What a smug, self-righteous hypocrite! This man has learned nothing. His comment about "the natives" gave it all away. He is nothing more than a windbag. Even his attempt at a smile comes across a nasty smirk. Let him rant on Fox to his minions and true believers. The rest of us have moved on.
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What a sleazy character. This convicted felon has built a career on preaching everything he could not practice.
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Why would NYT bother to give this egotistical jerk a platform to further promote and advertise himself? What does that tell us about the editorial quality of NYT and Magazine these days? Just look at this so-called interview, which doesn't have one useful or good bit of info in it. Who really cares or bother what "Dinesh D’Souza" thinks, to be honest??? He's nothing more than an Indian version of Donald Trump, whose talent is to say as outrageous the things that no one civilized would say, just so that he can put himself on the news headline.
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DD admits to and is punished for violating campaign contribution limits. And how does he describe it? "My crime consisted of giving away too much money." As if he gave to charity! This man's ego could swallow the Titanic.
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D'Souza must have one heck of a publicist to get this story in the NY Times. I'd rather read an interview with him or her!
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Check out the articles about Dinesh D'Souza on Wonkette, a terrific blog started by Ms. Cox (I wonder if Dinesh knows that Cox was involved with Wonkette??). That has been a terrific better platform to spotlight just how wacky Dinesh has been over the years. Amazing that people swallow the junk that Dinesh peddles.
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D'Souza's sense of entitlement is an eye-opener into the little bubble in which the chattering class of all stripes live and work. His comments about his prison experience remind me of Alger Hiss who repeated until his death that he was not really, truly guilty of the crime for which he was convicted. A big difference is that Hiss was neither contemptuous of his other inmates nor a racist in any way. D'Souza states he had a brilliant opportunity to "study the natives."
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I understand that the Times needs to publish a lot of fluff to appeal to the people who will lure the high-paying ads. However, there is a difference between publishing fluff and pretending that an a personal ad is news or even a "feature." This "interview" is nothing more than a long, free display ad for D'Souza, a "washing him clean", so that he can up his speaking and book fees. It is a pseudo-journalistic equivalent of Larry King's TV ads which were palmed off as interviews.
The headline to this ad for D'Souza actually gives it away. It isn't journalism. It isn't even an argumentative column. It really is naught but an ad pretending to be a news interview with a title in no way even supported by the ad itself.
What would be legitimate, relevant, interesting, and useful would be an interview about D'Souza done with inmates who spent time in the slammer with him. That might provide new information to Times readers, some perspective, not merely more self-promotion.
Oh, wait, he wasn't really in a jail, just sort of a Motel 6.
The headline to this ad for D'Souza actually gives it away. It isn't journalism. It isn't even an argumentative column. It really is naught but an ad pretending to be a news interview with a title in no way even supported by the ad itself.
What would be legitimate, relevant, interesting, and useful would be an interview about D'Souza done with inmates who spent time in the slammer with him. That might provide new information to Times readers, some perspective, not merely more self-promotion.
Oh, wait, he wasn't really in a jail, just sort of a Motel 6.
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I have studied Milton's Paradise Lost, the founder's all studied Milton's Paradise Lost. Dinesh knows nothing about Paradise Lost he is the Satan the founders sought to exile from their new country.
Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism Edited Arthur E. Barker
Oxford University Press 1965
Three Essays of note.
Arthur E Barker
Structural Pattern in Paradise Lost
Douglas Bush
Paradise Lost in Our Time: Religious and Ethical Principles
D.C. Allen
Milton and the descent of Light
Mr D'Souza is for certain a Champion of Satan and does great disservice to Milton's Epic which is not about good and evil but about complexity which Twain addressed in his Mysterious Stranger. Mr D'Souza is above all a fraud a paid propagandist of those that would Rule in Hell. Milton speaks to us every day through the US Constitution and D'Souza seeks to return us to the rule of kings and Feudal Barons.
Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism Edited Arthur E. Barker
Oxford University Press 1965
Three Essays of note.
Arthur E Barker
Structural Pattern in Paradise Lost
Douglas Bush
Paradise Lost in Our Time: Religious and Ethical Principles
D.C. Allen
Milton and the descent of Light
Mr D'Souza is for certain a Champion of Satan and does great disservice to Milton's Epic which is not about good and evil but about complexity which Twain addressed in his Mysterious Stranger. Mr D'Souza is above all a fraud a paid propagandist of those that would Rule in Hell. Milton speaks to us every day through the US Constitution and D'Souza seeks to return us to the rule of kings and Feudal Barons.
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This individual does not deserve to be given space in a credible journal to say anything. He is not serious in real life and his thought is out of line with the mainstream, but always based on islamophobia. Having a different thoughts process, with basis and balance is something the credible journals should devote to.
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D'Souza demonstrates a lack of remorse as well as persistent opinions that are never influenced by facts. While he is not alone in writing from the right with only limited understanding of his chosen topics, he is not alone, either as a polemicist or as a person of influence who lacks fundamental understanding yet believes he is always correct. There are those on the left guilty of this as well (see Frank Bruni's opinion column from today). What is most troubling is that this fundamental failure to first learn the facts before forming an opinion extends to the highest institutions in our nation and echoes through the 24 hour news cycle as unquestionable fact. While many of use would question Justice Alito's comments about the same sex marriage opinion as uninformed, Justice Breyer demonstrated a similar lack of knowledge regarding medical care and professional licensing in a case involving the North Carolina Dental Board. While Justice Breyer was in the majority in both cases, his position on the latter matter evolved from a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts leading him to a dangerous conclusion in that matter. Ultimately, both sides fail to grasp the difficult challenge required to review facts and data unemotionally before rendering an opinion
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My, my, my!
While D'Souza is fallible, more of his points are telling than not. And most of his critics lash out blindly at his points.
Both D'Souza's cultural level and his culturally-anchored points zoom over the heads of most of his critics.
D'Souza is glib. His critics' icons, however, are usually 'articulate'.
D'Souza, a brown man and therefore likely to have been scorned and dismissed, came to the US for school. His learning enabled him to understand western political and especially American values. Next, those enabled him to enter the public discourse. Unhappily that discourse--both liberal and conservative--lays too much reliance on politics.
So, he and his critics can keep talking past each other.
He was confined at a half-way house after conviction for campaign finance violations which he confessed to. But, when other, bigger, campaign finance offenders get no confinement, one can reasonably conclude that he was singled out.
Maybe all rate confinement. Yet, all do nor none do. Nailing those of one political persuasion offends normal people.
While D'Souza is fallible, more of his points are telling than not. And most of his critics lash out blindly at his points.
Both D'Souza's cultural level and his culturally-anchored points zoom over the heads of most of his critics.
D'Souza is glib. His critics' icons, however, are usually 'articulate'.
D'Souza, a brown man and therefore likely to have been scorned and dismissed, came to the US for school. His learning enabled him to understand western political and especially American values. Next, those enabled him to enter the public discourse. Unhappily that discourse--both liberal and conservative--lays too much reliance on politics.
So, he and his critics can keep talking past each other.
He was confined at a half-way house after conviction for campaign finance violations which he confessed to. But, when other, bigger, campaign finance offenders get no confinement, one can reasonably conclude that he was singled out.
Maybe all rate confinement. Yet, all do nor none do. Nailing those of one political persuasion offends normal people.
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"D'Souza, a brown man and therefore likely to have been scorned and dismissed, came to the US for school." We play the race card? D'Souza was born and grew up in Mumbai where everyone is brown.
He is scorned and dismissed in the United States by many, but that's because of his daft beliefs, like questioning the presumption of innocence principle. He wants to give the state even more prosecutorial power over the citizenry?
Just as daft was his blaming Hollywood for the "moral and cultural decay of America" that radical Muslims "use as a recruiting tool." Boy, is that a mouthful of illogicality. Hollywood, not to mention television, dime novels, comic books, yellow journalism, rock 'n roll and all the other elements of pop culture the Mrs. Grundys of the world have been complaining about since the first bawdy ballad was slid of a handset press centuries ago, reflect human freedom. Freedom of expression. Freedom to discuss Dante, Thomas Paine, or Harold Robbins.
Radical Muslims hate us because we're free. From his interview, it sounds like Mr. D'Souza is similarly perturbed. Daniel Buck
He is scorned and dismissed in the United States by many, but that's because of his daft beliefs, like questioning the presumption of innocence principle. He wants to give the state even more prosecutorial power over the citizenry?
Just as daft was his blaming Hollywood for the "moral and cultural decay of America" that radical Muslims "use as a recruiting tool." Boy, is that a mouthful of illogicality. Hollywood, not to mention television, dime novels, comic books, yellow journalism, rock 'n roll and all the other elements of pop culture the Mrs. Grundys of the world have been complaining about since the first bawdy ballad was slid of a handset press centuries ago, reflect human freedom. Freedom of expression. Freedom to discuss Dante, Thomas Paine, or Harold Robbins.
Radical Muslims hate us because we're free. From his interview, it sounds like Mr. D'Souza is similarly perturbed. Daniel Buck
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I cannot help but contrast D'Souza's confinement with that of the former intellectual guru of Canada's Conservatives Conrad Black. Even as a Conservative Black towered above D'Souza intellectually and morally.
I am heartened to see Black's recent epiphany and his embrace of the democratic politics of Canada's Liberal and New Democratic Parties. I am awaiting an American moderate Republican to come forth and denounce the fascist tendencies of today's GOP and call for the return of democracy to America.
The time of cowering in fear must come to an end, we must send the rats back to their nest and boldly face the future with resolve and planning. There is no place for the D;Souzas and Lowrys in the public sphere if America is to have a prosperous future.
