I want to apologize for Dinesh D'souza

[burythehatchet]

I want to apologize on behalf of people of Indian descent for having given you Dinesh D'souza.



He would have been the Indian who would have readily licked the boot of a British administrator in order to gain personal favor.

[trumad]

1. He is a piece of crap isn't he?

[EstimatedProphet]

2. Thanks. No need to though.

It's not fair to hold Indians responsible for him.

However, I do wish he'd apologize for himself. That much is owed.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Can we outsource him?

And send him to India?
He can answer phone calls for tech support or something.

[hlthe2b]

4. no doubt...

Would have sold out Gandhi in a heartbeat....

[Lex]

5. He is an aberration.

nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. No apologies needed. He is completely negated by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

for his most excellent "Imperial Life in the Emerald City."

No boot-licking happening there!


Guess it just proves that both assholery and courage know no race or ethnicity.

[Captain Hilts]

12. What an amazing book that is. nt

[terrya]

7. He's a champion asshole of the first order.

No need to apologize. He'd be a disgusting right wing dick no matter his nationality.

[senseandsensibility]

8. Did you hear Thom Hartmann interview him a few days ago?

I believe it was him; I tuned in part way through the interview. It was an interview with an Indian with a book out blaming liberals for everything. Thom tore him apart. He was not able to derfend his outlandish ideas.

[CatWoman]

10. Man, I would have loved to have heard that

:)

[senseandsensibility]

18. It was one of the best things I've heard on radio!

I don't listen to Thom too often, so I just lucked out. :) I had no idea he could such a tough interviewer.

[CatWoman]

9. I just caught him on Book TV

saying that Jimmy Carter was responsible for 9/11?

[burythehatchet]

11. some deep self-hating type issues

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

30. There's a special hell for people like this, Michelle Malkin, etc. - that they make for themselves.

[WindRavenX]

14. wtf??

Is this the same asshat who said Democrats are the party of death?

[CatWoman]

19. He was on the Colbert Report

and Steve made him look like a complete jackass.

Steven even had him saying that FDR was responsible for 9/11 :rofl:

[WindRavenX]

21. That's the one! I remember him now!

I felt bad because he seemed really mentally unstable and flat-out delusional.

[CatWoman]

76. here's the video :)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/17/colbert-nails-dinesh-dsouza/

[fujiyama]

66. I think that was Ramesh Poneneru (sp?)

He's the editor of National Review. His book was out a while back.

Dinesh D'Souza is a different RW Indian lunatic.

Then again, it's easy to get them confused...Ass holes that they are.

[malaise]

25. He'll be on CSpan later today

I won't be watching. He is a first rate ingratiating moron.

[CatWoman]

34. he's on now............

[immoderate]

33. He just did it again.

He says that Carter's stance on human rights weakened the Shah, and brought on the revolution. No mention that the Shah was a CIA puppet, etc.

This freak is as bat shit crazy as Coulter and Malkin.

--IMM

[TheBaldyMan]

55. yet these looney tunes keep getting airtime on the 'liberal' media

as far as Indians go, they may have a few nutcases but India has given the world:

R Tagore,
A Roy,
VS Ramchandran,
S Chandrasekhar,

the list goes on and on. It would take an awful lot of D'Souzas to balance that lot out.

[JackRiddler]

13. Isn't he an American?

Did he immigrate as an adult? Or was he born in this country? Then in my book he's as American - more American! - than anyone who imagines they're special because their family came in on the Mayflower. More American than anyone except the (American) Indians.

I enjoy knowing he's not a European white person. That way he comes with his own built-in irony, something he otherwise lacks. (Unless of course his whole thing is just a schtick. Not out of the question - can anyone who writes a book be this dumb?)

[burythehatchet]

17. he immigrated to the US when he was 17

[JackRiddler]

58. Is this like the right wing Russians?

Though I don't know his background, has he got it in for some aspect of Indian culture or the system there?

