A friend of mine saw the anti-Obama propaganda film "2016: Obama's America" and wrote me the following: "At the end of the movie...the 800 or so attendees [gave the film] a 10 minute standing ovation."
I looked up Dinesh d'Souza on the Wikipedia and found this:
At the conclusion of a September, 2010, commentary article in Forbes about President Barack Obama titled "How Obama Thinks", D'Souza wrote: "...[O]ur President is trapped in his father's time machine. Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of hisanticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son makes it happen, but he candidly admits he is only living out his father's dream. The invisible father provides the inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is governed by a ghost."
[Not only did progressive publications including Media Matters for America and the Columbia Journalism Review dispute d'Souza's claims regarding Barack Obama, but] "Conservative publications also criticized D'Souza's theory. Daniel Larison of The American Conservative states, "Dinesh D’Souza has authored what may possibly be the most ridiculous piece of Obama analysis yet written. ... All in all, D’Souza’s article reads like a bad conspiracy theory." Andrew Ferguson of The Weekly Standard writes, "D’Souza always sees absence of evidence as evidence of something or other. ... There is, indeed, a name for the beliefs that motivate President Obama, but it’s not anticolonialism; it’s not even socialism. It’s liberalism! Source: Dinesh d'Souza
Here's the response I sent to my friend:
Your newest hero, Dinesh d'Souza, appears to be is a sophist that even conservatives dismiss as a ridiculous conspiracy theorist. My own analysis of de Souza is that he's a vicious, mendacious fascist in the pure tradition of Hitler--and I choose my words carefully. Both Hitler and d'Souza were crackpots, yet they both attracted the cheering masses of adoring True Believers who allowed themselves to be brainwashed by a litany of lies and fantastical conspiracy theories. [Hitler: blame the Jews; d'Souza: blame the "philandering, inebriated Luo tribesman."]
All that was mising from the showing of the film was for the 800 attendes to chant a vigorious Orwellian "Two Minute Hate" to accompany their "standing ovation."
Go back and reread George Orwell [1984] and Eric Hoffer [The True Believer]: Dinesh d'Souza is between the lines of every page.
Jagor
