Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
Of course the mouth pieces at Fox News and the right wing noise machine (many who were leftists at one time) knew who Saul Alinsky was when Obama and Hillary ran in 2008. They had been using Alinsky's tactics for years and were upset at the left's rediscovery of the Alinsky method
Not long after Obama arrived, he sat down for a cup of coffee in Hyde Park with a fellow organizer named Mike Kruglik. Obama's work focused on helping poor blacks on Chicago's South Side fight the city for things like job banks and asbestos removal. His teachers were schooled in a style of organizing devised by Saul Alinsky, the radical University of Chicago-trained social scientist. At the heart of the Alinsky method is the concept of "agitation"-- making someone angry enough about the rotten state of his life that he agrees to take action to change it; or, as Alinsky himself described the job, to "rub raw the sores of discontent."
Barack Obama's Unlikely Political Education | The New Republic