Ethics

Alinsky's Rules for Right Wingers

By Ed Brayton

One of the more amusing memes being pushed by the right wing at the moment is the use of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals to explain everything Obama or anyone else they disagree with does at any given moment. I've seen this referenced a dozen times over the last few weeks, using some vague statement by Alinsky that applies to practically anyone involved in politics in order to imply that, since Alinsky was a "Marxist" then so is anyone else seen practicing those highly unspecified rules.

Here's a perfect example from Aaron Klein, one of the Worldnutdaily's wingnut writers, on a website defending Glenn Beck:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).