Great piece out yesterday by Kyle-Anne Shiver at American Thinker about the possibility (or, rather, likelihood) that Alinsky-style tactics are being used by the Left to try to tar the town hall protesters as “extremists,”
When I saw this video interview of Bill Burton, White House Deputy Press Secretary, I could not help but be reminded of one of old Saul Alinsky’s favorite fake-em-out tricks of the revolutionary trade. Burton is reinforcing Pelosi’s earlier claim that people were carrying Swastikas at town halls, but goes even further and claims that folks are actually “dressing up like Hitler.”[snip]When Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and now the president’s own deputy press secretary conjure up images of Nazis at healthcare town halls, they are engaging in one of the oldest tricks in anyone’s book, but an especial favorite of their mentor, Saul Alinsky.Alinsky himself employed this method, quite deviously. Alinsky biographer, Sanford D. Horwitt provides an anecdote using precisely this same diabolical tactic to deceive the people. From Horwitt’s Let Them Call Me Rebel:“…in the spring of 1972, at Tulane University…students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest of a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations – a speech likely to include a defense of the Nixon administration’s Vietnam War policies. The students told Alinsky they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush’s address. That’s the wrong approach, he rejoined, not very creative – and besides causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school. He told them, instead, to go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ‘The KKK supports Bush.’ And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results.”Planting major falsehoods has been a favorite Alinsky strategy from the start. His acolyte, Barack Obama, learned his Industrial Areas Foundation lessons on deceiving for power while on a side trip during his Harvard years, then taught the Alinsky power tactics at the University of Chicago.[snip]Here’s a little hint from me on the Nazi card. If a few folks actually do start showing up at town halls, opposing the MediCoup*, even dressed like Hitler and carrying a Swastika poster, I’ll lay good hard cash on a bet that they’ve been sent by this Alinskyite President or his minions to deceive, just as Saul did with getting students to dress like the KKK at that rally back in the 70s.
She’s absolutely right. My suspicion since the time that these “Obama = Hitler” people started showing up to the town halls has been that they’re nothing but left-wing plants being sent in to try to discredit legitimate citizen protest against the way Obama and the Dems are trying to destroy our health care system.
What’s sad is that there are so many credulous fools out there in the blogosphere who are willing to bury their heads in the sand and believe the worst about the motivations and behaviour of the town hall protesters, without ever thinking about the possibility that these “extremists” might just turn out to be Mobies.
Tags: alinsky, Healthcare, Leftists, town halls