I am heartened to see Black's recent epiphany and his embrace of the democratic politics of Canada's Liberal and New Democratic Parties. I am awaiting an American moderate Republican to come forth and denounce the fascist tendencies of today's GOP and call for the return of democracy to America.
The time of cowering in fear must come to an end, we must send the rats back to their nest and boldly face the future with resolve and planning. There is no place for the D;Souzas and Lowrys in the public sphere if America is to have a prosperous future.
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What an incredible bunch of baloney. His crime was giving away too much money? Okay, whatever. You would think a big, no nonsense, no spin zone, type guy would go with 'undermining the electoral process' but, hey, onward and upward. Also, nice of him to blame national tragedies on those he politically disagrees with while giving himself a pass on behavior he judgementally condemns when commited by others. He's a creepy dude.
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It never ceases to amaze me how the conservative slugs want to force their extreme views on the rest of society and judge others who disagree. They are constantly carping on opponents for a lack of personal responsibility. Yet when it comes to their actions, they retreat into a pathetic cult of victimization and blame everyone but themselves. It would be hysterical farce if it wasn't so dangerous and disgusting.
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dd's has got game! no one has played the system more effectively.
that he has gained traction from such intellectual rope-a-dopery as misdirecting attention from his own personal uncertainty by a buzz-word mash of HOLLYWOOD-enabled MUSLIM advertisement of our national "MORAL and CULTURAL DECAY," (not to mention his painfully trite "abandon all hope..." from dante re: a hillary potusery), only proves that a con (an ex-con con man at that) can only succeed if there are willing victims
anyone who believes that this character will ever lay a brick or cable to "bridge the divide between the intellectual talking class (his ilk) and the people who actually respond to politics through raw experience" ought to read one of his books or papers, "the enemy at home" might be the best for starters, certainly the most appropriate if shameless exploitation of tragedy is your cup of kool ade.
that he has gained traction from such intellectual rope-a-dopery as misdirecting attention from his own personal uncertainty by a buzz-word mash of HOLLYWOOD-enabled MUSLIM advertisement of our national "MORAL and CULTURAL DECAY," (not to mention his painfully trite "abandon all hope..." from dante re: a hillary potusery), only proves that a con (an ex-con con man at that) can only succeed if there are willing victims
anyone who believes that this character will ever lay a brick or cable to "bridge the divide between the intellectual talking class (his ilk) and the people who actually respond to politics through raw experience" ought to read one of his books or papers, "the enemy at home" might be the best for starters, certainly the most appropriate if shameless exploitation of tragedy is your cup of kool ade.
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His sentencing judge was right: he doesn't get it. He is a convicted felon who trades on his ethnicity though denies his caste [Brahmin] privilege, along with his "Christian" double adultery, etc. How could you stoop to this soft sell of a harmful, mean-spirited, hypocritical public persona?
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Dinesh D'Souza is what passes for an intellectual? His belief "that you are innocent until proven guilty" has been shaken because "the majority of people who are in prison are guilty." Leaving aside his odd qualifier "majority," obviously the imprisoned are no longer presumed innocent, they've been found guilty.
That has nothing to do with the presumption of innocence for the accused, a principle that goes back to Roman Law, and which among other things helps keep the Leviathan at bay. Daniel Buck
That has nothing to do with the presumption of innocence for the accused, a principle that goes back to Roman Law, and which among other things helps keep the Leviathan at bay. Daniel Buck
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Dinesh has "marital woes" -- others undermine civilization.
Dinesh is an idiot -- couldn't find a way to legally shower his favored ideologues with money? Adelson and Koch Bros. have no problem doing it on an EPIC scale. Are they geniuses?
D'Souza should avoid speaking, as he appears to remain a delusional narcissist who needs to fire his PR agent: himself.
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With apologies to Koyce Kilmer:
I think that I shall ever see
the gross intolerance of liberal scree.
Mr. Sousa violated campaign finance laws. Nothing more. He's paid his debt to society. I can only imagine outpouring of sympathy had Mr.Sousa been a progressive.
I think that I shall ever see
the gross intolerance of liberal scree.
Mr. Sousa violated campaign finance laws. Nothing more. He's paid his debt to society. I can only imagine outpouring of sympathy had Mr.Sousa been a progressive.
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Another Indian who wants to be more American than the Americans.
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Actually, he is the real criminal.
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Very appropriate quote about his rap sheet vs. the Clinton's.
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The Clintons have never been charged with a crime, let alone convicted of one.
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As I have mentioned in another comment, D'Sousa, who has been arrested, has a rap sheet, more formally known as an arrest record. Neither Bill Clinton nor Hillary Clinton have ever been arrested (much less convicted of crimes and been sentenced), so neither one has a rap sheet.
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From the beginning to the end of this interview, D'Souza proves again that like most of his fellow conservatives he lives in the land of "do as I say, not as I do."
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This man is an out and out liar and deserves no mercy. Look at how deftly he sidesteps his own adultery and tried to make it an social issue. Ich!
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He is a hypocrite and an idiot, not unlike another hypocrite and idiot, Bobby-aka (Piyush) Jindal.
15
Why should anyone with the least bit of intelligence pay any attention to this guy!
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A careful reading of the articles that Dines D'Souza has posted on the Hoover Institution website is interesting and worth a look. Two of his 2003 titles next to each other are: "When there's no Good Guy: Saddam must go" and "Why Big Government is Still the Problem: Is the Era of Big Government Really Over?" Hopefully he figured out that only a very big government and military are able to depose a foreign head of state and take over their whole country. He obviously thinks big government is good for some things--like taking out Saddam. Curiously, the bio area on his profile page is blank http://hvr.co/1KHAoiX . How sad that a well regarded think tank at Stanford University got hooked up with this moron.
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FULL OF HIMSELF Dinesh D'Souza is, if nothing else, full of himself. In jail or out. His glib contempt toward his cellmates is further proof of just how he over-values his own beliefs. Always the ideologue, D'Souza, whom I find to be one of the ranker poobahs qua pundits, has come through his ordeal with his intense narcissism unscathed. From his statements, his capacity for remorse, shame and empathy are as limited as ever. Given the chance, rather than introspection, he quickly jumps to recounting a litany of what he imagines to be crimes by the Clintons. Interesting, though, he doesn't mention the extra-constitutionality of Dubya's lying to get the country to go to war in Iraq or Cheyney's cynical attitudes toward torture. And his attitude toward having violated campaign-finance law came across as, What's wrong with that? Needless to say, D'Souza is a prime suspect for blind faith in the power of dark money. My hope is that this interview with him will be the last we hear of or from D'Souza. Forever. To which I say, Good riddance!
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D'Souza's biggest crime is his mouth. Too bad we can't lock that up for life.
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Jail, you call it. That's really funny.
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The interesting references to Dante and other literary figures serve as a useful reminder that the real criminals of America are for the most part not those who work as politicians in Washington, but the devious Internet trolls who use inappropriately deadpan satire not merely to cause "momentary discomfort and embarrassment," but to "harm reputations." Just as long as Dinesh stops short of that crucial line drawn by our state's highest judges, he could become an excellent blogger and avoid prosecution for satirical Internet fraud in New York. See the documentation of America's leading criminal satire case at:
http://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpress.com/
http://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpress.com/
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Do you think D'Souza's specious and politically motivated film: 2016 Obama's America, which frames the Prsident as an America ruining hater of colonialism with a hidden agenda to bankrupt the nation on every level - crosses the line of "haming reputation"??
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He still does not get it that he is a criminal. Anthropologist? Not hardly.
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Another person convicted and sentenced -- spending time in jail for a "crime" that would not have been one 50 years ago -- no wait ...30 years ago.
We criminalize behavior that is not a crime -- the campaign finance laws are a joke and everybody knows it
We criminalize behavior that is not a crime -- the campaign finance laws are a joke and everybody knows it
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"The Clinton rap sheet" ? Where does this unrepentant Felon get his nerve? I hope when the day comes and he pleads for a pardon, the powers that be will remember, the evenings he spent sleeping in a cell did not teach him his lesson. Even on probation he refuses to acknowledge his guilt, and that should be the first requirement for a pardon or reinstatement of rights.
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Dinesh D’Souza is an irrelevant loud mouth. This is not an open question. Get a grip and stop this.
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Whenever I read about D'Souza, I wonder why any news organization gives someone with such wacko, illogical ideas the time of day.
In any other circumstance, one would commit such a person who speaks solely in non sequiturs
In any other circumstance, one would commit such a person who speaks solely in non sequiturs
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IDMIYAR
It doesn't matter if you're a Republican.
It doesn't matter if you're a Republican.
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Nice suit!
And contemplate, it was likely purchased not from profits from "book" purchases by the 1%ers who know better, but more likely by Reagan Democrats, people in states where the Medicaid option of the ACA has not been implemented, people whose savings were destroyed by the Bush43 economic depression, angry white people who would find it abhorrent D'Souza was allowed into the USA in the first place.
Oh, yes, reminder, he would gut Medicare, Social Security.
There have been comparisons with Ann Coulter - yes both utter banalities but you get the feeling Coulter knows she's doing a con job and she's vaguely humorous, has a choice phrase or two rarely.
D'Souza is like Sean Hannity, like Father Coughlin (another import) utterly humorless.
And contemplate, it was likely purchased not from profits from "book" purchases by the 1%ers who know better, but more likely by Reagan Democrats, people in states where the Medicaid option of the ACA has not been implemented, people whose savings were destroyed by the Bush43 economic depression, angry white people who would find it abhorrent D'Souza was allowed into the USA in the first place.
Oh, yes, reminder, he would gut Medicare, Social Security.
