Need research help re: Dinesh D'Souza 2016 propaganda piece

[garthranzz]

Two family members saw and are now scared and believe that crap. I explained a few points - like the debt. I was challenged to watch it, but don't have time or interest. I said I'd get refutations, with research, in half-an-hour. I am doing my own research, obviously, but I thought the DU community might have some links handy.

Thanks in advance and sorry to have to waste people's time with this polluted compost. But maybe I can get some peace (and sense) into one branch of the family.

[Historic NY]

1. Tell them Dinesh D'Souza is a lying cheater & was committing adultery....

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/souza-diverted-profits-anti-obama-film-lawsuit-article-1.1194471?localLinksEnabled=false

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/18/dinesh-d-souza-resigns-presidency-of-the-king-s-college.html

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Great minds! That's the first thing I thought of. That shit is on DISH this month.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Ask them if they believe that lying adulterer. They probably don't even know that.

[Tx4obama]

4. Be sure to point out to them that D'Souza has no integrity

Dinesh D’Souza resigns as college head
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82594.html

Anti-Obama Filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza Resigns Following Affair Accusation
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/anti-obama-christian-scholar-dinesh-dsouza-resigns-affair/story?id=17511042#.UJCQXWcmI1I

[txwhitedove]

5. Use the Google site search at the top of this page. I did to try to show a FB friend it was BS.

He wouldn't even read the links provided, said it wouldn't change his mind because he didn't trust Obama from the start. Turns out he's voting for Jessie Ventura.

[garthranzz]

6. I will use these links about his character, but...

is there a point by point, or generalization by generalization, refutation?

I found a summary from AP, nothing on FactCheck. Still searching.

And thanks!!!!

[GeorgeGist]

7. Tell them that D'Souza is a disgraced racist.

[Tx4obama]

8. Here's a link to AP's fact check of the film

FACT CHECK: Anti-Obama film muddy on facts
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-anti-obama-film-muddy-facts-072153385--politics.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/2016-obama-america-fact-check_n_1835710.html?ref=topposts

[garthranzz]

9. Thanks! I found a few on Media Matters

To share the wealth

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/27/fear-and-loathing-in-2016-obamas-america/189581

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/05/27/dinesh-dsouzas-lies-about-obama-now-in-movie-fo/186695

[NashvilleLefty]

10. Media Matters has several articles;

http://mediamatters.org/tags/dinesh-dsouza

HUfPo also has a debunking, but they'll probably just write it off as a "Liberal" site.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CDQQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2012%2F08%2F28%2F2016-obama-america-fact-check_n_1835710.html&ei=5Y-QUM7YMqWS0QHDqoHIDw&usg=AFQjCNH2Ugyb1bZ6sojBvRY60TP5lrU3Ag


There is also a debunking on Columbia Journalism Review:

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/forbes_shameful_obama_dinesh_dsouza.php

[garthranzz]

11. Thanks. Added that to the list. And Forbes

of all places:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2012/09/23/documentary-review-dinesh-dsouza-unsuccessfully-reaches-with-2016/2/

You know it's fecal matter when Forbes blasts a conservative hit piece.

Great work, DUers!

[Enrique]

12. they want to be scared, you can't change that

it is a horror movie to them, they paid their $10 and it sounds like they got their money's worth.

Just for their information, you can tell them that D'Souza's movie partners are suing him, they say that he essentially stole some of the proceeds of the film.

[Erose999]

13. From what I understand that film is mostly ad-hominem attacks. And D'inesh is the spokesperson for

the racists in the GOP because he's a token "brown person". If a white person were to spout Dinesh's D'rivel he'd be lampooned as a racist.