Dinesh D'Souza's "2016: Obama's America": The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights

[Lucy Goosey]

A really funny review of Distort D'Newsa's movie - it doesn't even pretend to take it seriously, which is the only appropriate response other than ignoring it completely.

The movie of choice this week for people who hold the beliefs that A) America is the strongest, best-est country that God ever virgin-birthed and B) that that nation somehow just isn't strong enough to survive eight years of centrist Democratic leadership, Dinesh D'Souza's 2016: Obama's America actually does not touch on 2016 much at all.

Instead, it distills the anti-anticolonialist jeremiads of D'Souza's books—which already were to academic argument what fruit snacks are to fruit—into a eminently fast-forwardable travelogue through Nairobi, Kenya, Indonesia, and a magic-hour D.C., where D'Souza slumps about Droopy Dog–style in contemplation of the monuments and where flags are forever dancing on winds that we must presume are the world's most exceptional.

For what it's worth, his thesis concerns the reasons Obama returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the British Embassy early in his presidency. The only answer D'Souza entertains: that Obama is a Mau Mau anticolonial revolutionary driven to impress his dead, absentee father, a Kenyan who dared to write in 1965—two years after his homeland achieved its independence—that government regulation might sometimes be needed to rein in private industry. You might object, "But Obama has spent almost zero percent of his life with that father, and something like 75 percent of his life in the same private schools and Ivy League universities and institutions of power occupied by every other president of either party in recent American history." D'Souza's counter is to brandish Obama's memoir and proclaim, "Notice it says Dreams From My Father, not Dreams of My Father."

D'Souza is really, really obsessed with the word "from" in the title of Obama's book, no? He seems to mention it in every interview I've seen of him.

Anyway, there is a lot more at the link - its well worth the read. It makes me happy that the movie is this hilariously awful.
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2012-08-30/film/dinesh-d-souza-s-2016-obama-s-america-the-five-most-hilarious-lowlights/

[Surya Gayatri]

1. Bill Maher interviewed this douche bag on "Real Time" (HBO) last night...

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What a sleazy, slimy, smarmy waste of skin he is!

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[We are Devo]

18. Wasn't he a creep? n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

19. The kind of creep you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley...

Really ugly facial expressions and body language.

[Are_You_Serious]

33. that's you response?

I don't like the way you look? Well the truth is sometimes ugly.

[Cha]

38. "The Truth"? What truth is that, Are You Serious?

[Care Acutely]

46. Why can't any of you rocket scientists spell worth a bucket of spit?

Never mind. You're already crispy on this side.

[edhopper]

55. Truth huh?

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[stopbush]

24. D'Sousza to Maher: "If bush took responsibility for his 8 years in office,

why can't Obama take responsibility for his 4 years in office?"

I must have missed the day bush took responsibility for what happened during his 8 years in office.

A favorite trick of intellectual lite-weights like D'Sousza: tell a lie that isn't fact check-able in the 3 minutes programmed for your segment.

[Surya Gayatri]

25. Manipulation and obfuscation--their weapons of choice!

[jmowreader]

35. I didn't know "it's all Clinton's fault" constituted Bush taking responsibility for anything

[Cha]

39. D'S LIED..I hope Maher called him on it. Oh, is this bush

taking responsibility?

[phantom power]

26. Maher did a great job exposing D'Souza for the weaselly fuck he is. Must-see TV.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Bill Maher asked D'Souza, "How far up your ass do you have to go to pull that out?"

Archae's GD thread has the link to the video:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021248189

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Name a well-done conservative documentary.

I'll wait.

[Archae]

11. Documentary film-making has gone downhill all-around.

Every so often a good one comes out, but most are simply extensions of the film-maker's ego and viewpoint.

The "gold standard" is "Hearts and Minds," the doc made about the Vietnam war, it had no narrator, it just let the politicians and military hang themselves with their own words.

[Surya Gayatri]

21. Agree! Michael Moore's ego has been on a pretty big trip

these last couple of years, too. Right or left--they can't seem to avoid the temptation to manipulate public opinion.

[Bluenorthwest]

27. The answer is that there are none. And there has never been a time with more documentaries

made, more available funding, outlets, audience, the works. The form is seeing the best work of it's history, and the digital age is feeding that with many capabilities previous generations did not have available. All of that, and yet the conservatives can not put together a decent piece of non fiction film.

[Are_You_Serious]

34. i don't know....

i thought 2016 was pretty good

[Cha]

40. You thought the freaking LIES were good?

[Aristus]

51. Troll, meet troll...

[mrs_p]

52. i miss my hometown troll. thanks for the pic. nt

[Ter]

54. The only one I can think of is America: From Freedom to Fascism

But that was more libertarian than conservative I guess.

[Tom Ripley]

57. "Triumph of the Will" is the only one

[dawg]

4. That bust of Churchill is still in the White House.

It just got moved to a different room. So his entire premise is a lie.

[quaker bill]

10. Actually it is a different bust of Churchill

The one that was returned was on loan from a British Museum and was scheduled for return by Bush*.

[abolugi]

13. which, of course, begs to ask...

why do these wackos think we need 2 busts of Churchill in the White House ?
I really don't get it..

[BumRushDaShow]

14. It's that "Anglo-Saxon heritage" thing that Rmoney's campaign talks about

[abolugi]

20. Well, I'm a WASP

and I have absolutely nothing in common with these people. As a matter of fact, they quite embarrass me!