There have been comparisons with Ann Coulter - yes both utter banalities but you get the feeling Coulter knows she's doing a con job and she's vaguely humorous, has a choice phrase or two rarely.
D'Souza is like Sean Hannity, like Father Coughlin (another import) utterly humorless.
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An amateur anthropologist? That is not even a joke. He is a convicted criminal, an amateur intellect, and a counterfeit human being.
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Unreformed and unrepentant. So much for 'corrective' justice.
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Mr. D'Souza is a wonderful writer and speaker. I don't know if I've ever seen anyone speak extemporaneously as well as he does in full sentences without all the "ums,"' broken and run on thoughts. That's not hyperbole either. He was the first I knew of to write about political correctness and reverse discrimination on college campuses and is a great cheerleader for our country.
He's also a true believer spirit who has trouble with compromise. That is typical of almost all partisans, which covers most politically active people. It may have led to his problems, although certainly not all partisans commit crimes. Each side has its own myths, but, the feeling that something must be done and the other side always cheats can lead conservatives and liberals, very much alike in tunnel vision and tactics, astray.
His adultery and divorce are not significant with respect to his arguments and it is not necessarily hypocritical. Adultery should not even be a crime and sometimes it is even justified. It in itself does not make someone otherwise untrustworthy and people I know who have cheated are against it in principal too.
Despite his talents, his thoughts about prison are not anthropological. Of course most prisoners admit they are guilty. It is required to get a plea bargain with serious crimes. And, of course there are criminals who get away with it and some innocent people in jail. Welcome to the world. It is often not fair.
He's also a true believer spirit who has trouble with compromise. That is typical of almost all partisans, which covers most politically active people. It may have led to his problems, although certainly not all partisans commit crimes. Each side has its own myths, but, the feeling that something must be done and the other side always cheats can lead conservatives and liberals, very much alike in tunnel vision and tactics, astray.
His adultery and divorce are not significant with respect to his arguments and it is not necessarily hypocritical. Adultery should not even be a crime and sometimes it is even justified. It in itself does not make someone otherwise untrustworthy and people I know who have cheated are against it in principal too.
Despite his talents, his thoughts about prison are not anthropological. Of course most prisoners admit they are guilty. It is required to get a plea bargain with serious crimes. And, of course there are criminals who get away with it and some innocent people in jail. Welcome to the world. It is often not fair.
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I have read and heard, and I believe, though not 100% positive, that during the Bill Clinton years there were less divorces and less abortions than any other time since the early 70's when abortion was made legal. If this is true it kind of puts a big hole in D'Souza's theories.
2
His ability to soar above reality to look down his nose on all those below him reaches new heights. Such easy smugness from a convicted criminal who sees crime even in those who have not been convicted, yet seems completely untouched by his own.
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Hasn't learned a thing.
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"Dinesh D’Souza Isn’t the Real Criminal"
Yes he IS the real criminal. He's a convicted felon and an ex-con.
I have examined the rap sheets of both Clintons, and you know what? They do not exist. They are imaginary. Neither was ever convicted of a felony, and neither ever served time in prison.
Unlike Dinesh D'Souza.
Yes he IS the real criminal. He's a convicted felon and an ex-con.
I have examined the rap sheets of both Clintons, and you know what? They do not exist. They are imaginary. Neither was ever convicted of a felony, and neither ever served time in prison.
Unlike Dinesh D'Souza.
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Quite right. Adultery is not a crime. Depending on your religion, in may be a sin, but not criminal. Clintons were caught in a Republican party looking for anything they could use to smear the name. They would do the same to Obama, if they could catch him doing anything like that. They are frothing at the mouth to catch anyone in the Obama family of even a parking ticket.
D'Sousa thinks that US campaign finance laws are wrong. I agree with that statement, but for different reasons. Political campaigns should start with a limit of 3 months for primary elections, followed by another three months for the final election. All financing should be public. No money from any other source, especially corporations and the regular deep-pockets sources should be allowed in any form.
D'Sousa thinks that US campaign finance laws are wrong. I agree with that statement, but for different reasons. Political campaigns should start with a limit of 3 months for primary elections, followed by another three months for the final election. All financing should be public. No money from any other source, especially corporations and the regular deep-pockets sources should be allowed in any form.
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That didn't sound like a prison to me. More like a free bed and breakfast. He certainly got off easy.
I bet Sweat and Matt also would look great in suits, photographed in the right light by a pro. This is a disgusting recycling of toxic waste.
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He's as honest as the light of the day.
In Barrow, Alaska on the first day of Winter.
In Barrow, Alaska on the first day of Winter.
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Such a peculiar little man, this convicted felon and adulterer wagging his finger at the rest of us.
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His campaign contributions wouldn't have been noticed except for his fame and his critique of the president. Mr. D'Souza was a political prisoner, an example to chill the opposition. The next Republican president should pardon him. How can anyone be convicted of violating campaign laws in this era?
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Why on Earth are you giving this convicted felon any oxygen at all? I'll never understand the media's fascination with loudmouth liars with high profile political backing. Simple fact checking of this guy's arguments ought to be enough to banish him to the backwaters of the right-wing blogosphere where those who share his warped version of the world wallow in the mud. He doesn't belong in the Times.
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I once heard him speak. When I entered I did not know who he was--perhaps a musician? I should have known better from the venue for his talk, however he was one of the worst of Hoover Inst's pre-dinner speakers.
He presents well, unfortunately the smooth presentation puts a glaze on totally wrong thinking.
He will be best relegated to some backwater and forgotten.To say that he is Machiavellian would be to put a smear on a brilliant theoretician.
He presents well, unfortunately the smooth presentation puts a glaze on totally wrong thinking.
He will be best relegated to some backwater and forgotten.To say that he is Machiavellian would be to put a smear on a brilliant theoretician.
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These comments are outrageous and nasty. Whatever one thinks of Dinesh D'Souza, and I don't know enough to form an opinion. I thought his assertion that Obama is deeply influenced by the anti-colonial writers after World War II to be reasonable. And not necessarily that controversial. Read Thomas Sowell on these matters. Both sides can be wrong. His personal behavior was weird, not that he strayed, but that he seemed to believe that it somehow didn't matter. Ann Coulter said recently on Fox News that if you want to comment on America, maybe you should have a few generations under your belt to get the feel of it. Not exactly deranged. All of a sudden, he's an expert on Christianity? That said, the punishment meted out to him was totally excessive. This was just too small a crime to merit that. What has not been explained is whether he knew it was a crime, and objected to the law, or just didn't know. On several occasions, I have been asked by people to contribute to campaigns and told that I would be reimbursed. My response has been, since I know, that this is illegal. No one who has asked me to do that so far was aware of that. If D'Souza was, well that's a problem. But 8 months? Sorry, that is frightening. While I am at it, the prosecution of Martha Stewart was also a disgrace.
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Once you quoted Ann Coulter, any credibility you had was out the window.
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He was president of The King's College in NYC, a Christian liberal arts college, so he must know something about Christianity.
Yes, you don't know enough to form an opinion. Go do some reading on D'Souza and you may change your tune. And I know Martha Stewart, and he's no Martha Stewart.
So "radical Muslims are able to point to the moral and cultural decay of America as displayed in Hollywood and use it as a recruiting tool?" That's funny when the GOP was in the White House they hated us for our freedoms. Funny how things change.
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Yet more proof that our prison system neither punishes nor rehabilitates.
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This guy is a victim of political persecution. Its unbelievable how the press ignored this story while a sitting president used the justice department to persecute a political enemy for a "crime" which is universally overlooked in other cases.
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"Dinesh D’Souza Isn’t the Real Criminal" is an abject lie. He is most certainly a real criminal.
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He deserves an oscar for his performance in that tv show
rule of engagement.
rule of engagement.
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A well functioning country has patriotic upper class.
Failing countries have corrupt, greedy, insatiable upper class with houses, doctors, dentists, wives, children, schools in Switzerland. Their country is a mere cash cow.
Failing countries have corrupt, greedy, insatiable upper class with houses, doctors, dentists, wives, children, schools in Switzerland. Their country is a mere cash cow.
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The impish prankster is back!
Look up his appearance on Bill Maher's show a few months ago when he tried some of the nonsense he speaks of here. Maher took him apart.
I believe, more than divorce adultery, radical Muslims can point to the income inequality of today's capitalists and their conservative supporters and use it as a recruiting toll.
That was true in February, 1993, and it is true today.
Look up his appearance on Bill Maher's show a few months ago when he tried some of the nonsense he speaks of here. Maher took him apart.
I believe, more than divorce adultery, radical Muslims can point to the income inequality of today's capitalists and their conservative supporters and use it as a recruiting toll.
That was true in February, 1993, and it is true today.
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When the Devil finally peruses my curriculum vitae, She may be surprised to find out that I accumulated a pretty weighty juvenile
court record as a kid including one traffic ticket for exceeding 100 mph in a school zone. (The incident occurred at 3 AM, but the cop still insisted on dragging me into court.)
And there were other serious infractions of the law, notably one where I shot out the lights in the alley behind my house with the BB gun I got for Hanukkah. (Not all BB guns are Christmas BB guns, ya know.) And there were other things that I still wouldn't want to mention here because, even though they happened 60 years ago, I'm not certain how they might be treated under the today's statutes of limitation.
So what rescued me from Mr. D'Souza's fate, you and the Devil will be asking? It was my very excellent father. Having survived Buchenwald and plenty more in WW2 he learned a few things then about bribery; and strict father that he was, he still had a soft spot in his heart for a dopey kid like me who, at the time, was having a few problems with people in authority. So, at the cost of a couple of boxes of chocolate, one electric razor and two bottles of Johnny Walker (Red Label, I think it was), my juvenile court history was somehow made to disappear, and I was able to enter polite society with a record
as unblemished as new-driven snow.
