"Rush Limbaugh has made a career of belittling other people and making jokes about President Clinton, about Mrs. Clinton and others," Mr. Dean said. "I don't think he's in any position to do that." ~ Howard Dean
"One point to dean." ~ Solitas
"I agree. Rush has made a career out of doing this." ~ Tarheel1
You two need to get with the program. You haven't the first clue of what's going on. The tables have been turned - their own "rules" are merely being implemented --- but this time --- against them.
"..Sadly, not enough Republicans and conservatives learned Alinsky's rules until late in the game."
Saul Alinsky and DNC Corruption
1.7.03 | Diane Alden
Posted on 03/14/2004 7:06:35 PM EST by hope
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1097651/posts
"...As Alinsky states in "Rules for Radicals" it was foolish to believe that means are just as important as the ends.
He states that "to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles ... the practical revolutionary will understand ... [that] in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind."
Sadly, not enough Republicans and conservatives learned Alinsky's rules until late in the game.
A sign of hope is the fact that the new media, including talk radio and the Internet, are changing all that. One can hope it is not too late.
In any event, Alinsky's rules include:
"Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear and retreat."
"Make the enemy live up to his/her own book of rules. You can kill them with this. They can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
"The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself."
"In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt."
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it." ....
"One of the criteria for picking the target is the target's vulnerability ... the other important point in the choosing of a target is that it must be a personification, not something general and abstract." ...
"The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength." .... These red-herring tactics work. [snip]
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Saul Alinsky, in his book Rules for Radicals teaches the organizer that he must give a moral appearance: “All effective action requires the passport of morality.”
The tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends states “that you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments ... Moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means.”
Rules for Radicals provides the organizer with a tactical style for community organization that assumes an adversarial relationship between groups of people in which one either dominates or is dominated. ...." Excerpted from:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1327681/posts?page=61#61
And Saul Alinsky followed his own rules, too:
Sojourners Magazine March/April 2000 issue [Hillary's Marxist mentor] Saul Alinsky Goes to Church Faith-based community organizing ... by Helene Slessarev HERE http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=Soj0003&article=000311
70 posted on 01/24/2005 10:18:26 PM EST by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1327681/posts?page=70#70
Dean is the perfect example of a brain dead member of the liberal lunatic left!
Be Ever Vigilant!
"entertainer" or not, one of the first things I disliked about limbaugh was his shilling to his audience - whether through the mocking/belittling of people, conversing with an off-mic call screener, or general braggadocio; among other things. It got to be past the point where it was worth it to listen to everything in the hour I had for lunch to separate-out the dross from the worthwhile bits which I can get from better sources - without "opinion", parody, insolence. His written commentary is ofttimes better than the 'show', and easier to filter.
I have, since, found more profitable use for my lunchtime listening; though I try to listen once a month or so to see if he hasn't changed his act. I have yet to be disappointed.
I do not try to dissuade individuals from listening to him - those who get similarly tired move on as I have done. The rest are free to spend their time and energies as they will, it's their business.