Dinesh D'Souza: Obama is sympathetic to terrorists, sees them as freedom fighters

[ck4829]

While promoting his new movie about President Obama on conservative radio shows, Dinesh D’Souza accused Obama of viewing the U.S. as an “evil empire” while sympathizing with anti-American terrorists.

D’Souza told Frank Gaffney on Secure Freedom Radio that Obama “subscribes to a very radical Third World ideology” and that he thinks “from Obama’s point of view we are the ‘evil empire.’”

In an interview with Janet Mefferd, D’Souza claimed that Obama “is weirdly sympathetic to Muslim jihadis who are captured in Iraq or Afghanistan” and “views those guys in favorable terms.” D’Souza says Obama thinks America is an “evil power” and sees “the Muslims who are fighting against America” as “freedom fighters.”

According to D’Souza, this is all because of Obama’s lefty mom who “wanted to marry a Third World anti-American guy” and “cultivated in Obama this sort of anti-capitalist and somewhat anti-American ideology.” D’Souza explains that Obama’s mom “rebelled against her family and her church and her country” and saw “America as a force for evil in the world,” and Obama learned from her and his leftist “surrogate fathers” a “Third World ideology.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dsouza-obama-sympathetic-terrorists-freedom-fighters

Yeah, Obama was REAL sympathetic to that one terrorist in Pakistan though. Who was that guy again?

This isn't even a case of "I reject your reality and substitute my own!", this is more like "I reject your reality and... wait, what is reality again?"

[spanone]

1. oh, hogwash....lies, lies, everywhere they lie.

[muntrv]

2. Let's ask Osama Bin Laden if Barack is sympathetic.

[Initech]

9. Where is he again? That's right - at the bottom of the Arabian Sea.

Dinesh is such an asshole...

[WCGreen]

40. He speaks like a man-child whose balls haven't dropped yet..

No wonder he has all that time to cook up these immature rantings..

[AtomicKitten]

3. D'Souza is talking out of his ass. As usual.

[Curtland1015]

4. So he sympathetically ordered those Navy Seals to put a bullet in Bin Laden's head...

Interesting.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. More drivel from the has-been Sununu's lackey - Distort DeNewza

Sorry but that train left the station a long time ago.

[Enrique]

6. hes confusing him with Reagan

he should get his glasses checked

[The Magistrate]

7. Damn, Sir: Hate To See What He Does To people He Does Not 'Sympathize With'....

The man has killed far more jihadis than his predecessor managed....

[malaise]

20. Unbelievable isn't it Sir?

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. Or rather, Obama is sympathetic to freedom fighters and Dinesh thinks.....

that anyone that fights against authority is a terrorist.

[Chorophyll]

10. When in doubt, just make sh*t up, right Dinesh?

Obama is part of a secret society that wants to paint the sky green and make everyone wear shoes made of cheese. (Can I have my right-wing propers now?)

[fascisthunter]

11. do the World a favor and get some help

you'll be a hero for it.

[Dkc05]

12. we need to protest at theaters showing these lies

what are the allowed to show crap like this at legitimate movie theaters . Can't the DOJ block this?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

15. Why is your answer to everything

"Have the DOJ block it!"?

Yes, it's nothing but lies, but you know, or should know, that the DOJ can't block it.

[Dkc05]

16. because we need to get ride of false information.

We need to have some truth besides snoopes. There is a duty for the DOJ to keep people honest.

[WillowTree]

17. Yeah. Too bad there's that pesky First Amendment thing, isn't it?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

19. No, there isn't a duty for the DOJ to keep people honest

The DOJ's duty is to prosecute crimes. Lying isn't a crime.

[Enrique]

23. good catch

looks like a parody of liberals, to be posted later at FR or something.

Here is our friend calling for a police response to the Newsweek cover:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021163542#post13

[SickOfTheOnePct]

34. Another call for the DOJ to intervene

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1182937

Yes, the billboard is disgusting, but the DOJ should block it?

The poster doesn't seem to care much for the 1st Amendment.

[Thinkingabout]

13. If D'souza was saying Bush was sympathetic to muslins and especially bin Laden, I would believe him.

It was Bush who said he did not think about bin Laden anymore and besides this, the Bush family is very tied to the bin Laden family. They received funds from the family and bin Laden family was at Bush complex more than once. After 9/11 Bush arranged for the bin Laden residing in the USA to fly out of the USA when no one else was able to fly. Now tell me who is soft on the bin Laden family.

[Edweird]

14. Had the word 'terrorist' existed in the 1800's it would surely have been applied to our

founding fathers by the British.

[Zoeisright]

18. Dsouza is an ignorant asshole.

That petulant little mama's boy couldn't get his facts straight if they were fed to him on a spoon.

[nanabugg]

21. Well, just because WE call the "terrorists" doesn't mean they are? G. Wash. was a terrorist then?

I believe they are "freedom fighters" even though I don't believe in what they are fighting for. A true "terrorist" to me is someone who is fighting for or killing just for the sake of it and not for any selfless cause. We called the S. African fighters "terrorists" just because they were fighting to get their own country back, same with the Palestinians. Some folks aroung the world call the US military terrorists. That word is used by so-called civilized people to evoke fear and hate and most of us fall for it everytime, especially if it's used to describe people we don't like.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

22. Ummm.....That would be Reagan, dumbass.

Who was it who armed the Taliban in the first place?

