Video: Real Time with Bill Maher:

[SeattleGirl]

"Who the f*** is Saul Alinski?"

One of Newt Gingrich‘s most bizarre lines of attack against liberals and President Obama is that they’re basically working from the playbook of Saul Alinsky. This has been a rally cry of his for months now. Most of us who aren’t that aware of early 20th century political activists have no idea who the hell Saul Alinsky is, but luckily, Bill Maher gave everyone a primer on who this insidious man is on his show tonight. And what he discovered is that it’s not just Newt Gingrich, but also Glenn Beck, who has turned Alinsky into the latest liberal boogeyman.

Maher joked that for Alinsky to garner the ire of Newt, he must be a divorce lawyer or something. And he admitted that even as a member of the evil liberal media, he had no idea who the actual fuck this person is. But after a quick Wikpedia search, Maher realized that Alinsky is best known for being a civil rights advocate in the 1950s. Like the president, Alinsky was a community organizer, but the chances of them ever swapping notes are pretty slim, mostly because Alinsky died during Obama’s preteen years.

But the Alinsky line of attack was not the main target of Maher’s new rule, but rather the Republican attempts to paint Obama as someone he is clearly not. Maher went down the list of attacks (including a small dig at Dana Rohrabacher‘s comments from earlier in the show).

“This is how politics has changed. You used to run against an actual president. But now you just recreate him inside the bubble and run against your new fictional candidate.”

Video at link: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-wa...l-alinsky/

Maher really nails the Republicans in this one!

And a bit h/t to The Political Carnival, where I first saw this.

Apologies for not posting the actual video -- I didn't know how to post it directly from MEDIAite, so I posted the article which has the video in it.

[KonaKane]

Saul Alinksy is their dog whistle du jour. His name sounds scary, intellectual and foreign. The Ron Paulites are even more afraid of him because he was Jewish, and most likely in bed with the Bilderberg Group and international zionist ownership of all banks.

I need an alka-seltzer.

[SeattleGirl]

(01-29-2012 04:19 PM)KonaKane Wrote:  I need an alka-seltzer.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

Excellent summary and take-down, Bill!

[Born_A_Truman]

That was the only good part of Bill's show Friday night. Poor Martin Bashir didn't get a word in between the idiot Kennedy and Dana Rohrabacher.

[NJMaverick]

the GOP has to attack a false President Obama because the real one should be reelected