Late adopters, converts, and immigrants upholders of a reactionary ideology are often among the worst. Like the Miami Cubans and all these Ukrainians and Russians in New York during the cold war, who don't care how rightwing they are in the context of their adopted homeland, because they've got their enemy abroad and that's all that matters.

Nah, this guy's rap is just tooo stupid. It's a business, as it is with Coulter.

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. He was born in Mumbai.

And I really don't see how one person who was born in the US is 'more American' than another.

[JackRiddler]

57. hyperbole on my part

Just pointing out that we're all immigrants, Mayflower pretensions are not "American", etc.

[Spider Jerusalem]

59. Yeah, I know...

my earliest ancestors to come to these shores were at Jamestown (a bit before the Mayflower)...doesn't make me any more of an American than someone whose parents emigrated from Poland after WWII. (I don't really think you'd find too many people in these forums who'd disagree with you, either; the 'nativist' position seems to be the province of the far right-wing Pat Buchanan types.)

[JackRiddler]

61. Sorry

Confederacy doesn't count. We're strictly Yankee supremacists, here.

[Spider Jerusalem]

64. What was that about pretensions, again?

[JackRiddler]

68. The name of the game is Brockian ultra-cricket

You either play it or don't get it. You can google the rules.

[TheDebbieDee]

15. And I want to apologize for Condi Rice.............

On behalf of African-American women everywhere, I want to apologize for giving the world the biggest nothing since the zero!

[ninkasi]

24. Well, although you don't need to apologize

Look at what African-American women we have been lucky enough to have, from Maxine Waters, Cynthia McKinney, Sheila Jackson-Lee, all the way back to the incomparable Barbara Jordan. I'm sure I'm leaving out many, many excellent women here, but I come from Houston, so Barbara Jordan and Sheila Jackson-Lee are two women I feel very proud of.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

82. the biggest nothing since the zero!

best line evah!!

[libnnc]

88. well, the perhaps the silver lining is that she's

related to the smarter Rice...

Dr. Connie.

[Hawkeye-X]

16. I accept your apologies, if you bring in Suresh Ramasubramanian to the US

For those who fight anti-spam, you know who this gentleman is.

I really like him alot.

Hawkeye-X

[burythehatchet]

20. I bow to your ability to spell his name...

[Solo_in_MD]

36. NANAE is just not what it used to be without him

[TahitiNut]

23. He dated Ann Coulter and was engaged to Laura Ingraham.

He's an anachronism - a pretentious mental throwback who effectively styles himself a Brahmin. His perspectives are thoroughly riddled with notions of special birthrights and "exceptionalism." He regards himself innately 'right' and privileged, and associates with muscularity - a "might makes right" ideology. While he makes rhetorical noises subscribing to some transcendent morality, his 'morality' is one of a hopeless authoritarian.

His emotional development is arrested at the sophomoric stage - unable to connect with a fully human experience.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. I'm surprised that those two Eva Braun wannabes would date a guy

who wasn't a pure Anglo-Saxon yuppie, however wingnutty his ideas might be.

By the way, on behalf of all Anglo-Saxon yuppie females, I hereby apologize most abjectly for Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham..

[dddem]

50. And as a married Anglo-saxon yuppie female,

I guess it's my duty to apologize for Barbara Bush, Lynn Cheney and Pickles (and don't even bring up the twins!).

[treestar]

85. As a single white female I must apologize for Ann Coulter

You nailed it, this is getting ridiculous.

A RW idiot is a RW idiot regardless of race, national origen, or religious affiliation.

[lolly]

27. Dated Ann Coulter?

OK, tell me. Does this guy scream out "closet case" louder than a Judy Garland finale, or what?

C'mon, Dinny. Learn to love who you are so you can stop hating everybody else.

[burythehatchet]

29. and then married a barbie doll.

and he just said that he's grateful that his ancestors were forcibly converted to Christianity!!!!!!!!

