Comments on: Dinesh D’Souza Jumps the Shark http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:58:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Dinesh D’Souza : Critique « WORLD MONITOR http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-472635 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:43:44 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-472635 [...] 22, 2007 · No Comments http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/ [...] […] 22, 2007 · No Comments http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/ […]

]]> by: Dan S. http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73892 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:22:47 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73892 "I can’t help but think of what Richard Hofstadter wrote" Same here - was thinking about that all day. Meant to dig out that passage and blog about it, but ze blog, it is no happening right now, so I went and bought lentils and split peas at the local co-op, right down the street from the cafe and the little indy bookstore with (relatively) big glbt, feminist, and general lefty sections. Just doing my part to help infuriate bin Laden . . . More D'souza dribblings in the Philly Inquirer today - insisting no, no, no, it's <a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/16507550.htm" rel="nofollow">Not a clash of religions</a>!<blockquote> From the perspective of bin Laden and his allies, the war is between the Muslim-led forces of monotheism and morality against the America-led forces of atheism and immorality. Secularism, not Christian fundamentalism, is responsible for producing a blowback of Muslim rage.</blockquote> I'd send yet one more letter to the editor, but I'm still working on one in reply to the flippant ignoramus who took up letter-column space insisting that we don't have to worry about the polar bears because they'll just adapt to global warming . . . I swear, idiocy is like entropy. “I can’t help but think of what Richard Hofstadter wrote”

Same here - was thinking about that all day. Meant to dig out that passage and blog about it, but ze blog, it is no happening right now, so I went and bought lentils and split peas at the local co-op, right down the street from the cafe and the little indy bookstore with (relatively) big glbt, feminist, and general lefty sections. Just doing my part to help infuriate bin Laden . . .

More D’souza dribblings in the Philly Inquirer today - insisting no, no, no, it’s Not a clash of religions!

From the perspective of bin Laden and his allies, the war is between the Muslim-led forces of monotheism and morality against the America-led forces of atheism and immorality. Secularism, not Christian fundamentalism, is responsible for producing a blowback of Muslim rage.
I’d send yet one more letter to the editor, but I’m still working on one in reply to the flippant ignoramus who took up letter-column space insisting that we don’t have to worry about the polar bears because they’ll just adapt to global warming . . .

I swear, idiocy is like entropy.

]]> by: k http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73880 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:54:17 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73880 from the Rishwain research scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. How do guys like this get a paycheck? Anyhoo you see it is lefties, women etc who are the target. That means us maha from the Rishwain research scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

How do guys like this get a paycheck?

Anyhoo you see it is lefties, women etc who are the target. That means us maha

]]> by: Jonathan Versen http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73873 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:16:00 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73873 my pet theory(one of many I entertain) is that the right wing noise machine, being as well funded as it is, is in a position to promise a never-ending supply of hookers and pancakes and clam chowder* to any black or brown person who goes to a fancy school then writes books about how he grew to be Disillusioned By The Left and how he realizes that only being a crazy-ass conservative makes any sense. *the really good kind, mind you. my pet theory(one of many I entertain) is that the right wing noise machine, being as well funded as it is, is in a position to promise a never-ending supply of hookers and pancakes and clam chowder* to any black or brown person who goes to a fancy school then writes books about how he grew to be Disillusioned By The Left and how he realizes that only being a crazy-ass conservative makes any sense.

*the really good kind, mind you.

]]> by: moonbat http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73866 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:46:45 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73866 <i>D’Souza, however, seems to be going even further. He’s on the edge of expressing solidarity with the jihadists because their goals are so similar to his goals. </i> What I'm waiting for is for some sharp liberal to do this connecting of the dots. I feel like we're trapped in a dining room with two elephants - Christian fundamentalists and Islamic fundamentalists - gearing up for a fight. They don't care if they take the whole house down with them. D’Souza's book sounds like total projection, seeing the world through the right's hate of the 1960s. As Great Leader so ingenuously put it, "They hate our freedoms". D’Souza, however, seems to be going even further. He’s on the edge of expressing solidarity with the jihadists because their goals are so similar to his goals.

What I’m waiting for is for some sharp liberal to do this connecting of the dots. I feel like we’re trapped in a dining room with two elephants - Christian fundamentalists and Islamic fundamentalists - gearing up for a fight. They don’t care if they take the whole house down with them.

