Andrew Breitbart pulls together some of the threads related to the post-healthcare-vote anti-Tea Party redirection, concluding:

Who is calling the shots here? Is it the White House, by way of Chicago? Or is it Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid? The press refused to tell you the truth about this president. It refused to tell you of his proud adherence to the teachings of the original Chicago “community organizer” Saul Alinsky. We have now entered the first full-fledged Alinsky presidency. The only way to beat Alinsky is with Alinsky. The Democrats and President Obama will not give up this tack. Do you think the GOP will win the day in November and in 2012 if its strategy is to apologize for every manufactured “right wing fringe” outrage?

I disagree about “the only way to beat Alinsky.” I think it’s honesty. That’s why it’s significant that he’s becoming an increasingly understood figure. Fighting Alinsky with Alinsky would mean deception and manipulation, which many whom I’ve observed on the political right are not well suited to do effectively. Bright lights and proper conduct are the appropriate and most effective responses. Two notes on this front, one national and one local.
First, consider this small story, slipped into the inner pages of the Saturday paper:

David Brian Stone [leader of the recently FBI-stung militia group] never got too far in his plans. His influence didn’t appear to extend much beyond a close circle of family and friends, and associates say other militias refused to come to his defense during raids late last month. …
Members of a group in Hutaree’s own backyard — the Lenawee Volunteer Michigan Militia — not only refused to assist one of Stone’s sons who fled the FBI after a raid on Saturday night, but they actually turned to authorities to help track down Joshua Stone.

I lack the time and interest to dig into the details and merits of the FBI investigation and raid, but the timing and the huge national splash certainly gives the impression that somebody is constructing a narrative stretching from the Tea Party movement, through the Republican Party, to the most fringe characters of the right.
Which brings us to a local item on which I’ve been meaning to comment:

Some people wore tri-cornered hats and waved yellow flags that proclaimed “Don’t Tread On Me.” Others brandished signs with more current messages aimed at Rhode Island’s congressional delegation, such as “Abort the D.C. Thugs,” with photos of Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Representatives Patrick Kennedy and James Langevin, and “LANGEVIN’S VOTE CRIPPLE$ AMERICA.”

The “Abort the D.C. Thugs” sign lies at about the edge of what one expects at these rallies, but the one about Langevin, specifically, crosses the line. Indeed, it’s so beyond the appropriate that one wonders why reporter Mike Stanton, or his on-scene surrogate, didn’t attempt to procure the sign-wielder’s name and extract further comment. Perhaps the journalists’ caught a whiff of the reek of setup around the sign.
Anybody have a picture of that sign — especially of the person holding it?