Sunday, August 23, 2009

Vaccinating Against Alinsky

Andrew Breitbart wrote a great piece in the Washington Times last week on the "politics of personal destruction".

George Bush, Sarah Palin and her family, Joe the Plumber, The Mormons, Rush Limbaugh, the beauty queen who dared to express a contrary opinion, the Cambridge cop...
When put on the media stage, these individuals and groups have been isolated for destruction for standing in the way of a resurgent modern progressive movement and for challenging its charismatic once-in-a-lifetime standard-bearer, Barack Obama.

The origins of manufactured "politics of personal destruction" is Saul Alinsky, the mentor of a young Hillary Rodham, who wrote her 92-page Wellesley College senior thesis on the late Chicago-based "progressive" street agitator titled, "There Is Only the Fight."

Mr. Obama and his Fighting Illini, Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod, have perfected Mr. Alinsky's techniques as laid out in his guidebook to political warfare, "Rules for Radicals." In plain language, we see how normal, decent and even private citizens become nationally vilified symbols overnight - all in the pursuit of progressive political victory.

Read the whole thing.