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one_voice

(20,043 posts)
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 03:57 PM Feb 2015

D'Souza On Obama: 'You Can Take The Boy Out Of The Ghetto...'



Conservative activist and convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza on Wednesday raised the bar for his incomprehensible Twitter feed, tweeting a photo of President Obama with the message, "YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE GHETTO."

D'Souza criticized the "vulgar man" Obama for using a "selfie-stick" in a recent video produced by BuzzFeed that promotd the Affordable Care Act. He then decided to forgo a dog whistle and bashed out a racial slur in all caps.

Dinesh D'Souza ✔ @DineshDSouza
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YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE GHETTO...Watch this vulgar man show his stuff, while America cowers in embarrassment
10:48 AM - 18 Feb 2015




Shortly after, D'Souza followed up his initial "ghetto" tweet:


Dinesh D'Souza ✔ @DineshDSouza
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I know Obama wasn't actually raised in a ghetto--I'm using the term metaphorically, to suggest his unpresidential conduct
11:19 AM - 18 Feb 2015


The tweets are only the latest in a long line of swipes at the 44th President, whom D'Souza once compared to the Ebola virus ("OBOLA&quot .

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dsouza-obama-boy-ghetto-tweet



"Boy & Ghetto" but he's not a racist, right? Whatthefuckever!
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D'Souza On Obama: 'You Can Take The Boy Out Of The Ghetto...' (Original Post) one_voice Feb 2015 OP
There's a ghetto in Honolulu? KamaAina Feb 2015 #1
Right, and attended Punahou! elleng Feb 2015 #6
Dinesh comes from the Dog Whistle ghetto. It's so overpopulated, too. merrily Feb 2015 #28
It's where all the haoles live, or something XemaSab Feb 2015 #62
Isn't this convict in prison yet? malaise Feb 2015 #2
Ditto RayStar Feb 2015 #40
Great minds??? malaise Feb 2015 #47
Dinesh was raised in a ghetto of morality. Dont call me Shirley Feb 2015 #3
IMO what John McCain said about Louis Gohmert applies in this instance CJCRANE Feb 2015 #4
That comment is out of nothing but envy. nt brush Feb 2015 #15
Except race-related dog whistles are malicious. merrily Feb 2015 #29
I think his point was that it's not worth replying to idiots like Gohmert (or D'Souza in this case). CJCRANE Feb 2015 #32
I thought he was saying they were too dumb to know what they were saying or too dumb merrily Feb 2015 #33
It's actually Stoic philosophy, a loose quote from Marcus Aurelius. CJCRANE Feb 2015 #34
you can take the brain out of a man, but you can't take a brain out of a man without a brain CreekDog Feb 2015 #5
Swipes? Those are unhinged diatribes. This idiot has lost the bubble completely. MADem Feb 2015 #7
Incredible. A book and a movie smearing Obama wasn't enough uhnope Feb 2015 #42
There are no words. winter is coming Feb 2015 #8
The only embarrassment in America is the right wing racist/elitist pigs. liberal N proud Feb 2015 #9
What a @$#&ing gobstopping idiot. nt MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #10
should like he is bitter and miserable JI7 Feb 2015 #11
because georgee was presidential. pansypoo53219 Feb 2015 #12
here's a news flash Dinesh DonCoquixote Feb 2015 #13
But, They're So Tired Of Us Calling Them Racist In Their Hate Of Obama ProfessorGAC Feb 2015 #14
Jus... so... uponit7771 Feb 2015 #16
Surely we can produce his articles decrying Jr. You know, that silver spoon fed Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2015 #17
don't forget the fart jokes--or the farting! MisterP Feb 2015 #49
I "cower in embarrassment" at the fact that I live on the same planet as assclowns like D'ouchebag. BlueStater Feb 2015 #18
dear mr d'souza... spanone Feb 2015 #19
When is this asshole going to jail? mikeysnot Feb 2015 #20
"boy" huh? douggg Feb 2015 #21
Shit, I'm more Ghetto than the President Burma Jones Feb 2015 #22
he's so clever using code words like 'boy'. we know what he really wants to say. spanone Feb 2015 #23
I guess you could say something similar about Douche-souza... Dopers_Greed Feb 2015 #24
Irrelevant Man Desperate For Attention In Order To Get Money Says Stupid Stuff Ikonoklast Feb 2015 #25
Why is Dinesh still a thing? Mz Pip Feb 2015 #26
Racist Prick! sheshe2 Feb 2015 #27
His diatribe is nothing more than the usual projection in which right-wing nutjobs engage. GoCubsGo Feb 2015 #30
You can take the felon out of the prison... jmowreader Feb 2015 #31
Oh, I get it Jack Rabbit Feb 2015 #35
D'Souza is a stinking fetid tower of diarrheaic excrement. lastlib Feb 2015 #36
+1 Enthusiast Feb 2015 #60
Havard Law? bobclark86 Feb 2015 #37
He wishes. D'Souza holds an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth... Tom Ripley Feb 2015 #50
Kind of pathetic Bartlet Feb 2015 #38
Well now you can't take the felon out of D'Souza, can you? Loki Feb 2015 #39
What a fucker to use race in such a manner. R. Daneel Olivaw Feb 2015 #41
Can't take the evil lying piece of shit out of the republican onecaliberal Feb 2015 #43
Republicans are proud of being racist. undeterred Feb 2015 #44
I thought he lived a comfortable, middle class lifestyle with his white mom and grandparents. Ed Suspicious Feb 2015 #45
I just hope Iwillnevergiveup Feb 2015 #46
Frightening fadedrose Feb 2015 #48
D'Souza, The Wannabe White Guy charles d Feb 2015 #51
what color does this little bigot think he is? notadmblnd Feb 2015 #52
JHB on D'Souza: JHB Feb 2015 #53
what is it about some people qazplm Feb 2015 #54
What's his Stormfront username? nt Jamaal510 Feb 2015 #55
Who is he? other than Mira Feb 2015 #56
Perhaps dinesh should explain his ugly self instead of 'splainin' he's only using Cha Feb 2015 #57
"I know Obama wasn't actually raised in a ghetto" Midnight Writer Feb 2015 #58
Oh sure all those years hustling in pool halls. Obama, Matt, Mickey, Me, crazy nights. Rex Feb 2015 #59
D'ickhead JoePhilly Feb 2015 #61
Hashtag HoosierCowboy Feb 2015 #63
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
1. There's a ghetto in Honolulu?
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 03:58 PM
Feb 2015

