SAUL ALINSKY: NOT JUST FOR COMMIE LIBERALS :-)

I've heard Hannity and Limbaugh decry the use of Saul Alinsky's tactics by liberals, the Left, Pres. Obama and whoever else they disagree with. I did a little LexisNexis search for "Saul Alinksy" for the last year (5/30/2008-5/30/2009) and found that Mr. Alinsky's advice is indeed all-purpose because conservatives admit to using them also.

Two examples:

Palm Beach Post (Florida)
April 14, 2009 Tuesday
FINAL EDITION
'TEA PARTY' PLANNED TO MARK TAX DAY

BYLINE: By GEORGE BENNETT Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

SECTION: LOCAL & BUSINESS; Pg. 1B

FreedomWorks' director of federal and state campaigns, Brendan Steinhauser, said partisanship or the organizational experience of advocacy groups cannot explain the popularity of the protests.

"It's coming from the ground up," he said, adding that his group has mainly offered advice to activists. He said he has used strategies from the late Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky, regarded by many as the father of community organizing.

"It's unbelievable for people on the left to understand how we're doing this," Steinhauser said. "But we're using some of the same methods they've used for years."

Los Angeles Times
April 26, 2009 Sunday
Home Edition
Abortion foe goes undercover;
A UCLA student poses at clinics as a minor pregnant by an adult. Her videos, posted on YouTube, get results.

BYLINE: Robin Abcarian

SECTION: MAIN NEWS; National Desk; Part A; Pg. 1

She is Lila Rose, a 20-year-old UCLA history major with a little voice and a bold plan to expose what she and many abortion foes see as Planned Parenthood's wrongdoings.

Since 2006, Rose has orchestrated undercover "stings" at Planned Parenthood clinics in Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Tucson, Phoenix and Memphis.

Rose, by e-mail, and O'Keefe, in a phone interview, said they were inspired by the work of Mark Crutcher, a Texas antiabortion activist who in 2002 taped fake calls to hundreds of Planned Parenthood clinics around the country featuring women posing as pregnant minors.

They also found an unlikely source of inspiration: "Rules for Radicals," a handbook on grass-roots organizing by Saul Alinsky, a legendary left-wing activist who was an inspiration to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Among Alinsky's most famous admonitions is one that O'Keefe said he and Rose took to heart: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."