Are there fathers anywhere like him anymore? Ah Pop, I really miss you.
court record as a kid including one traffic ticket for exceeding 100 mph in a school zone. (The incident occurred at 3 AM, but the cop still insisted on dragging me into court.)
And there were other serious infractions of the law, notably one where I shot out the lights in the alley behind my house with the BB gun I got for Hanukkah. (Not all BB guns are Christmas BB guns, ya know.) And there were other things that I still wouldn't want to mention here because, even though they happened 60 years ago, I'm not certain how they might be treated under the today's statutes of limitation.
So what rescued me from Mr. D'Souza's fate, you and the Devil will be asking? It was my very excellent father. Having survived Buchenwald and plenty more in WW2 he learned a few things then about bribery; and strict father that he was, he still had a soft spot in his heart for a dopey kid like me who, at the time, was having a few problems with people in authority. So, at the cost of a couple of boxes of chocolate, one electric razor and two bottles of Johnny Walker (Red Label, I think it was), my juvenile court history was somehow made to disappear, and I was able to enter polite society with a record
as unblemished as new-driven snow.
Are there fathers anywhere like him anymore? Ah Pop, I really miss you.
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Brilliance has no direct relationship with morality. I enjoyed this guy's entrapment by his own idiocy and I delight in reading this drivel which he speaks as he battles his way from the barrel's bottom. He may just pass Cosby and Billy Clinton on his way up. Birds of a feather!
Uh, Francis
Despite his character flaws, Bill Clinton is universally respected and admired in America, and around the world.
Cosby and D'Sousa? Not so much………….
Despite his character flaws, Bill Clinton is universally respected and admired in America, and around the world.
Cosby and D'Sousa? Not so much………….
Mr. D'Souza's writing and purported research are far worse crimes than the federal statutes he violated.
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Dinesh D'Sousa seems deranged, as he wants to sound 'sound' when his past hypocrisy ought to be an impediment to play roles where he can damage people again. Even worse if he is not aware of being a charlatan, as he may pursue gullible folks to tell his invented tales.
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This criminal relishes his racist idealogy even though he is black Brahmin immigrant from India. Can you imagine how much venous he would spout, if he were white. Why is this shameful windbag given a platform by this paper for his egregious and poisonous propaganda.
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"They believe that the real criminals are not only part of the system, they are running the system, and, in fact, that they are the system and that, at its highest level, America is a crime syndicate."
Amazingly insightful. You should have paid attention.
Amazingly insightful. You should have paid attention.
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who's next in your line up? Michelle Malkin?
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I'd read that interview ... if it followed her stint in prison.
If all of these liberal commenters had one one hundredth of DSouza's intellect, they would be .......... conservatives.
Contrary to the condescending attitude of the left, the right is far more intellectually rigorous in their thinking.
Contrary to the condescending attitude of the left, the right is far more intellectually rigorous in their thinking.
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@ shirleyjw
"The right is far more intellectually rigorous in their thinking"?
See: Bush, George W.
"The right is far more intellectually rigorous in their thinking"?
See: Bush, George W.
Would that be the far right conservatives who deny man-made climate change even though 99% of scientists who study it say it's happening, and when confronted with this fact say, "I'm not a scientist." So they don't believe scientists but they claim they're not qualified to make scientific judgements. Then according to the right, from whom do we obtain scientific information? Ballet dancers?
Or would that be conservatives who don't "believe" in evolution, the bedrock of modern biology. And yet, most of them seem to get flu vaccines every year.
How about when confronted with a valid birth certificate from the state of Hawaii and even a birth announcement in a Honolulu newspaper from 1961, still believe Obama was born in Kenya?
I would also direct you to the brilliant columns of Dr. Krugman in this very newspaper about the economic fallacies cherished by conservatives and disproven by experience time after time in country after country.
I could keep going, but for space limitations. The "intellectual rigor" of the right? Seriously?
Or would that be conservatives who don't "believe" in evolution, the bedrock of modern biology. And yet, most of them seem to get flu vaccines every year.
How about when confronted with a valid birth certificate from the state of Hawaii and even a birth announcement in a Honolulu newspaper from 1961, still believe Obama was born in Kenya?
I would also direct you to the brilliant columns of Dr. Krugman in this very newspaper about the economic fallacies cherished by conservatives and disproven by experience time after time in country after country.
I could keep going, but for space limitations. The "intellectual rigor" of the right? Seriously?
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So much for the myth of the "correctional institution..."
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D'Souza is a criminal, an anti-intellectual, and a fool who deserves to be forgotten, not resurrected.
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Oh good. Can we look forward to an in depth analysis of the dangers of ingrown toenails to our national security?
A D'Sousa splash on how the failure to build our infra-structure weakens our competitiveness in world markets?
The D'Sousa guide to a happy marriage?
Or perhaps his greatest literary coup:
How to spot the Devil on the Number 6: They ALL are!
A D'Sousa splash on how the failure to build our infra-structure weakens our competitiveness in world markets?
The D'Sousa guide to a happy marriage?
Or perhaps his greatest literary coup:
How to spot the Devil on the Number 6: They ALL are!
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Pseudo-intellectual of the worst kind. He has zero substance. He appears to be a milder form of Ann Coulter only because his vocabulary is better than hers. But his ideas are no less vacuous than hers. And a hypocrite to boot!! Financial misappropriation and extra-marital affairs - yet is willing to judge people harshly. I am shocked this was done by Ms. Cox. I expect better from her. Has she gone soft on us?
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The radical muslims decried by Mr. D'Souza seem to share his views on morality and marriage. You might have called him on that.
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Here is the definition of convicted.
"Law To find or prove (someone) guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court: The jury convicted the defendant of manslaughter."
He wasn't convicted of a crime, he admitted guilt! Nobody had to prove anything since he admitted guilt.
"Law To find or prove (someone) guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court: The jury convicted the defendant of manslaughter."
He wasn't convicted of a crime, he admitted guilt! Nobody had to prove anything since he admitted guilt.
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He provided the proof himself by confessing. Same thing.
Send him back - he needs more time and is not fit for society yet.
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Yeah, those Hollywood liberals and their cultural decay. And how about that Shakespeare guy with the infidelity in his plays! And back to the Greek plays and Agamemnon! And the Bible, with its raping and sleeping around! I'll bet those guys didn't even know they were Hollywood liberals! Shows how dumb they are.
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Why does anyone interview this charlatan?
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Alas, there is no test for the personality disorders for (former) Immigration and Naturalization Department to subject the applicants who wants to come to the US so the people like Dinesh sneak in, and enjoy our Federal prison cousine. I am glad he is out, not because I care for him, but he was costing the taxpayer at least $3K per month, may be we should bill his masters for this wasteful spending or deport the miscreant.
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DeSouza is a bigot, a hater and a convicted felon. Dinesh is a symbol of hatred and diviseiveness. America has moved along Dinesh. Head back to the deep dark shadows of malevolence from which you came.
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For some in the privileged elites, imprisonment is a life-changing and clarifying experience, causing them to reconsider all the easy shibboleths they have dispensed, often embracing a real and meaningful change in their world views. Based on his fatuous and fallacious answers, Mr. D'Souza in not among that group...
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Another conservative re-branding himself post-prison? That's hardly news.
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"By and large, the concerns of the inmates are food, sleep, money and sex". Werent the last two what got desouza into troule to begin with?
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Dinesh D'Souza? I have been wondering where he was, since he made his millions on his tome "The end of racism." I have always been baffled and intrigued by those "intellectuals" from other countries who come to the US and take the easy rode to financial success by joining the extreme American racists.
I made a mistake then of purchasing his one-sided tome, and wondered why he did not first write a book deconstructing the kind of destructive racism in his native country, why has been camouflaged as a "caste" system.
I know how to argue against diehard white American racists. But what am I to do with a brown-skinned writer from the upper caste in his native country, who comes here and justify white-black racism by intellectual attacks. Is he aware that one is more likely to see a white-black friendship or even marital Union than one between an Indian (even of lower caste) and a black person?
I have no intellectual tolerance for such immigrants who make easy money by attaching themselves to fabricated "post-racial" ideologues.
Did he go to a prison where some black men were? Perhaps that should give him ideas for another "end-of-racism"tome!
I made a mistake then of purchasing his one-sided tome, and wondered why he did not first write a book deconstructing the kind of destructive racism in his native country, why has been camouflaged as a "caste" system.
I know how to argue against diehard white American racists. But what am I to do with a brown-skinned writer from the upper caste in his native country, who comes here and justify white-black racism by intellectual attacks. Is he aware that one is more likely to see a white-black friendship or even marital Union than one between an Indian (even of lower caste) and a black person?
I have no intellectual tolerance for such immigrants who make easy money by attaching themselves to fabricated "post-racial" ideologues.
Did he go to a prison where some black men were? Perhaps that should give him ideas for another "end-of-racism"tome!
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Most radical Muslims are recruited from Muslim countries, and they are reacting to the failures of their own countries, whose moral and cultural state rests on conservative cultural values. We could call this state decay except that the decay has lasted for at least a century and so has become decadence I suppose Bollywood represents less moral and cultural decay than Hollywood, but this does not make it more helpful in dealing with Indian reality than Hollywood is with respect to ours.
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Like Dinesh I too grew up in India. I still hear the argument which Dinesh supports, that India today is too corrupt and it would be a better place if it was still colonized by the British. Looking at the scale of corruption I am tempted to feel likewise, but I believe otherwise, all the British did was transfer wealth from their colonies to themselves. And the same thing is happening in America today.
