After a quarter century in national politics, I have yet to hear anyone in the MSM discuss how Hillary was a disciple of Saul Alinsky. Or how her thesis was surpressed.
MSM?
One of the major influences of Alinsky groups was involve the news media in the planning and coverage of staged events.
It was new and the news media was not unified in how to deal with it. Alinsky activists were also ambivalent on how to use it. 60 minutes producers were at the avante garde of the planning of staged news events. 60 minutes had no respect or concern for the victims they portrayed. They also had a sophmoric sick sense of humor.
In the mid 70s in Chicago a 60 minutes producer had Bill Kurtis do an arson for profit story. Bill Kurtis is the model for Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore, of course.
The real arson for profit story was Congressman Rostenkowski’s precinct captain Isadore Ganzer was responsible for 113 arsons in 93 of 97 buildings in a 2 block tract of land he was acquiring for the #2 Chicago boss Tom Keane.
But 60 minutes didn’t want to touch the real story. So they put a loose associate of the Latin Kings on camera against a white wall to tell how he set fire to a tavern at the request of the tavern owner.
All that despite the crowd of 500 screaming people at the meeting knowing nothing of that and screaming anti-Democrat Machine.
Then they edited the film to place Latin Disciples graffitti behind the shot of the Latin King. That, of course, created big friction between the two gangs that were both going political against the Democrat Machine.
This was typical of the Alinsky sympathetic media. They’d give the Alinsky group the media coverage. But change the story to keep the Democrat Machine happy also.
A couple years later, the friends of the Kings and Disciples who observed the way they were treated by the media and Democrat Machine united against the Machine and got Jane Byrne elected out of no where.
I found some newspaper coverage of it from around the time of the 1992 election and from the 2008 election cycle (some of the articles are in the footnotes), but I’ve never seen a discussion of it on the TV media, outside of conservative news outlets where people such as Dick Morris occasionally allude to it briefly. If anyone else knows of a TV segment on it, I’d be interested to see it.
HOOOOOOOOO boy.
This is why, in spite of myself, FR is my chief news source. I see stuff well in advance of it hitting the media. Scoop city.
Trump: “You got some ‘splaining to do, Hill!”