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Related: About this forumWith ‘Dreams From My Real Father,’ Have Obama Haters Hit Rock Bottom?
by Michelle Goldberg Sep 28, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
A pseudo-documentary that slimes Ann Dunham, the presidents late mother, is being mailed to swing-state voters. A look at the film and Dinesh DSouzas book, Obamas America.
So this is what its come to.
After four years of invective, four years during which the right has called President Obama a traitor, a communist, a fraud, an affirmative-action case, a terrorist-sympathizer and a tyrant, its shrillest voices have been reduced to the most primal insult of all. They are calling Obamas mother a whore.
For a while now, pictures purporting to show Obamas mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, modeling in 1950s bondage and fetish porn have been floating around the darker corners of the Internet. Now, though, theyve made their way into a pseudo-documentary, Joel Gilberts Dreams From My Real Father, which is being mailed to voters in swing states, promoted by several Tea Party groups and by at least one high-level Republican. At the same time, Dinesh DSouzas latest book, Obamas Americathe first of all his works to hit the top spot on The New York Times bestseller listhas a chapter essentially calling Dunham a fat slut. If Obama is reelected, its hard to imagine where the right goes from here.
Its tempting to ignore Dreams From My Real Father because its so preposterous. The movie claims that Obamas actual father was the poet and left-wing activist Frank Marshall Davis, who Dunham met through her father, who was a CIA agent merely posing as a furniture salesman. My election was not a sudden political phenomenon, says the narrator, speaking as if he were Obama reading his autobiography. It was the culmination of an American socialist movement that my real father, Frank Marshall Davis, nurtured in Chicago and Hawaii, and has been quietly infiltrating the U.S. economy, universities, and media for decades.
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sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Springslips
(533 posts)The dead have no standing to win a libel/slander suit. To win such a suit, one has to prove real quantitative damage, and the dead can't be damaged.
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)They'd look for a way to make the President give depositions and answer questions to take the case forward - it'd be a circus on the scale of the Clinton impeachment.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)tried to overthrow the government. so if President Obama's real father was born in the US and his mother was born in the US that must blow the teabaggers minds.
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)They have invented the craziest things about this man.
If HALF of the things they've made up about him were true, he'd be the most interesting person ever born.
apnu
(8,758 posts)They'll just keep getting lower and lower and lower. Its what racist crackers do... there is no depth they can't sink to.