I lived there for nine years and never saw one! Silly Distort D'Newsa.

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
4. IMO what John McCain said about Louis Gohmert applies in this instance
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 04:02 PM
Feb 2015

(and to most wingnut blather):

“Sometimes those–comments like that are made out of malice, but if someone has no intelligence I don’t view it as being a malicious statement”.

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
32. I think his point was that it's not worth replying to idiots like Gohmert (or D'Souza in this case).
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 02:49 PM
Feb 2015

I tend to agree, except to say that they're idiots, then move on.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
33. I thought he was saying they were too dumb to know what they were saying or too dumb
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 02:55 PM
Feb 2015

to be malicious. And I disagree with that.

In any event, McCain is not my standard to how to respond to racism.

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
34. It's actually Stoic philosophy, a loose quote from Marcus Aurelius.
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 03:02 PM
Feb 2015

McCain used it as an insult, basically implying that they are malicious because they are stupid. That's my take on it and my opinion of them.

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
5. you can take the brain out of a man, but you can't take a brain out of a man without a brain
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 04:03 PM
Feb 2015

that man being D'Souza.

 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
42. Incredible. A book and a movie smearing Obama wasn't enough
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 10:49 PM
Feb 2015

His issue is so obviously personal, emotional, racist and a little bit psycho. To think he's been held us as the intellectual opposition to Obama...

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
13. here's a news flash Dinesh
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 04:47 PM
Feb 2015

when you stop being useful to your GOP masters, they will glady take you out to the back and give you the same treatement they would give anyone with a skin darker than "heavy cream"...same with Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley, because frankly, the love gained from bigots IS only skin deep.

ProfessorGAC

(65,060 posts)
14. But, They're So Tired Of Us Calling Them Racist In Their Hate Of Obama
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 04:57 PM
Feb 2015

It's all just policy differences. Yeah, right.

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)
17. Surely we can produce his articles decrying Jr. You know, that silver spoon fed
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 05:37 PM
Feb 2015

elitist running around pretending to be a shit kicking redneck. I can just imagine Mr. D'esdoucha's sensibilities being offended when. That same jackasss gave Angela Merkel a back rub. That's some "presidential shit" right there.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
18. I "cower in embarrassment" at the fact that I live on the same planet as assclowns like D'ouchebag.
Wed Feb 18, 2015, 05:40 PM
Feb 2015

Who really fucking cares what this bozo has to say? What's his claim to fame? Being a hack filmmaker of crappy propaganda movies? Oh, and he's a convicted felon, too.

douggg

(239 posts)
21. "boy" huh?
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 11:26 AM
Feb 2015

He must be really proud that his own party considers him 'macaca', thanks to VA's George Allen.

