Dinesh D’Souza: None (but Me) Dare Call It Treason

[depakid]

Why would anyone take this guy seriously?

He sounds (quite literally) delusional.

New York Times Sunday Book Review

At first Dinesh D’Souza considered him “a dark-eyed fanatic, a gun-toting extremist, a monster who laughs at the deaths of 3,000 innocent civilians.” But once he learned how Osama bin Laden was viewed in the Muslim world, D’Souza changed his mind. Now he finds bin Laden to be “a quiet, well-mannered, thoughtful, eloquent and deeply religious person.” Despite being considered a friend of the Palestinians, he “has not launched a single attack against Israel.”

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I never thought a book by D’Souza, the aging enfant terrible of American conservatism, would, like the Stalinist apologetics of the popular front period, contain such a soft spot for radical evil. But in “The Enemy at Home,” D’Souza’s cultural relativism hardly stops with bin Laden. He finds Ayatollah Khomeini still to be “highly regarded for his modest demeanor, frugal lifestyle and soft-spoken manner.” Islamic punishment tends to be harsh — flogging adulterers and that sort of thing — but this, D’Souza says “with only a hint of irony,” simply puts Muslims “in the Old Testament tradition.” Polygamy exists under Islamic law, but the sexual freedom produced by feminism in this country is, at least for men, “even better than polygamy.”

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The “domestic insurgents” who, in D’Souza’s view, constitute the cultural left want “America to be a shining beacon of global depravity, a kind of Gomorrah on a Hill.” “I intend to name the enemy at home,” D’Souza proclaims, and so he does. Twenty recent members of Congress, including Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ted Kennedy, are on one of his lists, and 17 intellectuals (one dead, one British) are on another, with similar numbers of Hollywood figures, activists, foreign policy experts, cultural leaders and organizations.

Some of those he identifies — Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, Ward Churchill — might not be surprised to find themselves here. Others — the sociologist Paul Starr, the historian Sean Wilentz, the clergyman Jim Wallis, the philosopher Martha Nussbaum — are less obvious candidates for inclusion. (One person, Thomas Frank, is mentioned on two different lists.) All these people might charge D’Souza with “McCarthyism” for supposedly exposing them, but he accepts the challenge. McCarthy, after all, was “largely right.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/books/review/Wolfe.t.html

[marmar]

1. Dinesh D'Souza has always been a dim bulb....

and now we know he's a fruitcake. :crazy:

[LiberalFighter]

2. He was in the former Reagan Administration

[Berry Cool]

5. So, lemme get this straight.

Most conservatives hate liberals because they think liberals love and sympathize with terrorists and don't want them properly punished for what they do when they attack us...but D'Louza loves and sympathizes with guys like bin Laden...and he doesn't think terrorists are really responsible for their attacks on us, WE are responsible because our Western evils drove them to it and they had no choice.

Wait a sec. I thought that's what the most radical libs thought, and was why conservatives hated all of them.

Now I'm really confused.

[LiberalFighter]

12. Maybe we have to love and sympathize with terrorists for the same reasons

that people like D’Souza (Da Loosa)

I'm all for punishing anyone legally and making sure they are the guilty party.

[n2doc]

3. Great Scathing review "His book is a national disgrace"

Here is the finale-

"At one point in “The Enemy at Home,” D’Souza appeals to “decent liberals and Democrats” to join him in rejecting the American left. Although he does not name me as one of them, I sense he is appealing to people like me because I write for The New Republic, a liberal magazine that distances itself from leftism. So let this “decent” liberal make perfectly clear how thoroughly indecent Dinesh D’Souza is. Like his hero Joe McCarthy, he has no sense of shame. He is a childish thinker and writer tackling subjects about which he knows little to make arguments that reek of political extremism. His book is a national disgrace, a sorry example of a publishing culture more concerned with the sensational than the sensible. People on the left, especially those who have been subjects of D’Souza’s previous books, will shrug their shoulders at his latest screed. I look forward to the reaction from decent conservatives and Republicans who will, if they have any sense of honor, distance themselves, quickly and cleanly, from the Rishwain research scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University."

I think I hear crickets.....

[Marnieworld]

4. Guess Ann coulter's book wasn't as successful as she thought

http://www.amazon.com/Treason-Liberal-Treachery-Cold-Terrorism/dp/1400050308/sr=1-1/qid=1169300330/ref=pd_bbs_1/105-6354579-7214850?ie=UTF8&s=books

[sendero]

6. But many (including me)..

... will call Dinesh a fucking retard of the highest order.

[WinkyDink]

7. This guy decided a long time ago to make his name by writing whatever would sell to the

Republican powers. It has worked.

[rosesaylavee]

8. Whackjob of the first water

Guess I missed this at the time... :eyes:

In particular, his fall 2004 tape, generally believed to have helped George W. Bush defeat John F. Kerry, contained a secret message to the cultural left that D’Souza, and D’Souza alone, has decoded. “Whichever state does not encroach upon our security thereby ensures its own,” bin Laden declared. Anyone who thinks bin Laden used the term “state” to mean “country” — common usage in Europe and the Middle East — is wrong.

He was actually telling residents of New York and Massachusetts that if they voted for the Democrats, he would refrain from killing them.

D’Souza writes like a lover spurned; despite all his efforts to reach out to bin Laden, the man insists on joining forces with the Satanists.

[mondo joe]

9. And they call US appeasers? Their defense against radical Islam is to show how much they

have in common!

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[eallen]

10. This book is important, because it shows the truth about the right.

Ideologically, the right in this nation are aligned with the Islamists, against liberal government and liberal society. Many will try to pretend that that isn't the case. But with D'Souza's book, that pretense will get more difficult.

:hippie:

[Rageneau]

11. D'Souza looks like an illegal immigrant to me. Let's throw him out.

For too long, good Americans have been having to put up with the mongrelization of our race by dark-skinned immigrants like D'Souza. I say "America for Americans!' We should throw third-world-looking types like D'Souza out.

I don't care if he is already, legally, an American. He doesn't LOOK like an American, and that's good enough for people like D'Souza and me.