D’Souza’s book sounds like total projection, seeing the world through the right’s hate of the 1960s. As Great Leader so ingenuously put it, “They hate our freedoms”.

]]> by: Mat Conly http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73855 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:54:08 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73855 I listened to him being interviewed the other day on Colbert show and thought he was an empty suit. He reminds me of a friend who can always show that BC football team should be ranked no. 1 in the country every year. You know they beat team X by 8 points and X beat Y and Y beat Z which beat A. D'Souza's premise is that all evil can be traced to American liberalism. He constantly pounds on that theme to the joy of the true believers and happily puts the money from his books in his back pocket. I would feel better if he realized he was scamming everyone but the real problem with him is he has no sense of humor (watch him on Colbert) so he must believe what he is writing. I think he's in good shape to be mayor of Nutsville. I listened to him being interviewed the other day on Colbert show and thought he was an empty suit. He reminds me of a friend who can always show that BC football team should be ranked no. 1 in the country every year. You know they beat team X by 8 points and X beat Y and Y beat Z which beat A.

D’Souza’s premise is that all evil can be traced to American liberalism. He constantly pounds on that theme to the joy of the true believers and happily puts the money from his books in his back pocket. I would feel better if he realized he was scamming everyone but the real problem with him is he has no sense of humor (watch him on Colbert) so he must believe what he is writing. I think he’s in good shape to be mayor of Nutsville.

]]> by: sachem515 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73854 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:53:44 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73854 Alan Wolfe at NYTimes: None (but Me) Dare Call It Treason "I never thought a book by D’Souza, the aging enfant terrible of American conservatism, would, like the Stalinist apologetics of the popular front period, contain such a soft spot for radical evil". http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/books/review/Wolfe.t.html Atrios comments on the above. http://atrios.blogspot.com/ "He is a childish thinker and writer tackling subjects about which he knows little to make arguments that reek of political extremism. His book is a national disgrace, a sorry example of a publishing culture more concerned with the sensational than the sensible". What possible (positive) end could come from what I guess we must call Neo-Revisionism? Alan Wolfe at NYTimes:

None (but Me) Dare Call It Treason

“I never thought a book by D’Souza, the aging enfant terrible of American conservatism, would, like the Stalinist apologetics of the popular front period, contain such a soft spot for radical evil”.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/books/review/Wolfe.t.html

Atrios comments on the above.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/

“He is a childish thinker and writer tackling subjects about which he knows little to make arguments that reek of political extremism. His book is a national disgrace, a sorry example of a publishing culture more concerned with the sensational than the sensible”.

What possible (positive) end could come from what I guess we must call Neo-Revisionism?

]]> by: GDAEman http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73853 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:44:43 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73853 <b>*Shoulder Shrug*</b> Yep. The extreme Christians shares values with extreme Islam. Someone might want to call the TIPS* line so the government can keep an eye on this D’Souza guy. <b>https://tips.fbi.gov</b> * Terrorits Information and Prevention System *Shoulder Shrug*

Yep. The extreme Christians shares values with extreme Islam. Someone might want to call the TIPS* line so the government can keep an eye on this D’Souza guy.

https://tips.fbi.gov

* Terrorits Information and Prevention System

]]> by: grandmaster p-wood http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73851 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:34:15 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73851 flashback: bush with the taliban guys as governor of texas. "so vicious was this war propaganda that even god was brought into it." -s.d.butler their common enemy is any meaningful freedom of thought or expression, as well as modern go-go stretch elastic pants. git offa mah lawn. flashback: bush with the taliban guys as governor of texas.

“so vicious was this war propaganda that even god was brought into it.” -s.d.butler

their common enemy is any meaningful freedom of thought or expression, as well as modern go-go stretch elastic pants. git offa mah lawn.

]]> by: Joe http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73846 Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:39:14 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2007/01/21/dinesh-dsouza-jumps-the-shark/#comment-73846 "The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11." If only we had done as the Islamic radicals demanded! See also: "It's no wonder that woman was beaten by her husband -- if only she had done what he told her to do!" See also: "It's no wonder that girl was raped -- did you see how she was dressed?! -- it's her own fault." “The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11.” If only we had done as the Islamic radicals demanded!

See also:
“It’s no wonder that woman was beaten by her husband — if only she had done what he told her to do!”

See also:
“It’s no wonder that girl was raped — did you see how she was dressed?! — it’s her own fault.”

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