Newt Alinsky

Of course Newt Gingrich knows who Saul Alinsky is; while few in his listening crowds do.

Gingrich is an early graduate of The Free Congress Foundation program of training grassroots activists in the latest political techniques to make their voices heard.

FCF founder Paul Weyrich took many of his ideas straight out of Alinsky’s book; Rules for Radicals.

Alinsky said “Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”  

Weyrich said “Complete destruction of every opponent must be accomplished through unrelenting personal attacks.” Newt was a good student.

Gingrich says things like “What if Obama is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together his actions”?

<IMHO> Fred Jacobsen

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