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<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\nUnfortunately, only five minutes of this December 1967 edition of Buckley\u2019s seminal Firing Line <\/em>program is online the above clip, but you can read a transcript of the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/hoohila.stanford.edu\/firingline\/programView2.php?programID=99\">at the Hoover Institute<\/a>, or buy a DVD of the program for ten dollars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004SQFQHO\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=orthodoxchris-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=B004SQFQHO\"> from Amazon<\/a>. At one point, Buckley describes Alinsky\u2019s philosophy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\nLook, this is a program of things we want, if you don\u2019t give it to us, we\u2019re going to make it impossible for Chicago to continue commercial or civic life at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAlinsky eventually argues:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\nI\u2019ll put it another way. I said that evolution is a chronological term used by non-participating historians to denote a time sequence of a whole series of revolutions which synthesize into a major change \u2014 then they call it evolution.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nChange? Say, somebody should use that word as a campaign slogan!<\/p>\nAnd note this exchange:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\nALINSKY: Controversy ranges. It ranges all through various levels of life. I would consider, for example, the same thing on revolution. I think Social Security was revolutionary.<\/p>\nBUCKLEY: Yeah.<\/p>\nALINSKY: I think Medicare was revolutionary. You see the problem is every \u2013<\/p>\nBUCKLEY: It does seem that we have a semantic difficulty.<\/p>\nALINSKY: All words in the whole arena of action are all loaded. (Announcer breaks in)<\/p>\nANNOUNCER: Our debate on these varied issues will continue after this brief pause.<\/p>\nALINSKY: (Continuing but some of his remarks lost during simultaneous announcement) \u2014 gets an idea of blood and barricades, and that sort. And then you say, power \u2014 it\u2019s sinister word, you know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\nBUCKLEY: But for instance, we got Medicare in this country, and we got it as a result of discussion. Now, mightn\u2019t Alinsky students have felt that you would need to shoot a few doctors, or let people die for lack of medical attention, before you\u2019d have the kind of conflict that\u2019s necessary to midwife for Medicare?<\/p>\nALINSKY: Buckley, I\u2019ve been fascinated by your eyes in previous shows I\u2019ve watched you on, and will you look at me and tell me whether you believe what you\u2019re saying?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nSound familiar?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/divider-2.png\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=orthodoxchris-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=B004SQFQHO\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&bc1=000000&IS2=1&bg1=FFFFFF&fc1=000000&lc1=0000FF&t=orthodoxchris-20&o=1&p=8&l=as4&m=amazon&f=ifr&ref=ss_til&asins=0679721134\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you don’t know who Saul Alinksy is, you need to learn (biography here, Rules for Radicals here). 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