Chomsky Urges "Madison Crowd" to take Tea Party Movement Seriously

Noam Chomsky recently spoke at the University of Wisconsin Madison. A local newspaper covering the event reports that he advocated the leftish Madison crowd reach out to the Tea Partiers:

But, Chomsky, the firebrand liberal who spent most of his life critiquing and attacking US hegemony and foreign policy, said the left is failing the country by not reaching out to those in the Tea Party movement, who are frustrated and fed up with American government.

“They shouldn’t be laughed at. It’s not a joke,” Chomsky told the packed theater. “Ridiculing the Tea Party shenanigans is a terrible mistake. Why are those voices of discontent being mobilized by the extreme Right?”