> What? There's no ad-hominem there. I don't like Chomsky either, but "Oh boy, a Chomsky quote" and the implication that it's somehow less valid because of it

> What? There's no ad-hominem there. I don't like Chomsky either, but "Oh boy, a Chomsky quote" and the implication that it's somehow less valid because of its provenance is pretty much the definition of an _ad hominem_.