Dinesh D'Souza
Some Final Thoughts on Reparations
March 12th, 2021 11:39 PM
How would reparations be funded? Conservative writer Michael Medved estimates that only 5% of whites in America "bear any authentic sort of generational guilt for the exploitation of slave labor." Why should anyone but Democrats pay? Scholar Dinesh D'Souza notes that all but a "handful" of slave owners were Democrats. The Ku Klux Klan, at its height of power and popularity, was known by the…
MOCKERY: ABC Calls Chaotic, Violent Protest ‘Peaceful,’ ‘Intense’
July 28th, 2020 10:15 AM
As looting and rioting took place in cities across the country during the past several weeks, networks in the “mainstream media” went to great lengths to downplay the violence that was part of what happened. One network that went “over the top” was ABC News, which portrayed a protest in Oakland, California, where a courthouse was set on fire and a police station was vandalized, as “peaceful…
'Worst in Cinema' Awards Blows Golden Raspberry at Trump, First Lady
January 23rd, 2019 7:09 PM
The Razzie Awards, given out annually for the “worst in cinema” of the year, may not be the first place you think of when you think of political bias. But the 2019 edition of the Golden Raspberry (“Razzies”) Awards took an obnoxious anti-Trump angle that extended to the First Lady. One nominee for Worst Actor: Donald Trump, for his appearances in two documentaries, right-…
NYT: Fox News, Book Publishers Part of ‘Incitement Industry'
November 1st, 2018 3:51 PM
New York Times media reporter Jim Rutenberg tried to tar mainstream conservative figures as hateful inciters of violence in “There’s Money In Conspiracy, And Outlets Are After It." The online headline: “You Don’t Need to Go to the Dark Web to Find Hateful Conspiracy Theories.” The online version featured a prominent picture of Judge Jeanine Pirro underneath the…
NYT Seethes Over D’Souza’s 'Death of a Nation,' Embraced 'Fahrenheit'
August 18th, 2018 3:34 PM
New York Times reporter Astead Herndon seethed over the rapturous reception granted to conservative activist Dinesh D’Souza’s latest documentary, Death of a Nation: “Film Likens Democrats To Nazis, to Big Applause.” Compare that horrified evisceration to the rapturous, unchallenging reception the paper gave far-left documentarian Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9-11, his…
No Pardon for Partisan Hypocrisy
June 6th, 2018 11:16 PM
Quick, grab the smelling salts and clear the fainting couches. President Trump's pardon of conservative author Dinesh D'Souza last week violently triggered Beltway media elites. It's peanut butter, weed pollen, gluten, manspreading, Chick-fil-A, the national anthem, and Kryptonite all rolled into one giant political allergen. Allow me to administer the rhetorical, metaphorical…
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Cuomo on Pardons: Do You Want to 'Send the Message Lying Is Okay?'
June 5th, 2018 8:35 PM
During the first formal episode of CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time (following two trial runs), host Chris Cuomo engaged in a lengthy back and forth with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, now a member of President Trump's legal team. Part of that discussion focused on Trump’s pardons of Dinesh D'Souza, Scooter Libby, and Joe Arpaio and his potential pardon of…
The ‘Uncle Tom’ Card Is Dead
May 2nd, 2018 6:10 PM
Here is a short list of prominent conservatives and independent thinkers who've been accused by their critics of being an "Uncle Tom" or some other vitriolic variation on the overplayed left-wing theme of being a traitor to their race or gender ("Aunt Tomasina," "Uncle Juan," "Aunt Jemima," "Uncle Wong," etc.)[.]
Variety Movie Critic Trashes D'Souza Film as a Worst Film of 2016
December 17th, 2016 8:49 PM
Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday put a gauzy movie about the Obamas’ first date among her ten best movies of 2016. Now in Variety, film critic Owen Gleiberman singled out Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary Hillary’s America in his five worst movies of 2016. "You've got to say this for the right-wing firebrand-turned-documentary filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza: A…
Washington Monthly Blogger: ‘Gun-Toting…Anti-Feminist, Anti-Modern
August 27th, 2014 11:40 AM
Lumping one’s political adversaries with the vicious jihadists of ISIS seems to be the new new thing. Last Thursday, Dinesh D’Souza alleged that “the common thread between ISIS and [the looters] in Ferguson is you have these people who basically believe that to correct a perceived injustice, it's perfectly OK to inflict all kinds of new injustices...And all of this is then…
New York Times Promotes the 'Fateful Fall' of Dinesh D'Souza for Campa
July 27th, 2014 12:56 PM
Dinesh D’Souza’s new movie was finally noticed in The New York Times Friday – on the front page. The news story was “Heady Summer, Fateful Fall for a Conservative Firebrand.” Notice how “fall” had two meanings?
The Times has failed to notice Michael Moore’s nasty divorce and how his hypocrisy about wealth has been revealed. But D’Souza is…
NewsBusted: Even at 99 Cents, Still Not a Hard Choice
July 15th, 2014 6:40 PM
"Costco will return Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, America, to their store shelves after complaints of bias and censorship. In fact, if you buy D’Souza’s book, Costco will throw in Hillary Clinton’s book for an extra 99 cents!"
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Nation Media Blogger: Nets 'Afraid of the Far Right,' Tea Party Guests
July 10th, 2014 10:12 PM
When TV’s Sunday-morning political chat shows book conservative guests, maybe they’re just trying to be evenhanded, but The Nation media blogger Leslie Savan opined in a Tuesday post that often the programs do it so that the right will be less likely to badger them about their liberal bias. As Savan put it, “Sometimes seeking balance is really a plea to call off the dogs.…
Costco Karma: Dinesh D'Souza's 'America' Book Soars to Amazon #1 Short
July 8th, 2014 10:11 PM
Karma-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
Shortly after Costco announced that it was removing Dinesh D'Souza's book, "America: Imagine A World Without Her," from its stores, it soared to #1 on Amazon.Com. Meanwhile, Costco has been licking its wounds from all the angry reactions it has received and has raised the white flag of surrender by announcing that it will be restocking that book at…
