03-08-2012, 08:13 PM
Kinda stumbled upon this in my morning reading - check this out...
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...insky-tape
Obama Ally Won't Release Alinsky Tape
Sources inform Breitbart.com today that Pam Dickler, director of the 1998 production of The Love Song of Saul Alinsky in Chicago that included a panel discussion featuring then-State Sen. Barack Obama, has a video tape of the play.
And she won’t release it.
“There is only one archive tape of the play and I have it,” Dickler informed our source. “It is not in Chicago.”
Dickler told our source that she doesn’t believe she’s ever watched the tape, and she doesn’t know if it “can be viewed.” But she added: “No one is going to see the tape.”
She said she felt “very protective over it … due to all of the interest from conservatives recently.” She also told our source that the poster for the play was never supposed to be distributed.
Dickler added that there were no transcripts of the panel discussion.
“They didn’t know he was going to go on to become the president,” she said. “If they had known that, they would have of course kept any transcripts, but there were never any taken.”
Mainstream journalists have attempted to dismiss yesterday's column by Andrew Breitbart about the play by claiming that Obama had merely attended the production--a defense hinted at by Chicago Reader columnist Michael Miner's initial column.
However--as even Miner noted--Obama did not merely attend the play; he was featured on the poster and in the panel discussion that followed.
So, if the play’s so harmless, why are Obama’s allies hiding it?
Why not release the video tape?
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and now, the rest of the story...
From: http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/arc...velopments
Pam Dickler was at work Monday in New York City when the phone rang. It was a guy calling from a 773 number, and it was about the play she’d directed back in Chicago for the Terrapin Theatre in 1998, The Love Song of Saul Alinsky. This was the play the late Andrew Breitbart had just written about in his last, posthumously published blog post. Barack Obama had been on a panel that talked about Alinsky after one of the Sunday performances, and to Breitbart this was highly suspicious, even more evidence (as if the right-wing needed more) that Obama was a radical lefty.
The caller asked Dickler if a video existed of the play and, if so, could he see it? Who are you with? Dickler asked. Nobody, said the caller. He was just curious.
Dickler recalled that one of the performances had been taped—by a single camera at the back of the house. Theaters frequently make tapes of their shows for their archives. “It’s not something the public is ever meant to see,” Dickler tells me. She says she’s never watched the tape and isn’t sure where it is, or what format it was shot in, or whether 14 years later it’s even watchable.
But the play, by Herb Schapiro, has been published, and Dickler suggested her caller order a copy from Amazon. After he hung up she googled the name and phone number and traced the call to a prominent real estate firm in Chicago.
The next thing Dickler knew she was part of a cover-up.
more:http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2012/03/06/the-alinsky-filelatest-shocking-developments including pics of George Romney shaking hands with this radical and writing, "I think you ought to listen to Alinsky. It seems to me that we are always talking to the same people. Maybe the time has come to hear new voices."
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/...insky-tape
Obama Ally Won't Release Alinsky Tape
Sources inform Breitbart.com today that Pam Dickler, director of the 1998 production of The Love Song of Saul Alinsky in Chicago that included a panel discussion featuring then-State Sen. Barack Obama, has a video tape of the play.
And she won’t release it.
“There is only one archive tape of the play and I have it,” Dickler informed our source. “It is not in Chicago.”
Dickler told our source that she doesn’t believe she’s ever watched the tape, and she doesn’t know if it “can be viewed.” But she added: “No one is going to see the tape.”
She said she felt “very protective over it … due to all of the interest from conservatives recently.” She also told our source that the poster for the play was never supposed to be distributed.
Dickler added that there were no transcripts of the panel discussion.
“They didn’t know he was going to go on to become the president,” she said. “If they had known that, they would have of course kept any transcripts, but there were never any taken.”
Mainstream journalists have attempted to dismiss yesterday's column by Andrew Breitbart about the play by claiming that Obama had merely attended the production--a defense hinted at by Chicago Reader columnist Michael Miner's initial column.
However--as even Miner noted--Obama did not merely attend the play; he was featured on the poster and in the panel discussion that followed.
So, if the play’s so harmless, why are Obama’s allies hiding it?
Why not release the video tape?
***
and now, the rest of the story...
From: http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/arc...velopments
Pam Dickler was at work Monday in New York City when the phone rang. It was a guy calling from a 773 number, and it was about the play she’d directed back in Chicago for the Terrapin Theatre in 1998, The Love Song of Saul Alinsky. This was the play the late Andrew Breitbart had just written about in his last, posthumously published blog post. Barack Obama had been on a panel that talked about Alinsky after one of the Sunday performances, and to Breitbart this was highly suspicious, even more evidence (as if the right-wing needed more) that Obama was a radical lefty.
The caller asked Dickler if a video existed of the play and, if so, could he see it? Who are you with? Dickler asked. Nobody, said the caller. He was just curious.
Dickler recalled that one of the performances had been taped—by a single camera at the back of the house. Theaters frequently make tapes of their shows for their archives. “It’s not something the public is ever meant to see,” Dickler tells me. She says she’s never watched the tape and isn’t sure where it is, or what format it was shot in, or whether 14 years later it’s even watchable.
But the play, by Herb Schapiro, has been published, and Dickler suggested her caller order a copy from Amazon. After he hung up she googled the name and phone number and traced the call to a prominent real estate firm in Chicago.
The next thing Dickler knew she was part of a cover-up.
more:http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2012/03/06/the-alinsky-filelatest-shocking-developments including pics of George Romney shaking hands with this radical and writing, "I think you ought to listen to Alinsky. It seems to me that we are always talking to the same people. Maybe the time has come to hear new voices."