[arinlen]

> As with all academics that gain fame, and then step outside their field of expertise, he started to look a tad stupid.

Chomsky's political opinions aren't stupid per se, they are simply his personal opinions.

What's indeed mind-numbingly stupid is this notion that just because someone is paid by a university to dedicate his time to research a specific topic, such as linguistics, that somehow that makes that person an infallible authority in any conceivable topic, including highly subjective ones like politics.