Burma Jones

(11,760 posts)
22. Shit, I'm more Ghetto than the President
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 11:37 AM
Feb 2015

That said, this guy's no more than a professional asshole............

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
24. I guess you could say something similar about Douche-souza...
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 01:12 PM
Feb 2015

YOU CAN BAIL THE CONVICTED FELON OUT OF JAIL

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
25. Irrelevant Man Desperate For Attention In Order To Get Money Says Stupid Stuff
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 02:08 PM
Feb 2015

Felon needs to raise money from fellow racists in order to pay legal bills.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
30. His diatribe is nothing more than the usual projection in which right-wing nutjobs engage.
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 02:37 PM
Feb 2015

After all, no mature adult would spew that kind of crap. It's the sort of thing one hears from vulgar, little boys on the playground.

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
31. You can take the felon out of the prison...
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 02:42 PM
Feb 2015

...and how presidential was Shrub's guitar photo opp and bicycle death rides, Reagan's horse riding and firewood chopping, Ford's clumsiness...

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
35. Oh, I get it
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 06:09 PM
Feb 2015

Being black while president is unpresidential.

What would Mr. D'Sousa have President Obama do? Perhaps as long as Mr. Obama is president, Mr. D'Sousa should lend him the white skin he uses when he plays the part of a Republican hack. Would that satisfy Mr. D'Sousa?

lastlib

(23,241 posts)
36. D'Souza is a stinking fetid tower of diarrheaic excrement.
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 07:11 PM
Feb 2015

They probably let him out of prison because he stunk up the place beyond hope of redemption.

Bartlet

(172 posts)
38. Kind of pathetic
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 08:11 PM
Feb 2015

watching an immigrant from India slam an American who was born here just to suck up to his leash holders.

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
45. I thought he lived a comfortable, middle class lifestyle with his white mom and grandparents.
Thu Feb 19, 2015, 11:52 PM
Feb 2015

I didn't know he was a child of the ghetto.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
48. Frightening
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 05:59 AM
Feb 2015

Such bitter criticism for something so minor . . . and President Obama has such a short time left. He's getting a lot done in spite of Congress and criticism, but he's finally starting to show some common touch with the people and his sense of humor.

Carry on, President Obama. We understand.

 

charles d

(99 posts)
51. D'Souza, The Wannabe White Guy
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:52 AM
Feb 2015

Sorry, Dinesh, but you can insult the President all you want and the Klan is STILL not going to let you join up!

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)
52. what color does this little bigot think he is?
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:56 AM
Feb 2015

does he not realize that most practicing racists see no difference between to those of Indian decent and those of African decent?

JHB

(37,160 posts)
53. JHB on D'Souza:
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 11:03 AM
Feb 2015

Shit in the intestines is transient. Shit for the brains is forever.

He got his start doing spiteful, juvenile antics in college, and so rewarded, never gave up the formula.

qazplm

(3,626 posts)
54. what is it about some people
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:48 PM
Feb 2015

so ashamed that they aren't white, that they need to go to the far racist extreme, moreso than the most racist white people out there, in order to make up for their dark skin?

Cha

(297,275 posts)
57. Perhaps dinesh should explain his ugly self instead of 'splainin' he's only using
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:48 AM
Feb 2015

"ghetto metaphorically" like some highfalutin' racist?

Midnight Writer

(21,768 posts)
58. "I know Obama wasn't actually raised in a ghetto"
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 03:10 AM
Feb 2015

but I needed to be more racially explicit in case my slackjawed followers didn't get the point when I called him boy.

By the way, D'Souza is the guest on Fox News tonight defending Rudy's "Obama doesn't love America" comments.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
59. Oh sure all those years hustling in pool halls. Obama, Matt, Mickey, Me, crazy nights.
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 03:15 AM
Feb 2015

Great parties. I think Dennis Hopper was there handing out blue poppers, kinda fuzzy on the memories. Obama of course was one of the head rumblers. Always smart to be in his corner. Crazy times. Crazy times.


So what is Dinesh some kind of Pope of Purity or something? Never fucking heard of him sounds like he wants to rumble with the Big Dog II.


I got this Rex, clear the area I'm going into ass kicking mode.
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