[TahitiNut]

37. His gratitude obviously stems from being able to wield mindless dogma ...

... amalgamated with his Brahmin privilege, releasing him from the moral obligations that would accrue if he adopted a more complete cloak of caste responsibility. He's mining a rich vein of wealth, pandering to the bigoted right as a brown-skinned person who "knows his place" and properly serves the merchant class. In effect, he's a professional proof-texter - perverting all manner of historical lessons to the corrupt world view of those with insatiable appetites for power and wealth.

[Bucky]

41. Can you imagine what their kids would've been like?

As a teacher I shudder at the thought of having li'l Attila and Genghis D'Souza in my classroom.

[Cabcere]

43. I'd rather not, thanks (n/t)

:puke:

[ninkasi]

28. India also gave us Gandhi

one of the greatest men who ever lived. The U.S. neocons inflicted Bush and Cheney on the world, so just imagine how ashamed they should be, but aren't. Besides, we're all just Democrats here, regardless of any other classifications we might have, such as race, age, sex, religion, or anything else.

[Kahuna]

31. Who could take him seriously. He's not old enough to have been

alive during most of what he's writing about.

[Jim Lane]

32. Don't worry, you made up for it with Shekar Ramanuja "S.R." Sidarth

He's the Jim Webb campaign volunteer who prompted George Allen to address him as "Macaca" and say, "Welcome to America". Without Sidarth (and his video camera), we probably wouldn't have won the majority in the Senate.

[KoKo]

35. Don't think twice about it. Folks of English Heritage have to apologize for that Idiot

we have in the WH and his father before him.

[Fovea]

38. No need.

I have known so many brilliant folks from the sub-continent that it is a bit of a relief to meet a stupid one.

[nuxvomica]

39. It would take 10 D'snoozas to balance out one Roy

This is silly but I appreciate your sentiment. That said, Arundhati Roy more than makes up for him.

[sarge43]

40. No need. Every group produces its share of creeps.

WASPs are responsible for Bush and Anne Coulter. It doesn't get much worse than that.

[Cabcere]

42. No need, really

:) Besides, if we follow that logic, then I, as a blonde Caucasian woman, am going to have to apologize for Ann Coulter...and there just aren't enough "sorries" in the world for that. :puke: ;)

On a side note, D'Souza was at my college a few days ago to debate one of our professors. I considered going to see him, but ended up deciding against it (mainly due to laziness, I guess). According to people who were there, though, I didn't miss much.

[Bucky]

44. Do Germans apologize for Kissinger? Do Martians apologize for Rove?

Poppycock. When he crossed the border and set down roots, D'Souza became as American as apple pie. Rotten stinking misshaped poisonous apple pie in his case, but apple pie nevertheless.

[Cabcere]

49. LOL @ the "Martians" comment (n/t)

[kurth]

45. And Mexican-Americans have Alberto Gonzales, Vietnamese-Americans have Viet Dinh,

Korean-Americans have John Yoo... Bootlicking fascist assholes.

[TlalocW]

46. No need to apologize. India also gave us

Fantastic music/dance scenes in movies from Bollywood
Ghandi
Curry
And a former girlfriend of mind (rowr). Heheheheh.

As a white person, I'd like to apologize for Kevin Federline, Britney Spears, and George W.

TlalocW

[Cabcere]

48. Not to mention

a big influence in some of the greatest (IMO) Beatles songs. ;) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is probably one of my favorite songs of all time. I really like the sound of the sitar and the sarod, too...and tabla drums are pretty much the coolest percussion instrument ever. :loveya:

Okay, done with my ethnomusicology geekfest. :blush: Carry on!

[Hand]

51. Not to mention DU's own lionesspriyanka!!

:loveya:

[Cleita]

52. Yes, it seems we have a lot more to apologize for than Indians do. n/t

[AspenRose]

84. All those who love "Bride and Prejudice" raise your hands.

*me* :D

[nam78_two]

47. Yes I want to apologize for him too

>>He would have been the Indian who would have readily licked the boot of a British administrator in order to gain personal favor.

He has said on many occasions that Indians should be grateful to the British for civilizing them.

