Dinesh D'Souza's "2016: Obama's America": The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights [View all]

[Lucy Goosey]

A really funny review of Distort D'Newsa's movie - it doesn't even pretend to take it seriously, which is the only appropriate response other than ignoring it completely.

The movie of choice this week for people who hold the beliefs that A) America is the strongest, best-est country that God ever virgin-birthed and B) that that nation somehow just isn't strong enough to survive eight years of centrist Democratic leadership, Dinesh D'Souza's 2016: Obama's America actually does not touch on 2016 much at all.

Instead, it distills the anti-anticolonialist jeremiads of D'Souza's books—which already were to academic argument what fruit snacks are to fruit—into a eminently fast-forwardable travelogue through Nairobi, Kenya, Indonesia, and a magic-hour D.C., where D'Souza slumps about Droopy Dog–style in contemplation of the monuments and where flags are forever dancing on winds that we must presume are the world's most exceptional.

For what it's worth, his thesis concerns the reasons Obama returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the British Embassy early in his presidency. The only answer D'Souza entertains: that Obama is a Mau Mau anticolonial revolutionary driven to impress his dead, absentee father, a Kenyan who dared to write in 1965—two years after his homeland achieved its independence—that government regulation might sometimes be needed to rein in private industry. You might object, "But Obama has spent almost zero percent of his life with that father, and something like 75 percent of his life in the same private schools and Ivy League universities and institutions of power occupied by every other president of either party in recent American history." D'Souza's counter is to brandish Obama's memoir and proclaim, "Notice it says Dreams From My Father, not Dreams of My Father."

D'Souza is really, really obsessed with the word "from" in the title of Obama's book, no? He seems to mention it in every interview I've seen of him.

Anyway, there is a lot more at the link - its well worth the read. It makes me happy that the movie is this hilariously awful.
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2012-08-30/film/dinesh-d-souza-s-2016-obama-s-america-the-five-most-hilarious-lowlights/