Chapotraphouse

Manufacturing Consent, by Chomsky's own admission, was mainly written by Edward S. Herman, but he ends up more associated with it because he's more famous. He was also a bastard with a malignant influence on "the left" for several decades now.

I don't think he's that different from Dawkins, where he was a serious figure in his field but parlayed that into being a reactionary pseudo-intellectual in political commentary.