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Why let the truth get in the way of a story that makes Republicans cheer ? (Or enjoy a horror film made for Republicans )
08/28/12
"2016: Obama's America," a new conservative film exploring the roots of President Barack Obama's political views,
took in $6.2 million to make it one of the highest-grossing movies of last weekend
Aug 28, 2012
http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=2012&wknd=34&p=.htm
The film was written and narrated by conservative scholar Dinesh D'Souza-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/2016-obamas-america,1230760/critic-review.html
"One thing can be said for “2016.” It’s anything but crude. The best infomercials rarely are."
-Michael O’Sullivan
"D’Souza makes it all sound almost plausible, but only if you’re predisposed to believe that Obama hates America.
It’s bashing, all right, but with a velvet-gloved fist."
- Michael O’Sullivan
http://www.villagevoice.com/movies/2016-obamas-america-3517261/
"The only answer D'Souza entertains: that our president is an anticolonial African revolutionary driven to impress
his dead, absentee Kenyan father. D'Souza's best evidence is NYU psychology professor Paul Vitz, who explains
that the father who abandons a boy has a profound influence on the shaping of that boy, an argument that
lays bare D'Souza's debased rules of evidence: the fact that Obama senior was never around to radicalize
Obama junior only proves that he did radicalize Obama junior. That explains why junior later went on to
fulfill the dream of all Kenyan revolutionaries: passing the health care plan Republicans came up with
in the '90s."
- Alan Scherstuhl
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/08/2016-not-scary-you-might-think
"So: The film's interviews were mostly weak; the conspiracy mongering was unconvincing; and it's full of non sequiturs,
where D'Souza makes bald assertions that aren't backed up by anything that came before."
- Kevin Drum
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/2016-obama-america-fact-check_n_1835710.html
D'Souza then goes through a list of actions Obama has taken as president to support his thesis. Many of them don't hold water:
_ D'Souza rightly argues that the national debt has risen to $16 trillion under Obama. But he never mentions the explosion of debt that occurred under Obama's predecessor, Republican George W. Bush, nor the 2008 global financial crisis that provoked a shock to the U.S. economy.
_ D'Souza says Obama is "weirdly sympathetic to Muslim jihadists" in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He does not mention that Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and the drone strikes that have killed dozens of other terrorists in the region.
_D'Souza wrongly claims that Obama wants to return control of the Falkland Islands from Britain to Argentina. The U.S. refused in April to endorse a final declaration on Argentina's claim to the islands at the Summit of the Americas, provoking criticism from other Latin American nations.
_D'Souza says Obama has "done nothing" to impede Iran's nuclear ambitions, despite the severe trade and economic sanctions his administration has imposed on that country to halt its suspected nuclear program. Obama opposes a near-term military strike on Iran, either by the U.S. or Israel, although he says the U.S. will never tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran.
_ D'Souza says Obama removed a bust of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office because Churchill represented British colonialism. White House curator William Allman said the bust, which had been on loan, was already scheduled to be returned before Obama took office. Another bust of Churchill is on display in the president's private residence, the White House says.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/08/2016-not-scary-you-might-think
The audience was huge for a weekday matinee: probably a couple hundred people. Most were elderly, but that may be just because the theater I went to was near a big retirement community around here.
The lady sitting next to me, on the other hand, turned to her neighbor after the film was over and said "That's scary." She was convinced. And the audience, tentatively at first but then with gusto, applauded while the credits were running. For true believers, I guess the film works just fine.
08/28/12
"2016: Obama's America," a new conservative film exploring the roots of President Barack Obama's political views,
took in $6.2 million to make it one of the highest-grossing movies of last weekend
Aug 28, 2012
http://boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=&yr=2012&wknd=34&p=.htm
The film was written and narrated by conservative scholar Dinesh D'Souza-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/2016-obamas-america,1230760/critic-review.html
"One thing can be said for “2016.” It’s anything but crude. The best infomercials rarely are."
-Michael O’Sullivan
"D’Souza makes it all sound almost plausible, but only if you’re predisposed to believe that Obama hates America.
It’s bashing, all right, but with a velvet-gloved fist."
- Michael O’Sullivan
http://www.villagevoice.com/movies/2016-obamas-america-3517261/
"The only answer D'Souza entertains: that our president is an anticolonial African revolutionary driven to impress
his dead, absentee Kenyan father. D'Souza's best evidence is NYU psychology professor Paul Vitz, who explains
that the father who abandons a boy has a profound influence on the shaping of that boy, an argument that
lays bare D'Souza's debased rules of evidence: the fact that Obama senior was never around to radicalize
Obama junior only proves that he did radicalize Obama junior. That explains why junior later went on to
fulfill the dream of all Kenyan revolutionaries: passing the health care plan Republicans came up with
in the '90s."
- Alan Scherstuhl
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/08/2016-not-scary-you-might-think
"So: The film's interviews were mostly weak; the conspiracy mongering was unconvincing; and it's full of non sequiturs,
where D'Souza makes bald assertions that aren't backed up by anything that came before."
- Kevin Drum
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/2016-obama-america-fact-check_n_1835710.html
D'Souza then goes through a list of actions Obama has taken as president to support his thesis. Many of them don't hold water:
_ D'Souza rightly argues that the national debt has risen to $16 trillion under Obama. But he never mentions the explosion of debt that occurred under Obama's predecessor, Republican George W. Bush, nor the 2008 global financial crisis that provoked a shock to the U.S. economy.
_ D'Souza says Obama is "weirdly sympathetic to Muslim jihadists" in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He does not mention that Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and the drone strikes that have killed dozens of other terrorists in the region.
_D'Souza wrongly claims that Obama wants to return control of the Falkland Islands from Britain to Argentina. The U.S. refused in April to endorse a final declaration on Argentina's claim to the islands at the Summit of the Americas, provoking criticism from other Latin American nations.
_D'Souza says Obama has "done nothing" to impede Iran's nuclear ambitions, despite the severe trade and economic sanctions his administration has imposed on that country to halt its suspected nuclear program. Obama opposes a near-term military strike on Iran, either by the U.S. or Israel, although he says the U.S. will never tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran.
_ D'Souza says Obama removed a bust of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the Oval Office because Churchill represented British colonialism. White House curator William Allman said the bust, which had been on loan, was already scheduled to be returned before Obama took office. Another bust of Churchill is on display in the president's private residence, the White House says.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/08/2016-not-scary-you-might-think
The audience was huge for a weekday matinee: probably a couple hundred people. Most were elderly, but that may be just because the theater I went to was near a big retirement community around here.
The lady sitting next to me, on the other hand, turned to her neighbor after the film was over and said "That's scary." She was convinced. And the audience, tentatively at first but then with gusto, applauded while the credits were running. For true believers, I guess the film works just fine.