I enjoyed watching Colbert eviscerate him. He is a self-important prig and didn't enjoy that one bit.

[KG]

53. sorry, but, there's a small part of me that wants to tell this immigrant twerp that if don't

like it here, he can go back the fuck where he came from.

or punch him in the stomach.

whatever.

[marmar]

54. No apology necessary....

But I know how you feel. Every time Condi Rice or Armstrong Williams talks I want to slap them sensible.

[donco6]

56. I'm from Kansas. I apologize for pretty much everything.

Brownback. Phelps. Republican farmers. Republican teachers. Republican environmentalists.

I moved to Colorado for a reason.

[Solon]

60. At least you don't have to apologize for Rush, that' s my job!

That and the Blunt family.

[donco6]

67. I still think it's the water in KS. I must have a genetic resistance.

And it made me gay, too. Twice-blessed!

Sorry about the Rush thing.

[nam78_two]

69. "Republican environmentalist"?

Whats that ;)?

[donco6]

70. LOL! OK, maybe that's a stretch.

Forgive my apparent hyperbole, but frankly, I don't doubt that somewhere in the Great Plains, there is such an animal.

[mondo joe]

62. I don't think common descent makes anyone share any responsibility.

Just saying.

[Arugula Latte]

63. I'm sorry ....Some things are just unforgivable.

:D

[NewJeffCT]

65. As somebody of Italian descent... I have a lot to apologize for.

Tony Scalia
Sam Alito
Rudy Giuliani

[entanglement]

71. What, no 'Sopranos' in the list?

;)

[Jack Rabbit]

72. No need to apologize

I'm an American, and I don't go around hanging my head in shame because of Ann Coulter.

[Skittles]

73. I don't think of him as Indian at ALL

I just htink of him as a republican whore, period

[blondeatlast]

79. Asshilery knows no race, creed, religion, or gender.

It just is what it is--thinking and speaking out of a body part designed for something entirely different.

[Hand]

74. In the words of Stephen Colbert...

"I don't see race." When I see D'Souza, I just see another insane Repuke arsehole. :puke:

And that goes double for Ward Connerly! :puke: :puke:

[SoCalDem]

75. Can you spare another... for Bobby Jindal

[burythehatchet]

89. He and Ramesh Ponnuru are next

oy, why aren't good liberal Indians ever represented in the media. I've never seen one.

[butterfly77]

77. He is a racist piece of shit!

I saw him on C-span yesterday...

[blondeatlast]

78. My son is half Asian Indian and I love and respect my AI husband. Don't apologize--PLEASE.

A country who has given the world a beautiful and intelligent culture has nothing to apologize for.

D'nesh D' souza needs to apologize for himself for being a spineless, Kool-Aid drinking pathetic wimp.

[rzr77]

80. the beautiful Sunny Leone more than makes up for it :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Leone

[La Lioness Priyanka]

81. me too.

ugh!

[AspenRose]

83. You need a hug.

It's not your fault. There are *ahem* abberations in every ethnicity and nationality. Not your fault! :hug:

PS-I'm so excited, my potential future brother-in-law is from India! We will have to see how the wedding plans go....stay tuned....

[burythehatchet]

90. Indian weddings are a LOT of fun

Traditional weddings last for days.

[WinkyDink]

86. Just another schmoe looking to grab the brass ring any way he can.

Principles and ethics are for fools in that world.

[doc03]

87. Heard him on C-span for a few minutes last night. He uses

the word Liberal more than Rush Limpballs. Something came to me while listening to him talk, the Conservatives constantly criticize the Liberals inside the US, but their enemies outside the US are the Conservatives. He was going on and on about Muslim Fascists extremists and they have no freedoms in those countries and how they persecute other religions and how they hate America for our freedoms. The thought suddenly occurred to me Conservatives actually think Liberalism is good (outside) the US but (inside) the US a Fascist Christian Conservative is good and Liberals are bad?

[mvd]

91. Don't apologize.

Crazy scum come in all races and colors.