Obama and his media march to the Rules for Radicals

When Barack Obama and his "thugistration" have been playing by Sal Alinsky's Rules for Radicals these past several months. It is no suprise, we already knew Obama was a loyal fan and student of the Alinsky way. But to have the media following the Rules for Radicals is straight out of the old Soviet Union days. 

RULE 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. 

On all the major networks, people whose job description is to "deliver the news" are making jokes, belittleing, demonizing, and targeting American citizens who are not guilty of anything but disagreeing with Barack Obama. 

A protester in opposition to Obama is part of an "angry mob". The same news organizations reported that actual angry mobs who were destroying property, burning cars, and spitting on soldiers as Americans expressing their freedom of speech. Thanks to the internet, news stories are archived. Just look up all the anti-war, anti-Bush protests that got violent and out of hand. You will be hard pressed to find any ridicule of these people. That's because they weren't following "Rule #5" of the Rules for Radicals.

It is one thing to express opinions, jokes, etc, on programs whose purpose is to be an op-ed based show such as a Glenn Beck or Keith Olbermann. People watch these shows with the knowledge that these shows are not the "6 o'clock News". But when NBC or ABC has anchors and journalists whose job is supposed to be news delivery, not op-ed pieces, we began to see that the majority of the media is taking marching orders- especially when they use the exact same phrases and talking points as the White House or Nancy Pelosi.

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

"Go after people...people hurt faster than institutions". First it was Rush Limbaugh, then Sean Hannity. Looking back, they even targeted "Joe the Plumber", looking into his personal records- how dare he put Barack Obama on the spot with a question like that! 

Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, with their loyal media behind them have not been targeting those "evil Republicans". No, they have been demonizing American citizens. By calling individuals "angry mobs" puts them into a degenerate class. If protesters are part of an "angry mob" then it gives Barack Obama and his supporters reason to dismiss what they say. it gives them reason to not let them into the town hall meetings, or even be part of the discussion because they are..."angry mobs".

The other tactic when going after people is to flat out say that they are not for real. Nancy Pelosi called the protesters "astroturf". Because if their anger is not real, their cause is not real. And if their cause is not real, there should be no debate or discussion. 

When the media takes the same White House talking points and uses them to deliver news stories, we begin to see that a large portion of our population are literally being hypnotized. Without the world wide web and technology such as camera phones, digital video, and YouTube, our perception of what the truth is could be something very far then reality. Sadly there are still people who think the NBC Nightly News is reality.