Moving this video to enoch's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

I love this interview. Whenever Chomsky is interviewed by anyone from the more mainstream sector it devolves in him explaining the facts to them first. The reason is is the facts are not a part of the national discussion, they are deliberately kept out. So usually it goes Noam says something that sounds absolutely fucking crazy. The interviewer goes "Holy shit what?!" and then introduces and logical point or established knowledge that should completely destroy his argument. Noam counters with the actual facts, usually citing a great source for the facts which you can obviously check (I have never found him to be wrong in his citations). Then Noam usually a basic principle of how things should operate, and using his facts compares that to what people either believe or how things are operating. It's really interesting to watch.

It should be noted that Chomsky has only been on Charlie Rose twice ever. This is the first time in 2003. In 2007 he was asked back, but interestingly Charlie Rose wasn't there, some slimey, creepy looking guy interviewed him instead. He got a bit hostile but Chomsky is used to that and made his points very steadily and cogently.

We'll lose him one day, for now I certainly enjoy him while he's here, and I'm hoping others with sprout up in his wake.