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The Racist Charge is the Left’s last weapon

by Phantom Ace ( 393 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Free Speech, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Tranzis at September 25th, 2009 - 9:00 am

Our Community Organizer in Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, is turning into a failure. He is a radical Progressive ideologue who wants to impose his views on America. If you oppose him, the Progressives call you racist. They got this talking point from Leftist icon, Fidal Castro. Jimmy “The Dhimmi” Carter also claimed that opposition to Obama is Racist. This is The Left’s  weapon of last resort when thing don’t go their way. Mark Steyn analyzes and takes apart this talking point.

A year ago, in the final stretch of the U.S. election campaign, I would find myself in New York or Los Angeles or points in between and asked for my thoughts on who would win. I usually answered “John McCain,” more in hope than expectation: I’ve no use for the soi-disant “maverick,” who was a catastrophic candidate, but in those heady days between Sarah Palin’s boffo convention speech and McCain’s characteristically inept response to the economic meltdown there was briefly a faint chance that the Alaskan governor might yet save the Republican party from its rendezvous with destiny.

And at that point the worldly liberal Democrat who had sought my views would nod thoughtfully and agree: yes, McCain would win. Not because of Sarah Palin. But because Americans were too racist to stomach the thought of a black man in the White House.

I never reckoned much to this argument. If you spent 20 minutes on the campaign trail almost anywhere, it seemed clear that many voters felt the first 43 chief executives did not reflect the rich tapestry of the American community and were panting to cross “Vote for a black president” off their to-do list. On the morning of Nov. 5, I thought about all those Democrats so convinced of their fellow Americans’ ingrained racism. As my comrade Victor Davis Hanson put it, we conservatives were wrong about the election results, but those liberals were wrong about their country. Which you would think might prove chastening

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This is straight out of Alinsky’s playbook and it shows the desperation of the Left. I say let’s keep hammering Obama, regardless if they think its racist. The Progressives are on the ropes and we must show them no mercy!

Hugo Chavez when confronted by FOX News, says they oppose Obama because he’s black! This is a talking point used by the Tranzi Progressives because Obama is one of them!

Alinsky Tactics at the Town Halls?

by tqcincinnatus ( 23 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Liberal Fascism, Politics at August 14th, 2009 - 3:32 pm

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.”
 
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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
 
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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.