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| Saul Alinsky |
Like most liberals under the age of 50, I've never actually read Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.
I only know what the book is about from reading Right-wing blogs --
they're obsessed with Alinksy, and seem to think that studying him is
mandatory in our Liberal Indoctrination Centers public schools.
One
of Alinsky's rules -- again, I know this because conservatives keep
telling me -- is that you've got to: 'Pick the Target, Freeze It,
Personalize It and Polarize It.' And that's exactly what Rush Limbaugh
and his slut-shaming is about. Sandra Fluke, after all, is not a
prominent figure on the national stage. She is a a young woman in
law-school who testified about the experience of a friend who required
birth control pills to battle cancer. And here she is, a target picked,
frozen, personalized and polarized.
Anyway,
Rush must be wondering what all the fuss is about - after all, his
outrageously vile comments about Fluke aren't more outrageous or vile
than any of the other bile he spews everyday.
Yet, there is a backlash, as Kristen Gwynne noted
in an earlier post. Pressure is being brought to bear on Limbaugh's
advertisers, and companies don't like to have their brand associated
with the worst kind of misogyny.
Also, this is kind of nice...
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