Breitbart -- The Vetting, Part I: Barack's Love Song To Alinsky

FBCOs and many grassroots organizing models are built on the work of Saul Alinsky, discussed below, from the 1930s into the 1970s

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing, and has been compared to Thomas Paine as being "one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left."

Adam Brandon, a spokesman for the conservative non-profit organization FreedomWorks, which is one of several groups involved in organizing Tea Party protests, says the group gives Alinsky's Rules for Radicals to its top leadership members. A shortened guide called Rules for Patriots is distributed to its entire network. In a January 2012 story that appeared in The Wall Street Journal, citing the organization's tactic of sending activists to town-hall meetings, Brandon explained, "his tactics when it comes to grass-roots organizing are incredibly effective." Former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey also gives copies of Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals to Tea Party leaders. (source)

Originally posted by xuenchen
Andrew Breitbart has apparently uncovered some connections to Obama and the famous Saul Alinski.

A local play by a Chicago theater company in 1998 "The Love Song of Saul Alinsky" featured some guest speakers and some interesting names on an advertising poster.

One name on the poster was "Sen. Barack Obama" ??

Interesting however, is that the name says "Sen. Baraka Obama"

The poster is on the webpage 1/3 of the way down.
And you must scroll the picture down to the names at the bottom of the poster.

In 1998, a small Chicago theater company staged a play titled The Love Song of Saul Alinsky, dedicated to the life and politics of the radical community organizer whose methods Obama had practiced and taught on Chicago’s South Side.

Obama was not only in the audience, but also took the stage after one performance, participating in a panel discussion that was advertised in the poster for the play.

Recently, veteran Chicago journalist Michael Miner mocked emerging conservative curiosity about the play, along with enduring suspicions about the links between Alinsky and Obama. Writing in the Chicago Reader, Miner described the poster:

Let's take a look at this poster.

It's red—and that right there, like the darkening water that swirls down Janet Leigh's drain [in Psycho’s famous shower scene], is plenty suggestive. It touts a play called The Love Song of Saul Alinsky, Alinsky being the notorious community organizer from Chicago who wrote books with titles like Reveille for Radicals and Rules for Radicals. On it, fists are raised—meaning insurrection is in the air.

And down at the very bottom, crawling across the poster in small print, it mentions the panel discussions that will follow the Sunday performances. The panelists are that era's usual "progressive" suspects: Leon Despres, Monsignor Jack Egan, Studs Terkel . . .

And state senator Barack Obama.

Miner obscured the truth. His article only reveals only a small portion of the poster. Here’s the whole poster:

From today through Election Day, November 6, 2012, we will vet this president--and his rivals.

"Sen. Baraka Obama"

misprint or intentional ?

edit on Mar-05-2012 by xuenchen because: (no reason given)

Originally posted by xuenchen
If Obama is so proud of his record, then why suppress historical materials

Originally posted by spoor

Originally posted by xuenchen
If Obama is so proud of his record, then why suppress historical materials

What proof do you have that Obama has anything to do with stopping the release of this alleged "video"?

Originally posted by RealSpoke
Obama has shown absolutely NO communist properties. He is a fascist.

I could care less if he attended communist meetings. I would probably attend them if invited because I am interested in political ideologies. And I am far from believing in communism.

And because Obama sees a play about a communist that makes him one? I've seen plenty of Nazi movies in my day.....

Seriously, what is this? The neo-red scare?

Why attack him over this ridiculous stuff?

Why not focus on the real issues?

Like the revision of the NDAA act and bombing Libya with no congressional approval?

This is all distraction to make conservatives and liberals fight each other more. Why can't people see through this mess?

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Originally posted by xuenchen
Breitbart has a followup article.

Important Topic Updates
In a follow up to yesterday's article, Breitbart writer Ben Shapiro is claiming that a tape exists of that 1998 production of The Love Song of Saul Alinsky in Chicago.

Obama was an Illinois State Senator at the time and he participated in a discussion panel after a performance of the play.

However, the "only" copy is in the possession of someone who will not release it !!

They must be hiding something ?

If Obama is so proud of his record, then why suppress historical materials

Obama Ally Won't Release Alinsky Tape

edit on Mar-06-2012 by xuenchen because: (no reason given)