Dinesh D’Souza has all but sunk his career in the conservative movement.

[DonViejo]

Dinesh D’Souza’s Series of Unfortunate Events

David Sessions

Author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza was indicted for encouraging fraudulent campaign donations—just the latest in a spiral that has all but sunk his career in the conservative movement.

Conservative author, filmmaker and provocateur Dinesh D’Souza was indicted Thursday on charges of using straw donors to make illegal contributions to a college classmate’s 2012 campaign.

The indictment, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, accuses D’Souza of “willfully and knowingly” surpassing the $5,000 limit for individual campaign donations by directing others to donate to the campaign of Wendy Long, who unsuccessfully challenged New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand in 2012. According to the document, D’Souza and his then-wife, Dixie, each contributed $5,000 to Long’s campaign, and he reimbursed others for $20,000 he had encouraged them to donate.

D’Souza worked with Long on the infamous Dartmouth Review, an edgy conservative newspaper at Dartmouth College known for launching smart young right-wingers to prominence. In 1990, the pair apologized for printing an anti-Semitic quote from Hitler’s Mein Kampf in an edition of the publication distributed on Yom Kippur—an antic typical of the Review’s ethos of deliberate provocation. Long went on to become an attorney at several conservative institutions, including the Claremont Institute. She made her first run for office in 2012, and lost in a landslide to Gillibrand, New York’s incumbent Democratic senator.

According to the New York Times, Long raised about $785,000 in the race, with D’Souza hosting one of her fundraisers. D’Souza’s lawyer denied any criminal intent in the apparent plot to reimburse donors to Long’s campaign, saying it was “at most … an act of misguided friendship.”

The indictment is just the latest in a tangle of personal and professional difficulties that swarmed around D’Souza at what was arguably the height of his success: the popularity of his 2012 anti-Obama documentary 2016: Obama’s America. The film, which was released in the summer of 2012 and became a slow-burn hit with conservatives in the run-up to the presidential election, earned over $33 million at the box office and was the highest-grossing documentary since 1982. But just a couple of months into the film’s promotion, D’Souza was out of a job: he resigned his lucrative position as president of the King’s College, a small evangelical Christian school in Manhattan, over reports that he was engaged to a 29-year-old woman while still being married to his wife of 20 years.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/24/dinesh-d-souza-s-series-of-unfortunate-events.html

[Paladin]

1. Adios, motherfucker. (nt)

[DonViejo]

2. LOL. But how do you really feel about the idiot, Paladin? eom

[Paladin]

4. What can I tell you, DV? I'm just not in a subtle mood this morning.

[DonViejo]

5. Then, by all means, go for it! Preach your truth!

[Paladin]

6. It's probably hazardous to give me encouragement---but I do appreciate it. (nt)

[sharp_stick]

3. I hope so

I really despise this shit. Just hearing him whine makes me want to drive an ice-pick into my eardrums to make it stop.

[1StrongBlackMan]

7. Wow ...

According to the New York Times, Long raised about $785,000 in the race, with D’Souza hosting one of her fundraisers. D’Souza’s lawyer denied any criminal intent in the apparent plot to reimburse donors to Long’s campaign, saying it was “at most … an act of misguided friendship.”

Apparently, this attorney does not know how the concept of "Intent" works ... it is not that his/her client to intended to break the law; it is whether his client intended to get people to contribute to the campaign; contribution that he would reimburse.

I don't want this guy/gal representing me ... ever.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. His Obama 2016 movie was not the highest grossing documentary since 1982

Fahrenheit 9-11 has grossed over 119 Million dollars. It's also bested by March of the Penguins and a documentary about Justin Bieber. If you use industry standards the list is much longer, he comes in at number 20 on IMDB because they include films others would not think of as documentary although they are.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=documentary.htm

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=documentary&sort=boxoffice_gross_us,desc

[AlinPA]

9. IMO, he has not "sunk" in the conservative movement, rather he has gained credentials through

his criminal acts and his hypocritical marriage/engagement/family-values behavior.

[Frank Cannon]

15. Absolutely. This will only give him street cred.

He will use this "Mein Kampf" experience to sell a book/movie on the subject, which the RWers will purchase in droves.

[Fearless]

10. Not surprised.

I had the displeasure of hearing him spout in person once. What a loathsome human being.

[yellowcanine]

11. D'Souza is a political hack/propabandist remarkably similar to Joseph Goebbels

Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) Once described as having, "a high intellectual varnish covering the emotional world of an adolescent," Goebbels was much disliked because of his malice and ill will, and though a mesmerizing orator, he lacked charisma. Nevertheless, he was a man of tremendous enthusiasm with an endless supply of ideas, and as a master of mass psychology, he became indispensable to Adolf Hitler.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX98.html

[Vogon_Glory]

12. Gee, Too Bad!

Gee, too bad!

It's schadenfreude Par-Tay time!

[Yavin4]

13. The world has moved past Dinesh D’Souza's brand of conservatism

The 80s style conservatism is dead and buried.

[Tom Ripley]

14. D'Oh!