Turning Into An Andrew McCarthy Fan
Posted on | September 5, 2010 | 5 Comments
by Smitty (h/t Big Journalism)
I followed Michael Walsh’s advice and read Andrew McCarthy’s review of the new book on Saul Alinsky.
McCarthy, who wrote Grand Jihad, sees through the sycophant author to the diabolical mind of Alinsky.
The last two sentences of the review, where another Alinsky acolyte, Obama, has attained the White House, are of note:
The fox has made it to the hen house. The old master would be proud.
I’m not sure Obama is a fox in the sense of Odysseus, and I’m not sure that Alinsky would feel ‘pride’ in any way commonly understood.
These two characters are fascinating. Obama and Alinsky, circumstantially, seem to have some fairy-tale vision. A Kingdom of God, without so much God. Yet their tactics seem void of creativity, capable only of achievement through destruction.
McCarthy’s review leaves one genuinely interested in Alinsky from a criminal psychology standpoint. Was there any ‘there’ there, or can an Alinsky (and an Obama) exist only parasitically, having something notionally functional like a Bush both to sustain them, and attack?
RTWT. It’s one of those pieces one is tempted to quote in full.

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