Breaking - The Vetting, Part I: Barack's Love Song To Alinsky

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The Vetting, Part I: Barack's Love Song To Alinsky

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by Andrew Breitbart 23 hours ago 535 (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song#disqus_thread) post a comment (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song#comments)
Prior to his passing, Andrew Breitbart said that the mission of the Breitbart empire was to exemplify the free and fearless press that our Constitution protects--but which, increasingly, the mainstream media denies us.

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” – “Who guards the guardians?” Andrew saw himself in that role—as a guardian protecting Americans from the left’s “objective” loyal scribes.

Andrew wanted to do what the mainstream media would not. First and foremost: Andrew pledged to vet President Barack H. Obama.

Andrew did not want to re-litigate the 2008 election. Nor did he want to let Republicans off the hook. Instead, he wanted to show that the media had failed in its most basic duty: to uncover the truth, and hold those in power accountable, regardless of party.

From today through Election Day, November 6, 2012, we will vet this president--and his rivals.

We begin with a column Andrew wrote last week in preparation for today’s Big relaunch--a story that should swing the first hammer against the glass wall the mainstream media has built around Barack Obama.

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In The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama claims that he worried after 9/11 that his name, so similar to that of Osama bin Laden, might harm his political career.

But Obama was not always so worried about misspellings and radical resemblances. He may even have cultivated them as he cast himself as Chicago’s radical champion.

In 1998, a small Chicago theater company staged a play titled The Love Song of Saul Alinsky, dedicated to the life and politics of the radical community organizer whose methods Obama had practiced and taught on Chicago’s South Side.

Obama was not only in the audience, but also took the stage after one performance, participating in a panel discussion that was advertised in the poster for the play.

Recently, veteran Chicago journalist Michael Miner mocked emerging conservative curiosity about the play, along with enduring suspicions about the links between Alinsky and Obama. Writing in the Chicago Reader, Miner described the poster:
Let's take a look at this poster.

It's red—and that right there, like the darkening water that swirls down Janet Leigh's drain [in Psycho’s famous shower scene], is plenty suggestive. It touts a play called The Love Song of Saul Alinsky, Alinsky being the notorious community organizer from Chicago who wrote books with titles like Reveille for Radicals and Rules for Radicals. On it, fists are raised—meaning insurrection is in the air.

And down at the very bottom, crawling across the poster in small print, it mentions the panel discussions that will follow the Sunday performances. The panelists are that era's usual "progressive" suspects: Leon Despres, Monsignor Jack Egan, Studs Terkel . . .

And state senator Barack Obama.
Miner obscured the truth. His article only reveals only a small portion of the poster. Here’s the whole poster:

I converted it from the webpage to an image. If you go to the bottom you'll see Obongo there for the post show discussions.

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[beefsteak]

hmmmm


...when I examine the fine print with my GOOD glasses -lol-
I see Baraka OBAMA. Am I the only one who hasn't seen THAT
particular spelling before?

Nice work locating the original and posting it here. +1


beefsteak

[osoab]

hmmmm


...when I examine the fine print with my GOOD glasses -lol-
I see Baraka OBAMA. Am I the only one who hasn't seen THAT
particular spelling before?

Nice work locating the original and posting it here. +1


beefsteak

you have a keen eye beef.

I am still trying to figure out how one would confuse Barak(a) Obama with Osama bin Laden. Seriously?

[beefsteak]

Hard to say since I've never seen BHO in a towelhead shot...maybe it's the lowbrows CIA they both hung out with?

[Glass]

This person is mentioned a few times across this forum. Several facts are shared and repeated, references to the title of his works but not a not on the content of the actual works.

From the Wiki:

Rules for Radicals is dedicated by Saul Alinsky to the original radical, Lucifer - also known as Satan, the Devil, The Old Serpent, and The Dragon (Rev. 12:2; 20:2). In this book is found the following:
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer."[7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals#cite_note-7)

The rules[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals#cite_note-RULES-1)



“Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood.
“Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
“Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty.
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
“A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones.
“A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Don’t become old news.
“Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.
“The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.
"The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition." It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
“If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.
“The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.



How many of these do you see in action? Learn the rules to help you identify what is going on sooner. A lot of people get caught in these kinds of actions but get tangled in them without realizing and end up wasting energy and even worse, giving energy to the thing they want to oppose.

Reviewing them, I can see that I have experienced quite a few of these, more than once in my life. I've seen other rules attributed to Alinsky.
Make do with what you have but do something. And push hard, unrelentingly
If nothing is going on with a situation, go in and mess/stink the place up a bit.