Dishonest D'Souza Delivers Disingenuous Diatribe, Book to Follow

[Mimosa]

I pity those who actually believe the lies of Dinesh D'Souza. He's an apparatchik for the powerful few who rule the economy of the USA. Apparently he's written a book to libel President Obama, using catchy words like 'bizarre actions' and 'strange behaviour.'

It's clear what D'Souza is up to: 'the President is behaving strangely'. This kind of BS is difficult to counter without falling into a trap.

This article by Dinesh D'Souza contains several falsehoods. Not surprising, considering the source...but...I hope somebody will post a chart showing that the rich pay more taxes because they possess more of the wealth. *grrr*

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem_print.html

Excerpt:

The President's actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and supporters alike. Consider this headline from the Aug. 18, 2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal: "Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling." Did you read that correctly? You did. The Administration supports offshore drilling--but drilling off the shores of Brazil. With Obama's backing, the U.S. Export-Import Bank offered $2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras to finance exploration in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro--not so the oil ends up in the U.S. He is funding Brazilian exploration so that the oil can stay in Brazil.

More strange behavior: Obama's June 15, 2010 speech in response to the Gulf oil spill focused not on cleanup strategies but rather on the fact that Americans "consume more than 20% of the world's oil but have less than 2% of the world's resources." Obama railed on about "America's century-long addiction to fossil fuels." What does any of this have to do with the oil spill? Would the calamity have been less of a problem if America consumed a mere 10% of the world's resources?

The oddities go on and on. Obama's Administration has declared that even banks that want to repay their bailout money may be refused permission to do so. Only after the Obama team cleared a bank through the Fed's "stress test" was it eligible to give taxpayers their money back. Even then, declared Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, the Administration might force banks to keep the money.

The President continues to push for stimulus even though hundreds of billions of dollars in such funds seem to have done little. The unemployment rate when Obama took office in January 2009 was 7.7%; now it is 9.5%. Yet he wants to spend even more and is determined to foist the entire bill on Americans making $250,000 a year or more. The rich, Obama insists, aren't paying their "fair share." This by itself seems odd given that the top 1% of Americans pay 40% of all federal income taxes; the next 9% of income earners pay another 30%. So the top 10% pays 70% of the taxes; the bottom 40% pays close to nothing. This does indeed seem unfair--to the rich.

[jaxx]

1. This is what the newt is all fired up about.

And to think he wants to be president....Newt is as nuts as D'Souza.

[Hamlette]

2. Here's a great article about D'Souza's latest lies

It's an attempt to understand why republicans lie.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9130892

[Mimosa]

4. Thanks for that, Hamlette. D'Souza is a known liar.

There's a reason I fear this particular meme picking up steam. It's dangerous.

[Moostache]

3. I would not wipe my ass with pages from his diatribe. (nt)