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Chris Matthews: Alinsky 'our hero'

MSNBC host hails radical community organizer

Posted: December 25, 2009
10:55 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


Saul Alinsky

Just five days after affirming on air that he is a liberal, MSNBC host Chris Matthews exclaimed that radical community organizer Saul Alinsky is one of his heroes.

Stated Matthews: "Well, to reach back to one of our heroes from the past, from the '60s, Saul Alinsky once said that even though both sides have flaws in their arguments and you can always find something nuanced about your own side you don't like and it's never perfect, you have to act in the end like there's simple black and white clarity between your side and the other side or you don't get anything done.

"I always try to remind myself of Saul Alinsky when I get confused," Matthews said on his "Hardball" show, speaking to guest Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, on the topic of President Obama's health care plan.

See video of Matthews' comments:

MSNBC's Chris Matthews Cites "One Of Our Heroes From The Past" Saul Alinsky

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Matthews comments, from his Tuesday show, were noted by Newsbusters.com, which also documented the MSNBC host confirming one week ago that he is liberal.

"It's complicated when liberals get to keep score. We're always arguing. Well, I'm a liberal, too," stated Matthews on the Dec. 17 program.

Alinsky is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He founded and trained community organizations to follow his methods, including organizations in South Chicago, where President Obama credits his political beginnings. The Washington Post reported Obama was hired shortly after graduating from college by a group of Alinsky's disciples to be community organizer on Chicago's South Side.

Former 1960s radical and FrontPageMagazine Editor David Horowitz describes Alinsky as the "Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the dual political tactics of confrontation and infiltration that characterized the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary movements in the United States."

Horowitz writes in his 2009 pamphlet, "Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution. The Alinsky Model":

"The strategy of working within the system until you can accumulate enough power to destroy it was what sixties radicals called 'boring from within.'.... Like termites, they set about to eat away at the foundations of the building in expectation that one day they could cause it to collapse."

As WND reported, Obama approached Northwestern University
professor John L. McKnight – a loyal student of Alinsky's radical tactics – to pen a letter of recommendation for him when he applied to Harvard Law School. Under the tutelage of McKnight and other hardcore students of Alinsky, Obama said he got the "best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School."

In a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, Alinsky's son praised Obama for stirring up the masses at the Democratic National Convention "Saul Alinsky style," saying, "Obama learned his lesson well."

The letter signed L. David Alinsky closed by saying, "I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully."

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Seems like confusion must run in the Matthews family. His older brother is in politics in PA, known as a RINO.

Ya know, the Alinsky model can work for conservatives too. Just turn the tables on the radical left using their own methods. It will be done.

That is what I was saying myself, we ought to use Alinsky's strtegy's and tactics. It was what Hannah Giles and Jamie O'Keefe used against the ACORN offices. Fredo has said he is suprised the people in our movement have not turned to using more of it against the amnestyists.