Socialist and community activist Saul Alinksy taught organizers to ridicule opponents when the arguments of their opponents could not be refuted by logic, evidence or argument. He advocated denying the truth or just plain lying. In Alinksy’s world, the end always justified the means.
Alinsky’s acolytes on the left have learned the lesson well. Because they dare not address the questions raised, they attack the one asking the questions.
Supporters of Barack Obama are in paroxysms over Jerome R. Corsi’s best-seller “The Obama Nation,” attacking the 304-page book and its author on minor details contained within its pages, while deliberately ignoring and obfuscating the larger points Corsi makes about Obama’s questionable alliances, practices and qualifications for president.
During an interview I did with Dr. Corsi on my radio program Aug. 9, he said there are questions Obama must answer or he won’t get elected:
I tried in “Obama Nation” to write about it in a clear and simple, easy-to-read way so the reader will be illuminated as to what Obama’s talking about, what his context is.
It’s why Obama won’t be able to answer this book because Obama’s going to read this book – if he ever does … and say, “OK, Corsi knows what he’s talking about.” He’s going to have to admit that. If he doesn’t want to admit that, then he’s not being intellectually honest.
But the report, titled “Unfit for Publication” (a play on the title of Corsi’s previous best-seller “Unfit for Command”) ignores the book’s core issues – Corsi’s legitimate questions about Obama that the author meticulously documents in the book’s nearly 700 footnotes.
For example, is or has Obama ever been Muslim? And if so, why does he deny it?
Corsi writes that the study of Islam was mandatory in all Indonesian educational institutions, including pre-primary schools, and points to a March 2007 interview New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof did with Obama about his Islamic education.
… Kristof said Obama recited the prayer “with a first rate accent,” and that, “In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’”
Corsi added, “The problem with the Muslim education in Indonesia isn’t so much that he had it, but that he lied about it because on his website, Obama’s been maintaining he was never a Muslim and he’d never had Islamic instruction.”
While distraction, invective and ad hominem attacks are being used in attempts to diminish Corsi’s credibility, the author stands by his research and subsequent questions about Obama’s background, education, religious training, Communist and socialist mentors and influences, voting record, friendships with 1960s radicals and criminals, association with black liberation theology and its proponents, and his affiliations with Islamists and Kenyan socialists.
The publicity engendered as a result of both the campaign and the mainstream media’s focus on factual minutiae is prompting thousands of Americans to purchase the book, seeking information about gaps in the presidential candidate’s past.
“Obama is still the same leftist radical as he was in his youth,” Corsi said during our interview. “They’ve created this cult of personality around Obama where we’re not supposed to know any of this or ask any of these questions. We’re just supposed to see the Obama messiah. Well, the Obama messiah is a leftist socialist who will impose a Saul Alinsky type of redistribution of wealth upon America.
“We’ve got here a guy who is, in disguise, running as a black rage socialist activist trained by Saul Alinsky. And the key to Saul Alinksy’s model was to not be Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman with their long hair and hippie attitudes. … He said they should cut their hair, they should shave their beards, they should get business suits, and they should run for political office. Well, that’s what Obama did.”
The relevant issues Corsi says Obama must explain or risk losing the election include:
- The network of 1960s radicals Obama befriended in Chicago, including the anti-American SDS Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn. Ayers openly admits his involvement in 30 bombings, including the bombings of the U.S. Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972 as part of his revolutionary anti-war activities. “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough,” said Ayers. In a 2007 speech at the SDS reunion, Ayers referred to the U.S. government as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” Ayers and Dohrn hosted Obama’s first political fundraiser. Obama and Ayers were on the Board of the Woods Fund for three years, approving grants to radical groups like the Arab American Action Network.
- His relationship with Pro-Palestinian Rashid Khalidi, co-founder of the radical and anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian Arab American Action Network and a Columbia University professor whose influence brought Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak; also an advocate for Palestinian rights and Obama political fundraiser.
- Suspicious campaign contributions and donors. Especially given the recent revelations of unexplained illegal donations made to Obama’s campaign. Pamela Geller writes at American Thinker of “Palestinian” brothers from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who illegally donated $33,000 to Obama’s campaign. Many more illegal donations point to the Middle East, and Geller documents them in detail at her website Atlas Shrugs.
- The “Chicago Way” patronage package offered to Obama by Chicago’s corrupt political fixer and scandal-ridden convicted criminal, Syrian-born Tony Rezko, Obama’s “political godfather” and friend for 20 years. Rezko was involved in money laundering, attempted extortion, fraud and aiding bribery in an alleged multi-million dollar scheme shaking down companies seeking state contracts.
- The racist black liberation theology of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Trinity United Church of Christ, a hotbed of racism and intolerance.
- Louis Farrakhan and the black Muslims.
- Obama’s relationship with his mentor, communist writer and poet Frank Marshall Davis.
- Obama’s adherence to socialist and self-styled agitator Saul Alinsky’s radical revolutionist methodology of wealth redistribution, in community organizing and political power building.
- Fellow Kenyan tribesman Raila Odinga, who linked his 2007 presidential campaign to radical Muslims seeking to expand Islam in Kenya.
Corsi reminds readers that Saul Alinsky taught organizers to hide their true intentions in the words they spoke. Alinsky had learned the old communist adage that derision would cause community audiences to laugh at their opponents, rather than listen to what their opponents were saying.
Looks like they’ve learned that lesson well.
