Noam Chomsky is Considered a Leading Intellectual by the Left Why?

This is what passes for a superior intellect by the Left. This guy has become wealthy spouting such stupidity in books, magazines and as a talking head for years. Plus he's a professor that is allowed to teach such stupid garbage to students...and they believe him.
Here he explains Christians are anti Semites and are advocates of the genocide of Jews because of the Apocalypse. Idiot.

http://youtu.be/wIBp4mj5C94