The top 1% are assured of a return on their wealth more than 15% annually whether the economy grows 1% or 5%. So while the bottom 20% labors hard to add to the country's wealth this wealth is automatically siphoned off by the 1%. Dinesh is pandering to this class.
The top 1% are assured of a return on their wealth more than 15% annually whether the economy grows 1% or 5%. So while the bottom 20% labors hard to add to the country's wealth this wealth is automatically siphoned off by the 1%. Dinesh is pandering to this class.
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Mr. D’Souza has made millions purely specializing in spreading hate and toxicity. I do not know which is more troubling - that someone with such low morality garners this much attention in NYT, or that someone incapable of positive thinking feels this much at ease in the Republican party.
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It was nothing compared to the Clintons, D'Souza whines. So the felon who was once president of a proclaimed Christian College believes that felonies are forgiven because his enemy did worse, a claim as yet unproven in court. So the President of a Christian College cheated on his wife and committed a felony. Just another brass plated hypocrite. And why does he merit ANY exposure in the Times, let alone softball questions with no follow up?
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He is a typical product of the über class, Indian or American. Too bad he did not spend more time in the jail house because he may, just may have learned something of real American life. But I am sure he will continue putting out his right wing propaganda and always look down on people that has really made America what it is today. Not a nation made up of casts that can be discarded at will.
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We all know his next move: a blistering "insider" expose of how liberal America is responsible for the criminal class and the state of the prisons. Opening sentences: "In Hilary's America, I too am a criminal. Like Ghandi and King before me, I have seen the underside of the Liberal Incarceration Machine and lived to tell the tale..."
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Unrehabilitated. Unrepentant. Thoroughly despicable. Our prison system has failed Mr. D'Souza.
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Mr. D'Souza has failed himself and the public as well.
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His dishonest and mendacious books about Obama, including some sort of grave-side woo-woo transmission of socialist power from the dad Obama never had to himself was one of the craziest things I have ever heard making the political rounds a couple of years ago. That the GOP went along with this clearly disturbed guy says everything about them. He thought he could cheat, could commit adultery while blabbering away in a Christian university, his weird obsession with Obama, and he thinks he was toodling around the prison as a sort of anthropologist?? Don't think so.
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I love the way his lawyer said because of a technicality his client decided to plead guilty - the technicality being he was in fact guilty.
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I think the Rich Lowry message from earlier this week have removed the mask from what is called American Conservatism. Despite the purge of the John Birch Society Bill Buckley Jr's political philosophy was the same fascism his father preached from the time of the Mexican resource nationalization in 1917.
The National Review may make pretense to intellectual discussion but hate mongering and vilification of the other is the same fascism we witnessed during the first half of the 20th century.
Dinesh D'Souza may not be a criminal but he represents the atrocities of Guernica and Franco's Spain as well as William F Buckley Sr for whom Spain under Franco was the political system America should aspire to. Dinesh D'souza represents the face of America that frightens so much of the World beyond the US borders with good reason.
The National Review may make pretense to intellectual discussion but hate mongering and vilification of the other is the same fascism we witnessed during the first half of the 20th century.
Dinesh D'Souza may not be a criminal but he represents the atrocities of Guernica and Franco's Spain as well as William F Buckley Sr for whom Spain under Franco was the political system America should aspire to. Dinesh D'souza represents the face of America that frightens so much of the World beyond the US borders with good reason.
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If only all convicted felons got this level of great press.
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Why do you give an uncritical forum to this guy? He lies, obfuscates and has a neverending flow of bile that simply plays to the same crowd that Bobby Jindal does. He got caught, he got convicted, he lost all his appeals and then he went to jail. That he is as unrepentant as he is should have had a bearing on the parole process, but he's prominent enough where it wouldn't. If he were as unrepentant as this and a 22 year old black kid, he'd max out his time. Pity he doesn't see the difference. He does have one thing clearly in common with his fellow inmates though - his unbounded narcissism.
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In the interest of fair and balanced reporting we must give equal consideration to both rational thinking and extreme, irrational and pathological thinking.
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"I couldn’t find one guy who said that he was framed. They all acknowledged their guilt but argued that they were the small fry. They believe that the real criminals are not only part of the system, they are running the system, and, in fact, that they are the system and that, at its highest level, America is a crime syndicate"
It's a hard pill to swallow for the conscientious folks but food for thought to have introspection about the justice system in US. Nevertheless NYT deserves the credit and due respect to publish such an article which could raise many eyebrows across US and few folks would find it quite outrageous and atrocious!!!
It's a hard pill to swallow for the conscientious folks but food for thought to have introspection about the justice system in US. Nevertheless NYT deserves the credit and due respect to publish such an article which could raise many eyebrows across US and few folks would find it quite outrageous and atrocious!!!
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Welcome to today's U.S. of A. - the Untied States of Amnesia. So how do you stay out of trouble these days? If you steal, steal enough so you can bribe the right people. If you borrow money and mess up, make sure to borrow so much that you've turned into the kind of financial black hole that forces your creditors to bail you out, so that you can eventually have a reality TV show of your very own and even run for president. But if you give money to people the authorities don't like (because they can't fully control them) or in any way embarrass the bigwigs or try to empower real victims of the system - the injured, the disabled, the unemployed through no fault of their own except for being U.S. citizens or green card holders - THEN expect trouble.
And you wonder why I've said that people might start to seriously wonder just who REALLY won that war that ended in 1945? Just ask George Orwell. He'd already figured it all out.
And you wonder why I've said that people might start to seriously wonder just who REALLY won that war that ended in 1945? Just ask George Orwell. He'd already figured it all out.
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I'd love to read a thoughtful, intelligent article from the NYT exposing Mr. D'Souza as the intellectually dishonest propagandist he is. Instead, we get this puff piece -- ten softball questions with no attempt to challenge his answers -- ugh!
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He was asked ten difficult questions. He gave illuminating answers. They were glib, lacked any hint of introspection and were very self-serving. I found that they confirmed my opinion of the man. Not anyone I'd like to work with or have work for me.
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No questions about his latest book and movie:
Hillary: The Leningrad Years.
Hillary: The Leningrad Years.
a psychopath?
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"Dinesh D’Souza Isn’t the Real Criminal" reads the headline. Something's missing like ", He Claims" or ", He Whines." The Times headline writers should stick closer to the truth: Convicted. Sentenced. Federal Prisoner 69851-054 D'Souza remains on supervised release, under scrutiny by federal probation officers, and subject to the jurisdiction of the US District Court.
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I love this. For any one else, journalistic protocol would have demanded "Dinesh D'Souza Allegedly Isn't the Real Criminal" I still agree with the court on that call.
Please Note: The Colonel is a professional op-ed writer for the Sunday "Guardian."
I personally like Dinesh, or better to say I like his unending efforts to keep his name in the news and be successful. A lot of the criticism of Dinesh is pure outright jealousy of his peers.
Dinesh used to be more truthful and moderate in his writing when he was younger and fresh out of college. But when his audience found he was saying less and less that was fresh and striking, he had to say things that were mock profound and hope they would resonate. Gradually, he stopped being a wonk people would pay to read or hear.
I give him credit he has lasted as long as he has in the occasional limelight without becoming totally irrelevant. Carry on Dinesh, wherever you are. - The Colonel
I personally like Dinesh, or better to say I like his unending efforts to keep his name in the news and be successful. A lot of the criticism of Dinesh is pure outright jealousy of his peers.
Dinesh used to be more truthful and moderate in his writing when he was younger and fresh out of college. But when his audience found he was saying less and less that was fresh and striking, he had to say things that were mock profound and hope they would resonate. Gradually, he stopped being a wonk people would pay to read or hear.
I give him credit he has lasted as long as he has in the occasional limelight without becoming totally irrelevant. Carry on Dinesh, wherever you are. - The Colonel
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He and Tail Gunner Rafael are at the top of the Agit-prop dishonesty years.
Then you must REALLY love Rush Limbaugh!
Dinesh D'Souza sounds like a psychopath. Everything he says is dishonest, but he has no self-awareness, no real morality, just self-promotion. Unfortunately he represents a large part of the population, Republican, conservative, religious, hypocritical, ignorant and dangerous.
True intellectuals - are there any on the right? - argue with facts, listen to what others say (on both sides), and know they don't know everything. The "intellectual" right has been hijacked by the likes of D'Douza who lack credibility, honesty, and don't live anywhere near the "reality-based" community.
D'Souza is a smug hypocrite with too much influence. Like Ann Coulter, he's smart but only in a glib, absurd way. They both lack decency, integrity, and what used to be called character.
True intellectuals - are there any on the right? - argue with facts, listen to what others say (on both sides), and know they don't know everything. The "intellectual" right has been hijacked by the likes of D'Douza who lack credibility, honesty, and don't live anywhere near the "reality-based" community.
D'Souza is a smug hypocrite with too much influence. Like Ann Coulter, he's smart but only in a glib, absurd way. They both lack decency, integrity, and what used to be called character.
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Oh, posh! Dinesh has plenty of character and decency. You don't know what you're talking about.
He's a sociopath. He wishes he had enough charisma to be a psychopath.
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I'll bet most of the haters here have not read any of his work. D'Souza's perspective on America and the world as a native of India is refreshing to say the least. His takedown of multiculturalism in "What's so Great About America" should be required reading on college campuses. Everything about it rings true, especially his challenge to the premise that all cultures are created equal.
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I have read his work. It provides a first-rate example of the fact that the phrase neo-conservative intellectual is an oxymoron. Straw men are the only men he knows how to take on.