And who, at the expense of alienating his own liberal base, keeps launching Predator Drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Ummm....that would be Obama, dumbass.

I'm old enough to remember with Dinesh D'Souza first started polluting the airwaves and bookshelves with his particular brand of pseudo-scholarly bullshit. I have to tell you, they guy has become really tiresome.

[Ganja Ninja]

24. “wanted to marry a Third World anti-American guy”

Speaking of 3rd world anti-americans, ever looked in a mirror Dinesh?

[marmar]

25. This is what passes for "Intelligentsia" on the right.......

[riverbendviewgal]

26. He is an ignorant Nit Wit

and ugly looking.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

27. hunh, and all along, I thought that was R. Reagan

Remember Iran-Contra?

[Warpy]

28. That must be why he had bin Laden whacked

Honestly, why does anybody still listen to such an obviously lying gasbag?

[GoCubsGo]

32. It's "Opposite Day" for GOP gasbags.

Granted, every day is "Opposite Day" with those assholes. I'm sure he was sympathetic to all those Al Qaeda leaders-in-waiting, and those Somali pirates he had whacked, too.

[earthside]

29. 2016 Movie

This D'Souza propaganda from his movie '2016' is starting to crop-up on my Facebook page from my right-wing nut 'friends'.

The thing that is revealing once again is how fact free the righties are are ... there are not 'facts' in anything D'Souza says, it is all just what he thinks about Barack Obama. But the Obama-haters are eating this up and vomiting it up in Facebook posts like it was some great new information.

I would sure like to see some group like Think Progress or Media Matters do a point-by-point rebuttal of the movie. I know it won't change the mind of the Obama-haters, but it would be good to have the material with which to push back.

[GoCubsGo]

33. Is it in the right-hand column with all the ads?

If so, just mouse over it. A blue "X" will pop up in the upper right-hand corner. Just click on it. You will get a pull-down with some options. Just click on the "Hide all from XYZ." A multiple choice menu will then pop up asking why you are hiding this ad. In these cases, I hit the "Offensive" button. Do that a few times, and you'll see no more right-wing ads.

[HughBeaumont]

30. Sorry, discredited creationists can sell their bullshit to their fellow idiots.

http://thedarwinreport.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/creationist-of-the-month-club-dinesh-dsouza/

I don't take DaSleazy seriously. At all. I seriously feel like defriending anyone who recommends this high mound pile of shit "movie", as they believe the words of a creationist Red-baiting, Republican-free-passing hatemonger.

[DBoon]

31. I bring you Jesse Helms

Head of Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Best buds with Roberto D'Aubuisson of El Salvador

Roberto was nicknamed "blowtorch Bob" for his favorite instrument used to torture political opponents.

Now tell me who pals around with terrorists?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_D%27Aubuisson

[hifiguy]

35. d'Souza really needs to lay off the crack pipe

before the giant spiders come for him. He is effing demented, bonkers, looney tunes. His little red choo-choo has chugged around the bend.

[glacierbay]

36. I guess Osama bin Laden

didn't get the meme.
What a crock of shit, he's gone after them with a vengeance.

[Dirty Socialist]

37. Shows You How Far The Right Has Sunk

Any shit-for-brains can get on right wing radio and spew the most malicious and libelous venom and get special attention from the jackhammer hosts.

[frylock]

38. attacking your opponents strengths is the final stage of "oh shit, we're fucked"

the only people buying this crap are flat earth birfers.

[Octafish]

39. Dinesh D'Souza is a MOONIE.

Convex. Concave. Ja.

D’Souza and Rev. Moon

Posted by Ed Brayton on May 26, 2008

There’s an interesting story about Dinesh D’Souza and Rev. Moon in John Gorenfeld’s new book Bad Moon Rising. During Moon’s stay in prison in the early 80s, the Unification Church began a massive PR campaign to resurrect his reputation, particularly among Christian churches and conservative leaders. Kits were sent out to thousands of churches, ministers and organizations that urged them to view Moon’s imprisonment on tax evasion charges as an attack on religious freedom by secular humanists.

At the time, Dinesh D’Souza was a young scholar at the Heritage Foundation and he wrote an article for Policy Review, the house journal of the Foundation, about Moon and his involvement with so many prominent conservative leaders. He interviewed a large number of conservatives about Moon. The article was titled On Moon’s Planet: The Theology and Politics of the Unification Church.

He noted that a number of prominent conservative individuals and organizations had accepted Moon’s money over the years. But he also noted, “Others keep their distance but are not willing to say so publicly. One reason is a reluctance to embarrass friends at the Washington Times.” He told Eric Alterman:

What I can’t figure out is whether Moon is trying to purchase respectability for his theology, or whether he wants to jettison his theology in order to purchase respectability for himself.

It seems that D’Souza has managed to get over his discomfort over taking money from Moon, however. In May 2007, while promoting his book that claims that liberalism is to blame for provoking the Islamic terrorists, he was paid to speak at an event in Washington DC sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation and the Washington Times Foundation. All of a sudden, he claims total ignorance. “I know almost nothing about Moon,” he told Gorenfeld in an email. Right.

SOURCE: http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/05/26/dsouza-and-rev-moon/

Gorenfeld!