. “We have been in regular contact since, with many long and often in-depth discussions about a very wide range of topics, including our own specialties and professional work, but a host of others where we have shared interests. It has been a most valuable experience for me.”

It is unclear whether Chomsky sent the letter to anyone. Nonetheless, it exalts Epstein for teaching Chomsky “about the intricacies of the global financial system” in a way “the business press and professional journals” had not been able to do. It boasted about how well connected Epstein was.

“Once, when we were discussing the Oslo agreements, Jeffrey picked up the phone and called the Norwegian diplomat who supervised them, leading to a lively interchange,” the letter read. The letter recounted how Epstein had arranged for Chomsky – a political activist, too – to meet with someone he had “studied carefully and written about”: the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.

Epstein had – “with limited success” – aided efforts from Chomsky’s second wife, Valeria, to introduce him “to the world of jazz and its wonders”, the letter continued.

It concluded, “The impact of Jeffrey’s limitless curiosity, extensive knowledge, penetrating insights and thoughtful appraisals is only heightened by his easy informality, without a trace of pretentiousness. He quickly became a highly valued friend and regular source of intellectual exchange and stimulation.”

Another notable communication involving Chomsky and Epstein is a 2015 email in which the latter offers the former use of his residences in New York and New Mexico.

The emails don’t indicate whether Chomsky took advantage of the offer, whose particulars surfaced as certain officials are striving to investigate allegations of crimes by Epstein at a ranch compound he owned outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.

I think they were pen-pals. I also think Epstein was trying unsuccessfully to rope Chomsky into more nefarious shit. This was Jeffrey's M.O. with many public figures. Impress with erudition to open the way to compromising criminality he can later sell or use for leverage.

Why didn't he put this in Who Rules the World?

Absolutely everything is going to shit. God damn.

“Philosopher”.

Not a huge fan of Chomsky as a person, even if he's said things I agree with. But it's worth considering that he was extremely critical of the exact apparatus that is reporting his demise. Not saying he wasn't a creep, he was arrogant enough to be, but this could all be fiction. Also plenty of people knew Epstein that were not part of his extracurriculars. As much as I want to see a lot of these rich fucks squirm, we really lack incriminating info. And even if we had it, I'm not sure I trust the current people handling the documents.

Noam Noncesky

Shocked the establishment accepted intellectual with ties with war profiteers would do this shocked I say.

Isn't the Gnome is Left 4 Dead a reference to him? Man that sucks now, that was a fun objective..

Epstein was interested in Chomsky for some reason due to his expertise in linguistics, or so it's been speculated.

It's possible chomsky had nothing to do with Epstein's nefarious and illegal activities.

We won't know, until they RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

If Chomsky is guilty of some of the heinous shit, I'll be right there with you to throw him and drag him under the bus. For now, we don't know if he's actually guilty of anything.

The difference between MAGA nuts and sane people is that sane people will see stories about people they previously liked being involved with Epstein and still be glad more of the Epstein files are being released while the moment MAGAts sense the Epstein files will be bad for their orange leader, they try to sweep them under the rug.

I was watching a big documentary of Epstein yesterday that’s really good (Epstein Filthy Rich) and an important point was Epstein spent a ton of effort in his later years donating and intermingling and injecting himself into academia in a reputation rehabilitation effort, he was inserting himself into all kinds of orgs and venues. Shame on Chomsky for not being more careful and I don’t know what, but Epstein was real pushy to get alongside such folks.

Not looking good for him, and if he was involved with that, it's heartbreaking, but fuck him, let him rot in jail.

Give us the details on Trump, not some overrated writer

As expected, they're making sure the focus is on Epstein associates on the left, while right-wing associations are swept under the rug. They probably expect this to be some kind of gotcha for left-wingers, but it isn't. It just makes people disappointed in Noam Chomsky.

Listen, if he did any raping, fuck him. And let’s make sure we expose everyone’s involvement and not just the gross people on the left. Or right for that matter.

This hit me harder than almost anything in recent history including Trump becoming president. I love Noam, I have a signed photo of him on my bedside table and listen to his lectures several nights a week. I’m truly mortified

Chomsky, 96, had also reportedly acknowledged receiving about $270,000 from an account linked to Epstein while sorting the disbursement of common funds relating to the first of his two marriages, though the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has insisted not “one penny” came directly from the infamous financier.

... Is this supposed to make any sense? Why would Epstein be involved in helping him shift around his money after a marriage ended?

"It was a very nasty divorce. Rather than risk dragging it all out in a convoluted public dispute, we mutually agreed that the sex trafficking financier would be the safest choice to act as a neutral 3rd party."

I stopped listening to him after his stance on Ukraine. You could listen to his rhetoric on how the imperialist US invaded Vietnam and did horrible things there, but replace the US with Russia and Vietnam with Ukraine and it's the same. But some how many leftists only care about some, but not all genocides.

That being said, everyone is innocent until proven guilty so I'll withhold my judgement for now. Anyone who did any child raping just be villified and punished regardless of their politics.

I’m a progressive but that guy always gave me bad vibes.

Mr "Vote for Hilary Clinton" himself?

If Chomsky didn't know about Epstein's conviction, I might understand the naivete. But I find it hard to believe he didn't.

What a disappointment. Chomsky is a man I used to think very highly of.

Genocide apologist in ethics shocker