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"Consider the Source" should be the subtext of every word out of this goofball's mouth, unless you just enjoy hypocrisy as an art-form.
Indulging/Funding this guy at election time with his latest load of libelous baloney being conventioneers required reading or viewing makes the GOP look like some outpost of snake handlers.
Indulging/Funding this guy at election time with his latest load of libelous baloney being conventioneers required reading or viewing makes the GOP look like some outpost of snake handlers.
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I have read some of his work. Attended his lecture at Luther College a couple years ago where the students ran rings around him in the Q&A. Sousa's "work" is intellectual tripe. His days with the conservative cult at Dartmouth still smells. Why is NYT paying attention to this felon without a clue?
This man is a criminal. He survives by fear mongering. He is a morally bankrupt mouthpiece for the extremists and a great opportunist. During the slavery, we had few Uncle Tom opportunists. This person is exactly the same taking advantage of his color and the the right wingers portray him as an intellectual. He is a phony and during his entire career he preached division among us. Right wingers use him to do their dirty work. He will do anything if the price is right. Alas Dinesh you can't change your color.
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Self-awareness is still not his strong suit, is it?
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D'Souza claims, "If you put my rap sheet alongside the Clinton rap sheet, I think that would be almost a prima facie case that they have gotten away with far more than I have."
A "rap sheet" is defined as a police record; more specifically, an arrest record. Neither Bill Clinton nor Hillary Clinton have rap sheets, because neither one has ever been arrested. D'Souza is being d'singenuous as well as being d'shonest.
A "rap sheet" is defined as a police record; more specifically, an arrest record. Neither Bill Clinton nor Hillary Clinton have rap sheets, because neither one has ever been arrested. D'Souza is being d'singenuous as well as being d'shonest.
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He is and always has been an artful liar. He has no self-reflection and nothing that 100 years ago would pass muster as character.
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Well played, D'avid!
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A prima facie liar and convict. Bill clinton was the former, he was in no way the latter. Dinesh has that singular honor.
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Dinesh D'Souza is another hypocrite who got hoisted on his own petard like all those moralizing, cheating Republicans who got caught. Like the other Republicans Dinesh will also use the handy "prodigal son" story to redeem himself. And Lucifer comes in so handy when you don't have to take responsibility for your sins and misdeeds.
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Too bad D'Souza didn't have to serve a longer term. He is simply no good.
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it seems, to D'Souza, that if you're poor and a criminal, you're a cretin (read his writing) but, if you're rich or him, you're persecuted. it doesn't help that he seems to enjoy his total lack of perspective and empathy for most anyone other than himself. perfectly emblematic of the GOP's problems.
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I want to be a match maker for Mr.D'Souza and propose Ann Coulter for him to be his life partner. This match would be made in heaven.
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He attended Dartmouth and was pals with the similar Laura Ingraham.
Or hell
Wasn't there something early on? Didn't work out.
His unintelligent rant against liberalism, his vindictive rage against the Clintons and his remorseless diatribe about his conviction represents what is wrong the conservatives.
To imagine that there are people willing to fund this pseudo-intellectual and even break laws doing so is disheartening.
hope NY times is doing this article to highlight the hypocrisy of people like him. Thank heavens they are in minority....and thank heavens they do not control the narrative of the majority
To imagine that there are people willing to fund this pseudo-intellectual and even break laws doing so is disheartening.
hope NY times is doing this article to highlight the hypocrisy of people like him. Thank heavens they are in minority....and thank heavens they do not control the narrative of the majority
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I have no idea who this man is but he seems to be clueless as to why Muslim terrorists are dead against Americans. They hate Americans not because of moral and cultural degradation there but mainly because of America's intrusion in many parts of Islamic countries that too far too long.
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I agree with you Sivaram that America's intrusion into the Middle East is the main reason why Muslims are angry with the US. One of Bin Laden's pet peeves was the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia which has most of the Islamic holy sites. He saw this as an offence against Islam.
Still, you are being unfair to Dinesh because the fact that moral values have collapsed in America (by some measures) is a reason why many find Islam with its clear message appealing. D'Souza is right about that point and it is your prejudice which is preventing you from seeing that he is right.
I still remember traveling by subway in pre Giuliani days. it was really scary. But if I saw a Muslim in the subway car, I felt safer because I knew he had moral standards and would not rob me. A religion with a clear moral message does have an appeal although the violent side of Islam is daunting.
BTW, as an aside, it is interesting that a lot of Indian Christians have Hindu first names. "D'Souza" is Portuguese, but "Dinesh" is a Hindu word for God.
Still, you are being unfair to Dinesh because the fact that moral values have collapsed in America (by some measures) is a reason why many find Islam with its clear message appealing. D'Souza is right about that point and it is your prejudice which is preventing you from seeing that he is right.
I still remember traveling by subway in pre Giuliani days. it was really scary. But if I saw a Muslim in the subway car, I felt safer because I knew he had moral standards and would not rob me. A religion with a clear moral message does have an appeal although the violent side of Islam is daunting.
BTW, as an aside, it is interesting that a lot of Indian Christians have Hindu first names. "D'Souza" is Portuguese, but "Dinesh" is a Hindu word for God.
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Dinesh D’Souza (reagan delusions), Bobby Jindal (creationism), Nikki Haley (embrace the confederate flag).....wow, I'm a fiercely welcoming person but how is it we seem to be choosing only from the Confederate-Jefferson Davis branch of the South Asian family?
The astonishing irony - they embrace a policy, a party who woould have not allowed them to come here in the first place.
And, nowhere, a shred of respect shown for the original peoples of this continent.
The astonishing irony - they embrace a policy, a party who woould have not allowed them to come here in the first place.
And, nowhere, a shred of respect shown for the original peoples of this continent.
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That's a great question. The others are scientists and engineers and so on - think of the type of person who gravitates towards politics. Einstein refused the Presidency of Israel...
His anti-Obama rhetoric is the only reason why some Americans are enchanted by this fraudulent character. So much empty space to fill in "all the news fit to print"!
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It would have been nice if Mr. D'Souza had pointed to one thing that the GOP has done in the past 25 years to make the lives of Americans better. If people like D'Souza and Donald Trump (currently polling pretty high with the GOP base) are the future of Conservatism, we Democrats should be in very good shape.
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welcome to America folks, where we ask you to follow what we preach and ignore what we do. we exist in a alternate reality where we are happy to conduct a "morally superior" discourse but we live polar opposite lifestyles ourselves. happy 4th to all btw
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Luckily for Mr. D'Souza, release from the American penal system is not contingent on repentance.
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Why does this fake intellectual get any air time at all? The lack of logic and misrepresentations in his arguments are mind blowing. The only circumstance under which news papers should write about him is if the purpose is to show people what not to be!
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The bit about "inviting the attacks" is a doozy. Better do what our enemies want us to do; otherwise we're inviting attack. Freedom isn't free -- even when Dinesh happens to agree with our enemies, we still have to fight for our freedoms sometimes.
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I'm sorry that Ana maria Cox missed the level of genuine "meanness" of this guy. He told lies for money - several times, including the phony university situation where he was paid and almost never visited work. He was elsewhere writing a book and filming a slanderous movie.
He is a low-level criminal made familiar by thousands of links on the internet. Thousands of links to a spurious movie. That's not necessarily a mark of distinction. He fed into the racist claims of right-wingers who were too cowardly to come out and say they hate the President because "he's, you know, he's you-know, different! And we want our country back".
D'Souza adopted racism to please and be accepted, like fetching a ball. It's unlikely that he has any sincerely-held beliefs of any kind.
He is a low-level criminal made familiar by thousands of links on the internet. Thousands of links to a spurious movie. That's not necessarily a mark of distinction. He fed into the racist claims of right-wingers who were too cowardly to come out and say they hate the President because "he's, you know, he's you-know, different! And we want our country back".
D'Souza adopted racism to please and be accepted, like fetching a ball. It's unlikely that he has any sincerely-held beliefs of any kind.
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Dinesh D'Souza is deplorable.
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Such open-mindedness is refreshing!
This man's record contains abundant examples that he is simply dishonest -- in his writing, in his professional life, in his personal life. He is a person without integrity. He is a liar, and for the most part it has served him well. He gets paid to lie. Which is fine, but readers need to keep that in mind. He is an entertaining person, but nothing he says has any high likelihood of being true. The answers to any question simply represent the answer that Dinesh D'Souza feels will serve his purposes.
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How is that in any way different from the Clintons?
What a waste of NYT space.
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As I read today's online NYT, I am insulted by a facetious, disrespectful portrait of Bernie Sanders's formative political career in which readers are offered no opportunity to respond to the travesty. Many of us have seen you stonewall the Sanders candidacy for weeks while you pay attention to pathetic also-runs like Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee, yet never allow the name of Bernie Sanders to sully a serious column on the presidential candidates. And to add insult to injury, you present "Talk" with the vile and dishonest D'Souza in the Magazine. Have you no editorial judgment, no sense of newsworthiness or balance?
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Amen.
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Ummm, apparently not?
Complete and total fraud. Embarrassment to the human race.
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He is nothing more than one of the many carnival barkers that populate the far right and pollute this country with their questionable writings, and rantings.
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And, a great anti-immigration argument personified.
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Judge Berman got it right at D'Souza's sentencing when he said, “I’m not sure, Mr. D’Souza, that you get it" and that this convicted criminal "continues to deflect and minimize the significance of the crime and of his behavior.”
Judge Berman said D’Souza’s public pronouncements were “totally thoughtless and not self-reflective and not self aware.”
