General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDinesh D'Souza's "2016: Obama's America": The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights
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.
Instead, it distills the anti-anticolonialist jeremiads of D'Souza's bookswhich already were to academic argument what fruit snacks are to fruitinto a eminently fast-forwardable travelogue through Nairobi, Kenya, Indonesia, and a magic-hour D.C., where D'Souza slumps about Droopy Dogstyle 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 1965two years after his homeland achieved its independencethat 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
(15,445 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 1, 2012, 01:52 PM - Edit history (1)
What a sleazy, slimy, smarmy waste of skin he is!
edit: typo
We are Devo
(193 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Really ugly facial expressions and body language.
Are_You_Serious
(6 posts)I don't like the way you look? Well the truth is sometimes ugly.
Cha
(297,240 posts)Care Acutely
(1,370 posts)Never mind. You're already crispy on this side.
edhopper
(33,580 posts)[img][/img]
stopbush
(24,396 posts)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
(15,445 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)taking responsibility?
phantom power
(25,966 posts)Response to Surya Gayatri (Reply #1)
Post removed
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)I'll wait.
Archae
(46,328 posts)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
(15,445 posts)these last couple of years, too. Right or left--they can't seem to avoid the temptation to manipulate public opinion.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)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
(6 posts)i thought 2016 was pretty good
Cha
(297,240 posts)Aristus
(66,372 posts)mrs_p
(3,014 posts)Ter
(4,281 posts)But that was more libertarian than conservative I guess.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)It just got moved to a different room. So his entire premise is a lie.
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)The one that was returned was on loan from a British Museum and was scheduled for return by Bush*.
abolugi
(417 posts)why do these wackos think we need 2 busts of Churchill in the White House ?
I really don't get it..
BumRushDaShow
(129,017 posts)abolugi
(417 posts)and I have absolutely nothing in common with these people. As a matter of fact, they quite embarrass me!
Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)Cha
(297,240 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)The point is still the same, though. The entire premise of the film is still based on a lie.
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
(1,370 posts)Thats what all radical Muslim communists do when they take the reins of world power.
That made me laugh!
Lucy Goosey
(2,940 posts)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
(10,624 posts)But please don't tell Dinesh I said that.
Cha
(297,240 posts)President Obama.
BumRushDaShow
(129,017 posts)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
(2,940 posts)It was a thing of beauty!
Cha
(297,240 posts)description of what happened!
Ebadlun
(336 posts)A debate with Romney like that would be beautiful.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Whatever his childhood issues, he's really turned into a lying sleaze-ball.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)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
(27,445 posts)D'Souza makes huge leaps in logic about Obama.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)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
(23,973 posts)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
(10,624 posts)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
(70,695 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)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
(89,249 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)DearHeart
(692 posts)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
(36,263 posts)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
(4,945 posts)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
(12,151 posts)lightcameron
(224 posts)Piers Morgan sliced and diced him on his show about two weeks ago.