Weekly Standard laughs the movie "2016: Obama's America (the movie)" out of the theaters.

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Technically the conservative Weekly Standard is laughing the book by Dinesh D'Souza out of the bookstores, back in 2010. Some people are worried about so I dug out this review based on the book to show how self respecting conservatives are embarassed about this kind of garbage.

One is left wondering how someone who spends so much time defending Christianity as D'Souza is can generate so much ignorant hatred for the President.

The Roots of Lunacy

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/roots-lunacy_508809.html?page=1

It’s in this light that the anti-Obama hysteria of recent months should be seen. Among professionals, political loyalties and hates are as changeable as the weather, bearing no relation to the plain evidence that normal people try to rely on. Taking the long view means never taking them seriously. Lucky for us, the hysterics make it so easy not to take them seriously.

On the evidence of his new book, we can’t be sure if Dinesh D’Souza is a hysteric or a cynic. Newt Gingrich, for his part, thinks D’Souza is a visionary, and he’s been praising the visionary and his book with the patented Gingrichian intensity. D’Souza is the possessor of a “stunning insight,” Gingrich said recently, in an interview with National Review Online’s Robert Costa. This insight is “the most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama,” Gingrich continued, while poor Costa looked for a table to duck under. “Only if you understand Kenyan, anticolonial behavior can you piece together [Obama’s actions]. That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”

As a professional partisan with a Ph.D., Newt Gingrich will take anything seriously if it suits his immediate purpose and has the necessary intellectual pretensions (whatever happened to the Tofflers anyway?). D’Souza’s thesis, with its exoticism (Kenya) and its scholarly tags (anticolonial behavior), looks tailor-made for the former speaker. The insight with which D’Souza has stunned him is purely abstract and syllogistic: (1) Barack Obama really admired his father, Barack Obama Sr., and wanted to be like him; (2) Obama Sr. grew up in Kenya and became an anticolonial agitator; therefore (3) Obama Jr. wants to be an anticolonial agitator, too, and since he’s simultaneously president of the United States, he gets to be anticolonial in a very big way and drag us along with him.

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And where facts are missing altogether, faulty reasoning bolsters the case. “Wonder why Obama went to Harvard?” D’Souza slyly asks. “Here is a clue: It is the leading academic institution in America. And here’s another: His father went there.” Forget that neither of these facts is a clue, technically. Surely the first assertion is enough to adequately answer the question without recourse to the second, which is simply gratuitous as well as conjectural. But D’Souza always sees absence of evidence as evidence of something or other.

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1. You are right as always grantcart

thanks!

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2. I just found this link about Harvard and his dad

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53968.html

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3. Damn, Sir: One Does Not Often see Sensible Items In 'The Weekly Standard'

Mr. Fergurson seems able to rub a few brain cells together on occasion....

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4. Cenk, on Young Turks tore this guy up last night.......

http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/dinesh-dsouza-obama-wants-to-reduce-americas-footprint-on-the-world-part-1

I thought Dinish was a calmer liar than most contards, Cenk seemed a bit pissed, but pretty much demolished every lie presented to him.

I liked it.

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5. Kick