Geithner Called Dinesh D'Souza A 'Dick' For Outing Of Dartmouth Gays

[DonViejo]

DANIEL STRAUSS – MAY 12, 2014, 10:37 AM EDT

Before Timothy Geithner became treasury secretary he had a run-in with conservative author Dinesh D'Souza in which Geithner asked D'Souza "how it felt to be such a dick."

That moment was recounted in Geithner's new memoir, Stress Test. It happened in the 1980s when Geithner and D'Souza were undergraduate students at Dartmouth College. D'Souza, then an editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review, had overseen the newspaper publishing a list of members of Dartmouth College's Gay Straight Alliance which effectively outted a number of students who hadn't publicly said they were gay.

According to Geithner in his memoir, as reported by Buzzfeed, he viewed the list as "McCarthy-style." When Geithner ran into D'Souza at a coffee shop he asked the conservative writer "how it felt to be such a dick."

D'Souza is currently under federal criminal indictment for alleged violations of campaign finance law. D'Souza's trial begins May 19, according to Reuters.

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[randys1]

1. that dick dsouza was on maher friday night, i wanted to reach into the tv and strangle the dick

[EC]

23. that show was the first of his that I decided

I just could not watch. I won't watch the repeats of that one either. Dsouza makes me want to throw-up so I just could not watch. Even if they teared him a new one on the show, I couldn't watch it.

[lostincalifornia]

28. yeah, and him and maher were so happy to say that Islam is so much worse in their violent tendencies

then other religions.

Of course it is easy to ignore our two invasions of Iraq based lies and over a million people killed,

Then there is Luis Posada Carriles who the U.S. refused to turn over to Cuba for the downing of a Cuban airliner or the so clever Iran Contra affair along with our wonderful participation in the 8 year old Iran Iraq war where millions were killed.

[Initech]

34. I heard Sister Simone tore him a new one on Overtime.

That is definitely worth watching.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

35. Why yes, she did

Enjoy

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017191163

[Hoppy]

37. Is strangling the dick the same as choking the chicken?

[RoBear]

2. wrong body part

move around to the back and have him bend over. THERE IT IS!!!

[bettyellen]

8. I think he was calling him an asshole. If so, I heartily

Approve!

[FrodosPet]

11. I guess I mixed up his post with the one above it.

I thought he was referring to the post right above it.

Nevertheless, some of the cheer leading for prison rape that I have seen here is quite disheartening.

As is the insistence that just because an individual is not a rapist that there is not a "rape culture". If someone is not a rapist, that is awesome! Help teach others not to be one!

[bettyellen]

13. I have seen it here too, and it's horrible.

And I see how the graphic description of how to find that body part lead to the (probable) misunderstanding.

I was going to suggest asshole myself, since I hate seeing dick (and pussy) being used as slurs here. And I think maybe that's where above poster was going.

Can you believe the NY Post used Pussy as a slur in a headline this week? Those assholes!

[progressoid]

3. Not a big fan of Tim but kudos for that one!

[BrotherIvan]

5. Yup!

Jesus, what an absolute dick! I heard Laura Ingraham did this but maybe a lot of these conservatives in training were pulling this shit.

[packman]

12. Now, don't go badmouthing Laura

After all, she wears that gold cross necklace which shines ever so brightly in the studio lights and we all know that cross-wearing people are good people because they wear crosses
I really, really detest that vile creature more so that Glenn and Rush (and that's saying a lot).

[riqster]

17. She wears an "instrument of torture" on her necklace.

When you say it that way, it fits her better.

[DonViejo]

20. Yes, she did it too...

at the same College. I think she may have gone a little further than D'Souza though; Ingraham would write letters to the parents of her college-mates, outing them as lesbian or gay.

[MADem]

24. Well, Laura isn't a dick, she's a HOSE. A GARDEN hose....

http://rittenhouse.blogspot.com/2003/12/hey-im-insider-just-try-me-do-you.html

[IronLionZion]

25. They probably did it together

They both went to Dartmouth at the same time, class of 83 and 84. And they dated at one point. Sometimes people bond over despicable hatred.

[BrotherIvan]

26. Ick!

The thought of the two of them dating and perhaps reproducing a hellspawn of hate...I need to take a shower, too bad I can't scrub out my brain!

[merrily]

41. Meh. I think I'll wait until he uncrashes the economy and unhurts all the people he hurt.

[iandhr]

4. Credit where credit is do.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. That's the nicest thing anyone's ever posted about Geithner.

[BootinUp]

36. lol nt

[UTUSN]

9. My rating of GEITHNER just went up (from zero?). Detail: INGRAHAM was D'SOUZA's partner in this

IIRC from "Blinded by the Right" D'SOUZA was one of INGRAHAM's boyfriends. I wonder which one was the one she held a gun to the head of. The outings were between her crawlings across barroom floors.

