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Organizing for Americans 2

Will Bunch points to an article about Saul Alinsky and reminds us:

The other takeaway from the Sugrue piece is something that seemed clear the moment back in 2008 that Sarah Palin belittled Obama for his past as a community organizer. A community organizer such as Alinsky (or Obama in what feels like his very distant, distant past) tries to help disadvantaged folks take full advantage of the rights and opportunities they already have — registering to vote, for example. The idea of Americans from different communities exercising their rights is terrifying to conservatives. They should be ashamed.

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February 9, 2012 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

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  1. George

    February 9, 2012 at 1:51 pm

    The man’s name is used as the equivalent of the communist Devil. I didn’t know who he even was until all the nitwits started invoking it. When Ted Nugent writes a column saying he’s being attacked by the disciples of Saul Alinsky you go, “Huh?” My impression is that such rubes don’t know who he was either, or the other two or three they use — one’s a little old lady, but they’ve either been told to use it, or seen it in an e-mail. Plus “Saul Alinsky” — you know how they think: “That just doesn’t sound American!”

     
  2. Frank

    February 9, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    Demonization is the wingnut way.  It’s part of the strategy that Tom Tomorrow took down in the cartoon I posted earlier this week.

     
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