From this interview, it does not appear that the philandering "Distort Denewsa" gained any wisdom, compassion or insight during his "nights" at the "confinement center." Please spare us any more of his self-serving half-truths. He is making a lot of money off this kind of "publicity."
Judge Berman said D’Souza’s public pronouncements were “totally thoughtless and not self-reflective and not self aware.”
From this interview, it does not appear that the philandering "Distort Denewsa" gained any wisdom, compassion or insight during his "nights" at the "confinement center." Please spare us any more of his self-serving half-truths. He is making a lot of money off this kind of "publicity."
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Have you ever read the horrors this fellow writes? Egging Americans on toward war in Iraq because it was a certainty that if we applied all our will to it we would win? I really don't care whether he is a criminal or not; he's evil and it didn't take a prosecution of any kind to show that, either more or less clearly. A moral person would "get it" right away, from the first word.
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There is a respectable body of opinion that holds American withdrawal from Iraq set the scene for the rise of ISIS.
Ever hear of a vacuum of power?
Ever hear of a vacuum of power?
D’Souza has learned nothing and remains the same smug, patronizing, arrogant little man that he has always been. His disingenuous mantra echoes the cacophonous litany of conservatives everywhere, namely “Do what I say, not what I do because I am so much smarter than you.” Depending upon one’s point of view, the NYT has either erred in providing a forum for an intellectually bankrupt poseur, or in allowing us some insight into the soul of how the conservative establishment thinks.
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In "The Roots of Obama’s Rage," immigrant D’Souza contends that Obama is channeling his absentee Kenyan father in Mau-Mauing American exceptionalism. “I know a great deal about anticolonialism, because I am a native of Mumbai, India,” D’Souza declares. Following the strand of D’Souza’s legacy DNA, reveals that his parents are Roman Catholic Brahmins from the small west coast state of Goa, which was colonized by the Portuguese. Many Goan Christians were distressed when their state was decolonized and annexed by India in 1961, the year D’Souza was born. Though converted three centuries earlier, Catholic Brahmins retained the Hindu caste system that discriminates against so-called “untouchables” even if they too were Catholic converts. Indian bishops were rebuked by Pope John Paul II for these practices on his visit to Goa in 2003. By D’Souza standards, Dinesh extends a family tradition of currying favor with the ruling class by wielding his poison pen for the likes of pampered Steve Forbes. Given his latest spin on his criminal and immoral behavior, he should best be identified as Denial S'Souza.
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This does not make what you say ok.
NYT seem a little obsessed with this clown. First it was Stanley Fish who gave his movie, just before the 2012 elections, "Obama's Rage" a "good" review, just because he happened to be his friend. Mercifully Fish has departed from NYT, but now we have another madame who is keenly interested in this fool. If you look at DD's past articles and read them in context and prediction, it seems like a big joke. That anyone takes this guy seriously defeats all logical thought. Take a cold shower Ms Cox, it may calm you mind a bit.
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What did we Indian Americans ever do to deserve Dinesh D'Souza and Bobby Jindal, the two most cringeworthy individuals in my ken? I don't know...
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Obviously, you don't know enough about Trikki Nikki Haley or you would feel the same way about her.
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It is a shame and disgrace that Dinesh, Bobby and Nicky act and think the same. During the slavery, we had few Uncle Tom opportunists. The trio do exactly the same. The manipulative extremist right wingers take advantage of their color and use them to do the dirty work. Oh yes, they would do anything if the price is right. Alas, the trio cannot change their color!
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As a woman, I feel the same way about Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann.
Strong belief in traditional marriage yet adultery and divorce.
LOL. Who is this guy and what channel is his comedy show on?
LOL. Who is this guy and what channel is his comedy show on?
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Having read all the comments, I am compelled to ask one question. Does anyone like this man?
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..."anthropologist...? Considering the photo and all how about schlub?
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Having listened to D'Souza at length in many debates on various theological subjects with the likes of Christopher Hitchens, I can whole heartedly support any other person who understands, like I do, that this man is a profound, reflexive, liar.
That we have to see him rehabbed for popular consumption here is a tragedy. There has to be back story to this smiling con man floating through a puff piece; does he owe product to entities related to the NYT?
P.S. corrections departments classify & segregate their charges, Dinesh was therefore certainly not in a "confinement center" with "rapists and murderers." If there is a lie that will add to his cache, expect it out of him, as we see here, early in the interview.
That we have to see him rehabbed for popular consumption here is a tragedy. There has to be back story to this smiling con man floating through a puff piece; does he owe product to entities related to the NYT?
P.S. corrections departments classify & segregate their charges, Dinesh was therefore certainly not in a "confinement center" with "rapists and murderers." If there is a lie that will add to his cache, expect it out of him, as we see here, early in the interview.
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Way to end on the easiest, most simple-minded possible joke, given the context. Not very impressive.
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As a naturalized citizen guilty of commiting a felony isn't Dinesh D'Souza eligible to be deported? If so why hasn't he been? We are eager to deport Mexicans for making a right turn without signaling so why do we keep in the country a felon convicted of trying to subvert democratic politics?
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India will definitely not want him back. May be Dinesh can try Uruguay.
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once you give someone citizenship , that person is ours. its the green card guys that get thrown out. most nations around the world let you keep just one citizenship
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Naturalized citizens are not deported for crimes committed after they become citizens. They can be deported only for fraud associated with the naturalization process. So if they lied about their prior criminal behavior or failed to disclose it during the naturalization process, they can be stripped of their citizenship and sent home.
Committing campaign finance violations is not a deportable offense. For Democrats, it doesn't even constitute a prosecutable offense, or Al Gore would be in jail for soliciting and receiving campaign contributions from the Chinese.
Committing campaign finance violations is not a deportable offense. For Democrats, it doesn't even constitute a prosecutable offense, or Al Gore would be in jail for soliciting and receiving campaign contributions from the Chinese.
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Like Linda Smith, the one-term Republican Congresswoman from Washington State who claimed that she began "hating government" at the age of 14 when she discovered that child labor laws would not let her get a job to earn money for a cheerleading uniform, Dinesh D'Souza is what passes for a deep thinker on the far right.
His conversion to far right politics is only slightly less shallow than Linda Smith's. Reportedly, he was a freshman at Dartmouth when he accidentally wandered into a gay social function. Horrified, he went around asking if there were any organizations on campus that opposed this "depravity." Someone directed him to the Dartmouth Review, and that gang of snide, reactionary fantasists recognized him as one of their own. With his talent for imitating an intellectual, his future career was assured.
His conversion to far right politics is only slightly less shallow than Linda Smith's. Reportedly, he was a freshman at Dartmouth when he accidentally wandered into a gay social function. Horrified, he went around asking if there were any organizations on campus that opposed this "depravity." Someone directed him to the Dartmouth Review, and that gang of snide, reactionary fantasists recognized him as one of their own. With his talent for imitating an intellectual, his future career was assured.
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All right, now we know he REALLY is as self-delusional, arrogant, bombastic and hypocritical as we always thought he was. But, oh, he now knows how difficult it is to make marriages (!) work! Give this guy a clown costume!
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Why give Dinesh D'Souza, a kind of better dressed Anne Coulter, and way more smug, the space? Seems as if you are setting him up for an anchor position at Fox. Stop doing this kind of thing. Please.
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I loved every bit of it - it was like swatting a wounded fly and watch it squirm.
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It will not be long before you see him and Ann Coulter together on Fox News. What a ridiculous power couple. No wonder the Republicans are losing all their support from reasonable people..
Love this! Whenever Ditzy D'Souza is caught with his pants down (literally and figuratively) he always responds with: "I haven't done anything wrong". Ha! in 2012, Mr. "Big Family Values" while still married, took "his 29-year-old fiancé, Denise Odie Joseph II, who was also still married, to a hotel for a tryst, and spent the night together. The delicious part is that at the time they were attending a conference on Christian Values called Truth for a New Generation. Ironic when D’Souza cares so little about the truth, because on top of committing adultery at an event about Christian Values, D’Souza subsequently lied about the tryst." Can't we give an annual award to the biggest Hypocrite in America for that year??? Mr. Ditzy D'Souza: you are awarded this prize for MANY years, and probably for many more to come.
D’Souza asked Rick Scarborough back in 2012, “Why is Obama on the social issues — and I’m thinking here of abortion, I’m thinking here of gay marriage — why is Obama so aggressive in attacking the traditional values agenda?”
D’Souza asked Rick Scarborough back in 2012, “Why is Obama on the social issues — and I’m thinking here of abortion, I’m thinking here of gay marriage — why is Obama so aggressive in attacking the traditional values agenda?”
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Another episode for the "you can't make this up" category.
It's funny, how Mr. D'Souza blithely tosses in a reference to the "Clinton rap sheet." I don't recall either President Clinton or his wife having spent any time in a court room being sentenced for a crime they did not commit. More evidence of D'Souza's fevered imagination and/or delusion. Obama is a socialist, health care is slavery, the list goes on. Can't this little drip just fade away, and admit that HE is the only convicted criminal under discussion? Please.
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That someone who has broken the law has not been tried and convicted is not evidence that they did not commit an offense. And Mr. Clinton was disbarred for perjury, although he was not criminally tried or prosecuted.
In contrast, Scooter Libby was tried and convicted of lying to federal officials. Not because he was guilty of outing Valerie Plame, but because the prosecutor coerced or tricked another witness into giving false testimony about the timeline of conversations that was used to "prove" that Libby has lied.
Hillary Clinton was obligated to turn over her official communications to the State Department. She declined to provide them with actual emails, which included metadata, but rather had flunkies print them out, sanitize them and delete them. She has now been caught, as copies from other sources have proven that her review failed to result in the State Department receiving all of her official communications. She also claims to have destroyed the electronic records. Withholding official documents and destroying records under subpoena are both criminal offenses. If the Justice or State departments had any integrity, she would be under indictment.
