I don't like reveling in things like this, but isn't this guy an arrogant ass? Delicious!

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26. Note how D'Souza immediately exaggerates so as to defend his "documentary"....

He apparently knows the tone of what he wants to say to defend the documentary, but clearly has not a clue as to the actual numbers involved. At 1:35 in the video:

D'Souza: "Look, Obama has doubled the national debt. The national debt was eight trillion dollars when he came in. It's over sixteen trillion dollars. That's a lot for one guy to do. Now, I'm not saying he did it himself...."

President Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009. The US Treasury website indicates that the US national debt on December 31, 2008 was 10,699,805,000,000 USD - so nearly 11 trillion USD if one were to round to the nearest trillion - here is the link to the pdf source of this information: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/mspd/2008/opds122008.pdf .

So, not only is D'Souza incorrect in what he states, but he is off by about 2.70 trillion USD. That is a fairly substantial error.

The available data from the US Treasury Department is current to April 2014, and this data indicates that the US national debt is 17,508,437,000,000 USD - so 18 trillion if one were to round to the nearest trillion - here is the link to the pdf source of this information: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/mspd/2014/opds042014.pdf .

So, once again D'Souza is quite incorrect in what he states. He is off by about 1.51 trillion USD.

Beyond D'Souza's incapability to recall the correct numbers, he neglects to remember that President Obama had to put President Bush's extravagances on the books so that they could be dealt with, and that President Obama has had to try to repair the damage that the worst President in US history did while he was in office: rebuilding is anything but free.