If you have one hour, watch as Jonathan Alter, conducts a one hour interview with Dinesh D’Souza, author of a novel, oops, a so called non fiction book called The Roots of Obama’s Rage. Alter does a great job of chopping up D’Nesh and the fantasy book he created.
The C-Span interview is here :
D’Souza’s story telling and so called intellectual thinking in his book :
Mr. D’Souza asserts that President Obama poses an existential threat the United States, because he is heavily influenced by his father’s anti-colonialist ideology. Using several biographies of the 44th president, Mr. D’Souza claims to have evidence of a presidential agenda that includes economic policies designed to make America poorer and attempting to make the country’s status as a superpower a thing of the past. He discussed his theory about the commander-in-chief’s policy motivations with Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise, which provided an inside look at President Obama’s 2008 campaign.
It is a lesson in the twisted ideas and alleged critical thinking of the right wing. Already they have started pimping this theory, a theory based on invented story.
I cannot embed, but you must devote the one hour and watch how Alter takes down point by point, D’Nesh’s scholarship.
What I find amazing is the notion that somehow, being anti colonial is bad.