Expect to hear many more comments about the illegal behaviors of the Clintons, of which the two instances are the tip of the iceberg. That the federal justice system is corrupt is no protection as long as the people retain the right to free speech.
In contrast, Scooter Libby was tried and convicted of lying to federal officials. Not because he was guilty of outing Valerie Plame, but because the prosecutor coerced or tricked another witness into giving false testimony about the timeline of conversations that was used to "prove" that Libby has lied.
Hillary Clinton was obligated to turn over her official communications to the State Department. She declined to provide them with actual emails, which included metadata, but rather had flunkies print them out, sanitize them and delete them. She has now been caught, as copies from other sources have proven that her review failed to result in the State Department receiving all of her official communications. She also claims to have destroyed the electronic records. Withholding official documents and destroying records under subpoena are both criminal offenses. If the Justice or State departments had any integrity, she would be under indictment.
Expect to hear many more comments about the illegal behaviors of the Clintons, of which the two instances are the tip of the iceberg. That the federal justice system is corrupt is no protection as long as the people retain the right to free speech.
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Isn't this the guy who wrote a whole book about he roots of Obama's "rage" and traced it somehow to the supposed views of Obama's father, who Obama hardly knew?
I don't understand how anyone can take him seriously.
I don't understand how anyone can take him seriously.
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Have you read "Dreams from My Father"? That is clear evidence that although Obama barely knew his father, he was significantly influenced by what he believed his father believed. Whether or not Obama's father would agree, Obama is attempting to rectify his perceived view that US is guilty of imperialist colonialism.
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I am not at all convinced anyone does, even his paymasters on the things go better with Koch hard right. he may be the ONLY person who takes himself seriously, putting him in rare company with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and the kid from "mikey bit my finger".
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Yes....I am very, very, very disappointed that the NYT has given this guy a VOICE.
So much so that it makes me want to cancel my subscription.
He is one of these non-White conservatives (one can find many on Fox) who decide they have to spew worse evil towards people who are NOT Republicans, just so that they can be called "authentic" by their fellow "conservatives".
Dispiriting indeed.
So much so that it makes me want to cancel my subscription.
He is one of these non-White conservatives (one can find many on Fox) who decide they have to spew worse evil towards people who are NOT Republicans, just so that they can be called "authentic" by their fellow "conservatives".
Dispiriting indeed.
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The only common link (and I cringe when I say it) between me and Mr. D'Souza is that we're both from India (and please don't hold it against me for sharing the same ethnicity). I'm amused though that this self-absorbed, pompous bloviator now opines on Milton's Paradise Lost. I understand you can read and find insights from great authors you can relate to your own life and times, but seriously Sam Alinsky and Satan? Was he smoking reef or engaged in forbidden carnal pleasures (with ample libations to keep company) that his small mind found a similarity between Lucifer and Sam? Blame Milton if you'll for such an absorbing embodiment of Evil, but not without dignity and magnificence (some critics have said Milton was of "the Devil's Party without knowing it"), but please Mr. D'Souza don't insult Milton's poetic genius with this uneducated illiterate analogy. I shudder to think how the blind poet must be writhing in agony in his grave.
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Don't worry, Mr. Dasgupta; he is way too American, God help us, for us to blame India. I cringe at his claim, and the claim of all his right-wing chums, to be Christian. His supposed values, even if he took them at all seriously, are certainly not those of Jesus. Not for me to judge, but I fear that he and all his ilk will hear the Savior say, 'Depart from me; I never knew you.'
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Such a bizarre fellow ... .
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Dinesh D'Souza - smug, sanctimonious hypocrite!!
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I remember when this clown proclaimed the end of racism - in 1992.
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He is a Professional Idiot, making a comfortable living peddling lies and intellectual dishonesty to people who don't, or don't want to, know better.
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I didn't know that was a job title.
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So...I guess on some level I'm glad that the NYT published this interview. I don't want it to turn into a Fox News, only telling me what I want to hear. Keep doing more of this kind of thing.
Doesn't make it any easier to read, though. What is particularly annoying is that he sounds so reasonable here, unlike his usual dogmatic, ranting self.
Doesn't make it any easier to read, though. What is particularly annoying is that he sounds so reasonable here, unlike his usual dogmatic, ranting self.
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reality will continue clubbing this guy in the head, but no meaningful self-reflection will follow. he gets too much attention and his bread gets too well-buttered for him to abandon his schtick at this point.
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Ana Maria Cox, Did he really use the word natives?
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Ana Maria Cox did - don't distort the interview!
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No, he used the word, and Ana Maria Cox followed up. Don't distort the printed word right in front of you.
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D'Souza seems to bend over backwards to fabricate distance between his arrogant self and the people with whom he shares much more than a physical environment. His ludicrous theories about the roots of "Obama's anti-colonialism" his tenuous grasp of reality and facts.
Methinks the man doth project too much.
Methinks the man doth project too much.
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Why is the New York Times giving this disgraced grifter a forum to repeat his unsupported claims? Who cares what he has to say? He is a person whose maximum importance was reached several years ago as a reliably loony right wing talking head on various TV shows — that is, before this paragon of Christian virtue cheated on his wife and then went to jail on campaign finance fraud charges.
All you really need to know about Mr. D'Souza is that he's a prop — in the employ of the hard right religious lobby, as valuable for his ethnic background as his professed Christianity, who used to receive a jaw dropping $1M for being president of a so-called "Christian college" with about 300 students, its "campus" located in a suite of offices near Wall Street. Please! Where's Mike Wallace and his camera crew when you need him?
All you really need to know about Mr. D'Souza is that he's a prop — in the employ of the hard right religious lobby, as valuable for his ethnic background as his professed Christianity, who used to receive a jaw dropping $1M for being president of a so-called "Christian college" with about 300 students, its "campus" located in a suite of offices near Wall Street. Please! Where's Mike Wallace and his camera crew when you need him?
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But of course you care about what Bill Clinton has to say - a proven perjurer who underwent the disgrace of actually being disbarred.
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There is no comparison between Clinton and DD'S in terms of power, privilege, experience, and authority, so why even bother bringing it up? Also, all Presidents lie. Do you really need a litany of what your favorite recent Republican Presidents (GWBush, Reagan, GHWBush, Nixon, et alia) lied about while in office? Thousands died; the Constitution was bent; astrologers were hired; ad nauseum.
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Quite right! I do care what President Clinton has to say. He was President of the United States and he presided over a period of economic growth and stability as well as 8 years of peace, with the exception of assisting NATO in a 3-week long bombing campaign in Kosovo and 1 day of air strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan.
D'Souza, on the other hand, is a deeply undistinguished con man with a third rate intellect who exists on handouts from religious nuts who want to enforce a kind of Christian Sharia in the US and whose biggest resume item was the ludicrously well compensated presidency of 300-student King's College. Obviously he's blown that gig, but then again scum rises so I suppose he'll join whatever speakers' bureau still books Ted Haggard, Christine O'Donnell, and Anita Bryant.
And by the way, Mr. Clinton was not disbarred, His law license was suspended for five years in Arkansas after which it was reinstated, and he resigned his appointment to the bar of the US Supreme Court.
D'Souza, on the other hand, is a deeply undistinguished con man with a third rate intellect who exists on handouts from religious nuts who want to enforce a kind of Christian Sharia in the US and whose biggest resume item was the ludicrously well compensated presidency of 300-student King's College. Obviously he's blown that gig, but then again scum rises so I suppose he'll join whatever speakers' bureau still books Ted Haggard, Christine O'Donnell, and Anita Bryant.
And by the way, Mr. Clinton was not disbarred, His law license was suspended for five years in Arkansas after which it was reinstated, and he resigned his appointment to the bar of the US Supreme Court.
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Thanks for giving a convict some spewing space in the Times. Especially for one so drenched in character assassination and scorched earth political attacks. Still, self awareness is blissfully absent as he continues with his ad hominem rants. As an added bonus, we get the dreaded moral relativism (it's not just for liberals anymore!) of his deeds versus others. From a conservative who is now a felon, the irony is rich.
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Kudos to the interviewer for the revealing/incisive questions posed. Dinesh is a poseur who likes touting himself as an intellectual and moralist (the conservative kind) but does not adhere to the principles he espouses and is comfortable sloughing off his own foibles as irrelevant. A right wing hypocrite cad and felon he is.
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You mean the kind of revealing/insightful questions that are only asked of conservatives?
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Saul Alinsky's organizing methods have changed the world for the better, empowering communities to build their own futures.
Mr. D'Souza may not be a real "criminal," but he is definitely an idiot.
Mr. D'Souza may not be a real "criminal," but he is definitely an idiot.
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D'Souza is a kind of intellectual huckster all to common today. Like his peers he has found an ill informed audience. By pandering to his groups fears and hate he has made an enormous amount of money and become famous. People of his ilk on both the left and right have all but silenced real discourse.
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The left invites and listens to discourse. The right stifles, lies, embellishes and silences discourse. I don't know what world you live in but in the real world the right is trying to silence, not the left.
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Change "on both left and right" to "on the right" and your post will be 100% accurate.
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This true. Not to say that it is the only or even the main reason for Muslim anger. Surely Israel takes first place, and the intrusion of US troops in so many Arab countries is not far behind.
But does anyone seriously believe that most Muslims do NOT think the West is morally decadent? Of course, Islam has its own faults but the West has one or two as well. Why is ISIS succeeding at recruiting in the West? Think before you sling another gob of mud at D'Souza.