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To: muawiyah
Yes, they have destroyed the value of the tapes, because they've now provided a loud, noisy sideshow that will get trotted out any time the tapes are mentioned, and which will necessarily overshadow the tapes themselves.

Look, you sound like a really smart, reasonable person, but what you do seem to lack is a sufficient appreciation for the power of Alinsky's techniques, and the skills of the Democrats in applying those techniques - this is Alinsky 101: to destroy the message of the opposition, you isolate, polarize, ridicule, or, to put it verbatim, here's Rule 12:

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.(This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Ok, we have the target - the tapes - now we freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it: Any time someone mentions "those ACORN tapes" the Democrats immediately say "oh yeah, weren't those filmed by so-and-so? Why yes, now that you mention it, they were, and you know what, six months later that guy got busted trying to tap Mary Landrieu's offices by pretending to be a telephone repairman. Now that's just beyond the pale, how can you trust someone who goes around trying to break into the offices of a Congresswoman and tap her phones?...."

Do you see where I'm going with this? The actual content of those tapes never gets discussed again, and each time the Democrats do this little song-and-dance, the more outlandish the purported behaviour will get, until it's been built into some sort of latter-day Watergate break-in, with Breitbart in the role of Nixon, or worse yet, of Haldeman or Ehrlichman (maybe then Palin becomes Nixon in drag??).

Sorry, but with all due respect, the value of those tapes has been destroyed by this little antic.


283 posted on 01/26/2010 6:48:30 PM PST by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Oceander

Alinsky was an amateur. I spent a long time writing federal regulations ~ mine were and are used by 300 million people ~ not that piddling stuff referenced in passing by $1200 an hour legal talent and which have meaning to maybe a dozen people.

Alinsky’s cr*p may be good for smaller communities, but when you get up to the scale of an entire nation, they don’t mean a thing.

That’s probably why the Chicago crowd is still pretty much restricted to Chicago ~ and even with Obama as President, they are unable to provide any first-class minds to run the federal departments ~ that’s where you get all that third-rate nonsense from ~ third-rate people, and Obama doesn’t know better.

This country is so huge it’s eating those pukes up and it’ll be spitting them out soon ~ Alinsky or not.


287 posted on 01/26/2010 6:59:08 PM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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