Noah Wyle reveals Eddie Murphy told him to "fuck off" when he asked for an autograph as a 9 year old kid:   "I asked him for his autograph and I said, 'I really like you on SNL.' And he goes, 'What are you doing up that late?' And I said, 'Duh.' And I said, 'Can I have your autograph?' He goes, 'Fuck off, man.'"  "And how old were you? Like nine. So I always sign an autograph. Whenever a nine year old needs an autograph from me, I sign that so fast."   "Last year for my birthday, my daughter didn't know what to get me, so my 10 year old daughter printed up a picture of Eddie Murphy and then wrote on it, 'Dear Noah, you're a great kid. Eddie Murphy.' And she spelled Eddie E-D-D-Y, and I have it framed in my office. It's the greatest gift."

Noam Chomsky, the "Father of modern linguistics," looked at evidence of industrial-scale murder and decided the real problem was Western media bias. By 1977, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge had already killed roughly 1.7 million Cambodians through execution, forced starvation, and slave labor. Chomsky, writing with Edward Herman in "Distortions at Fourth Hand," treated survivor testimony and refugee accounts as State Department fabrications, preferring the far lower body counts published in sympathetic leftist sources. The intellectual gymnastics required to reach that conclusion were extraordinary. Chomsky dismissed Father Ponchaud's firsthand reporting, questioned Francois Ponchaud's credibility directly, and leaned on a 1977 State Department document to suggest deaths numbered in the thousands, not hundreds of thousands. He applied maximum skepticism to anti-communist sources and near-zero skepticism to anything that cut against American foreign policy narratives. The methodology was selective to the point of being fraudulent. Chomsky was not a fringe figure typing in a basement. He held an MIT professorship and commanded enormous intellectual authority among Western leftists. When he cast doubt on Cambodian atrocity reports, journalists and academics listened. Real people died while influential intellectuals debated whether their deaths were sufficiently well-sourced. Collectivist ideology requires enemies to function. When the Khmer Rouge built their agrarian utopia by emptying Phnom Penh at gunpoint and executing anyone wearing glasses, Chomsky's instinct was to protect the ideological project by attacking the messengers. Ideology over corpses.