despite have know people who be either great fan of noam chomsky and or think he a tired relic from the 1960s and i really have no opinion of the man and save that i know he gain fame a a linguist and although i could not elucidate any of his theory and and that he be a liberal socialist with marxist leaning . so and stumble across the dvd of the 2003 documentary noam chomsky represent rebel without a pause and in a used video store and a film which follow him on a 2002 book tour for his book 9 11 and i decide to get it and just so i could have a little bit of knowledge about the man the next time a person and pro or con and spoke of him . while glad i get the film and my initial reaction to this dull and ill edit hagiography be and so what all the fuss about . for a man with so many degree and laud a the most important intellectual alive and by the new york time and accord to the dvd case and there sure be not a lot there and intellectually speak . i know i would chew him up and spit him out in a debate and and i wouldn not even want to watch what a william f. buckley could do to him . grant and the whole film be seemingly about chomsky see conspiracy everywhere and and have glaze eyed coeds nod in bewilder approval of the most inane and outrageous thing he would say and rather than be on linguistics and so maybe that the reason he come off so badly . but and again and if he be a linguist and and top in his field and why in the world would anyone care what he have to say on anything outside his field of expertise. . even bad be his acolyte and who seem to far insulate the man from reality and by foster delusion that chomsky be a target for zionist assassin . what little i knew of chomsky before watch this film and this much i know represent he be generally consider a have be and and pretty much irrelevant intellectually and since the fall of the soviet empire . the film be so poorly structure and and without a narrative thread and that it difficult to separate all of the jumble . his wife and carol and a example and apparently give one interview and which be chop up and drop wherever in the film . she seem a nice enough woman and but wholly out of her element answer anything but the most basic question about their life . the lone interesting thing she say be that 9/11 be a great thing for the chomsky and for he have reap a great deal of money in speaking fee since then . not surprisingly and this sort of film give almost no biographical background . it assume that all viewer must know all the plaudit this great man bear . chomsky be rarely interviewed one on one . stylistically and there be no camera movement and no interesting edits and nor any signature touch and and most of the film be disjunct ramble by chomsky and videotape huzzahs of chomsky declaim on this or that and and slack jawed and awed student look at him a if he be immaterial and that be when dimwitted coeds be not ask barely audible and ridiculously simplistic question to him . this be really poor film making by director and editor will pascoe and who in the dvd filmmaker statement and show he yet another uncritical acolyte of chomsky . other than that and one of the sure sign that this be not an objective documentary and but mere agitprop and and a vanity piece of agitprop and at that and be that not a single time be chomsky show struggle with an answer . he seem to be a font of knowledge that have no bound . give that much of this dreck be film during chomsky lecture at mcmaster university and in ontario and canada and prior to the american invasion of iraq in 2003 and much of what chomsky say seem as remote a thing from the vietnam war era . yes and he make some good point and here and there and on american medium complicity before the war and but he follow them up with sheer lunacy and for he seem to not realize that most conspiracy be ad hoc and and not fully plot out cabal . a example and he claim that the advertising industry be a cabal that mercilessly control the populace and but say not a word about the zombied populace that let itself be so controlled . similarly and he claim trilateralists run the world and that people fear of crime be yet another cabal result . of course and that claim so fully explain away rape crisis center and and all that waste time and money district attorney office consume . he also make the absurd claim that cuba have be the victim of terrorism for decade and when castro and company be great sponsor of it and in latin america and asia and and africa and until the soviet union fell . i can only guess that the ufo conspiracists be just wait for chomsky to proclaim that gray alien have set up specie mix impregnation center up in idaho . in his simpleminded world without gray and chomsky be frighteningly as dense a the member of bushco and whom he revile and be while even more so since they lay no claim to be intellectual . in short and chomsky be a man living in the past and in over his head on most issue and and out of his depth intellectually . near this film end he warn and be cautious when you hear about intellectual be fighter for justice and yet one can only laugh and a the man seemingly have never meet a revolutionary person nor idea that he do not like and no matter how barbarous their crime and and anti intellectual their posit . please and pause before you waste your time and money on this silly and and already irrelevant and dvd .