Newt needs a lesson about Saul Alinsky (Another barf alert)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | Jan 23, 2012 | Lynn Sweet

[KeyLargo]

Newt needs a lesson about Saul Alinsky

LYNN SWEET

blogs.suntimes.com/sweet Last Modified: Jan 23, 2012 02:10AM

WASHINGTON — GOP White House hopeful Newt Gingrich constantly — the latest time on Sunday — invokes the name of the late Saul Alinsky — a Chicago native — when he wants to assert that President Barack Obama is a “radical.”

Gingrich, a historian, demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the work of Alinsky, a legendary community organizer in Chicago’s Woodlawn and Back of the Yard neighborhoods and beyond.

With his anti-elitist, anti-establishment populist rhetoric—on display Saturday night in his South Carolina victory speech in which he slammed “elites” in Washington and New York — Gingrich seems as if he is taking a page from the Alinsky playbook.

“Newt’s anti-elitism is so much what Alinsky really was about,” Alinsky biographer Sanford D. Horwitt told me Sunday. “Alinsky was about organizing ordinary people so they could get a seat at the table rather than getting crumbs or no crumbs at all when public policies were decided,” said Horwitt, the author of Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky: His Life and Legacy.

[Maceman]

Alinsky was a genius, and his Rules for Radicals has brought us to the current precipice, which shows that it works.

His power will diminish however, once Newt makes him a household name, which he is evidently intent on doing.

[TheOldLady]

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[Califreak]

>Bottom line: what the author suggests is total bullspit.<

The article itself IS an Alinsky tactic IMO.