Dinesh D'Souza is a liar and idiot.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/2016-obamas-america-film-review-358302
There are no startling or profound insights in this introductory section. A psychiatrist opines that an absentee father often has a significant influence on his son. (Gee, you really think so?) Still, there are vivid scenes shot in Indonesia and Kenya, including a brief, less-than-revelatory interview with Obama’s half-brother George. The details presented about Obama’s father and grandfather are fascinating, though it would be hard to make a case that men whom the President barely knew shaped his political philosophy in any comprehensive way.
The film really goes off the rails in the last half hour, when it veers from biographical data to speculation on how Barack Obama Sr.’s anti-colonialist sentiments turned his son into a radical who aims to dismantle America’s traditional values. To prove his tendentious point, D’Souza trots out a familiar cast of characters. Frank Marshall Davis, a friend of Obama’s grandfather in Hawaii, was indeed a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, though the film fails to mention that when Davis joined the Party in the 1940s, such membership was perfectly legal. We hear about “Obama’s Chicago pal” Bill Ayers, though D’Souza admits that Obama met Ayers in 1995, 25 years after Ayers’ involvement with the Weather Underground. D’Souza also points out that Obama took a class at Columbia taught by Edward Said, the renowned pro-Palestinian scholar. Do any of these marginal associations prove that Obama aims to introduce socialism to America and undermine the state of Israel?
Other bits of “evidence” are just as obviously cherry-picked. The filmmakers show Obama fumbling when trying to explain his healthcare bill at a rally, but they mute the sound of the hecklers who clearly contributed to the President’s disorientation. D’Souza implies that Obama is sympathetic to radical jihadists while ignoring the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/14/fox-hypes-dinesh-dsouzas-feature-length-movie-p/189333
Fox Hypes Dinesh D'Souza's Feature-Length Movie Pushing Myths About Obama
BLOG ››› AUGUST 14, 2012 10:19 AM EDT ››› ADAM SHAH
Conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza appeared on Fox & Friends to hype his latest book and companion feature-length movie spreading myths about President Obama. During his appearance, D'Souza pushed the falsehoods that Obama spent a decade as a "close buddy" of Bill Ayers and that Obama went on an international "apology tour" for America.
It's not surprising that D'Souza would be pushing falsehoods about Obama. After all, D'Souza explained during his Fox appearance that the thesis of his new book and movie is that Obama has some sort of "anti-colonial" world view, handed down to him by his father and mentors, that acts as the motivation behind his actions and policies as president. It is just another form of birtherism, albeit a more highbrow variety of the ongoing conservative conspiracy theory.
Moreover, D'Souza's anti-colonial theory rest on a long series of falsehoods about Obama such as the claims that "Obama launched" the TARP program, that Obama started going by his given name Barack to adopt his father's "African identity," and that Obama supported the release of a Lockerbie bomber from Scottish prison.
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