OIY!!! The Liberal [Character] Assassination Ring: The new left-wing conspiracy

The Village Soup ^ | March 10, 2009 | Ben Smith

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Right. That's the Alinsky method.

Shouting ridicule and presenting "Straw Man" or ad hominem fallacies. And fear mongering or scapegoating.

If you break it down logically and rhetorically basically the argument is:

"Rush Limbaugh says mean things about us."

It doesn't have to be true factually but they will just keep repeating that mantra. It's a variation of Hillary's 1998 Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy theory which basically was: "Mean Republican white guys say nasty things about my husband." Which was a variation of the early 1960s "right-wing extremists" tactic used against Barry Golwater in the '64 election, elaborated in the Professor Richard Hofstadter book on the subject (The Paranoid Style in American Politics). Students of logic anc rhetoric will recognize the "Straw Man" fallacy in the caricature of the conservative opposition in this game, the debate is manipulated from one of disagreements on issues to issues of personality.

The informational content presented is basically:
"We really don't like Rush Limbaugh."

"I thought we were talking about the economy..."

They did the same thing with Palin in the campaign.

[Rembrandt]

“NOW GET OUT YOUR TEA PARTY SIGNS ..”

I sent my first tea bag to Obambi today with many more to follow.

[Rembrandt]

‘In the chapter called “Tactics” Alinsky says “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.”’

Remember who was running the opposition efforts during the Bubba years. It wasn’t Bubba. It was ..... Maybe we’re experiencing a repeat.

[Anti-Bubba182]

O’Reilly went over this in detail tonight. That reaches a lot of people.

[Brad from Tennessee]

“Podesta directed Obama’s transition.”

Great job, John.

[GOP Poet]

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[philman_36]

The new left-wing conspiracy flaunting.
It's out in the open and there is no secrecy whatsoever. So much so, in fact, that it's being waved in everybody's face because the leaders of this group believe that there is nothing anybody can do to stop or slow down what they're doing.
There is no conspiracy.

[cripplecreek]

There’s really nothing new about this tactic and it’s only marginally successful. They “brought down” Bill Bennett over gambling and Bill O’Reilly over that luffa thing but nobody even talks about this stuff anymore.

[EBH]

Months ago we discussed how 0bama would use these people.

I said he wouldn’t need to coordinate his fascist regimes, they already know what to do.

I can’t help but think about a biblical phrase in this case. They are like all those people who had gathered round to stone the prostitute. If we have “sinned,” we have no Right to speak out in dissent.

Time for us to get to work and help them understand they have NO RIGHT to cast the first stone.