What Do You Think of Dinesh D'Souza?

[Dirty Socialist]

I was on a facebook message board about Dinesh. His sycophants seem to think he is great and speaks the truth. I tried to discuss some points, but his supporters were jumping all over me.
Especially troubling is how conservative lackeys seem to believe hyperbola as absolute truth. If it is extreme, it's extremely truthful to them.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Isn't he going to jail for voter fraud or somesuch?

Do his followers worship other jailbirds too?

[mythology]

14. He made straw donations to conservative candidates

But yes, he's heading to prison for probably somewhere between 10 and 16 months.

[JI7]

2. he looks like mitch mcconnell , should be in prison, scumbag, liar

whore etc.

[brush]

3. It's not that well known but he's a right wing awhole who . . .

has even, when in college, outed a gay student.

His sycophants, and there are many on the left, need to know who he really is.

And he was found guilty and is about to go to jail for some sort of corruption.

[dsc]

5. not just a gay student

lots of gay students.

[brush]

7. Thanks for the update . . . he's a real awhole. nt

[dsc]

4. I will give him this, he runs a great con job

This is a man who quite literally made his name crusading for moral (especially sexually moral) values as a college student. He has since been busted having an affair while chancellor of an evangelical Christian college and been convicted of breaking the law and lying about having broken the law but he still has people who consider him something other than the rank hypocrite he is.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. quite horrendous. read it and weep. or laugh. or cringe. or puke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D%27Souza

[minivan2]

8. Saw him on Bill Maher

The first sentence he said was that Obama raised the defficit, which we all know is utter bullshit. Every other sentence he said were lies as well.

[SomethingFishy]

9. Well, I saw him on Bill Mahr, and Bill repeatedly mentioned that Dinesh

might be in Jail in a few months. D'Souza claimed he was "mounting a vigorous defense. One week later the man pled guilty.

Ask his sycophants if D'Souza was a Democrat, would they still think he was "great and speaks the truth". Fact is the man is a known and provable liar. His followers are morons.

[Tom Ripley]

10. He's a d'ouchebag

[calimary]

18. DUzy!!!!!

That's pretty damn funny! And accurate. And well-deserved.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. I was going to say a D'asshole

but yours is better.

[wyldwolf]

11. I try not to

[Initech]

12. The phrase "useful idiot" comes to mind.

Republicans love him because he spreads the propaganda well, but he uses an insane amount of hyperbole andb exaggeration to prove his point.

[eridani]

25. And "shitstain" n/t

[Spirochete]

13. I don't think of him often

when I do, I just hope he pulls a double-digit prison sentence.

[DrDan]

15. once a paramour of ann coulter . . . 'nuff said

[bigwillq]

16. No idea.

No idea who this person is.
Maybe I should be more informed, or maybe I am too busy busting my ass working to just get by.
Based on the OP, I think I am better off for not knowing who this person is.

[arcane1]

17. He's a dipshit n/t

[UTUSN]

19. You're asking *US* ---- *HERE*---- ?!1 Just wondering why. n/t

[Journeyman]

20. As little as possible. . .

[WinkyDink]

21. RW nutcase.

[Anansi1171]

22. Here's his theory of 9/11...

"The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11 ... the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the non-profit sector and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world."

Considering its Dinesh, we should question whether or not he mistakenly forgot to include black people as responsible for causing 9/11 or whether he includes blacks implicitly in the Cultural Left.

ETA...a nice warm bed with his dream date Ann Coulter awaits him in Hell!

[hunter]

23. I figured he must be a TV talking head, because I couldn't place the name.

I don't watch television.

I looked at the wikipedia page.

He's disgusting.

[hatrack]

24. 10 lbs of shit in a 5 lb bag - oh, but the bag has flags on the outside . ..

Lots and lots of little, terrified, conspiratorial flags.

[Kalidurga]

26. It's weird his last name isn't Phelps...

All he is missing is a picket sign.

[Historic NY]

27. Told you there were aliens in the Raygun White House...

his notion of America is something he crafted in his own mind.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

28. He's piece of shit who's going to jail

Fuck him.

[PoutrageFatigue]

29. I don't.

He's a convicted felon who made a movie full of bullshit about President Obama. ..

[RadiationTherapy]

30. A garbage debater who abuses every logical fallacy in the book to promote his agenda.

He was unceremoniously exposed over and over by Hitchens.

[longship]

33. I just have to burn some of my limited bandwidth on this.

I absolutely love Christopher Hitchens, one of the nicest people in the new atheist movement. He truly was gracious and polite, but he did not suffer fools kindly.

My favorite example of that is what he said on Jerry Falwell's death. "If they had given him an enema, he could have been buried in a matchbox."

He delivers the money line on Hannity:
And Colmes:

His book, god is not Great has got to be the best religion polemic of all time, eclipsing even Thomas Paine (of whom Hitchens wrote a biography!). During his book tour he insisted on going through the US Bible Belt, where he debated theists at nearly every stop. Many of these are available on line. What is a bit astounding is that these debates were often to packed houses and that the theist would often ask Hitchens to repeat the debate in order to bring it to more people. He accommodated them at more than one occasion.

My favorite interview with Hitchens is on the Skeptics Guide to the Universe where he breaks into baudy limericks, one of his notable abilities. Unfortunately, it is only available on the SGU uncut episodes, but well worth the couple of bucks to download it.

Hitchens will be sadly missed. He was one of a kind.

[rusty fender]

31. He is a total POS

He also said that terrorists hate the U.S. because we are tolerant of homosexuality. Yes, that POS said that on Thom Hartmann's radio show.

[Skittles]

32. repuke whore

[Dirty Socialist]

41. I Couldn't Believe His Sycophants

Strident to the core. Cruel and nasty. Kind of like the cons on Discussionist. And they still believe everything he says, even when he's going to jail. D'Souza sycophants are worse than trolls, IMO.
Unlike trolls, D'Souza followers believe every word they say.

[ismnotwasm]

34. He's an opportunistic asshole.

Ick

[Recursion]

36. I'm ashamed to say he's from Mumbai

At least he's not very popular here...

[JHB]

37. An early adopter of Wingnut Welfare

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Got started on the Dartmouth Review (one of the college-newspaper farm teams brought to you by the National Review), and quickly built a nest for himself within the packed-dung walls of the conservative bullshit machine.

Most of the time, however, I have a more Randian view of him: I don't think of him at all.

[jmowreader]

38. I think he'll look pretty good in a prison uniform

[longship]

39. Dinesh is going to go to jail.

Let that be his legacy.

[Gothmog]

40. D'Sousa is an idiot and a bad writer

[LWolf]

42. I don't know.

I've never heard of him.

[Arkana]

43. He's a lying sack of paranoid filth

in the mold of Alex Jones.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

44. ..........

[Orrex]

45. For a while, he was NPR's go-to-guy for "sensible" Rightwing propaganda

Less so, now that he's jail-bound, but he was a frequent flyer not long ago.