The REAL bin Laden-Chomsky connection

Normally, I follow doctor's orders, like "don't ever read or listen to far rightwing psychos." But a regular reader of this blog yesterday mentioned the Chomsky reference in the latest bin Laden tape. I've been so busy that I'd only vaguely registered that bit of info; in the meantime, it's become bigger than the Threat of President Hillary on rightwing blogs.

Somehow, I felt I wasn't getting the whole story. But MindHacks to the rescue … here. Key excerpt from their revelation of the rest of the transcript:

People of America: while the cognitive revolution started within your own shores and changed the face of the world, it seems the lessons of the destruction of behaviourism have not been learnt. …

Now that the spector of connectionism has raised its ugly head and has been inappropriately glorified by the power of technological corporations, our understanding of the role of transformational grammars in language development is threatened. …

The infallible methodologies are the comparative study of world languages and lesion analyses of those who must be treated with mercy owing to their acquired dysphasias. …

Brilliant.