Scholar behind anti-Obama film gets probation

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A conservative scholar behind a high-grossing film condemning President Barack Obama has been sentenced to five years of probation in his campaign finance case.

Dinesh D'Souza (dih-NEESH' duh-SOO'-zuh), of San Diego, also was fined $30,000 on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. He'll be required to live for eight months at a confinement center in San Diego and was ordered to do community service.

He pleaded guilty in May to charges he arranged for straw donors to contribute to New York Republican Wendy Long's failed U.S. Senate bid.

D'Souza was a policy analyst under President Ronald Reagan and is a prolific author known most recently for works critical of Obama. He made the 2012 the documentary "2016: Obama's America."


Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/Conservative-scholar-faces-sentencing-5773753.php

[upaloopa]

1. This will look good on his conservative resume.

Right wing perps sometimes improve their lot in life after a conviction.

[nxylas]

41. Yes, wingnuts love a "martyr"

To them, his conviction will be more proof of liberal persecution.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Conservative scholar? More like wingnut idiot, AP, get your facts straight for once.

Fox News appearance and victimization kabuki theatre next up.

[ReRe]

8. "Conservative Scholar" = Oxymoron.

There is nothing scholarly about that man. If there was, his name would not be paired up in any way to the word "conservative."

[Roy Rolling]

21. There is no "conservative scholar" behind the film...

It is Dinesh d'Souza.

[Fred Sanders]

23. The fact that liberal scholars do not have to identified as "liberal" is interesting.

Are there "Independent scholars" as well? AP sucks.

[littlemissmartypants]

28. This^ eom

[louis-t]

3. It's a red badge of courage.

And of course, his story will be that Obama did this to him to punish him for writing his book.

[NYC_SKP]

4. "Also liked" from his facebook page, not surprised:

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[PeoViejo]

5. Scholar?

[Fred Sanders]

24. Conservative media whitewashes fake "scholar".

[NYC_SKP]

6. His show can come right after Ollie North. #fuckthisshit nt

[freshwest]

9. +1

[tenderfoot]

7. "high-grossing"????

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

10. High grossness

Is what they meant

Sadly, it made 33 million on a 2.5 million dollar budget, more proof teabaggers will buy anything

[littlemissmartypants]

29. Toilet paper. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. What a biased headline they chose

So bad, I had no idea it was going to be about D'Souza before I opened the thread, even though I knew he'd be sentenced soon.

'Scholar'? I expected someone who works at a university. He has nothing to do with any form of 'school' at all. Wikipedia, with its neutral point of view, calls him "political commentator, filmmaker, and author". "Behind anti-Obama film"? No mention of the crime he committed. It sounds as if the problem was the anti-Obama film.

If they don't think he's well-known enough to name him, then "Conservative film-maker get probation for electoral fraud" would have been far more informative, or "Conservative activist...".

[Fred Sanders]

25. The misleading and false headline and demur article by AP is no accident.

[brett_jv]

42. AP is the freakin' worst ...

"Liberal Media" my friggin' ass ...

[cheapdate]

39. +1

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Too bad there's no jail time.

[SoapBox]

13. Scholar?

Ya...right.

[Eric J in MN]

14. It's a reasonable sentence for a first-time, non-violent offender

8 months in the halfway house, plus 5 years of community service once-a-week.

It would even have been reasonable if he got just the community service without the halfway house.

[jmowreader]

15. Don Siegelman got six-and-a-half years

[elzenmahn]

37. Good point...

...what crime of violence did Don Siegelman commit?

Sorry, but good for goose = good for gander. Dis-tort Da-Nuuuza belongs in the slam, too.

[onecaliberal]

16. If by scholar you mean

Dim witted lying POS.
How do these criminals get away with a slap on the wrist every time?

[Archae]

17. No mention of his philandering either.

Figures.

[m-lekktor]

18. damn i have been pronouncing his name wrong the whole time!

Di NEEEESH. lol. anyway he is a jerk and i join everybody else and LOL at him being referred to as a SCHOLAR!

[Jim Lane]

27. Correct pronunciation, from his college days

At Dartmouth, where he helped found a right-wing student newspaper, he was known as Dis-TORT De-NOOZ-a.

[m-lekktor]

30. yep i know about that. i think he dated Laura Ingraham at Dartmouth

if i remember correctly. there was a kerfluffle about outing some gay Dartmouth students there as well though I forget the specific details at the moment. maybe it was just Ingraham involved in that incident.

[Kingofalldems]

19. He'll now claim he was exonerated ala Ollie North.

[Cartoonist]

20. Conservative Psychic

So how close are we to the world he predicted in the film 2016? Not one inch closer.

[lsewpershad]

22. Black

but being republican mouth piece save his ass from jail.

[Paladin]

26. The little worm got off easy. (nt)

[Chasstev365]

33. Of course he did!

Someone should track how many times Republican Thugs have committed Watergatesque crimes, yet have not been punished in any meaningful way.

[marble falls]

31. Confinment center. He's ready to work for Fox.

[still_one]

32. The wording of the article paints him as credible, which is bullshit. His films were not just

propaganda, but outright lies.

Typical of AP

[elzenmahn]

36. I've noticed that about the AP, too...

...they aren't as "objective" as they paint themselves to be.

There are plenty of other examples...

[still_one]

38. Yes

[NastyRiffraff]

34. Well, he'll do the same thing again

He's just been given permission. Somehow, he'll weasle out of the so called "confinement center" (what the hell IS that?) and certainly the community service.

He'll be hailed as a hero by Republicans everywhere.

[MynameisBlarney]

35. Scholar?

LOL

No.

Also, that frightwinger Derptard should be in prison.

[DFW]

40. "Conservative scholar"

i.e. some right wing propagandist who gets their trash proofread before spreading it around.