Who the fuck is Saul Alinsky?

[Peregrinator]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YRL9CI2G_T8#!


Just another Maher clip that the people who most need to see it won't bother to watch.

 

[koalabear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YRL9CI2G_T8#!


Just another Maher clip that the people who most need to see it won't bother to watch.

Ok lib.

 

[Sean]

I can't remember who it was, probably AJ, that was insisting Saul Alinsky mentored Obama. I pointed out Alinsky died when Obama was eleven and they'd never met, it didn't seem to make any difference. The truth doesn't seem to impinge on the wingnut world view.

 

[Peregrinator]

Ok lib.

At least it's funny.

I can't remember who it was, probably AJ, that was insisting Saul Alinsky mentored Obama. I pointed out Alinsky died when Obama was eleven and they'd never met, it didn't seem to make any difference. The truth doesn't seem to impinge on the wingnut world view.

AJ is the one I most associate with the whole Alinsky connection, also.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I can't remember who it was, probably AJ, that was insisting Saul Alinsky mentored Obama. I pointed out Alinsky died when Obama was eleven and they'd never met, it didn't seem to make any difference. The truth doesn't seem to impinge on the wingnut world view.

!!! I haven't seen that one before. Sure he didn't mean Bill Ayers?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Who is Mr. Missus?

 

[CHNOPS]

When did Bill Maher adopt this insipid kindly everyman persona? He's funny because he's a douchebag. I hope this was a temporary affliction.

 

[JohnnySavage]

And further, who the hell is Cloven Piven?

 

[RobDownSouth]

I can't remember who it was, probably AJ, that was insisting Saul Alinsky mentored Obama. I pointed out Alinsky died when Obama was eleven and they'd never met, it didn't seem to make any difference. The truth doesn't seem to impinge on the wingnut world view.

That was one of your better beatdowns.

AJ was SO sure that President Obama had personally studied under Alinsky for years and years, and you pointed out that Alinksy died when Obama was something like 8 years old.

Good times, good times.

 

[CHNOPS]

And further, who the hell is Cloven Piven?

An actor on Entourage with funny-looking feet.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Peregrinator]

Did you watch the clip?

 

[koalabear]

One might note that Mao, Stalin and Lenin are also dead, but not their ideology.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Alinsky was neither a socialist nor a communist. He was — mostly — a Democrat-leaning Jewish social activist who pioneered a way of teaching impoverished and minority communities how to gain political power by organizing. His most famous project was organizing the residents of the Woodlawn neighborhood in Chicago "to take on the Daley machine," said journalist Nicholas von Hoffman, who worked with Alinsky from 1953 to 1963.

"Saul's genius was as a political tactician and organizer," Von Hoffman said. "He had humor, imagination and ingenuity." (He was also famous enough at the peak of his career that after the Detroit riots in 1967, he was invited to discuss the civil rights struggle with then-Michigan Gov. George Romney, Mitt Romney's father.)

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/29/nation/la-na-campaign-attacks-20120130

{gsgs comment- Oh, he must be evil and anti- American! Fox News would'nt mislead us, would they?} gahhhhh

 

[CHNOPS]

One might note that Mao, Stalin and Lenin are also dead, but not their ideology.

You'll be happy to know that there are lots more dead people where they came from. Just about everyone who has ever lived is now dead.

Or were you getting at something else?

 

[cookiejar]

And further, who the hell is Cloven Piven?

Cloward & Piven? A burlesque act.

 

[Drixxx]

Just another boogey man that the right wing can throw out there whenever they want scare old, bigoted, and ignorant White people. It's just a tool these use like ACORN or George Soros. When minions hear it they know they're supposed to be scared but not really sure why; but as long as it is loosely associated with Blacks or Europeans that's usually good enough.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Cloward & Piven? A burlesque act.

*rimshot*

 

[Wok]

I can't remember who it was, probably AJ, that was insisting Saul Alinsky mentored Obama. I pointed out Alinsky died when Obama was eleven and they'd never met, it didn't seem to make any difference. The truth doesn't seem to impinge on the wingnut world view.

According to this book I am reading, Alinsky did mentor Obama via his community organizing handbook (Rules for Radicals ?) which is a socialist thing. Now somewhere, this is a Marxist strain of socialism, and associated with Acorn and other dastardly deeds.

So yeah, the guy can be rotting, but his ideas are still very much alive.

And stuff.

 

[Peregrinator]

Just another boogey man that the right wing can throw out there whenever they want scare old, bigoted, and ignorant White people. It's just a tool these use like ACORN or George Soros. When minions hear it they know they're supposed to be scared but not really sure why; but as long as it is loosely associated with Blacks or Europeans that's usually good enough.

Alinsky was white.

 

[ershou12]

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[Wok]

Oh, and the clip said it was Alinsky who is the head of the left-wing evil. What happened to George Soros? He not cool anymore?

 

[cookiejar]

*rimshot*

Thank you. I'll be here all night.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Thank you. I'll be here all night.

Promises, promises. You'll roll over and go to sleep at 11. I know you too well.

 

[cookiejar]

Promises, promises. You'll roll over and go to sleep at 11. I know you too well.

What can I say? The kiddie is up at 7.