[Lucy Goosey]

30. Yup, fellow WASP here, and I couldn't agree more! N/t

[Cha]

41. They're asshole wasps...romney is a wasm.

[dawg]

15. Thanks for the clarification.

The point is still the same, though. The entire premise of the film is still based on a lie.

[quaker bill]

53. agreed

but then most of the RW screed of the last 4 years has been based in lies. This is just an attempt at a capstone.

[Care Acutely]

47. So Obama returned Bush's overdue library book.

Thats what all radical Muslim communists do when they take the reins of world power.

[renate]

62. lol!

That made me laugh!

[Lucy Goosey]

28. Even if the story were true, I don't get the obsession with it

I get that the UK is an important ally, obviously, but I would still have thought that having a bust of a foreign leader in the Oval Office would have been the kind of thing D'Souza's crowd would have hated.

I honestly think that if Obama had put a bust of Churchill in the oval office, if Bush hadn't had one there, they would have found just as much fault with him for that. They have a problem with Obama, not the location of a Churchill bust; I think that's pretty clear.

[dawg]

31. Churchill was kind of an ass anyway.

But please don't tell Dinesh I said that.

[Cha]

42. Lazy idiots use it to start hatin' on

President Obama.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. I am glad I saw Bill Maher's revenge

on Distort DeNooza last night as he worked magic by stringing him along and then going in for the kill, much to that snake's chagrin.

[Lucy Goosey]

17. I'm glad I caught that, too

It was a thing of beauty!

[Cha]

43. Love reading your

description of what happened!

[Ebadlun]

45. I hope Obama's taking notes

A debate with Romney like that would be beautiful.

[frylock]

6. i guessing d'souza has issues with his daddy

[Surya Gayatri]

22. Or with his mommy--seems more of a momma's boy to me...

Whatever his childhood issues, he's really turned into a lying sleaze-ball.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

59. Dishwash D'Snooza has white person issues

He's desperate for them to love him and embrace him as an American, hence why he spends his time blowing Ronald Reagan and dissing the evil, bad, black man in the White House because he thinks that's what they want.

[Mz Pip]

7. Even the Weekly Standard trashed the movie.

D'Souza makes huge leaps in logic about Obama.

[Canuckistanian]

8. Devastating!

Good review.

Not that I'd EVER want to see a movie made by a radical RWer. They simply have no talents other than demagoguing and blunt-force misleading arguments

[Ikonoklast]

9. People like D'Souza are just cashing in.

They are nothing but Useful Tools who found a way to earn money without having to actually work; they are the hired help of the Oligarchs, no different than one of their maids or groundskeepers, paid to do a job

The Right Wing media clown car is full of them. They have no real deeply-held political beliefs, it's all about making money.

I've said it before, I'll say it again...if I paid Limbaugh enough money,tomorrow he would start saying whatever I told him to say.

[dawg]

16. I agree with you about "cashing in".

I would love to be a published author someday. I don't really think my writing is good enough, but I'm fairly certain that I could write a successful right-wing screed and get it published. The standards are much, much lower, and as long as you are willing to say the things they want to hear, you don't really have to say them very well. Right-wing foundations will buy your book in bulk, and you are on the bestseller list in no time.

[UTUSN]

12. R#6 & K for, thanks!1 It's on the e-mail way to the local radio wingnuts who promoted it n/t

[gollygee]

23. Best review yet! Love it. K&R

[ellisonz]

29. That hit the spot. n/t

[KG]

36. piss on Dinesh D'Souza

[Tom Ripley]

37. Dinesh D'Souza is a very compelling argument for anticolonialism

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

44. Even if D'souza's delerium were true --- so what?

Whether Obama is an anti-colonial Mau Mau lover or not, how will that mean shit in the way the U.S. operates? Is the U.S. a colony? Has it meant anything so far? Has anything so far proposed by Obama been some kind of dangerous ooga-booga Mau Mau Communist Socialist plot from Yurp? Even Obamacare was originally a Republican idea.

[JI7]

48. I hate his Douchebag Face

[Blue_In_AK]

49. I thought Bill Maher did a pretty nice job of tearing him up last night. n/t

[DearHeart]

50. Little off topic, but how does this movie

get into 1700 theaters?? I know, stupid question, but I've seen movies from major studios that have trouble getting into that many theaters. The distributor is based in Utah and it's called Rocky Mountain Pictures. They also distributed the Atlas Shrugged movie. There are movie theaters around my area that are showing this shit, but they wouldn't carry The Artist and The Conspirator, among many, many others. Money, Money, Money is always the answer, I guess

[eppur_se_muova]

56. You can bet they paid a big fee up front to book those theaters ...

same way cons buy up thousands of books from Regnery Press to inflate the sales figures and get on the NYT Bestseller List.

[Tom Ripley]

58. I imagine they "four walled" them; the theater is leased for a fee from the owner...

as was done for all of those "Chariots of the Gods" and "In Search of Bigfoot/Noah's Ark/Loch Ness Monster" movies distributed in the 70s

[DirkGently]

60. Saw Cenk handle this guy very adroitly the other night. Utterly nonsensical.

[lightcameron]

61. LOL! I'd never heard "Distort D'Newsa" before. Brilliant!

Piers Morgan sliced and diced him on his show about two weeks ago.