The Love Song of Saul Alinksy and Barack Obama
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16676)
Boston, Massachusetts
March 6, 2012 9:33am CST
The vetting has begun - but who will pay attention?
Back when Barack Obama was a state senator in Illinois, he was part of a panel discussion on stage following a performance of the play "The Love Song of Saul Alinksy".
In the play, Alinsky mocks America: "My country … ‘tis of whatthehell / And justice up a tree … How much can you sell / What’s in it for me." It is a faithful portrayal of the radial, anti-American activist.
And at the end of the play, a group of communists, socialists and anti-American activists discussed the work. This group also included Barak Obama.
Now, it could be argued that Obama may have been the sole opposing voice in this group, he could have been the one member of the panel that stood up for America and the nation's values and liberty.
But if that were true, why would the director of the play, who confirms she has a video tape of the panel discussion, refuse to release it? If this tape could show that Barack Obama defended his country as part of that panel and eschewed the radical path to socialism, why wouldn't she release it?
Pam Dickler, director of the 1998 production of The Love Song of Saul Alinsky in Chicago that included a panel discussion featuring then-State Sen. Barack Obama, has a video tape of the play.
She has stated: "No one is going to see the tape."
There's only one reason not to release the tape and that is that whatever is on it would be detrimental to Obama's re-election campaign.
The vetting has begun - or has it? With Breitbart's sudden passing and the media focusing on which candidate favors free birth control for all and what Rush said today, will anyone even hear about this?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song
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5 responses
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
6 Mar 12
I don't think that tape would make much difference. Mr. Obama's fans would say well, he was young and weren't we all there once? Or they would say they were fake. The ones like you and me that know what kind of belief system he has can't do anything but cast our votes and I'm afraid that won't be enough.
However, there are more tapes coming and maybe the more tapes out there the more people might be made to actually use their brains. Here is the article:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1139847--andrew-breitbart-s-obama-tapes-to-be-released-friends-say
In short, filmmaker Steve Bannon has the tapes Andrew Breitbart had planned to release. I doubt they'll get any airtime on major news outlets but they might reach some people.
I'm going to vote in about an hour, choosing among 4 losers that I swear were chosen among likely candidates that Obama could defeat. 
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
6 Mar 12
Sadly, everything you say is true. It's one of the reasons I didn't come here to myLot for a long time. What's the point of telling the truth, using common sense and logic when the response is always something ludicrous and emotional and off-topic?
But there's always the possibility that a rising number of voices, all asking the same questions and all speaking the same truth might be heard above those using the Alinksy tactics to discredit anyone who speaks the truth.
I want to see the tapes, I want to hear the rest of the story as Paul Harvey would say. If a major candidate in this race would publicize the information in a national forum, then everyone would hear it. McCain thought it was too risky to do when he ran and he lost. Maybe someone out there will have the guts to speak the truth.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
7 Mar 12
Gingrich has been projected to win in Georgia, he's about the only one who could put this issue in terms that people might understand. And he seems unafraid to do just that sort of thing.
Maybe, just maybe...
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
6 Mar 12
Assuming for a moment that the tape was released, and assuming that Obama was talking down America, up "people" with a Che-style hat and hammer-and-sickle t-shirt, who would really see it anyway?
It's not like MSNBC would run it. The Times wouldn't mention it. No nightly or weekend broadcast, from NBC and ABC to CBS or PBS, would run it.
All would abstain from running it. They'd gladly sit back and let the blogosphere, Fox and talk radio run with it, though. Then they could position it as a "doctored" video, out of context and meaningless, the exact same way they did with the ACORN videos.
The majority of media outlets refusing to acknowledge "news" is an awesome play that they found by accident. I don't believe it's a conspiracy where they gather 'round and discuss what they're not going to show. But now that it's a given that something potentially damaging doesn't make the air, it's a win-win. They get to abstain from material damaging to their worldview, and they have the luxury of putting non-leftist outfits in quarantine, making them look like right wing lunatics for daring to be the odd man out running a story.
Guys like me--still assuming he was preaching like a proud little pinko--would just shrug their shoulders and say, "Hell, I figured that already."
The folks who align themselves politically with Obama would just be prouder of him. They're all about the schoolmarm routine out in public, but gettin' freaky behind closed doors.
I think the independents who are still confused about Obama's rhetoric V Obama's actions would be swayed by it (if they ever did see it; after so many edited versions spawn from it, etc), but I don't believe he can win them back anyway. After cooking numbers for so long, spending so much, gas prices, etc, I don't think they're with him.
I'd like to see the tape. I'd like to know a hell of a lot more about Obama than what I know. He's still yet to be vetted. But at the end of the day, even with the tape out, I can't see where it'd be a game changer or anything. I mean, hell, if that hateful church he sat in for 20 years didn't damage him, what would?
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
6 Mar 12
Exactly. No one will see it - except those who seek out this sort of information or frequent the news outlets likely to show it. Even if the tape had the most damaging performance that Obama ever gave in a public forum, even if he publicly espoused communism and the destruction of America, his supporters would spin it, the media would ignore it and the WH would send Jay Carney out to tell us that it isn't any of our business, anyway.
I, too, would like to see the tape. I would like the real answers to a whole lot of questions. But the media won't ask those questions and no one will investigate.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
6 Mar 12
If the people can't see what Obama has done since he became President, I doubt this video will change their way of thinking.
@jgmarble5050 (45)
• United States
7 Mar 12
No one will ever hear of this as the main stream media does not want anything that is not positive about President Obama to get out to the regular folks.