Her of the sainted conversion to Catholicism in the late '90s conversion craze (to Opus Dei?) among D.C. spooks & FBI & Robert NOVAKula. In her early post-conversion appearances I strained to detect the SPIRITUALITY, a trace of non-BILE and Christlike LOVE in her. Surely there must have been *some*thing!1 Nope, nup, no-no. She was the SAME repugnant, detestable, vile jerk. I e-mailed The Little Sisters of the Poor to ask how spirituality is supposed to manifest in a convert like her, and a nun replied that she didn't know who INGRAHAM is.

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[IronLionZion]

27. Eww...what's the story behind the gun to the head?

that's got me curious.

[UTUSN]

30. Just dusted off my copy of "Blinded". Just her own way of reacting to being dumped.

Other people just go on Jerry SPRINGER.

from the paperback, p. 256:

*******QUOTE******

.... I was quoted in the piece saying that Laura was unreservedly accepting of homosexuality, which in my presence she always had seemed to be. On more than one occasion, I had taken her barhopping along the gay strip in Washington, where she seemed to have a blast. Inevitably, though, as we drowned ourselves in more and more alcohol, the evening would take a ghastly turn. One night, after downing several cocktails and snorting an unidentifiable white powder an acquaintance had given me -- which turned out to be the cat tranquilizer Ketamine -- I was sick in the bathroom for several hours trying to get my bearings as Laura, in a drunken stupor, crawled through the packed two-story dance club on her hands and knees looking for me. Her purse had been locked in my car trunk, causing her to call a friend in the wee hours of the morning to rescue her. In the meantime, she had managed to leave me a series of violent messages, threatening to "break every window in my house" if I didn't return the keys immediately.

Among all of her friends, Laura had asked only me, and a former classmate from Dartmouth named Debbie Stone, to speak on her behalf to Vanity Fair, but in the end, I was the only one quoted. When I asked Laura's friend Debbie, a conservative political gadfly who had been involved in promoting a book by Floyd Brown called Slick Willie during the '92 campaign, why she backed out, she said she wasn't about to cover up for Laura: "What am I supposed to do? Talk about how she pulled a gun on a boyfriend after he broke up with her?" No wonder I was the only one who talked -- I started to think that I didn't know Laura all that well after all."

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[IronLionZion]

32. Some people just suck at life

My life has been pretty good in comparison. For that I'm grateful.

[sakabatou]

10. Sooo scummy

[closeupready]

14. Yes, I don't like Geithner much, but I applaud him for this.

K&R

[ColesCountyDem]

15. Not a fan of Secretary Geithner's, but I'll give him props for that one! n/t

[elzenmahn]

33. I'll give him a hay-o for this call, too...

...but you gotta admit, this rotten apple was sure low-hanging.

[Aerows]

16. Geithner should know

since he is such a huge one himself.

[hughee99]

18. Good for Geithner, if only he had such harsh words for the guys who crashed the economy. n/t

[merrily]

40. And those who bailed them out.

After the huge post bail out bonuses hit the fan, Sen. Dodd claimed that he had written a limit on compensation/bonuses into the bailout, but then Geithner, came to Dodd and asked him to remove the provision. And so Dodd removed it.

Last Sunday, though, promoting his book on the talking head shows, Geithner could not express enough chagrin about the bonuses. Says he told them, "This will kill us." He never did mention telling Dodd to take it out of the bill, though.

Senator Dodd, of course, told the story because he thought it reflected well on Senator Dodd, which will show you how utterly clueless D.C. is, but that's another story.

[Jack Rabbit]

19. D'Souza is an easy target.

I would be more impressed if Geithner had called Legs Dimon or Pretty Boy Lloyd a dick.

[merrily]

39. Or Kissinger. Or Summers. Or. well, Geithner.

[EEO]

21. A fair question.

[Gothmog]

22. Dinesh D'Souza is a real jerk

This idiot found a way to violate the campaign finance laws. That took really dickishness

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. D'Souza joined up with the Dartmouth Review as a reaction to The Gays

He was a recent immigrant from a socially conservative family, and he accidentally wandered into a gay social gathering. His virgin eyes were so shocked that he went around campus asking who was against this sort of thing. Someone pointed him to the Dartmouth Review, and he never looked back and has spent the rest of his life as a professional shill.

I forget where I read this. It was many years ago, perhaps in an article about the Dartmouth Review.

[Orsino]

31. Witch hunts don't happen without lots of eager volunteer witch hunters. n/t

[merrily]

38. Yet, Geithner was a Republican anyway.

Geithner may never have outed gays and I would not call anyone "a dick."

But Geithner is no prize himself, I'll say that.