Posted on 04/29/2011 6:23:44 PM PDT by Nachum
When William F. Buckley met Saul Alinsky, one of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s biggest influences. Unfortunately, only five minutes of this December 1967 edition of Buckley’s seminal Firing Line program is online the above clip, but you can read a transcript of the entire interview at the Hoover Institute, or buy a DVD of the program for ten bucks from Amazon. At one point, Buckley describes Alinsky’s philosophy:
Look, this is a program of things we want, if you don’t give it to us, we’re going to make it impossible for Chicago to continue commercial or civic life at all.
Alinsky eventually argues:
I’ll put it another way. I said that evolution is a chronological term used by non-participating historians to denote a time sequence of a whole series of revolutions which synthesize into a major change — then they call it evolution.
Change? Say, somebody should use that word as a campaign slogan!
And note this exchange:
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:-)
LLS
Yep... he was something.
LLS
bump, thanks!
I, on the other hand, see him as the worst sort of patrician. Never liked him, and then lost all respect when he allowed Nirman Mailer to publicly insult him at a PEN meeting “he’s very intelligent even though he’s conservative”. The whole auditorium laughed (except for me) and Buckley did nothing.
W.F. Buckley was the most erudite host and editor of our time. He helped make Public Television an educational mecca in the great TV wasteland. Few will probably remember that his show was a production of SC Educational TV. His family had an estate near Camden, SC. His style and use of the English language caused him, IMHO, to be a lousy political candidate but it made him one of the most fascinating men involved in politics.
He was frustrating to watch, you needed a dictionary, because you knew you were watching your intellectual superior. Oh, to be able to write like him, much less string together such complete and logical thoughts on the fly.
Here is an interesting outtake from Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.”
Page 100; “The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.” The word “enemy” is sufficient to put the organizer on the side of the people, to identify him with the Have-Nots, but it is not enough to endow him with the special qualities that induce fear and thus give him the means to establish his own power against the establishment.”
This paragraph ends with “Now the organizer has his “birth certificate” and can begin.”
LLS
Alinsky’s and Obama’s Modus Operandi...Obama is running this country like a racket.
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