Thomas Lifson "David Gregory and Piers Morgan have both met the Alinskyite Right, and progressives in positions of power should take note. Both men are the targets of digital petition drives aimed at holding them to their own standards, and ridiculing them, invoking Rules 4 and 5 from Rules for Radicals:
Legal Insurrection has it's own take on this column by Lifson "Is there any more vile network than MSNBC, which has turned into a stinking cauldron of race and class warfare? Yet there is no group targeting MSNBC akin to Media Matters which targets Fox News and other conservative media. I wish the Media Matters of the world and their tactics didn’t exist, but they do … and they are effective. Fox News is on the defensive all the time, while MSNBC gets a pass."
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:12 Ways To Use Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals Against Liberals Going into the next primary election, Republicans would do well to remember number 7 in this list:
Compare the Rules for Radicals with Obama’s behavior. Rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities and searching out controversy:
4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.But since the 1960s, the left has grabbed control of education, the nonprofit sector, the arts and culture, and the Democratic Party. The Right feels, and actually is, powerless in most of these areas. Thus, conservatives are beginning to [understand] that we must emulate the (successful) tactics of the left, in leveraging our ability to influence the major institutions shaping our lives.
5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
Legal Insurrection has it's own take on this column by Lifson "Is there any more vile network than MSNBC, which has turned into a stinking cauldron of race and class warfare? Yet there is no group targeting MSNBC akin to Media Matters which targets Fox News and other conservative media. I wish the Media Matters of the world and their tactics didn’t exist, but they do … and they are effective. Fox News is on the defensive all the time, while MSNBC gets a pass."
Video explaining Liberal Universities
:12 Ways To Use Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals Against Liberals Going into the next primary election, Republicans would do well to remember number 7 in this list:
7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. This one seems self-explanatory, but in practice, it can be tough to keep things on a timeline. This is what happened to the Occupy Movement, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Republican race for the presidency, too. If it goes on too long, people sour on it whether it’s a war, an election, or a tactic.But, is there a lot conservatives can learn from his tactics? Absolutely. Some of it we can apply and some of it we can see how the Left has applied it against us
Compare the Rules for Radicals with Obama’s behavior. Rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities and searching out controversy:
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