Who was Saul Alinsky?

Newt Gingrich often mentions Saul Alinsky when referring to President Obama, but who is he? Soledad O'Brien has more.

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[RTDice11]

@skinnywhop87 don't forget Kanter.

[666brainiac]

Newt belives in a single leadership and a strike force, note the times he stated that he will ignore judicial rulings he disagrees with and will go so far as sending troopers after judges he disagrees with. This Facist approach is appealing to the Republicans.

Alinsky on the other hand understood that Newt and the Republican party will fail if they do not develop the support of the 99% within democratic institutions. Machiavellianism for the People is the correct way to go. That scares the 1%

[delreydavid]

Newt needs to keep the attention away from the other 'ski' topic, being Monica Lewinsky and the hypocrisy that he was cheating with a congressional staffer at the same time he was grandstanding on family values against Clinton. Newt is a sick human being. He is perfect for the Republican party. If the rabid behavior of the Republicans at the tparties and debates shows the destructive mood of the party, then he is the nominee. Obama better be ready for The Clash of the Titans. "Release the PALIN"

[delreydavid]

Newt is so over dramatic it is like he is a wailing old woman. Everything for him is way over the top. That is exactly what his own party critics have to say about his leadership. Obama is a centrist and he is being called a left wing radical. I would hate to see what Newt would call a real left wing radical. We should compare Newt to Nathaniel Forrest if he wants to play that game, since there is as much in common between them as Obama and Alinsky.

[eBe4IXcept]

Newt is also playing the race card here, since Alinsky was a big organizer for black neighborhoods. The implication is clear. The Foodstamp President wants to organize the poor and the blacks against the wealthy assholes who run the country. I think he may be giving Obama too much credit.

[eBe4IXcept]

This is Newt joining the Class War. New is declaring himself AGAINST the poor and the Republicans are loving it. Does Newt want to start a class war, or is this just for the Republican primary? 

[eBe4IXcept]

@timmay301 The one thing is that he organized poor people. This is radical to Republicans because they are all about protecting the wealthy.

[timmay301]

by the way this piece of reporting was pretty bad

[timmay301]

there is no particular movement behind the philosophy of Alinsky. His ideas are just about how to rally a people into caring about their community; it could just as well serve the right as the left, and many of the aspects involved are used both by Gingrich and Obama, because they are just ideas on how to get people to vote. Like seeking out controversy, and getting your opponents into dialogues. There's nothing radical about him, this is just Gingrich wanting to pin the word "radical" on obama.

[skinnywhop87]

lol I like how Gingrich is always trying to pander to Jews, yet he's at odds politically with almost every significant Jewish contributor to history.

Einstein= Anti-War

Marx= Father of communism

Alinsky= Radical leftist

Norman Finkelstein= Against zionism

Noam Chomsky= an intellectual

Rham Emmanuel= Worked for Obama

I'm sure the only Jews who would ever agree with Gingrich are the bottom of the barrel, like Netanyahu, Madoff and Bernake