Florida Lawmaker Trying To Force Students To Watch Conservative Campaign Fraud Felon's Film

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Florida state Senator Alan Hays is trying to force every student in the Sunshine State to sit and watch a 105 minute right wing propaganda film that is currently in theaters. The filmmaker, Dinesh D'Souza, recently admitted to campaign finance fraud -- a felony -- and is awaiting sentencing, which could land him in prison for up to 16 months.

The film, "America: Imagine A World Without Her," is a conservative Tea Party attempt to erase from history five of America's greatest wrongs. The image, above, is a screenshot from the trailer, which "erases" America's icons, like the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore, to get the reader to think what the world would be like without the United States.

The Hollywood Reporter writes that the "plan is sure to draw fire from liberals not only because D’Souza is a prominent conservative but because he is also behind the movie, 2016: Obama’s America, which is a profoundly negative take on Democratic U.S. president Barack Obama."

“I saw the movie and walked out of the theater and said, ‘Wow, our students need to see this.’ And it’s my plan to show it to my colleagues in the legislature, too, before they’re asked to vote on the bill,” Hays said.

The Hollywood Reports adds that "the bill could pass, given that Republicans hold a substantial majority in Florida’s Senate and House of Representatives, and Gov. Rick Scott is also a Republican."

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I'm thinking this wouldn't have the effect they are hoping for...

[CurtEastPoint]

1. And yet when the President of the US wanted to address students (welcome back to school)

all hell broke loose and parents were going to pull kids out, blah blah blah.

Disgusting fuckers.

Lookit this old tired piece of shit scared ignorant redneck:

[JHB]

2. He's not exactly the brightest bulb in the lighting department, is he?

“I saw the movie and walked out of the theater and said, ‘Wow, our students need to see this.’ And it’s my plan to show it to my colleagues in the legislature, too, before they’re asked to vote on the bill,” Hays said.

Here's another view, from Salon:

If you’re reading a review of Dinesh D’Souza’s “America: Imagine the World Without Her,” the film isn’t for you. “America” isn’t a film to be considered; it is not even a persuasion piece. The argumentation, such as it is, is far too thin and weary to even properly earn the label of propaganda, and the entire project drips with a vaguely self-aware déjà vu. The audience “America” is intended for has seen all of its tricks before, in so many Bill O’Reilly “history” books and weekend Civil War reenactments, where good ol’ boys swinging Stars ‘n’ Bars roleplay a win Dixie couldn’t quite pull out in real life. It’s a movie designed to confirm the things a person already believes, with a little Rand Paul stumping thrown in for good measure – an all-time low of infotainment associations even for a dude named “Rand.”

“America” has been billed as a movie about what the world would be like without the United States of America, sort of like 2004’s “A Day Without a Mexican” in reverse. And at the top of the film, as D’Souza’s weepy narration tracks over the computer-generated dissolution of a number of American monuments, it does seem to flirt with the idea of being such a film. But it’s not. Instead, a sharp right turn takes D’Souza’s narrative to Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” from which he draws five theses he claims are insidiously peddled by Alinsky-inspired pinkos. Why would such pinkos peddle such theses? D’Souza argues that redistributive economic policies are only ever styles of reparations, and rely upon shame narratives to build up political support; to combat the specter of evils like welfare and universal healthcare, therefore, D’Souza must defeat the five-point myth of American suckdom.

The lies D’Souza must disabuse us of, in order: First, that the genocide of Native Americans happened in relation to the conquest of their land; second, that African slave labor was exploited to build the American economy; third, that Mexican territories were conquered to form the U.S. Southwest; fourth, that U.S. wars abroad have involved imperial motives; fifth, that capitalism is bad. He goes to the trouble of listing these myths in text on what appears to be a massive parchment-esqe Powerpoint slide, and the structure of the film is a methodical treatment of each in turn.
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The film sputters out to some stock shots of blonde kids playing at Fourth of July parades interspersed with aerial shots of purple mountains majesty and amber waves of grain, all set to some Mumford & Sons. What did I just see, one wonders, and maybe the confusion is intentional, like a magician’s wild gesticulation to conceal sleight of hand. Because at the end of the day “America” isn’t really about history or narratives, it’s about arguing that any change in economic policy favoring the poor can only be traced back to people hating the United States of America. Keep your eye on the ball, and that’s what D’Souza is batting at.

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/22/dinesh_dsouzas_laughable_embarrassment_a_review_of_america_imagine_the_world_without_her/
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