Video: The obligatory SNL Glenn Beck parody

But if you listen to Glenn this morning, he read an article that was published a few days ago, where the writer said SNL should mock Glenn because he is so effective and needs to be taken down.

In other words, use Alinsky’s tactic of mockery. SNL just started.

I didn’t hear Beck today, but that’s no surprise to anyone who has been reading MY BLOG.

From L.N. Smithee’s REACTOR on June 12, 2009 in the thread “DAVID LECHER-MAN GOES TOO FAR: Slandering the Palins, Protecting Obama, and “Humor” as a Partisan Weapon”:

Take special note of what Letterman’s writer Michael Barrie was quoted as saying: “I think some of us were maybe too quick to caricature Al Gore and John Kerry and there’s maybe some reluctance to do the same thing to [Barack Obama].”

Think about that for a moment.

Barrie openly admits he has regrets about helping Letterman sock it to Gore and Kerry. He seems to be implying caricaturing both of those Democrats played a role in Bush being elected to two terms, and that was a mistake he wasn’t going to allow this go-around.

(snip)

Perhaps Letterman, Barrie, [et al] are taking seriously what proudly ill-informed ABC sports reporter Suzy Shuster (I never heard of her either, before this) wrote on the Huffington Post on September 23, 2008 (bold mine):

Most of us who read the Post are already scared out of our wits of what this woman could “accomplish,” should she reach the Vice Presidency or beyond. Abortion outlawed even in the case of incest or rape. Global warming research dismissed. Polar bears left unprotected, not to mention moose murder celebrated. But you, Ms. Fey, have the ability, with just a wink and a smirk, to change the minds of millions of casual viewers and even more casual voters, to educate them. [...M]any swing-state voters get their information and cue from you, Ms. Fey, and you need to provide as much of it as one woman possibly can, before the election is upon us and it is too late.
Comedy can cure and comedy can enlighten, but it must be a constant to reach enough ears to change the hearts and minds of this country …

Also worth reading for those who are interested in real-world illustrations of Alinsky tactics: “HOLLYWOOD REWARDS TINA FEY FOR TRASHING SARAH PALIN,” which illustrates how Katherine Harris was similarly skewered by the Hollylefties.

L.N. Smithee on September 25, 2009 at 9:34 PM